Summer Paper Garland

Okay, okay...enough of the baby crafts you say. Since I don't have a ton of time to craft, I thought I would share a paper garland project I made last summer. This is easy to do. Remember when as a child you would accordion fold paper to make a fan, well you would use the same technique for this project.

Take some fun tie dye paper and fold it up. Then gently tear the edge of the paper. Fold the paper in half to find the center, then bring the ends together and staple so that you create this fanned medallion. Then take some alphabet rubber stamps and stamp the word "Summer". Punch out each letter with the trusty large circle punch and glue to cover the unsightly center of the medallion.

You can kind of see it in the photo, but I ran beads of glue in between the folds of the fan and sprinkled with.....glitter, of course. Punch a few holes and hang for an instant decor.

I really thought this turned out very nice and I love the colors of the paper. Happy Summer everyone!

Baby Footprint Cards

With Father's Day coming this weekend, I had to continue my footprint cards for the family. This one uses the footprints as leaves for the flowers.


This is a birthday card for my sister-in-law. After I stamped it I looked again and could see a little caterpiller crawling around .

Baby Footprint Butterfly

Preserve and share those precious little footprints! Hudson and I made our own Mother's Day cards for the grandmothers, but this would be perfect for a birthday card as well. Time flies and those little feet will never be this small again. Also this is a great way to share the moment with family.

I stamped the prints onto a 4"x6" card so that it can easily slip into a sleeve of a photo album. Of course, do the stamping when the baby is either asleep or very, very subdued. Just draw in the the butterfly body and antenna and voila! After making the cards for the grandmothers I had to make one for myself for my scrapbook...which I'll start someday. Now I'm trying to think of other ideas for feet or hand printing on cards.