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Organizing Tips for Your Craft Room!

We are sharing lots of tips from our followers in this episode. Hear how others organize their craft spaces including their patterned papers and stamp sets. What ideas

Craft House Tour - Reactions!

On the last episode we toured our craft house with its many "make-do" items for our cardmaking supplies .... such as a spice rack on the wall for our ink refills and a sm

The Craft House Reveal

We don't have a craft room - we live in a craft house. Today we will share how we have repurposed many items to use for storage for our many craft supplies. If you want

Chaos in the Craft Room - act 2!

Lots of great comments to share from all of you as we work together to try to take control of our craft room clutter. Join us the ideas and the laughs and then join the

Chaos in the Craft Room?

Time for spring cleaning your craft space? Join us as we talk decluttering and more! We all need space for all the new stuff! I share ideas on how to declutter your cra

A-tisket, A-tasket, Let's Make An Easter Basket

Lets share Easter fun with simple ideas for paper baskets. Did you know you can make paper baskets with no measuring - or with not cutting and gluing?  Watch us make

40 Cards for Lent

Many of us think of giving something up for Lent. How about using Lent also as a time to focus on giving? Lets get creative in who we sent cards to this month. I like the

Project Pocket Quilt Cards!

On a Facebook live I made eight quick and easy pocket cards and challenged my viewers to make and post one over in my Facebook group - the Back Porch Stampers. Over 200 p

Celebrating Galentine's Day!

We had no idea what Galentine's Day was when we received a Galentine's Day card. I actually thought it was a misspelling - and Tim won this argument. There is a funny s

Celebrating Galentine's Day!

We had no idea what Galentine's Day was when we received a Galentine's Day card. I actually thought it was a misspelling - and Tim won this argument. There is a funny s

When a Card Tells the Story!

Life is full of stories and we celebrate that today with some great stories about cardmaking.  Whether our stories are funny and bring a smile to the receiver - or wheth

Why Join Karen & Tim in Papercrafting?

25 years ago this month I started my papercrafting business. So much has changed in our lives since then! Tim's job had just ended, I was homeschooling our kids and I w

Lessons Learned

2020 will be known as the year we stayed home This is the time of year where we look back over the past 12 months and ahead to the next 12. So here goes —- a few less

A Christmas to Remember

We made it to Christmas week —- Christmas 2020 will certainly be one to remember  and many of us will have have new story to tell about this year. Today I want to share s

Crafting Through the Seasons

We are now in advent - a time of waiting, a time of reflection. It got me thinking about all of the seasons -and celebrations - throughout the year and how even my craf

Re-Thinking Christmas Traditions

Think about your happiest holiday memories. Most probably revolve around traditions. This  is a year to reinvent some of those traditions-or maybe even start new ones.

Making Gifts for Christmas

For many of us crafters —- making gifts for Christmas is a big part of what its all about and this year that just might be more important than ever. I think its all abo

Finding Gratefulness in Difficult Times

Thanksgiving looks different this year.Today we will be talking about finding gratitude in difficult times. Being grateful doesn't mean ignoring the difficulties - it d

What Do We Do About Winter?

Most of us find winter to be too long, too cold and too dark! But when our Norwegian cousins came to visit, we learned some interesting things about they experience win

Card Sales are Booming & We Create Our Own!

More people are buying and sending cards this year than before! Birthday cards have always been the top seller  - but now sympathy cards are big sellers too. We can't