Welcome to my Self Expressions page :)
here you will find links to journaling, writing, rubber stamping, and anything else I come across that I think will find a home here :)
Any suggestions, feel free to email me!
Journaling
Letter Writing
handmade paper
http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/paper.html
make a thin glue by watering down some you have, and glue dried flowers to some pretty paper. Decorate with stickers, rubber stamps, or glitter.
Put some confetti in the envelope so there is a little surprise when it is opened. Most printers come with software for making cards and stationary, you can even make personalised stationary. Decorate your envelopes to match.
Make your own envelopes by carefully taking apart an envelope you like , trace on old calendars, pretty magazine picture, wrapping paper or craft paper. Use a glue stick to seal the edges, use labels to put your return address and the senders address on, tape to seal. I usually put the name and addy on the back side of the envelope so the pretty from is left plain.
A good book for this with templates is called
"The Envelope Mill"
see Cottage Books for link
Card crafting
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Many of the supplies in the rubber stamping and scrapbooking sections of your craft store make great cards, with no rubber stamping involved!
Get some of the blank cards, they come in lots of neat papers! Use some of the pretty scrapbook papers as a background, with maybe a die-cut placed over it, write you message around the edge of the vard, use glitter, pretty pens, ribbon bits, charms, dried flowers etc! Get creative. This is a fun project that even younger children will have great success with. If you dont like your handwriting you can even get letters that are stickers, and use those for your sentiments.
How to make a Pop-Up
http://www.makersgallery.com/joanirvine/howto.html
Templates by Donovan
http://www.freeyellow.com/members2/bydonovan/templates.html
Specialty Card Library for Rubber stamps
http://www.verinet.com/~dawe/julie/library/specialt.htm
these are some great ideas, and you could use stickers instead of rubber stamps, or little drawings etc.
Kathy's Handmade Cards
http://www.best.com/~kpw/Cards/design.htm
Letter Writing
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The Letter Writing Project
http://www.paperveins.org/mingwei/writing.html
The Lost Art of Letter Writing
http://more.abcnews.go.com/sections/us/insite1022%5Fmuller/index.html
Handwriting and Calligraphy
http://journals.about.com/arts/journals/msub25writ.htm
Feel-Good Sights
Camp Sark
http://www.campsark.com/
Family Cares
http://www.familycares.org/familycares/mainpage.shtml
the online resource that empowers families to make a difference! Our mission is to promote compassion and the spirit of charity in children through hands-on family projects that help others in need.
Meet Glory-Bee
she is the faery we adopted at
Faery Hill. Click the link to adopt your own faery!
Faery Hill
counter added June 12, 2000
