Love: Valentine's Day Handmade Card

When looking for Valentine's Day cards and gifts inspiration, where else but Martha Stewart?
She has a whole list of craft projects, gift ideas and awesome clipart. Just the Handmade list is 44 items long. 44! And they are not all complex, requiring days of work.

See example below:

Clip Art Cards

Like these unique cards. Don't worry, clip art provided.

Folding Hearts

This is so easy, even kids can do it. Perfect for kids to send to their mothers.

Valentine's Day Accordion Envelope Card

This is the one I'm planning to do. I love how sweet and simple this is.

And here is my version below!

I added in some sweet mementoes of our time together and practised my typography a little haha. It was really easy to make, took no time at all and The Hubs loved it. Success!

Love: Free Book Themed Baby Shower from Martha Stewart

This gorgeous baby shower invite from Martha Stewart was featured on Creature Comforts and How About Orange and it was absolutely adorable!!

This whimsical collection was designed by Anna Bond from Rifle Paper Co and photographed by Tara Donne. You can get the free printables here. I especially love the bookplate and the bookmark. You can totally use them on a non-baby shower occasion.

I love the colour theme!

Perfectly adorable!

This baby shower feature also teaches you how to make miniature booklets and a nursery story themed menu!

Check out Anna's beautiful blog and Tara's works too!

Many thanks to Ez from Creature Comforts and Jessica from How About Orange for featuring this lovely set of printables.

Sweet Paul: Spring 2011

I can't believe I'm so slow!
I keep forgetting to introduce you all to this amazing online magazine from Sweet Paul!

Yes Sweet Paul's Spring 2011 - Special Kid's issue is out!!

Check out the cover, the strawberry milkshake with marshmellows looks so yummy. Slurp!

Sweet Paul is a food and prop stylist and an amazing crafter too! He has been coming up with these gorgeous e-mags for sometime now and I loved his Holiday 2010 issue. It gave me a lot of inspiration for my holiday crafts. His blog is also a haven of recipes and easy yet really pretty crafts. 

The Spring 2011 issue is really adorable and full of fun tips, crafts and recipes to enjoy with your children. Oh wait, did I mention it's all free??! That's right! You can view the e-mag online and download it as a PDF file for FREE!! God bless you Sweet Paul!

Don't forget to check it all out here!