New Winter/Christmas Tree Masks

I just put this new pack of whimsical Winter and Christmas trees is ideal for adorning your seasonal pages, cards or gift tags!

You can either use the trees as they are or clip your photos and/or background papers for a stunning effect! Or apply your favorite style to the tree!

 

30% OFF right now! Don’t miss it!

Discount ends on Monday, Dec 13th, 2010

Please go to the product listing for a closer look as I have  a close up preview there!

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Inexpensive Favor Bags

I love the paper bag look for certain things. I love it as gift wrapping with some cute ribbon and other personalization!  They are large, they are neutral and very suited for favor bags too!

There are of course many, many things you can do to make plain paper bags into fun favor bags. This is what I chose to do for this party:

They are pretty easy to customize, simple to make and quite inexpensive too!

 

You will need:

1. Brown paper bags
2. Scissors/craft knife
3. Double-sided tape
4. Imaging program and printer
5. Bone folder (optional)
6. This blank template

Your first step is to download the template, open it in your imaging program and fill in your details.

Next, print out what you created. There are 4 to a sheet, so print enough sheets to cover your favor bag needs.

You will see that I have marked the fold line. Take your sheet of labels and fold along that line. Do this BEFORE you cut out the labels!

Next, cut out your labels. You can use scissors, a craft knife or a paper cutter for the straight lines.

Apply the double sided sticky tape. You don’t really have to cover the entire length, just about 3/4 of it so it sticks well.

The next step is folding the flaps of the paper bags. I would recommend folding them before you fill them. It’s much easier to do this when they are still flat.

To have them all the same size, either measure or eyeball it from one bag to the next. You want them to be all the same size/height when you are done!

I did 1.5 inches from the top for the first fold, then just folded it one more time onto itself.

Smooth the folds with a bone folder or any other means that gets you a sharp fold.

Fill the favor bags.

Then remove any backing from your double sided tape if it has any and position the label onto your bag. Make sure the folds line up on top and position the label in about the middle of the bag.

Gently press it all down, making sure that the folded top is well covered with tape. You can position the fold on the front or the back of the label, whichever look works best for you!

And there you have it!

I hope you’ll have great fun making your own!

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Things I’ve learned (aka techno hour)

So, every once in a while you come across something in the programs you’ve been working in forever that resolves a workaround or an annoyance and you smack your head and wonder why you hadn’t thought of this before or why nobody TOLD you this before

 

Well, I’ve collected a few of those things just over the last couple of days (a couple of major AHA moments) and thought I’d share them with you. It is however entirely possible that I am the last one to catch on – if so, please just ignore me!

 

1) I am new to the multiple monitor setup. I love it, but I’ve been getting a little frustrated with the whole dragging of windows etc. And since my second monitor is a dual function monitor, meaning it is a TV as well as a monitor and I can switch between the two, it has been highly annoying to have to turn off the TV to go get a window from the second monitor, as it wouldn’t come back to the main monitor any other way.

I know there are many utility programs out there that help you with your windows and switching of monitors and screens and what not but it turns out that Windows 7 has an inbuilt capacity that takes care of that problem!

Whatever window or program you want moved, have it open, then hold down the windows key and the shift key at the same time and press either the left or right key (depending which direction the monitor you want to go to is) and voila. You just moved between monitors!

SO cool!! Also especially for people like me who have monitors that are not the same size … when you move your window like this, it adjusts itself automatically to the monitor size!

 

2) Windows key + d = Show Desktop How did I not know that?

 

3) Another one I didn’t know but use all the time now: F6 automatically highlights the URL in the address bar of Internet Explorer and Firefox! No more trying to highlight it with mouse clicks!

 

4) If you want to save a URL (website address) in a folder as a clickable link, just drag the website or a link from your browser onto your desktop.

 

That’s it from me! There are of course lots more tips, tricks and shortcuts – these are just some new and “aha-moment” ones for me!

What’s your favorite trick?

I hope you are having a great weekend!

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