Category: Letter-writing

  • Write Your Sponsored Child With These Easy Tips

    Write Your Sponsored Child With These Easy Tips

    Write your sponsored child today with these fun (and easy) tips! And be sure to print the free letter writing template too. 🙂 Today I’m going to share a few fun tips to write your sponsored child, but you could easily use these ideas for writing your own child or nieces and nephews. All kids…

  • Five Fun Ways to Decorate Envelopes

    Five Fun Ways to Decorate Envelopes

    As a part of letter-writing month, we wouldn’t want to forget the envelopes! After all, that’s the first thing your friend will see when they open their mailbox. You could absolutely send a plain envelope and no one is going to begrudge you that (after all, it’s REAL MAIL!) but I thought I’d compile five…

  • How to Make Gorgeous Butterfly Cards

    How to Make Gorgeous Butterfly Cards

    Thank goodness for Anthropologie catalogs. I’ve used those beautiful pages for more projects than I can count, and today I’m going to share the world’s easiest butterfly card tutorial using the lovely pictures found in an older Anthro catalog. Now, of course, you can use any magazine you’d like, but the reason I especially like…

  • Say Hello With This Fun Watercolor Card

    Say Hello With This Fun Watercolor Card

    Today I’m excited to introduce you to Maggie, the blogger behind Maggie’s Butterfly Kisses. Her blog is packed with card-making tutorials, and I’m so glad she agreed to writing a tutorial for our #30DayMailboxLove challenge. Enjoy! ~Jennie I didn’t purposely plan to do a card involving watercolors just because I know Jennie loves them as…

  • Letter-writing Resources

    Letter-writing Resources

    I love receiving letters in the mail, don’t you? Since sending cards in the mail is becoming a lost art, I thought I’d compile a list of letter writing resources to help you out! Related: April is Letter-writing Month! Tutorials to Get You Started The {10 Minute} Letter Writing Retreat Bundle Free Thank You Card…

  • How to Make a Paper Doll Card

    How to Make a Paper Doll Card

    A few weeks ago, I was clicking around Pinterest when I came across a picture of a sweet little illustration that was made with a black pen and a scrap of fabric. It was such a simple concept and of course, being a card-lover I had to give it a try. I made a few…

  • Ink Dropper Art for Cards

    Ink Dropper Art for Cards

    Learn how to make ink dropper art that you can use for cards, prints, and whatever your creative heart desires! A few months ago, I shared how much I love the Drawing Lab for Mixed-Media Artists book. At the time, I admitted I often just flip through art and craft project books for inspiration but…

  • Inspired by Flow Magazine: Ideas for Cards & Art

    Inspired by Flow Magazine: Ideas for Cards & Art

    Get inspired by Flow magazine with these creative ideas for cards and art! Love this creative prompt! I’ll be filling up my art journal with these!  I’ve mentioned Flow magazine on this blog before—one of my sisters gifted me their Book For Paper Lovers for my birthday last June. For Christmas, I happened upon the…

  • Make Letter-writing Fun With These Tips

    Make Letter-writing Fun With These Tips

    As I have been writing letters for the Bring Back Snail Mail challenge this month, it’s been so encouraging to come across more and more people who are creating snail mail in super creative ways. I started a letter-writing Pinterest board to collect ideas for my own letter-writing last summer, and it has been incredibly…

  • How to Make a Truth Card

    How to Make a Truth Card

    Truth. It’s something we all need, don’t we? The need to speak truth to my own heart has been forefront in my mind lately. I shared a post last week about silencing our inner critic as well as how to make encouragement stones. While I was thinking of a project to share for this week,…