Floral Birthday Cards Featuring Ink Blending and Bouquet Stamps by Hero Arts

I am looking forward to the first day of spring, which will arrive on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. In case you’re hoping to get a jump start on your spring crafting, I offer these spring card making ideas with floral motifs. I’ve initially styled all three of these designs as birthday cards, but you can easily change out the card sentiments if you’d like to make your own versions of them as Valentine’s Day cards, anniversary cards, wedding cards, or any other types of cards.

One thing these cards all have in common: I used the same floral bouquet stamp to stamp the focal images I used to create each of these cards. This bouquet design is from a stamp set called “Togetherness” by Hero Arts.

I LOVE these stamps! I think this stamp set offers you an outstanding value in exchange for the money you spend on it; it includes the gorgeous floral bouquet image plus a bunch of useful, versatile sentiments that work well for creating a variety of greeting cards. There’s a birthday greeting (pictured on the uppermost card) and multiple others. I’ve been getting a massive amount of use from this set; I’m really pleased with it.

In addition to the birthday cards pictured above, I also created an all-occasion greeting card using this stamp set. You can click here to check that out, if you’re interested.

If you want step-by-step instructions for how to make the birthday cards pictured above, you can find them at the following links:

• Hand Stamped Floral Birthday Card Making Idea Featuring Ink Blending
• Floral Bouquet Birthday Card Making Idea Featuring Ink Blending and Glitter Washi Tape
• Watercolor Floral Birthday Card Making Idea With Ink Blending and Stamps by Hero Arts

If you are new to ink blending, and you want to find more information about how to do it, you’re invited to check out my article on ink blending techniques.

Thanks so much for dropping by! I hope you’re having a lovely and creative day today.

Posted By: Amy Solovay

February Garden Journal Pages for Discbound Planners Such As Happy Planner, Tul and Arc

Happy February, crafty friends!

Are interested in finding creative, unique, engaging and useful craft ideas for the month of February? There are SO MANY possible things you could be making — and I couldn’t even begin to list them all here in this short blog post. However, I’ll offer an overview of the pages that my typical readers tend to visit most frequently in the month of February. These suggestions are the most relevant February craft ideas I’m currently aware of. If you have other suggestions to add to this list, I invite you to post a comment at the end letting me and the other readers here know about them.

February Holiday Crafts

Valentine’s Day Crafting in the Month of February

Need Valentine’s Day Craft Ideas? You’re invited to check out these free crochet patterns for heart and flower motifs.

Valentine’s Day is one of the more prominent February holidays on the Gregorian calendar. Many people celebrate this day by making Valentine’s Day crafts. It’s popular to exchange Valentine’s Day cards with your friends and loved ones; it’s also a day when couples take time out to spend a day, or at least an evening, together celebrating their romance.

Slimline Valentine’s Day or All-Occasion Card Making Idea Featuring Paper Flowers; the Flower Stamps Are Made by Gina K Designs

If you like to make fun Valentine gifts to give to your significant other or your friends / family, February is a fantastic time to work on these projects. You can tap here to find our ideas for Valentine Cards to Make, or tap here to find our main directory of Valentine’s Day craft ideas.

You can click or tap here to view our main directory of card making ideas.

If you want more info on how to make the floral slimline card pictured above, go HERE.

February Planner Crafts and DIY Calendars

If you maintain a physical planner, junk journal, scrapbook, or art journal, you might want to decorate your February calendar pages, journal pages or scrapbooking layouts with seasonal stamped images or embellishments. I invite you to check out the following pages for ideas:

• Garden Journal Pages: This page has information on how to put together garden journal pages like the ones pictured at the top of this post. I’ve shared the February pages here, but you’ll find inspiration for making your own pages for the other months beyond February, too.
• How to Create Your Own Planners and Calendars
• How to Make Your Own Academic Planner: School Diary DIY Calendar Project Idea

Winter Craft Ideas

We’ve put together a list of winter crafts that are seasonally appropriate for February crafting in many regions of the Western hemisphere.

We hope these ideas are useful to you as you start on your February crafting. Thanks so much for your interest!

Posted By: Amy Solovay

This page was last updated on 2-11-2024.

January Garden Journal Pages: Do you want to grow a garden in 2024? If so, no matter where you live, it isn’t too early to start planning your garden in January.

Happy New Year, everyone!

Are you hoping to find unique, interesting and useful craft ideas for the month of January? There are an overwhelming number of possibilities — so many that I couldn’t even begin to mention them all. However, there are some recurring themes that many crafters find themselves returning to in January. The following suggestions cover the most important basics and the most popular January craft ideas I’m currently aware of. If you have other suggestions to add to this list, I invite you to post a comment at the end letting us know about them.

January Holiday Crafts

New Year’s Day is one of the more prominent January holidays on the Gregorian calendar. Many people make the first day in January — New Year’s Day — a day of goal-setting and reflecting. If you’d like to do that too, you might enjoy checking out our post on New Year Year’s Resolutions for Crafters. Once you set some crafting goals for the year, you might end up having a clearer idea of what it is you actually want to work on and achieve in the new year.

Planner Crafts and DIY Calendars

If you’re actively using the Gregorian calendar to plan your life, you typically need to start using a new planner or calendar on January 1 of the new year. This is not always the case, as some planners span more than one year; for example, in 2023, I didn’t need a brand new planner on January first, because I was using a Happy Planner that covers one-and-a-half years. So last year, I was able to skip out on the hunt for a new planner. I didn’t get so lucky this year, and I am still scrambling to finalize which planners I’ll be using for 2024.

If you need a new planner or calendar, now’s a fantastic time to check out our pages on that topic. You can make your own calendars, planners or bullet journals — or you can use craft techniques to personalize store-bought planners, calendars, bullet journals and other journals. The following pages on our website might be of interest:

• How to Create Your Own Planners and Calendars
• How to Make Your Own Academic Planner: School Diary DIY Calendar Project Idea

Card Making Ideas for the New Year

If you enjoy paper crafts, January is a fantastic month to consider making cards to send to your inner circle. Some crafters lump New Year’s cards in with their Christmas cards — but some prefer to make cards just for the sole purpose of wishing their loved ones a Happy New Year. So if you’re up for another round of card making so soon, and you didn’t already send out cards saying “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” in December, New Year cards are a fantastic January craft idea to consider.

Get a Jump Start on Your Valentine’s Day Crafting in January

Get a Jump Start on Your Valentine’s Day Crafting in January! You’re invited to check out these free crochet patterns for heart and flower motifs.

Card Making Idea: Learn how to make a Valentine card with a heard design with our free card making instructions.

Valentine’s Day is also coming up soon — and if you like to make fun Valentine gifts to give to your significant other or your friends / family, January is a fantastic time to work on these projects. You can tap here to find our ideas for Valentine Cards to Make, or tap here to find our main directory of Valentine’s Day craft ideas.

You can click or tap here to view our main directory of card making ideas.

Winter Craft Ideas

We’ve put together a list of winter crafts that are seasonally appropriate for January crafting in many regions of the Western hemisphere.

We hope these ideas are useful to you as you start on your January crafting. Thanks so much for your interest!

Posted By: Amy Solovay

This page was last updated on 12-31-2023.