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How to Make an Easy Heart Shaped Box for Valentine's - Printable

By MSTC on February 3, 2012 5:00 AM | 1 Comment | 0 TrackBacks

Heart shaped boxes are the symbol of Valentine's Day and I made a very easy printable design for you to make.

The 8 by 8 1/4 inch boxes are made from recycled cereal box cardboard, plain paper, white card stock and fabric.

I covered these ones with fabric but you can use scrap booking paper, wall paper, or just make them out of colored card stock.

Make one for every Valentine in your life and fill them up with sweet stuff!

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Homemade Small Valentine's Day Cards - Free Printable

By MSTC on January 30, 2012 5:01 AM | 1 Comment | 0 TrackBacks

You don't have to spend a lot of money to get a lovely little enclosure card to add to a small gift.

These fanciful, rather Victorian looking, cards are simple to make using plain paper.

They look equally as sweet on top of a gift or tucked into a bouquet of flowers.

I used traditional Valentine's Day sentiments of "Be My Valentine", "Happy Valentine's Day" and "Enjoy".

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Vintage Valentine's Postcards - Free Printable

By MSTC on January 27, 2012 5:00 AM | 5 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

I am delighted to share with you four of my favorite Valentine cards that are from about 1910 to 1920.

The graphics are very sweet and can be used in all sorts of crafts or just as is.

As some of the post cards have a slight tint from aging if you want a clear white background then you will have to tweak them a bit with Photo Shop or Paint.net.

This one I am propping up on my vanity table beside a porcelain rose to enjoy over the Valentine season. (More Style Than Cash will not appear on your printable.)

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Vintage Movable Valentine Cards - Free Printable

By MSTC on January 25, 2012 5:00 AM | 6 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

I thought I would share with you more of my cards, this time from my Valentine's Collection.

These cute little cards are from the 1920 and each one of them has an element that you can move. These are in surprisingly good shape considering little fingers probably played with them a great deal.

The secret to their movement is that they are put together with very small split pins (also called round head fasteners).

I have been looking for this small size and haven't been able to find them yet but the larger size split pin doesn't take away from the charm when you reproduce them.

Print these out on card stock they are wonderful to give as Valentine Cards, to use as tags or use in your Valentine displays.

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Emergency Christmas Kit - Free Printable

By MSTC on December 15, 2011 8:49 AM | 3 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

There always seems to be something going on at Christmas that is a mini emergency.

Nip that problem in the bud by making a Emergency Christmas Kit for yourself or someone who you know will really need it.

Does you sister-in-law always do an amazing job for Christmas dinner but is a little frazzles by the end? Do you have a co-worker that is always trying to smooth things over during the holiday season so everyone is having a good time?

We all know (or are those people) that go above and beyond during the Christmas Season. Why not make up this label for them and fill a box of items that you know would be helpful during their emergencies.

And what could those items be? (Hehehe) Read on for some great ideas.

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Santa Labels and Stamps from the North Pole - Free Printables

By MSTC on December 12, 2011 4:41 PM | 7 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Editor Note: There was actually a misspelling on the labels that has now been corrected...I'm blaming it on the elves.

There is a way to make a special gift even more special and that by adding these labels to them that are obviously from Santa in the North Pole.

Print them off and add them to any gift that you want to make stand out. This could be charming if you added it to the wrapping of a secret Santa gift.

I show them here on brown wrapping paper but they would really stand out if you were to put them on white wrapping paper or red & white paper.

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Christmas Ornaments from Souvenirs

By MSTC on December 9, 2011 5:00 AM | 1 Comment | 0 TrackBacks

One of my favorite things to do is travel to new places with my family.

While shopping can be a great deal of fun we generally don't make it our main activity and keep our souvenirs to a minimum.

One item that we do enjoy bring back is Christmas tree ornaments but often we are traveling in the summer when such items are not readily available in the stores.

We have solved that problem by turning souvenir items into tree ornaments.

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More Inexpensive Homemade Christmas Tree Ornaments

By MSTC on December 5, 2011 11:41 AM | 10 Comments | 0 TrackBacks

Inexpensive home made Christmas tree ornaments are great to make when your tree is a little bare or if you are decorating a tree in a public place that you don't want to spend a lot of money on but you really would like to look nice.

Here are three ideas that I have used on my own Christmas trees, (yes, trees, I am one of those people that has a small forest in her home at Christmas time.)

All of these are easy to make, inexpensive and relatively quick. All you need to worry about is drying time.

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