A gorgeous ribbon bow can make a package; however, if you’re anything like me and always scored lowest on spatial relations on your Iowa Tests, then Martha’s bow-making diagrams can sometimes look like byzantine mazes and can leave you with a pile of knotted, wrinkled, formerly-beautiful ribbon that has become a stark reminder of the [...]

Now that you’ve gotten all of those craveable paper gifts, you may find yourself in the market for lovely wrappings and embellishments. Half the fun of giving a gift, at least for me, is in the wrapping. What paper will I use? What ribbon? What tags and/or embellishments? Is there something that I can use [...]

I’m loving these amazing flower pins from Linda & Harriett, first spotted over on Amy Atlas’s blog. Each pin is made to order and is constructed by hand from letterpress misprints. What a great way to recycle, and what a pretty result! The pins could be used in so many ways — as pins on [...]

Please welcome Paper Crave’s newest sponsor, the Tinted Mint! The Tinted Mint specializes in eco-friendly products and accessories for crafts and DIY, and they carry rolls and rolls of that awesome colored Japanese washi tape that so many of us have been coveting. The colors, the possibilities, and it’s eco-friendly, too. The colored masking tapes [...]

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 eye candy from the collection: images from Lilla Rogers