enJOY it
an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: paper projects
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So many of my girlfriends are expecting babies this fall (four out of my six bridesmaids have/will deliver in 2015). We are using one of them as an excuse to have a quick college reunion/couple’s shower. Per usual, invites were unnecessary (flights have been booked, plans have been made) but these simple invites are so…
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I realized last night I'm not going to get this album finished by the end of this week but I wanted to share an update since I said I would. I snapped these photos outside since the light was fading, apologies that they came out sort of strange. I took SO FEW photos. Maybe 20…
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Ellerie LOVES books. We're getting to the good part too – when she will actually SIT and LISTEN to a full story from beginning to end (I used to have to cliff notes the story in order to keep up with her attention span). She also likes to "read" them to us too. My favorite…
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Stop me if I’ve said this before (just kidding, I have said it 600 times) but I’ve got a new favorite family keepsake. Remember the E&e photo project?! Somehow a year has passed since I started that. Somehow twelve months have gone by and each one is captured in five side-by-side photos of mama &…
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Last weekend, Ellerie spotted her watercolor paints up in her closet and wanted to paint. I got everything set up, strapped her into her highchair and prepared myself for the five minutes of "coloring" before she was splashing in the water and declaring herself "all done!" And after my usual activity of writing out potential…
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Today I'm sharing my last post in collaboration with Canon USA and their photo printers. I have loved working with them. The printers are great and these varied projects have been so fun to dream up and execute. Since the beginning, I planned to make Ellerie a photo memory game with pictures of our family…
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I have been carving rubber stamps for years and was thrilled to find some extra rubber in my craft cupboards so I could make a special stamp (and prints!) for MAKE&GIVE30. It took about four seconds to figure out what I would carve. (Predictable is my middle name.) For this stamp I used this rubber…
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Annnnnnnnd, we're off! 30 projects in 365 days? That sounds manageable. (I've got four queued and ready to roll.) I mentioned that phase one of this project is all about using up existing supplies. This is part of my idea that sometimes creativity comes when you GET IN A BOX. Setting parameters and working with…
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Over the years I have shared many a memory keeping method on the blog. Traditional scrapbooking, minibooks, Project Life, bound photo books, art journals, framed collages, photo albums…even this blog is a memory keeping method. I LOVE photos. I LOVE words. I love taking photos and writing words and then looking back and reading through.…
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This might come as a shock, but given that there are approximately 100 ways great ways share the news about a party or event, I think paper invites are no longer a necessary tool in our digital society. So many of the other ways (particularly the email ones) are much more practical. I have been known…
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