Vintage Masking Tape at Nothing Elegant

I love the creative masking tapes that have been so popular recently, but I hadn’t seen anything like these vintage book, number, and collage designs that designvagabond discovered recently from Etsy shop, Nothing Elegant. I’m already dreaming about all of

Free Printable Space Stickers by Lotta Bruhn

Space is always a popular theme, and I am loving these super cute printable space-themed stickers, made by illustrator Lotta Bruhn. The stickers include spacemen, rockets, spaceships, planets, stars, and the moon, and you can print them onto sticker paper

Craftig : Social Bookmarking for Crafters

This week, I was so excited to launch a website that I’ve been working on for the past few months. Craftig, aka Craft Is Good, is a social bookmarking site specifically for crafters. I’ve been a craft lover for years

Love and Ice Cream Free Printable Gift Tags

Love and ice cream — two things that the world always needs more of. Amy at Eat Drink Chic has given us some of both in her latest printable, darling gift tags featuring ice cream cones filled with love. I’m

Printable Bookmarks by Sharon Rowan

I don’t know about you, but I’m always looking for a bookmark for whatever book and/or magazine I’m currently perusing. I was so happy when I spotted these bold, mod printable bookmarks by Sharon Rowan over at How About Orange.

How to Make Bunting from Vintage Book Pages

I recently discovered the oh so gorgeous blog, twoandsix, and one of the first posts that I saw featured pretty bunting made from vintage book pages. I was hooked! Bunting seems to be a growing trend, and I’m loving it

Paper Around the Web, Friday Freebies Edition

So many fantastic paper-related freebies have been created lately that I just had to get them together and feature them all in one big post. I’m sure that you’ll find a few that you can make over the weekend. Speaking

Kaisercraft Duchess Collection

I’m completely taken with Duchess, a lovely new scrapbooking collection from Australian scrapbooking supply company, Kaisercraft: The designs are something I can imagine finding on the walls of an abandoned French palace, the patterns made more gorgeous over time by

Me Likey Collection by Sassafras Lass

The new Me Likey scrapbooking collection by Sassafras Lass just screams FUN, doesn’t it? But it doesn’t scream too loud because it doesn’t want to disturb the neighbors or wake up the kids. *wink, wink* The bright, rainbow colored papers

Splodey and Dudley Printable Paper Toys

Matt Hawkins’ paper toys never fail to make me smile. He’s created two new toys in honor of the upcoming 4th of July holiday here in US, and I’m getting a real kick out of both. Check them out! –

How to Make Japanese Masking Tape Garlands

Lynn Russell of the fabulous letterpress shop, Satsuma Press, was a guest blogger over at oh so inspirational bridal blog, Style Me Pretty, yesterday, and she shared this tutorial for making a chic and fun garland from yummy cotton ribbon

Elsita Papercut Patterns

I’ve been a huge fan of Elsa Mora, a.k.a. Elsita, since I first saw her papercut art, and I’m so excited that she’s created papercut patterns of some of her work! The new set of four patterns is printed onto

Screen Printed Dylan Poster

Since returning from vacation, which included my too cute for words nephew (age 3) and niece (age 6), I’ve had kids crafts on my mind. My niece is already quite the little crafter, and I really wish that I lived

Carolyn Gavin for K & Company

I see a trip to Michael’s in my near future so I can check out the new Greenhouse scrapbooking collection by Carolyn Gavin for K & Company in person. So many bold, bright, and FUN patterns and scrapping accessories! More

Present & Correct Design*Sponge Guest Blog

Have you seen last week’s awesome design*sponge guest blog? Neal from the fabulous Present & Correct was at the helm, and the posts are filled with inspirational eye candy and lots of paper goodies. Here’s just a peek (see all

Paper Around The Web, Mega Vacation Edition

I’m headed off to the Outer Banks for a week for a friend’s wedding, and instead of scheduling posts throughout the week and taking the chance for something wonky to happen with my blog’s posting system, I decided to put

eMailorder #10 : All About Papercutting

Have you seen the latest issue of the crafty eMailorder ‘zine by Amy Karol of Angry Chicken? If you haven’t and you’re a fan of papercutting, then eMailorder #10 is a must see. The issue features 4 original papercut designs

Make a Crankbunny Paper Puppet

Norma Toraya, aka crankbunny, creator of the awesomeness that is the Secret Decoder Card (among many other totally cool paper pretties), has a new book! Paper Puppet Palooza is a “storybook instructional on building paper puppets”, and it looks like

Love Stamp Inspired Printable Freebies

image from USPS By now, most of you have probably seen the latest USPS “love” stamp designs. There’s been a lot of love stamp lovin’ going on over the past few weeks, and you can totally count me in. The

9Spotmonk Color In Cards and Placemats

The new letterpress color in greeting cards and placemats by 9Spotmonk were another NSS item that instantly caught my eye. I always look forward to getting greeting cards from my niece because she includes her own special artwork in the

This is Origami

This creative product concept, designed by Magdalena Czarnecki and featured the other day over at the incredibly addictive Dieline blog, is so inspiring. I’m fascinated with the idea of packaging as the product itself, and this is a stellar example.

Paper Flower Wreath Tutorial

Laurie Cinotto (aka Lalalaurie) shows us how to make a darling wreath using candy cups, a styrofoam wreath form, ribbon, and a few other things that you can easily find. What a clever way to use the little paper cups,

Creature Comforts Printable Cupcake Tags

What better way to start off a Monday than with some luscious cupcakes? Ez from the always lovely blog, Creature Comforts, has created more than a baker’s dozen of the pastel paper sweets that you can download and use everything

Erin Vale Paper Crafts and Printables

If you like paper craft projects, printables, and pretty packaging, then you simply must check out graphic designer (and fellow crayon fan) Erin Vale’s blog, which is packed with tutorials, freebies, and eye candy. Download and enjoy Mother’s Day and