paper crafts

Commercial Break Thursday- Promote Yourself! Linky List

Tweet Welcome to another Commercial Break Thursday!  This is your chance to show us what you do!  Link up your latest project, your Etsy shop, your blog.  And you have the chance of being featured next week here on the Sitcom! This week we are featuring Claudia from Claudia’s Cards!  Claudia is a master craftswoman [...]

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Feature Friday- Quilled Topiaries

paper art quilled topiaries

TweetQuilled floral topiaries are a beautiful sign of spring!  If you are a regular reader of the Sitcom, then I’m sure you are familiar with my obsession with quilling.  I enjoy the challenge of creating beautiful things with little more than colored cardstock, or upcycled materials. After playing around with creating daisies using my quilling [...]

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Feature Friday- Paper Reed Frames

craft paper reed frames from recycled magazines

TweetRecycled paper art can be a great group project!  This past weekend, my mother, sister, sister-in-law and I went on our annual ‘Girls Trip’ to the mountains.  Every year we rent a cabin at the top of a mountain in Gatlinburg, TN, and do girl things. It is pretty awesome.  And since my crafty inclinations [...]

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An Interview with Ann Martin from All Things Paper

TweetWelcome to the worldwide blog hop tour, that introduces you to creative people from all corners of the globe. Every week, our hosts on each continent will introduce you to someone new whose creativity is inspiring! Come take this worldwide tour with us! You can visit each host below and read about a featured creative [...]

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Feature Friday- 3D Panoramic Egg Tutorial

paper tole and chicken egg art

Tweet My mother owns chickens; my sister owns ducks and geese.  Between the two of them, they are keeping me well supplied in eggs for my Ukrainian egg art.  So well in fact, that I currently have an over-abundance of eggs.  Since I seem to have eggs on the brain, I came up with a [...]

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Monday Etsy Madness- Amazing Paper Art!

TweetWelcome to another Monday Etsy Madness!  This week, I thought I’d feature something dear to me; paper art.  If you are a regular reader of The Sitcom, you know that I am fascinated by the many options that paper provides in the crafting arena.  So I thought I’d show you a few things I found [...]

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Feature Friday- Magnetic Mousetrap Clips Tutorial

magnetic clips made from mousetraps

Tweet So I was perusing the dollar store the other day and ran across the mouse traps.  After staring at them a bit, I threw a pack into my cart and was met by my husband’s questioning stare. “Crafts”, I said. He shrugged and moved on.  Yep, my husband has gotten used to my weird [...]

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Top Ten Posts of 2011!

Tweet Happy New Year!  Hope you all had a fabulous holiday! As for the Sitcom, well we went through a few major changes in the past couple of weeks.  I hope you like my new look.  There will still be a few tweaks and changes over the next couple of weeks, but the majority of [...]

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Feature Friday- Faux Brass Wall Clock

recycled toilet paper tubes faux brass wall clock

Tweet I redecorated my study about a year ago, painting the walls a deep gold and adding a whole wall of bookshelves in a dark wood. The study is where I spend a whole lot of my time as the computer lives there, so I wanted it to be a warm, friendly place.  It is [...]

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In the Spotlight- Pye Squire

Tweet The art of papercutting has been around for many years. It requires a ton of patience, a steady hand and an artist’s touch. I was thrilled when Pye Squire became one of my sponsors. I like to have a large selection of different art forms represented here, and the papercutting artwork offered by Pye Squire is [...]

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