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!

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!

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 }

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.

Another Fabulous Blog

I ran across a fabulous blog called Bloesem by Jurianne Matter from the Netherlands. She's a paper artist and has some absolutely amazingly fun paper designs and ideas. She also has another blog just for kids things called Bloesem Kids.

These paper latterns and boats are absolutely fun!

Fun Paper Crafts

Here are some fun paper crafts. Some are very quick and easy, others a little more involved. Happy paper crafting!

:: candy placecard at Martha Stewart
:: paper embellished clothespin from Pin and Paper
:: chunky book at Memory Makers Masters Blog
:: butterfly decorations at Martha Stewart

Fun Candy Wrappers

Who would of thought that this would be on Rachel Ray's Everyday website. Free candy wrapper designs to download. Of course as a designer, I would most likely design one myself. But, when I'm in a pinch I don't have any guilt downloading free designs. Especially if it is a fun design and it involves chocolate! For candy wrapper free downloads, click here!

Paper Pom-Poms

Again, leave it to Martha Stewart to come up with another fabulous, inexpensive party decoration. These paper pom-poms are so beautiful and easy to make. You can also create matching pom-pom napkin rings. Click here for her instructions.

Also highlighted in the picture are table luminaries. Those are just square or rectangular glass vases or votive candle holders that have been wrapped in matching tissue paper and secured with tape. I have a ton of candle holders around my house and they're not all square, but I'm sure round ones and other sizes would be just as beautiful.

Bunny Pocketbook Favor

Here's another great paper craft from my favorite paper place, Paper Source. I haven't had a chance to make this one yet, but what a great idea for the Easter dinner table, the adult or kids table! Click here for the instructions.

Paper Rosette

My absolute favorite paper store in the world so far is Paper Source. I can easily spend a whole day in there gathering ideas, looking at their paper, figuring out my next event to use their amazing invitations, and so on and so on. However, I am sad now as I no longer live near an actual store and must replace my fix on their website. Thankfully I'm just as inspired and enjoy the projects and resources that they post up on their site.


One project that they have on their site is the Paper Rosette. One of the more beautiful paper ornaments that I've found to spice up any event or your home for that matter! For the directions, click here!

Matchbox Announcement

I just stumbled across this DIY adorable matchbox announcement here at this cute site Little Window Shoppe. The matchboxes could be personalized and even used for a baby shower announcement too. I'm sure it could be done for such events like:

:: bridal shower announcements
:: wedding reception favors
:: general party favors

I'm going to keep a note of this one as I'm sure they will be perfect for some occasion. For the tutorial click here.