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Inspiration - Gatherings Old Jewelry I like to create my own ephemera as often as I can instead of buying pre-made items. My Pinterest board  Pretty Little Paper Crafts is filled with many random things, many of them not made with paper. That’s because when I see something with a wow factor my first thought is how can I translate that using paper. When I succeed I often find a new paper project that will keep me stocked up on ephemera and bonus…. more ideas usually flow.    These paper jewelry pieces were inspired by wearable art jewelry pieces or faux...

Make Your Own Ephemera Webster’s Dictionary defines ephemera as something of no lasting significance. I have the same popular ephemera collections as most paper crafters but I also like to design my own ephemera.  This little paper project has been in my ephemera box for quite a while and I finally got around to making more than one to share and creating a video post as well. The photo below inspired me to try to create a paper fan as an ephemera piece and it brought back a memory of a fan necklace charm that I still have that is almost...

Theme Cards I’ve been toying with the idea of collage cards for quite a while. I kind of missed the idea of non-fussiness when it comes to card making and had a bunch of little pieces of ephemera that I wanted to use.  I also purchased a new paper stack that is completely out of my comfort zone with barely a vintage tone so before I create more paper scraps I wanted to use what I already have. These cards are made from my pre-cut paper stack only this time I decided to do a series. I think I will...

Mini Journal Inspiration It’s been quite a while since I’ve had a project worth doing a video for but I finally got back to the program.  I actually created this back in the fall, waited to get some new vintage papers to make the signatures and then realized I couldn’t bind it as simply as I wanted with staples so it is still not finished. A smaller size will be able to be staple bound. I also wanted to keep it open as I did this quick tutorial so I didn’t forget how to fold it properly. It was inspired...

Cutting To Size One of the most frustrating things about paper crafting is the tremendous amount of paper that accumulates in my craft room and I have utilized many tips to try to get it under control, some successful, some not. A recent one is from Pam at Paper Outpost to organize with clips and then just grabbing the entire stack to flip through. It works fine but it still wasn’t helping me cut through the stack.  Then I remembered a video from Mostly Paper Crafts about a way to store paper in pre cut usable sizes. I spent the day doing...