Free Project of The Week: Washi Tape Birthday Card – 02 15 2013

This week for our Free Project of the Week we’ve got another quick and easy Washi Tape card for you.  Washi tape is one of those products that’s incredibly versatile as well as fun to use.  It comes in a multitude of colors, it’s not very expensive and it’s super easy to use.  In order …

Free Project of The Week: Happy Birthday Card – 02 08 2013

Are you happy it’s Friday?  I sure am although we’re having a crazy snowstorm here.  All the buses have been cancelled and the schools are closed so all five of my kids are home today. Thankfully at the moment they’re pretty occupied by playing with each other. I’m hoping that keeps up as it’s still …

Congratulations Video Tutorial – 02 01 2013

Stampin’ Up! is running their Sale-A-Bration event right now!  I absolutely loved the Sycamore Street Designer Paper and the Sycamore Street Ribbons and Buttons Collection!  The colors in the designer paper inspired me to create this card!  I pulled out the In Colors Collection with this pattern of designer paper.  I really loved the funky …

Thanks Washi Tape Video Tutorial

I have created several cards using Washi tape for Paper Crafter’s Library in the last little while.  I find that Washi tape is a nice easy way to dress up your paper crafting projects.  While I used various colors and patterns of Washi tape, you can always substitute patterned paper or ribbon for the Wahsi tape to complete …

Shadow Box Easel Cards

As PCL members may have noticed, I am on a new shadow box kick!  I started creating them when I realized that just using my homemade action wobbles or dimensional foam was not enough to build the scenes which I wanted to create.  I wanted layers…..lots of them.  I wanted dimensions and I wanted to create …

Call Me Video Tutorial

This week has been an absolutely crazyweek!   Sophia and I were away in California for the last week attending CHA.  I thought that we were going to get away from the cold Canadian winter weather and boy was I surprised to arrive to the same cold temperatures!   Despite the weather, we had a great time and …

Wishing You a Speedy Recovery Video Tutorial

For this week’s free project I wanted to share with you a card I created using Lawn Fawn’s adorable “On The Mend” stamp set. Although all the images are absolutely adorable, I just couldn’t resist the little bandaid, especially with a pair of googly eyes LOL!  I used my Copic Markers to color in the …

Fluttering Gratitude

I absolutely love butterflies!  These spring time colors and butterfly images made me momentarily happy and I forgot about the snow that is falling out side right now!  This Embossed Spotlight technique is a fun way to pull in a few different colors into any project. We have a video for our members here. (You …

Project Ideas Newsletter – Just Because

For today’s Project Ideas Newsletter I created this Just Because card.  The layout of this card is a great way to use up those scrap pieces of designer paper that we all have laying around.  The rounded corners on the bottom of the card and the beautiful Satin ribbon bow add those final touches to …

You Light Up My Life Card Video Tutorial

Happy New Year!  All of us here at Paper Crafter’s Library wish all of you, our readers, and your families and very Happy New Year.  We are looking forward to a very exciting and inspiring new year and hope that you are too! You Light Up My Life Card I find that I often struggle to make masculine themed …