New Scrapbook Collections Spring 2022

Spring is here, and there’s no more creative way to document your memories than scrapbooking. Scrapbooks are the perfect way to preserve your favorite moments and keep them safe for years to come. With a wide range of new scrapbook collections available this season, there are tons of beautiful and customizable options. You can check out all our scrapbook collections by your favorite brands on the main site, or you can browse through the hundreds of scrapbook page kits. Here on the blog, we are focusing on just a few of the latest collections:

My Favorite Spring by Echo Park

Echo Park‘s new My Favorite Spring collection is the perfect way to add a touch of springtime fun to your papercraft projects. This collection features a variety of cute spring-themed images, including baby ducks, bird nests, rainbows, flowers, bees, gardening tools, butterflies, and more. The pastel colors and adorable icons will make your projects stand out, while the variety of papers, stamp sets, die kits, and more makes it easy to create beautiful spring-themed crafts with minimal effort. Whether you’re making cards, scrapbook layouts, home décor projects, or other papercraft creations, My Favorite Spring is your new go-to collection.

It’s A Boy, and It’s A Girl by Echo Park

The It’s A Boy, and It’s A Girl collections by Echo Park include images of sleeping animals, a mobile, a train set, blocks, baby bottles, a baby buggy, diaper pins, tags, frames, borders, banners, and so much more. You can use them to make cards, scrapbook pages, tags, journals, planners, and other paper crafting projects.

It is the perfect way to tell stories through pictures and written words, keep track of your thoughts and memories, and add a bit of color and flair to your projects.

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Christmas Centerpiece Projects, 2020

The holiday is finally here, and it’s your turn to host Christmas dinner for your family or friends. You may be consumed with buying gifts, decorating the Christmas tree, and even dressing up the front door. Setting up the dining table shouldn’t be neglected. Setting the table will definitely add a Christmas feel to your house and an opportunity to give your guests a taste of your creativity.

If you are worried about what to put on your dinner table, we provided some ideas to spice things up. Whether you are setting the table for four or fourteen, we have a lovely way to dress up your table with creative centerpieces. These ideas will bring holiday beauty that is in keeping with your unique style. Say goodbye to a boring Christmas table using these materials from CrafDirect:

  • Christmas Time Patterns & Solids Pad – Graphic 45
  • Together for Christmas 12″ x 12″ Project Pad – Pink Paislee
  • Winter Cottage Collection Kit – Simple Stories
  • Dots & Stripes Christmas Collection Kit – Echo Park

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Thanksgiving Craft Projects 2020: Turkey Bulletin Board, Fall Wreath

Thanksgiving holiday is one of the most amazing times of the year. Expressing gratitude for all you have in life together with your loved ones is the best! There’s a lot of crafting fun to be had on this holiday, and that can mean involving the entire family. Doing group projects is a great way to pass the time because it enables conversation and requires teamwork. Here are a few fun projects that might inspire you, with themes of gratitude. It’s always a good exercise to stop and think about how blessed you are, and you can do that through crafting.

Our crafting friends made these two projects come to life using:

Thanksgiving School Bulletin Board

thanksgiving turkey school bulletin board project completed

This school bulletin board is definitely a head-turner because of the colorful, adorable turkeys. These cute additions will truly catch the eye of everyone who passes by the board, especially children. Aside from being aesthetically pleasing, the turkey designs are also easy to make. These turkeys were created using the Maker machine. You can use any Cricut machine with access to the Cricut Design Space. You can find these project images there. Just type in “turkey,” and the images will show up in the results. To select multiple projects to work on and cut, hit ‘ctrl’ and click the image you want if you are using a PC.

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Darling Deer & Leaf Print Thinlits Cards, Sizzix Chapter 4 2020 Projects

darling deer thinlits card front design

by Shirley

Christmas is just around the corner! Have you started making cards yet? This is a fantastic and fun way to unleash your creative side. Limitless possibilities allow you to add your touch to every card to make the holiday greeting more personal. The recipients will certainly appreciate every extra effort you put into these cards. After all, a handmade greeting card sends a message that you put time and thought into this creation. Your loved ones will feel that you care.

Our Christmas dies are the best way to create elegant and unique cards. In this Darling Deer and Leaf Print Thinlits cards post, we feature two artistic die sets (both designed by Tim Holtz) from Sizzix, both from their 2020 chapter 4 release:

Jessie, from our design team, brought these cards to life. She’s amazing, but you don’t have to be as great as her to create wonderful projects with Thinlits dies. They are easy to use, and the only Sizzix dies you can use to cut, stencil, and emboss. You can use just about any Sizzix die-cutting machine for these projects, but Jessie used a Sizzix Big Shot.

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Santa’s Workshop & Arctic Thinlits Cards, Sizzix Chapter 4 2020 Projects

card made with sizzix santa's workshop thinlits die setby Shirley

Ho ho ho! Christmas is soon coming, and one of the highlights of this beautiful season is sending and receiving homemade greeting cards. It is a great opportunity to use our creative sides and give a meaningful gift from the heart. A handmade Christmas card clearly states, “I care about you.” Christmas dies are a great way to get started on your projects. This month, we are showcasing two wonderful new die sets by Sizzix. Both are Sizzix Chapter 4 2020 product releases:

You’ll love how Jessie (from the CraftDirect design team) brought these projects to life. Thinlits are popular because they are the most versatile Sizzix dies. You can use them to cut, stencil, and emboss. You can try to copy her as much as possible or do them completely differently. That’s the beauty of paper crafting: the endless creative possibilities.

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Harry Potter-Themed Party Decor

9-3/4 platform party decor projectDid you know that CraftDirect is an international company? Chi Lozano is one of our employees in the Philippines, and she happens to be a savvy paper crafter. She used her electronic die-cutting machine to make a Harry Potter-themed birthday party for her 1-year old son. When she showed us her work, we loved it so much we asked her to take our readers on this adventure. Enjoy:

Welcome to Hogwarts

This Harry Potter inspired party-themed celebration is nothing short of magical. And there’s no better way to send your guests off to the wizarding world than by escorting them onto the platform 9 ¾ platform to the Hogwarts Express!

As the guests entered the Great Hall (aka our living room), banners from Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw houses swayed as the cold wind filled up the room.

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