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Lads, Dads and Grads Garden Walk

Posted by Cathy on May 15, 2010 in Blog Hops, Copic Marker tips, flourishes | 17 comments

Welcome to the Paper Garden Projects Lads, Dads and Grads Garden Walk Take a stroll through the blogs of all the Paper Gardeners and enjoy some friendly inspiration. This month we are focusing on the all the men, boys and graduates out there. While you visit, subscribe to each Gardener’s blog and take note of each designer’s name and their special garden walk word in their blog post. Once you finish your garden tour, send an E-mail to custserv@papergardenprojects.com with the...

Flower Fairy picks….

Posted by Cathy on Apr 22, 2010 in Copic Marker tips, Eat Cake Graphics, Quick Tips and Techniqies, Tutorials, Uncategorized | 8 comments

I admit – I’m a total pushover for flowers. I buy them everywhere, even the fruit market (they have great deals!). And of course I love to get them as gifts. I got these two potted begonias at the fruit market and thought I might give them as a little gift to friends for Mother’s day. I added a few little flower fairies to make them a little more personal. To make the faries, I chose 3 images from the Flower Fairies cling set, stamped them in Memento ink and colored...

Welcome to the new Paper Gardeners

Posted by Cathy on Apr 7, 2010 in Crafty Secrets, Tutorials | 4 comments

We have a few more talented artists to help us tend our little Paper Garden. I’m so excited to introduce our new Paper Gardeners! (Sorry for the washed out photo – my usual picture spot is full of tomato seedlings!) First I want to say thank you to each and every artist who applied. I know people say this all the time, but you can’t believe how incredibly difficult it is to narrow all those wonderful applications down to only 2. It is just agonizing. (If I were...

Fiesta Flower Gift Box

Posted by Cathy on Feb 24, 2010 in Impression Obsession, Tutorials, Uncategorized | 2 comments

I hope you can stand one more Fiesta Flower project. This is the original idea I had in mind when I saw the stamp. I wanted to use it to make an embellishment for boxes by layering the image. Its very easy, but you have to like cutting things out! I just embossed Fiesta Flower with Zing white embossing powder on 6 different shades of Prism cardstock: Spring Willow Medium and dark; Dessert Coral light, medium and dark; and Sunflowers light. Then I just cut out different sections...

Clear Treat Box

Posted by Cathy on Dec 10, 2009 in Card kits, Eat Cake Graphics, Tutorials | 2 comments

I use the clear card boxes all the time to hold… well… cards…. But I love the sturdiness of the plastic. Its heavier than typical acetate sheets so I wanted to try using one to create a treat box. This was pretty quick and easy, and ended up pretty sturdy once the base was glued on. So here is my tutorial on how to create the box. First, cut all the flaps off both sides of a 1″ thick card box. Then flatten the box, matching up the two thin sides and crease the...