To kick off your summer, we’ve got 5 craft ideas that are guaranteed to make sure your hols get off to a flying start. To try these five fabulous craft ideas, you mainly just need a good stash of paper and sharp pair of scissors — plus the usual PaperCrafter enthusiasm!
1. Create paper cut artwork
* The templates take you through beginner, intermediate and advanced paper cuts
2. Make a washi wall
Credit: Transform a plain wall into a delightfully crafty memo space
* Simply cut lengths of washi tape to form different borders to frame photos and pretty papers
3. Try journalling
* Try this classic book-binding technique and we promise you’ll never go shop bought again
4. Elevate your envelopes
* Don’t let your cards down with tatty envelopes, use your favourite papers instead
5. Prep for Christmas
Credit: Pick up issue 74 of PaperCafter (on sale 15th August)
* Make a variety of festive and non festive makes with the stunning kit and designer papers that come with issue 74
It’s also a great chance to start building your stash for the great Christmas countdown. Try these craft ideas and make sure you have a fantastically crafty time this summer and spend some valuable me-time with your copy of PaperCrafter.
* Make a variety of festive and non festive makes with the stunning kit and designer papers that come with issue 74
We work with great illustrators at PaperCrafter. We’ve been really lucky to feature designs from the fabulous Jessica Hogarth in both issue 74 (our current issue) and 75, our upcoming edition.
We’ve got six amazing free printables for you to download from the web!
Stay ahead of the pack with our round up of top Christmas trends for 2014!
