Spring Delicate Paper Flowers

Kate's Paperie has some fantastic seasonal craft ideas. I found these beautiful delicate paper flowers DIY projects. For instructions to the orange Jonquil, click here. For the purple Gerbera Daisy, go here!

Typography Activity Fun Book

This is just plain awesome....a typography activity book.

Hyperactivitypography from A to Z is an activity book for typographers illustrated in a nostalgic vintage style to give it a sweet and childlike look. The book is packed with activities, ranging from silly to hard core nerdiness. It's great to test your skills on and to learn new things while having fun. Who said typography had to be stiff and boring? You can flip through it here.

Pencil-of-the-Month Club

AWESOME! A pencil-of-the-month club, an artist's dream. At 500pencils.socialdesigner.com you sign up to recieve 500 colored pencils over a 20 month period from Japan. Each pencil has a unique name and story. How fun!

Now the question of the day...how and where to store them!

Craft Ornaments

Every once in a while I love taking a sneak peak at Paper Source to see what new craft ideas they have or products. Found these fantastic craft ornaments that would be super fun to decorate. Click here to check them out.

Easter Craft

These little paper Easter family is absolutely too cute!
For instructions, click here!

Free Handwritten Fonts

Here's 45+ fun handwritten fonts put together by TripWire Magazine. Enjoy!

Printable Hand-Finished Paper

I was flipping through my September 2009 issue of Martha Stewart and saw their highlight on this fantastic printer-friendly paper with a hand-finished edge. I guess the paper comes in 4 sizes and are great for invitations, business cards, fun notes or anything else you want to use it for. After you print your image you remove the perforated edges to reveal a special hand-finished edge. Fantastic.

You can get them here at orangeart.com and get templates and how to's here at Martha Stewart.

Free Party Invitations from Real Simple

Real Simple has some very simple and clever party invites you can print out for free.

{ birthday }
{ dessert party }
{ dinner party }
{ cheese party }
{ barbecue }

and....it's never too early to start planning for that:

{ new year's eve party invite } and
{ thanksgiving party invite }

Free Paper Toy Downloadables

As usual I stumbled upon this website called thetoymaker.com by Marilyn Scott Waters. She has graciously provided some very unique and fun diy paper toys that she has designed for all to use. Check them out here.

Stitching Your Adventures on a Postcard

Now this is sure a fabulous fun postcard to mark your travels for the summer! Love the idea. Check them out here at uncommongoods.com

Fabric Envelopes

I saw this idea on Design*Sponge and just had to put it here in my blog. Absolutely love these fabric envelopes. Usually I love commenting on things made out of paper, but I couldn't resist this one. Now, how to use it?

{ click here for instructions on how to make }

Great Party Paper Crafts

Are you planning a party? Well I found all of these great party paper craft ideas to spruce up any party at a very low cost if you have a ton of paper laying around collecting dust. What a fun summer party you could have with the party blowers and pinwheels thanks to Martha and IS.LY.




petal envelopes from IS.LY
festive drink umbrellas from Martha Stewart
paper pinwheels from Martha Stewart
party blowers from Martha Stewart
party hats from Martha Stewart
origami lotus flower featured at How About Orange

Free Block Party Invite

I'm helping to organize a Block Party in a couple of weeks in my cul-de-sac and whipped up these summery invites to pass out to my neighbors. So feel free to use them for your next party! You can download a pdf file on the goodie page of my website here.

Cupcake Box Template

Ran across another blog today call IS.LY.....love it! I found a template for a cupcake box. What a great idea. Click { here } for the instructions.

Saving Kid's Artwork

Crazy that I'm thinking about this already, but since I have a ton of blank wall space that I'm trying to fill up, I thought about my daughters future artwork. I want to create an artwork wall just for kids artwork.

So I ran across a couple ideas on Martha's site { here } on saving artwork that doesn't quite make it on the wall or artwork that I want to keep to change out later, maybe seasonal. Gotta love organization!

4th of July Crafts & Decorations

Here is a whole bunch of 4th of July crafts { here } and decorations from Disney Family Fun! This will sure keep you busy and make for a great day of festivities. Oh and here are some printables from Disney too! Click here for them.

4th of July Paper Airplane

Download this free patriotic paper airplane for the 4th festivities at Disney Family Fun.

Summer Gift Wrapping & Paper Flowers

Kate's Paperie has a couple fun summer ideas for making paper flowers out of paper { here } and wrapping a gift { here }. Great use of the butterflies...really love this idea.

Father's Day gift, Stickers and Free Fun

For Father's Day, here's a last minute gift idea from Martha Stewart. This is a great little picture frame!



These are the cutest space stickers from Lotta Bruhn.



Disney Family Fun has a whole bunch of great stickers for the kids! Here are their 4th of July stickers which kids I know will have fun with. Click { here } for the whole list of stickers.



And Martha Stewart also has these fun free printable stickers for kids! Absolutely fabulous.

Here's free printable popcorn bags from Mushy! Too cute for words.



Every once in a while The Container Store offers free things, craft project instructions or things like free printable labels! Gotta love it!

4th of July Paper Fun

Of course Martha Stewart came up with some pretty fun paper crafts for this years 4th of July festivities. For instructions, click on the links below.

{ name holders }
{ votive wraps }
{ napkin rings }
{ envelopes }