Take a look around. You'll find crafting fun for children, teens and adults.
Rectangular Boxes - Use free printable patterns to make small gift boxes, including ones in Christmas red or green. The Christmas patterns come with two options for the box bottoms—plain white or polka dot. Decorate the box top with Christmas Quilling or in anyway you like! Instructions are also given for drafting a box pattern/template for any size rectangular box.
This week's Wednesday treat is a collection of Christmas Dots digital papers. Use these papers to make Rectangular Christmas Gift Boxes, Christmas Tree Shaped Boxes or matching Gift Wrap. These digital papers coordinate with the Christmas Stripes digital papers and Christmas Dots Paper Ribbon digital paper. See all of the Christmas digital papers for more free papers to download.
Miniature Christmas Tree Ornament - A simple cone of paper can be made into an ornament in the form of a Christmas tree that everyone will enjoy. With just a few common supplies, you and your children can make and decorate these little paper Christmas trees. Make cones from other colors of paper to create bell and Santa hat ornaments.
Stenciled Bear Christmas Cards - Make a batch of Christmas cards in a flash, featuring a stenciled Christmas bear holding a 3-D banner. Select from two printable stencil templates to make a stencil that you use to create cards for sending to friends and relatives.
Last week's Wednesday treat was a collection of digital papers for Christmas. Use the Christmas Bears and Bow-ties and Christmas Trees on Blue digital papers to make Boxes and Bags or to wrap gifts that coordinate with Stenciled Bear Christmas Cards or the Christmas Tree Shaped Box. See all of the Christmas digital papers for more free papers to download.
Shaped Cards for Christmas - Make simple and fun holiday cards in the shape of a pine tree, Santa, or an angel. These cards are easy enough for younger children and people with special needs to make. While the cards are very simple to make, they are easily enhanced with glitter, cotton balls, sequins, and other creative touches. Let your imagination soar!
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Greeting card tutorials are a regular feature on Aunt Annie's Crafts. Each tutorial builds on prior card projects. It's like taking a class on making handmade greeting cards.
This month's featured card tutorial is Make Fall and Winter Cards with Quilling Motifs.
Build on the Basics of Quilling and the quilling design patterns in the project to decorate greeting cards with quilling motifs for fall and winter—snowflake, acorn, and pumpkin. The card ideas are based on the easy-to-make Four Patch Card, and use free digital papers you can download and print.
If you are new to card making, the tutorials in the Card Class are a great place to learn many techniques for making beautiful cards. Then for more ideas and techniques, go on to Card Class 2.
