by Linda | May 4, 2011 | DIY printables
I had posted a doodle of mine on Flickr and it seems people thought it was a pretty cute drawing! I thought it would be nice to turn it into a digistamp, so we could all have a bit of fun with it. I’ve had hats on my mind lately…doodling hats on all my ladies. It’s probably because of the Royal Wedding and seeing the Brits out with their hat fashions! 🙂 Hope you enjoy this free digistamp and please direct your crafty friends over here to download it and play along.
Download Hat Lady Digistamp ZIP
by Linda | Apr 30, 2011 | DIY printables
Oftentimes, designers have odds and ends of partial designs lying around…and I usually just forget about them. Maybe something was started but went in the wrong direction for a specific project or maybe certain elements were created and that was all…no more inspiration for some reason. I had some items that I thought would be nice to share out as a freebie, instead of having it sit on my computer. It’s sort of a minikit, for hybrid cardmaking or a digital layout. I hope you will enjoy this Light Spring Freebie by yours truly…
Download Light Spring MiniKit Freebie ZIP file
Some pretty papers and a few elements to play around with this weekend…and I called it Light Spring because of the color scheme. It’s happy Springy…but not so bright really. Please share a link to this post with your friends and if you haven’t already, sign up for my newsletter to get all the printables and latest news!
by Linda | Jan 28, 2011 | DIY printables
Check out these printable scrapbook embellishments free download with classic memory keeping words and their definitions. A quick and easy DIY printable!
So on a whim one day, I just created these circle definition embellishments. I cut them out and backed them with brown cardstock, so they were ready to go, instant embellishment for my next papercrafting project. However, I didn’t actually have a project in mind to use them for – no plan at all.
It’s interesting how sometimes, I just want to design something. It pops up like a pretty good idea, so I create it! So good thing I can share with you here on the blog as a free download. I hope they might be useful an instant scrapbook embellishment!
Download FREE Printable Embellishments – Circle Definitions PDF
Finally, I did use them in a scrapbook page. Using kraft paper as a my backing, I framed up a bunch of photos and simple journaling. My circle definition embellishments were a perfect addition to the page. I think the words provided are pretty timeless for most everyone scrapbooking and memory keeping – life, memory, time, family, friend and journey.
I really enjoyed creating different layouts and just playing around with my supplies. Old fashioned scrapbooking fun, right?
I realized that since I love the plain kraft paper look, I might just buy a bound kraft journal to scrapbook in. Perhaps it would keep things neater? I know that on 2ps, Kristina scrapbooks in a spiral bound journal as well! Something to consider.
Going to try and get more scrapbooking fun time in today, so I hope you enjoy this free printable download of embellishments – happy crafting!
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by Linda | Jan 14, 2011 | DIY printables
As promised, I’m back with a few more paper templates for various house shapes and buildings. I thought it would be cool to explore other types of buildings…sort of creating a village or quaint town with paper. Here you can see that I created a little paper birdhouse shape, a tall tower house and a swirly roof building. Still some kinks to work out and much learnings in creating templates, but the results are cool to look at either way.
There are those little details to consider and brush up on though…how big tabs should be in proportion to the object itself and how your final project looks at different angles. I’ve realized that double sided paper would really make the houses look more finished in the end. Or just use colored cardstock as I did with the birdhouse roof. Let me know if you have any tips, suggestions or requests! If you haven’t seen yet, check out the regular house and home templates post. And below you can download this next set of three – birdhouse, tall tower and swirly roof building.
Download zip file of birdhouse template, tall tower house and swirly roof building
Let me know what you think and if you have fun with these – perhaps constructing them with the kids? If I had access to a mega copier I would enlarge the templates to a bigger size and see what comes of it. Imagine a little paper miniland! You can also just use the template shapes and create your own house designs and decorations. Above all, have fun! Ciao ciao for now.
by Linda | Dec 31, 2010 | DIY printables
I had previously posted a bag and box template, but those templates actually came out of my original experimentation with creating a house with paper. Actually, it all started with a birdhouse template video I saw by Marion Smith and I thought I could create my own version of a house or home from that idea. After a bunch of prototypes I’ve realized there are two options possible and I’ve included both below for download, so you can play along! One version has the roof separated, so it can overhang on top of the house shape…the other is just all one piece folded up like a box. Simpler in some respects but you don’t get the overhanging of the roof detail…
From experimenting, I’ve realized there are a lot of details to figure out in creating a template. I’m sure more can be perfected in regards to what I’ve posted, but I’m happy to have figured out that I can do it myself! It’s fun to realize that really we can make any shape we want and of course the thicker the cardstock the more sturdy it will be in the end. I suppose you can use the template to create the shape with any material type that is sturdy enough!
Download house templates PDF files
In my examples I’ve used regular copy paper which results in a flimsy structure. Not only that, it’s hard to glue everything together when the paper is not so sturdy – go with wet adhesive if possible! I’m sure I’ll be trying out other shapes and exploring more papercrafting and design on them as well. I like to create these custom little pieces, super fun and now I’m thinking I can create an entire village so the kids can play with them…cool! Let me know if you have any requests or ideas as well 🙂 Enjoy!
Also, let me take a moment to say – have a fabulous holiday season and a MEGA Happy New Year – until 2011! Ciao ciao!
