I’m over at Make and Takes today sharing a simple and effective way to display your Holiday cards this year and small artwork throughout the rest of the year.
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Freebie: Thank You Card Design
Thanksgiving is upon us! It’s one of those awesome holidays that not only gets over looked, but the real meaning tends to be forgotten, too. Let’s give thanks this year, and every year.
Write out a heartfelt thank you to someone tomorrow. Heck, write out 10.
I recently scored a ton of awesome envelopes, so I have no excuses for not sending out some heartfelt thank yous. I really hope you do the same. Let’s remember what we’re thankful for.
This printable is sized to fit a standard #9 envelope, a fold-over card for a standard A2 envelope or a simple postcard. Print this with a laserprinter on kraft paper and watercolor the graphic for a more hand-drawn look! If this doesn’t float your Thanks boat, check out all these other Thank You printables:
- floral thanks
- from the bottom of my heart
- calligraphy thank you
- thank you postcard
- fill-in-the-blank thank you
Hope you travel safe and have a fun and tasty Thanksgiving!!
This tutorial or freebie is free for personal use and should not be distributed/republished without the express consent of Melissa Esplin. I love getting shout outs from around the web, but please, link with love. You may publish 1 photo along with credit back to the original post. Never link directly to the download. If you would like to use this tutorial or freebie for commercial purposes, please email me. Thanks!
Mother’s Day Download & a Recipe
In honor of Mother’s day, I thought I’d offer a little printable card for you to use.
Simply print out on standard 8.5×11 paper, cut in half, fold and you’ve got a lovely card to give to your awesome mom.
This tutorial/freebie is free for personal use and should not be distributed/republished without the express consent of Melissa Esplin. I love getting shout outs from around the web, but please, link with love. Do not copy this post, publish more than 2 photos or outright steal this idea for commercial publications. If you would like to use this tutorial for commercial purposes, please email me. Thanks!
I’m also over at Rhodes Rolls blog today sharing an easy (and mini-sous chef friendly) recipe for a yummy Mother’s day treat.
Head over for step-by-step instructions on how to make the below lemon strawberry danish.
Guest Post + Printable by Carrie of Bedtime Tales
Thanks everyone for all of the well-wishes here & on twitter! Your kind words have made my week. Felix & I are doing well (he’s currently asleep on my chest), I’ll give a full update on Monday. Also, a huge thanks to Carrie of Bedtime Tales for offering her talents with a guest post and a printable! I’ve known Carrie since my college days in ’06. She’s such a kind, creative person. Penelope & I will definitely be doing this project soon.
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Since Melissa introduced me to blogging, I began to explore the “blog world” a little deeper and I found that it is a wonderful thing to share beautiful, personal art online. So, once my artsy sister, Becka, started her own blog, I jumped aboard with both feet. Now, after almost a year of craft-blogging, I can say that I find the free-sharing of creative ideas and projects more satisfying than ever!
My sister and I run a blog that fits well into the “creative living” category, posting about family recipes or DIY projects. However, our personal specialties are found in bedtime toys and tales (hence our blog title, Made by Bedtime tales). Becka likes to create cuddly, homemade stuffed animals and dolls. I love to capitalize on original stories and illustrations for my kids.
Our dream is to one day sell handmade, ornate, small wooden puppet stages that you can share with your children at bedtime. Until Becka and I get that dream up and running, however, we’d like to share with you a small, printable puppet stage pattern!
I’ve seen a number of online patterns for “green” doll houses made out of recycled cardboard boxes. Well, this is a similar idea here, only we’ve designed a way to make a puppet stage out of an old, empty kleenex box and some cardstock. This pattern comes with some printable puppets that attach to popsicle sticks and a funky ad-libs script for your own fun, family-night puppet show.
So, please enjoy the FREE printable pattern ;)
And thank you, Melissa, for all the years of free printables, tutorials and fun DIY projects!
-CK
This printable is free for personal use & should NOT be distributed or republished without consent. Altering files is NOT ALLOWED. If you’d like to use this for commercial purposes, please email Carrie.
iPhone Case Pattern 2.0
I threatened that I would post iPhone case tutorial nearly a month ago and here I am finally getting around to actually doing it. I really liked the old case that I had, it was just slightly impractical to had an unprotected phone to Penelope when she wanted to play her games. I decided that I needed to have a case that could stay on and actually protect my phone from grubby little hands. When I decided to embark on my noble quest, our computer was out of commission, so any designing I did was the old school way with a ruler and a pencil. That method took forever. Also, I kept running into wall after wall of design flaws. BLERG.
After I got my computer back and I had a great brainstorm session with the hubs, I completed the pattern. It’s pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.
Doesn’t the corsetted back look hott?
The pros to this case:
- Penelope can’t press the home button, because she can’t see it. So, she’s stuck watching her little videos or playing her games and can’t post random tweets from my phone.
- The leather makes for a better grip. It’s not going to slip out of mine or Penelope’s hands.
- The phone is protected from minor bangs and drops.
The cons to this case:
- It’s sewn in. So if you have to take it to the Apple store (which I do), you might need to un-pick the sewing. No big deal, but slightly annoying.
- the sides of the case don’t lay flat. Although, time and scoring the inside of the leather remedies this problem.
It’s been about 3 weeks since I’ve had the case on my phone, and I really like it a lot. I feel like it’s protected all the time and it just looks funky fun. I get comments on the stitching ALL the time. If you’re looking to cover your iPhone, I hope you give this little tutorial a try. Click on the Download button below to download. Enjoy!
This printable is free for personal use. If you would like to use this printable commercially, please email me. Thanks!
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