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Make Your Own Envelopes

A lot of people these days are making beautiful cards with photos, stamps, trinkets, ephemera, and scrapbook paper. There are entire magazines devoted to card making. Why stop there? You can make your own envelopes very easily. All you need is your chosen paper, a glue stick, scissors, and a pattern. You can download patterns from the internet, buy a stencil pattern, or simply unfold an envelope and use it for your pattern. I like to just use an unfolded envelope. Once you’ve made a few, you can even pretty much guess at the dimension you need for special shaped … Continue reading →

Gum Wrapper Chains

Do you remember gum wrapper chains? They were all the rage when I was in fifth grade. I thought about those chains the other day as I noticed that our large pack of gum didn’t have printed wrappers. I wanted to show my kids how to make gum wrapper chains, but it was hard to find gum with wrappers. Our drugstore had lots of cube shaped gum, and tiny rectangles of gum, but very few long pieces of gum, and most of those don’t have individual wrappers anymore. I’m sure it’s cheaper to produce gum with no wrappers, and probably … Continue reading →

Week in Review – Fun

No matter what kind of weather you are having, we have fun ideas for you. Take advantage of sunny days with the fun art project of Easy Solar Prints. Make Tiny Magnetic Folders to keep track of coupons, photos, phone numbers, and other tiny slips of paper. Read how Lauri’s ten year old twins are helping children with cancer in St. Baldricks – Fundraising for Childhood Cancer. And if you are anxious for spring weather, try this trick for getting spring blooms early in Forcing Forstyhia – an Early Taste of Spring.