When an incredibly talented paper artist shows you how to make his “very favorite box of all time” and offers you the template to download, do you really have to think twice about it? Jeffery Rudell has done just this and has very detailed instructions, not to mention a free download, over at Craftstylish. Eep, [...]

I’m loving the subtle woodgrain textures in shades of blue and green on these Lumber Yard letterpress note cards by YeeHaw. The cards get their wood grain from the piece of bass wood from which they were hand printed. A set of 8 cards is available for $14.00.
image from YeeHaw

I’m all about decorative tape lately, and I just about squealed when these pretties by designer Carolyn Gavin for TapeSwell popped up in my email.
TapeSwell offers single rolls of decorative tape, combo packs, envelope wraparounds, and very clever mailing label tape. So cute, and did you see that they have a faux bois style?! I’m [...]

Holiday Freebies week concludes with these fun, printable Halloween papers. Say hello to the faux bois paper from the treat boxes, this time in both lime green/white and purple/orange, as well as skull and bones paper and horror movie quotes paper. You can use these papers for a variety of projects — scrapbooking, homemade greeting [...]

If you’ve read Paper Crave for any length of time, then you know how I love pretty much anything faux bois. The printable Halloween paper craft of the day is what I call my Spooky Bois Treat Boxes.
The boxes are large enough that they should fit any fun size candy bar (not Reese’s Peanut Butter [...]