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Good morning everyone and welcome back to the craft room. This morning I am going to share with you my Accordion Pocket Folder. The inspiration for this came from many different video’s, the first of which was Accordion Pocket Pouch by Cathy’s Garden. All of the videos I saw incorporated envelopes in their design. However,…
Good morning and welcome back to the craft room! Today’s Flashback Friday post is going back to 2016 with an Explosion Box. This pattern makes a box that is 4″ square when completed. Let’s get right into it. Explosion Box A few years ago I saw instructions to make an explosion box, but when I…
Hello my friends and welcome back to the craft room! Today we venture into something completely different and way out of my wheelhouse, tea dyed paper! My sister’s newest crafty fun has been creating junk journals. For Christmas she asked me to create some ephemera items for her to use in them. Since I don’t…
Happy New Year everyone and welcome back to the craft room!! Today we are going to create a holder for a 5″ x 8″ notepad. The pattern I’m sharing with you today is adapted from one I found on YouTube by Michelle Allen from A Creative Operation. Her design for the 5″ x 8″ notepad…
Raise your hand if you have ever tried making your own box for a unique project or gift. Now, raise both hands if you have ever struggled to get the measurements for the box top and bottom to align so they fit perfectly. I don’t know about you, but both of my hands are in…
In November of 2021 my sister Betty and I decided to become first time craft show vendors. The Holiday Marketplace was held at the Carbon Valley Recreation Center in Frederick, Colorado. From August of that year until the week before the show we were both busy creating items to sell. Not knowing what to make,…