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How To: Craft a "Hugs and Kisses" chubby bird card
Baby birds, and baby animals in general, are traditional symbols of spring. With their bright, cheery faces and can't-resist fuzziness, they represent new life and rejuvenation during the spring season.
How To: Craft a chubby purple skunk kid's greeting card
This purple skunk greeting card doubles as a Valentine's Day card and a kid's birthday card. It depicts a smiling purple skunk holding a cute bouquet of flowers, an adorable tableau that will perk up your recipient's day.
How To: Craft a spotted mushroom Valentine's Day card
Mushrooms are quite whimsical, cute fungi. Whether they're the ones you pick in clusters to eat or the animated, cartoonish ones you see adorning Sanrio notecards, they're very chubby and that chubbiness affords a great cute aesthetic value.
How To: Craft an Easter bird Easter greeting card
We know that Valentine's Day is the greeting card holiday extraordinaire, but that doesn't mean you can't hand out cards to friends and loved ones during other holidays as well.
How To: Craft a "Happy Birthday" car card and "Thank You" card
This video is a 2 in 1 tutorial on how to make two gorgeous greeting cards for two different occasions.
How To: Craft a "New Addition" baby arrival card
Spring is baby season, so if you know a friend who's expecting rather soon, make sure both she and her baby are welcomed with a fond, handmade sentiment.
How To: Crochet a small Japanese amigurumi ball
Amigurumi is the Japanese art of crocheting small stuffed animals. Add personal touches to your handmade items with Amigurumi. This how to video is a tutorial on how to crochet a small ball that can be used to create a small head. Watch and learn.
How To: Craft a "Happy Birthday" wobble cake greeting card
Birthday presents are a great way of showing your friends that you pay attention to their interests as well as what they say (always a good thing). But there's nothing more personal than a handwritten greeting card.
How To: Craft a Valentine's Day "I Love You" scrapbook layout
If you have a boyfriend or a girlfriend, then Valentine's Day is truly a beautiful, memorable occasion filled with lots of dining, wining, and hearts popping out of your heads like those cheesy cartoons.
How To: Craft an adorable football fan birdie greeting card
With football season in full swing and the famed Superbowl coming up, if you have a football fan in your life you've probably been updated as to which nights have been X-ed out on his calender for game night with the boys.
How To: Make a cute "One in a Melon" greeting card
Got a friend or family member who's truly unique and quirky? Then tell them they're "one in a million" by crafting this simple - and pun-laden - "One in a Million" greeting card.
How To: Craft a "You Take the Cake" birthday card
Got a cake or cupcake-obsessed friend? Then she'll simply swoon over this "You Take the Cake" birthday card. The greeting card depicts a triple layered cake crowned with frosting.
How To: Craft a lovey dovey couple greeting card for Valentine's Day
Life can be romantic year round when you're with the person you love, but romance is truly in the air during the month of February, when Cupid spreads his lovey dovey wings over all.
How To: Craft a smile frog anytime greeting card
This adorable "smile frog" greeting card is a wonderful craft because it can be given out to loved ones year round. The cardstock frog has googly eyes and a teeny pink heart inside his stomach.
How To: Knit a variation on the Like Lace stitch
If you've mastered the like lace stitch when knitting, this tutorial will show you a lovely and elegant variation. This stitch is great for knitting a shawl, wrap or something else you want to give a beautiful lace like look.
How To: Craft a friends with flowers/Get Better greeting card
This greeting card is great because it can serve a variety of purposes. It depicts a huge, beautiful flower bouquet and can be sent to friends just because or with a "Get Better" greeting posted up front.
How To: Make a ladybug embellished notepad holder for spring
Notepads are some of the most banal objects on your office desk. Usually you don't think twice about them other than to check when your dentist appointment is.
How To: Make a cheery Easter bunny Easter card
Valentine's Day is known as the holiday of greeting cards (and the Hallmark Holiday extraordinaire), but that doesn't mean you can't dole out prettily adorned greeting cards during other times of the year as well.
How To: Make simple Valentine's day breakfast treats and favors
Valentine's Day is traditionally thought of to be a lover's holiday. You know, the whole Casanova-esque wooing with red roses and chocolates exchanged, romantic dinner dates by candlelight in hopes of Cupid working his magic later on. But Valentine's Day can be just as fun for kids.
How To: Craft three Valentine's Day paper favors
Even if you and your office cohorts don't exchange cutesy valentines on Valentine's Day, you can still indulge in the vibrant, lovey dovey holiday by crafting one of these three paper favors for your kid's class.
How To: Craft a cute Valentine's Day slider card
This slider card is an unexpected take on your normal fold-out cards. It slides from the side, revealing a hidden message.
How To: Craft a simple Hello Kitty girl's greeting card
When it comes to Valentine's Day, undoubtedly the Hallmark Holiday extraordinaire of the year, pink and red-hued cards are in plentiful stock at all major retailers. But rather than buy a mass-produced card, why not show a bit more love for your, well, love, by making your own card?
How To: Craft a heart-patterned "Love You" Valentine's Day card
We know that you're probably still reeling from the winter holidays, but lo and behold Valentine's Day is just around the corner. While indulgent gifts like a massage or trip to see a musical are best, when it comes to Valentine's Day cards handmade cards are often the most appreciated.
How To: Craft mini paper prima roses using Cricut
Here's an easy way to decorate your Valentine's Day handmade cards, gift wrap, envelopes, or gifts. Prima roses are teeny paper roses you can certainly purchase at a store, but they're a lot cheaper to make at home.
How To: Craft a cheap mini flower pot for Valentine's Day favors
Want to hand out lollipops to your kid's class for Valentine's Day? Then don't just phone it in by scouring the shelves at Target the night before for some Dora the Explorer paper valentines that you'll tape to the lollipops.
How To: Fold a cute origami fish for beginners
Are you sitting in class just a few minutes before the bell rings, and you swear every time you look at the clock that minute hand keeps going backwards or getting stuck rather than moving forward to your freedom?
How To: Fold an easy origami windmill/pinwheel
Are you sitting in class just a few minutes before the bell rings, and you swear every time you look at the clock that minute hand keeps going backwards or getting stuck rather than moving forward to your freedom?
How To: How to make a paper bouquet for your Valentine
Not to diss real flowers or anything, but while they're pretty and all up front wrapped up in that tight bouquet, after a few days they start to look more dreary and sad than the last Nicolas Sparks movie.
How To: Fold a simple origami sailboat
You've probably seen a lot of impressive how-to videos - or simple "show off" videos - on how to fold crazy 100-sided modular origami sphere-like thingymabobs, but most of the time we're betting you're sitting there going, "huh?".
How To: Fold a tiny origami drinking cup
Let's get one thing out of the way first: Yes, you can in fact drink from this wee paper origami cup. As long as you use wax-coated paper you'll be fine. Just know that this origami paper cup isn't intended to be used multiple times!
How To: Fold a sweet origami heart for Valentine's Day
At its core, Valentine's Day is about love, the act of loving, and harmony. So it only makes sense to give your amor a heart-shaped token of your affection this Valentine's Day.
How To: Fold an origami heart with a message for Valentine's Day
Whisper sweet nothings to your Valentine this Valentine's Day by making him or her this adorable origami heart. You can tuck a message like "Happy Valentine's Day" or "I Love You" inside for a personalized and sentimental touch.
How To: Fold a Japanese origami Children's Day carp
In Korea and Japan a special holiday called Children's Day is celebrated. Like Mother's Day or Father's Day in the United States, the occasion honors one particular family member, or members, with gifts and special parades or events.
How To: Fold an easy origami basket with a handle
Now that Valentine's Day is on the horizon, it's time to start thinking about what treats you'll be baking, how you'll be packaging them, and what paper crafts you'll be glueing together for the big day.
How To: Craft a green origami basket for Valentine's Day roses
We would never turn down real, super fragrant roses and peonies. But to be honest, getting dead or dying flyers is not all that attractive, especially since they wilt a few days in.
How To: Fold an origami bird and starship
It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a...starship? Whatever you make of these simple origami objects (we're thinking bird/starcraft here), they sure are cute and would look adorable strung on a mobile.
How To: Sew together a simple ribbon rose for Valentine's Day
We know that the Christmas rush has just past and you're probably still reeling from the eggnog and jet lag. But now that it's January, it's time to start thinking about the next holiday our our list: Valentine's Day.
How To: Craft a "Joy" greeting card with Hampton Arts Stamps
Physical gifts are the ones most championed during the holiday season, but what about the sentimental ones? You do wish that your friends and loved ones attain happiness, peace, health, and joy during the new year, right?
How To: Craft a spooky sweet Halloween mini paper bag album
Halloween is about spooking the living daylights out of your loved ones, so make sure you capture all the horrific and creepy memories of the occasion by putting them in a photo album.
How To: Craft a simple paper snowman cover for a Hershey's bar
On a budget during this holiday season? Don't fret; you can gift literally dozens of people without breaking the bank by giving them chocolate bars. No, we're not talking about just handing Aunt Sue a Reese's Pieces.