Category Archives: Printables

Printed Tags Tutorial

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In these times, when we’re all spending much more time at home than usual, we’re perhaps in need of some extra inspiration for our papercraft projects. So I thought I’d offer you all a free video tutorial on how to create beautiful printed tags, meant especially for people who aren’t very tech-savvy but do wish they knew how to do these things.

And the good news is, this is relatively simple! The only things you need are a computer, a printer, and some kind of word processor software, like Microsoft Word, Apple Pages or other kinds (though if you even know of the other kinds, you probably don’t need this tutorial anyway šŸ˜‰ )

Let me know if you want me to do more of these “digital basics” tutorials, for instance, on how to find nice pictures and sentiments to print.

Be well, see you next time!

Quick & Easy Card Tip!

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#stillintimeforchristmas šŸ™‚

If you’d love to create your own Christmas cards and don’t know how, or simply don’t have the time to spend several hours on only one card, this week’s post is for you!

The concept is so simple that I felt I couldn’t even make an entire video around it. So, in this blog exclusive, I’m basing my idea on two of my earlier tips: 1. Digitally designing your own patterns and layouts, and 2. using a printed picture instead of design paper.

This week’s project combines those two tips. I first designed a digital collage around a baby girl theme. For this I always use collections of digital elements I purchase from designers, and then combine these elements into unique collages with an app on my iPad, in this case PicCollage. You could also use other apps, or work with Powerpoint on your PC.

I then have my digital collage printed at a professional photo printing service. You could of course also print it yourself.

The final step is to mat the picture onto a nicely colored double card.

Easy peasy! šŸ™‚

I did mine up as a baby card, but this would of course also work perfectly for Christmas!

Vintage Notelet: a Printable Step Card

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This week I’m very excited to share Vintage Notelet,Ā my latestĀ patterned paper template.Ā My patterned paper templates are my printable templates from which to create the most intricate of cards with hardly any effort on your side. You do need a color printer of course, and preferably some matte photo paper. You can purchase all of my printables in the Printables section of my shop.

This particular template is based on a step card die by Crealies, who sell internationally, but if this die is no longer available you can also cut and fold a step card yourself, there are plenty of tutorials on the internet.

For this particular step card die, I did a free video tutorial a while back, which I’ll embed at the end of this post for your convenience.

With the printable template comes a cutapart sheet, from which you can fussy-cut your own decorations. It’s fun to find new places for each of them every time you print the template! I created two step cards myself, and did each of them up differently, using only the template and the cutapart sheet! You can see how they each look below.

Enjoy the video(s)!

 

 

Creative Card Tip (for when you want a break from papercrafting but… not)

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I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’d like to do some creative work, just not actual papercrafting. Then here’s a new card making tip for you: tryĀ digital scrapbooking.Ā Granted, you’ll need at least a little bit of affinity for working with some kind of photo app, and you’ll have to gather at least like 100 digital elements to work with. But once you’re there, you’re good to go.

You can of course create nice scrapbooking layouts like you would with your normal 12×12″ paper, like this one:

Now imagine printing that, but as a 6×6 sized picture. Now you can either mat a piece of folded cardstock to create a card, or print it on a 6×12″ piece of white paper and fold that in half.

You don’t have to use photos of course, you can also go ‘all digital scrapbooking’, like these cards:

And last but not least, you can print them yourself, but you can also have them professionally printed.

Check out the video for show & tells of all of these examples!

Several of the cards in the video are available for you as professionally printed cards, plus envelopes!

So, have you got any experience with digital scrapbooking – and if not, would you ever consider trying it? Let me know in the comment section! šŸ™‚

 


Printable Template: Napkin Fold Card

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This week I’m happy to introduce you to another one of myĀ patterned paper templates!Ā This time the templates are for a so-called napkin fold card, or origami fold card. I’ve created several of these cards before, which you can all see in the video below, and I also did aĀ free video tutorialĀ on the technique – which you find embedded below as well.

It’s so fun designing my own papers! This time you can create three different sizes of napkin fold cards, for I designed papers sized 6×6″, 7×7″ and 8×8″, all three are available as one – very affordable! – set in my shop, for you to print as many times as you like, provided it’s for personal use only.Ā I’ve come up with two patterns, one I dubbedĀ Hydrangea,Ā the otherĀ Bougainvillea.Ā Hope you enjoy these, let me know in the comment section below!

 

 

 

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New Adventure: My Own Patterned Paper Templates!

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Well, the title is already teasing it: I’ll be expanding on my creative adventures – by designing my own patterned paper templatesĀ and offering them as downloadable printables! šŸ™‚

What that means is that I’m experimenting with digital scrapbooking and graphic design, to come up with my own project templates. And I’m starting off with not one butĀ two Box cardĀ Printables!

Now these are not templates in the sense of having visible cutting & scoring lines or some such. The reason I’m calling it a box card patterned paper template is that you will not need any (!) cardstock to create your box card, because I came up with a double-sided design paper that will work perfectly with the cuts and folds of any box card.

Note that it will take at least medium level paper crafters for the printable to work without a tutorial. Therefore I have added a bonus tutorial and a bonus cutting guide to my regular Box Card Tutorial (#26), specifically for these printable patterned paper templates. Those of you who have already purchased this tutorial are in luck, for they will be able to download the extra guidesĀ at no additional cost! šŸ™‚

I’m calling my new box card patterned paper templateĀ Flowers & Wine.Ā It’s an original design and available in my shop now, for a very small price. You can print it as many times as you like, provided you do so for your own personal use or gift giving. AND as a bonus, you’ll get a freebie!*Ā For there’s a secondĀ printable available with the first, enabling you to make TWO beautiful box cards for the price of ONE!
Simply check out theĀ PrintablesĀ section in my shop.

So, check out the video below and please do let me know what you think! Is this something you would like to see more of?

 

 

* I created theĀ freebieĀ printableĀ with elements from the Bring on SummerĀ digital collection by Savi by Design.

 

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Free tutorial: Wrapping, Matting & Wire Binding (+ printable pages!)

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Hi all,

New year, time for new things – as I think I mentioned in my first blog post of 2018 šŸ™‚

So I designed my firstĀ printable,Ā namely the pages for a so-called networking booklet. This booklet is perfectĀ to keep with you on your (new) job, as an easy little notebook to jot down all of your networking connections: their names, position titles, departments/companies, and their connections to your own work and position.Ā It offers page layouts in SIX color schemes (the video shows four, but I designed two more: black/gray and blue/red), plus matching title pages. It’s available in my Etsy shop as of right now, and comes both in English and in Dutch (in 1 purchase).

As I’m still a hardcore paper crafter, I also did a video tutorial on how to create the covers & binding, and threw in some matting technique as a bonus. Freely available for you all, as a thank you for your ongoing support. šŸŒ·

Feel free to let me know what you think, and what kind of future printables you might be interested in!