Free shipping on any size order at Oriental Trading!

Hi Folks. I just got an email from Oriental Trading Co. offering free shipping on ANY size order for 4 days. They have tons of scrapbooking, stamping and general crafting stuff, a lot of beads and kid craft project kits sure to keep the little ones entertained over the holidays. Here are the details: Order [...]

Christmas Word Search

It’s that time of the year again! Black Friday the official start to the Christmas season. I’m spending this day crafting with my kids rather that hitting the sales. I took some time this morning to make an element for my Christmas cards. I found a nifty word search maker on line and created a [...]

Go Make Something!

So yesterday I said I would reveal a great craft website I found…well here it is, its called Go Make Something and it’s purpose is to inspire. This weeks challenge was to make something inspired by a map. Here is what I made: I didn’t make the following cards for the challenge but they match [...]

“Deer” Friend card and Cricut Deal Aleart!

I made this card for a dear friend’s birthday and I had such fun making it I thought I would share my templates. Of course I cut it in SCAL using my Cricut but it is easy enough you cut the base of the card by and too and you will find this bracket card [...]

Look what I got in the mail today!

The new issue of Vamp Stamp News and in it is a card I made! Yay! I is the first card I have submitted to that magazine and they used it, I’m thrilled! Now take a close look at the cover…see the beautiful Santa card in the corner? Well fellow The Rubber Cafe Design Team [...]

Cool Yule! and more Christmas freebies!

Happy Sunday everybody! It sure is a happy one for me, a scare landed one of my daughters in the hospital for a couple of days but we are all home safe and sound now! Of course she enjoyed her stay there so much she didn’t want to leave! She loved having momma’s undivided attention [...]

30,000 hits!!! Freebie time!

I can’t believe my blog finally got 30,000 hits! Wow! Thank you so much for visiting and special thanks to all of you who have left comments over the past months, it makes this so worthwhile. As promised I have a big ole freebie…well several actually…I started making this kit and I just couldn’t stop! [...]

Get out that vellum!

When I fist started scrapping there was noting lovelier than the sheer pristine sheets of vellum lining the shelves at my local scrapbook store. In fact I routinely used my 50% off coupons to buy packs of the white vellum at JoAnns. One time I hit a great sale of 12×12 embossed vellum at 10 [...]

Let’s Make Paper!

OK this is a recycle…I wrote an article on paper making for the September issue of the Home and Garden guide (you can read it here) but I thought I would post all the pics that didn’t make it into the article. It is so easy to make paper at home, it’s beautiful and you [...]

Customize it with your Cricut!

My husband and I were in Target the other night looking for lamps for our 4 year old daughters. We found black metal clip one ones for $10. They’re sturdy so we wont have to worry about them knocking them over and braking them but man were they dull looking! No fear, a little self [...]