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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.
Category: paper projects
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Ellerie and I had our first mama-baby craft project adventure last week when we made Thanksgiving place cards. My plan was to have her stamp her little hand print eight times on various Project Life cards in Thankgiving colors (these are from the Sunshine and Midnight kits). I grabbed non-toxic craft paint in orange and…
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It's funny – you do something once, it's nothing. You do it twice – it's something. You do it three times – it's tradition. This November, Paul and I will host our third Thanksgiving dinner in four years and we are very much looking forward to it. I realized a week ago that to build…
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One thing that I have decided to do to remember each space that we live in as a family is create a small photo book. You can see the one I created for our first time in San Diego here. These books are the easiest. I just go through all my photos from the time…
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This is going to come as a shock, but I LOVE photo grids! I went around and around on a 2012 card design and finally decided to just throw 20 photos of us at the problem instead of searching for ONE photo to compete with the magic that was last year. That's 18 photos of…
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I was so excited a few weeks ago to remember that hosting Thanksgiving means I get to send out Thanksgiving invitations. We are just celebrating with our immediate families this year (same as two years ago) and so it's only four invites that have to be made and mailed. Four invites is nothing, so I…
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If you follow me on Instagram or twitter, you've seen peeks of this already, but I wanted to share here anyways… I have a new craft fair backdrop! One of the most enjoyable parts of prepping for this craft fair has been reformatting what I already have to work for new product. I tend to…
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Stamps have sort of been the theme around here the last few months, but I thought it would be fun to cross "rubber" off the materials list and carve my own. I have done this before and really loved the results. I use that intial stamped stationery all the time. This time I went with…
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Have I mentioned that I had a patio garden this summer? Ah, yes, I have. It's no secret I was totally obsessed. (Though I've currently lost interest and that patio needs a serious intervention this weekend.) It was a huge joy to plant, fuss over, trim, harvest, water, take photos of and eat our garden…
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I decided there was no way to try and fit the wedding into a normal weekly spread in my Project Life album. SO many hilarious photos popped up on Facebook and it would have been wrong to leave out any of them. I love the idea that someday my kids will look through our albums,…
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I thought it would be fun (and helpful!) to write a post sharing my rubber stamp tips & tricks. I get a decent amount of questions about stamps & ink, and while I am far from an expert, I have some thoughts to share. First, stamping is a craft category entirely on it's own, complete…
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