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Spring and Easter Paper Crafts
After the cold winter, we long for fresh colors in our homes and windows. When the flowers start to bloom and the birds start to sing, you can create paper decorations to add a touch of spring to your home. Whether you would like to decorate your windows with paper flowers or your window sills with Easter bunnies, here you will find some cute and creative ideas. Some require minimal time and materials and many projects are easy for kids as well.
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Paper Crafts for Summer and All Occasions
In craft or paper stores, you can find a large supply of different papers that can be used for the projects. But not all of us have a craft store around the corner and not all products are available at all places. That is no problem. Be creative and flexible. The material list for each project is just a suggestion. You can get a totally new and maybe even better look if you change the type or color of paper. Try working with other embellishments. You may be astounded at the results.
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Fall and Halloween Paper Crafts
You can celebrate each season of the year by crafting for it. The autumn days are shorter and offer more time for indoor crafting. Fall motifs reflect the colors of the changing trees and will give your home a warm atmosphere, even when the air outside is cool. Find paper crafts in this section with typical fall and Halloween motifs such as pumpkins, leaves, scarecrows or apples. If you have children, they will have so much fun helping you.
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Paper Crafts for Christmas and Winter
Christmas crafting with paper is so much fun! Not only can you create beautiful decorations for the home, windows and tree, but you can also craft presents for friends and family. This project section offers many possible crafts to choose from and the selection will be increasing within time. Whether your favorite motifs be snowmen, reindeer, Santa Claus, bells or candles, you will definately find a project you will have fun creating with your family. Most projects are quick and easy and do not cost a fortune to craft.
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Tags
Tags are not only perfect for presents but also can be used for decorating cards and scrapbook pages to give them an extra accent or decorating element. Tags can be created sophisticated or as simple as necessary to fit the look you like. Find here examples of tags using different types of paper and decorating elements. New tags will be added on a regular basis.
Here you will also find a selection of gift tags to print out. Print the tags out to the size of your paper or cardstock, cut and use.
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Artist Trading Cards
Artist Trading Cards or otherwise known as ATC’s are created in the size of 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches or 64 x 89 millimeters (6.4 x 8.9 centimeters). These are small and self-made miniature works of art. Other than the size, there are no particular rules to follow. Combine different materials and elements to create unique and one of a kind cards. Sign, number and date the backs of your cards. These cards are not meant to be sold but if you like, there are groups that trade and collect these cards. You can find them on the internet in different craft forums.
More ATC’s will be added regularily for more inspiration.
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Tutorials for card making and paper crafts
There are so many occasions in the year when you need greeting cards. Whether it be a birthday, an anniversary, a holiday like Christmas or even for the birth of a baby, the reasons are many. Before you go out and buy another card, consider crafting your own personal cards. Creating hand made greeting cards can be so rewarding. Think of your cards as miniature works of art that you are giving to someone. Not only are you giving that special someone a moment of your time by creating that special card for him or her, but a hand made card will often be kept and cherished as a reminder of you.
Craft stores offer a wonder selection of craft supplies to make card making easy and fun. Find out more about what some of these items are by clicking on the card technique links. You will find out how to rubber stamp, die cut, emboss and other ways to embellish you cards. Many of these items and techniques were used on the cards presented on this website.
Lots of the techniques can be used for scrapbooking just as well. With all of the possibilities, you will be spending many creative hours creating one of a kind albums that your family will cherish for generations.
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Greeting Cards for all Seasons
There are so many occasions in the year when you need greeting cards. Whether it be a birthday, an anniversary, a holiday like Christmas or even for the birth of a baby, the reasons are many. Before you go out and buy another card, consider crafting your own personal cards. Creating hand made greeting cards can be so rewarding. Think of your cards as miniature works of art that you are giving to someone. Not only are you giving that special someone a moment of your time by creating that special card for him or her, but a hand made card will often be kept and cherished as a reminder of you.
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Rainy Day Paper Crafts for Kids
Already at a young age, children love to make things and work with their hands. It is not easy for them at the beginning to cut with the scissors or draw a straight line, but it is amazing what those little hands can still do. With practice and within time, the child’s skills will improve. Encourage the child to craft as often as possible. With each finished project, the sense of accomplishment is so positive and the child will continue to enjoy crafting for years to come and develop its own creative ideas.
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How to Make Patterns and Permanent Templates
You need patterns and templates mainly for sewing crafts, wood crafts and paper crafts. Creating permanent templates is easy and has a couple of advantages. First, if you wish to create the same project more than once you will save a lot of time because the template is already prepared. And second, if you are working with a group, the templates are durable and can be easily passed along to the next person. Permanent templates are especially useful when making crafts with children.
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Paper Crafts on Christmas-Projects.com
Here you will find lots of creative ideas to keep you crafting during the Christmas season.
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Some Paper Crafting Tips
Helpful is to keep certain items that may be of use. For example, save old cards, calender pages, pretty pictures found in magazines or catalogues, music sheets, old letters with pretty or interesting writing, maps, wrapping paper, stamps, stickers, labels, paper napkins with designs, seed packages, etc..... almost anything out of paper can be used and recycled again into something new and beautiful. You will also discover that even the smallest bits of paper can be priceless.
In craft or paper stores, you can find a large supply of different papers that can be used for the projects. But not all of us have a craft store around the corner and not all products are available at all places. That is no problem. Be creative and flexible. The material list for each project is just a suggestion. You can get a totally new and maybe even better look if you change the type or color of paper. Try working with other embellishments. You may be astounded at the results. Sometimes the greatest things can happen by accident and the old John Ashcroft saying that necessity is the mother of invention can come true. Your creativity has no limits. More here >>>
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