Printable Valentines are Here!

 

We love Valentines and everyone loves to 

receive a cute little sentiment!

Grab your last-minute, inexpensive yet

totally lovely Valentines HERE.

It's an instant download

available only in season

that you can print yourself, for personal use

(no business use / resale) 

in whatever amount you need!

No waste, no leaving anyone out.

Whether for the classroom, 

the office,  your party 

(why not tag it up with Super Bowl this year?), 

these will add a lot of fun to your festivities.

While you're at it, grab a couple of super fun

printable Valentines games, too. 

You get three for the price of one: 

my super popular word search printable, 

the candy tic-tac-toe game board, and 

chalkboard tags for a Valentine S'more Loving mix. Bundled together and listed in my Etsy.

If you'd like pre-printed cards for

your special occasions, you

can find them at my Society 6 Shop. 

Check out these fun
MINUTE TO WIN IT games

for your party:

Valentine Conversation Hearts Stack
Suck it Up

Bottle Drop

Tweeze Me!

An InLinkz Link-up

Wild About You Notebook & Cards

Wild about nature? 

Want to let your Valentine or someone know you're wild about them?

Treat yourself to a lush notebook and stationery.  

My gouache painting is digitized and carefully placed to ensure 

you'll love writing in this journal. 

While you're at it, delight someone 

with a personally penned note on a work of art.  

You can get them HERE.  

A great gift to celebrate Earth Day, too. 

Thank you for visiting!

Shamrock Digital Papers

Get ready for St. Patrick's Day with these festive digital papers!

You'll find some really fun and cute craft projects for St. Patrick's Day here on the blog.

But did you know for less than a latte you can download a trove of digital paper and print out whatever you like to complete these crafts?

It's your lucky day:

Visit my shop HERE for instant access!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Get the matching St. Patrick's Day t-shirt at my shop!

Free October Calendar Page!

Hello October!

To celebrate this Spooktacular month

I'm sharing a free printable

calendar page featuring

my hand-painted mega bat!

Just click the photo above to

get your instant download.

Also, did you get my black cat

social media buttons for your blog?

Grab those HERE.

Happy October!

Get great clip art for the Fall season HERE

Free Printable November Calendar Page

Hello, November!

It is a time of harvest and thanksgiving

in these parts.

To celebrate, I'm sharing this

free printable calendar page for the

month of November.

It features my hand-painting in gouache

of mums, squash and gourds.

Honey Bear Collection

My love of tea

inspired me to create this

"Honey Collection" clip art!

It's so darned cute.

And it's interactive -- 

meaning you can dress up your

two styles of honey bears

and the honey pourer

with the other clipart provided.

There's a bee of varying sizes,

a 3 types of honey wands, two types of spoons, 

a heart with the word 'honey' and 

honeycombs.

And I threw a couple of backgrounds 

to make it easy to make cards.

It'd be so sweet for Mother's Day 

or Father's Day coming up!

Also perfect for baby showers, a 

spring or summer party,

Valentine's Day, engagement, anniversary, birthdays, thank you cards... 

basically for anyone and anything you're sweet on!

You can get it here

on my etsy!

Leprechaun Cone Tree Forest Tutorial

This adorable wee forest

will delight leprechauns of all ages for

St. Patrick's Day!

Let's get started with the

Leprechaun Cone Tree Forest Tutorial

Name That Oscar Host! answer key for the party game

We're getting ready to roll out

the red carpet here.

For your Academy Awards watch party,

you'll want the 

answer key to this fun game:

Name That Oscar Host!

Twenty celebrities have hosted

the Academy Awards more than once.

The object of the game is to

identify those 20 hosts.

There's an extra host on the page,

so you will need to identify who hosted only once.

But wait before peeking at these answers!!
You can get the original game {here}.

I'm providing the answer key in this post

so that you have the opportunity

to make your guesses without peeking!

You might be interested in more watch party fun

with these ideas:

An InLinkz Link-up

OK,

if you are ready for the answers,

just mosey over to my Etsy

during Oscar season for the instant download:

Have a great time watching the Oscars!

Follow me on Pinterest for more ideas:

Oscar Party Bingo Cards for 2015!

It's officially a tradition here:

Oscar Bingo

for your Academy Awards watch party!

I've made free printable cards for you again.

It's a FUN way to watch

the glitz and glamour with your

friends and family.

You can even glitz up some bingo chips

to make it extra fun.

{tutorial here}

3-Step Magazine Tree Tutorial

Deck your Halls

with a forest of trees you make yourself

out of something you already have 
plenty of lying around the house:
magazines!

This is a fun project to do with the family,
with friends at a holiday craft party,
or simply as you sit sipping 
eggnog or hot chocolate
and watching holiday movies.

These magazine trees are easy to make
and I'm offering you beautiful,
full-color, fully illustrated instructions.

Here's 

How to Make Magazine Trees:

Haunted Typewriter Stamped Halloween Art

Tap, tap, tap…

A red-eyed Raven taps out a haunting message

in this piece of rubber-stamped art.

This is Part Two

in the experiment to use

everyday rubber stamps in ways

that lend a sinister vibe...

You can see Part One where the Raven 

was dipping into the inkwell 

to send a Halloween greeting:

Let's look at the details for the Haunted Typewriter stamped Halloween Art:

Inky Raven Stamped Halloween Art

I love Halloween!

Just look at how you can use

everyday rubber stamps in 

ways that have them take on

an eerie Halloween edge!

None of these stamps were purchased

with Halloween in mind at the time.

But put them together with the right colors and

suddenly they seem a little sinister…

Mwwaahahaha! 

Let's take a closer look at the details…

Free Printable Gift Tags ~ Soft and Pink

Hello friends!  Today I'm going to share a way for 

you to add a dash of beauty and whimsy

to your gift giving. 

I had so much fun creating these lovely 

free printable gift tags!

All you need to do is click the download link

at the end of this post

and you'll get TWELVE different tag designs.

No… wait! Make that TWO Dozen...

Lovely Colors for Mothers {and babies!}

Do your craft projects

continue to inspire you

long after they are completed?

Mine do!

This beautiful flower bow package,

{grab the tutorial here}

inspired a beautiful color palette

for Mother's Day.

Any woman would love a gift wrapped like this!

Of course, this color palette is also perfect

for Spring

for baby
for the nursery

and for all kinds of projects!

So I'm kinda on a roll making

fun clip art

and beautiful digital paper designs

all inspired by the color palette

arising from a past gift package tutorial.

I can't wait to create some projects

from these beautiful papers

and clip art to share with you

as free tutorials.

In the meantime, YOU can grab the

clip art and designer papers at my Etsy store

for about the price of a latte.

AND… get 24 FREE Coordinating Gift Tags here

PLUS...

Check out my FREE

Flower Bows Gift Package Tutorial here.

AND

Click here for a simple silk flower corsage tutorial 

Plus more free Mothers Day projects {here}

It's CATURDAY! Free Printable Banner

free Caturday printable banner link below

Those of us who have pets

appreciate what an important

part of the family they are.

If you want a great laugh

and some fuzzy feel-good fun,

you've gotta visit Caturday

on google plus!

Stamped Nest Housewarming Gift

You don't have to be a

painter or illustrator to make

beautiful artwork. 

Use rubber stamps to create home decor,

cards or gifts.

This nest is an example of simple,

stamped art you can personalize yourself

and give as a housewarming gift,

Newspaper Nest Tutorial

One of my favorite

signs of Spring in nature

is the nest.

The nest inspires all

kinds of decor, crafts, and holiday goodies.

These little newspaper nests

can be used throughout the Spring season,

and are perfect for Easter celebrations.

Here's how to make a newspaper nest:

Easter Lamb Chatterbox Game ~ aka cootie catcher

Some games simply must

be a part of the childhood experience.

Hop scotch,

jacks,

and "cootie catchers"

come to mind.

So here's an Easter rendition of the 

"cootie catcher" game.

The game is also known as a chatterbox,

and that term seems most descriptive

for this version.

The link to download the

Easter Lamb Chatterbox Game Printable

appears after the tutorial instructions below:

Leprechaun Cone Tree Forest Printable

This adorable wee forest

will delight leprechauns of all ages for

St. Patrick's Day!

Grab my

Leprechaun Cone Tree Forest Printable

in the link below.

St. Patrick Pots Printable

These little cuties

will have you serving up

St. Patrick Day treats in style!

Plus… They are 

SUPER easy and quick to put together.

Grab your

St. Patrick Day Printable Pots

download below!