A Special Teacher Note

Our Confetti Class Graphic Set is perfect for making cute creative end of the year teacher gifts.

Create a fun note like this one for your little one to fill out. I used both the Confetti Class Graphic Set and the Confetti Party Alphabet.

Then for fun, I made my own envelope using our Design Envelopes Cut It Project and Confetti Paper Pack!

Slip in a gift card if you want to add a little something extra, but any teacher will be sure to love your child's heart felt answers on a fun gift like this!

Shadow Play Children's Room Art

Create adorable children's room art
with our new Shadow Play Collection!

Materials:

Shadow Play Royal Theater Cut Set
Shadow Box Cut Project

Directions:

Simply merge any one of the fun silhouette images from our Shadow Play Collection to the frame portion of the shadow box and cut out with your electronic digital cutter. Build the shadow box as normal and attach frame to the top of the box. Hang and enjoy!

Easy Peasy Egg People

Make decorating eggs simple by creating these cute people/bunny.

Materials:

Rolly Pollies Printables
Eggs
Markers

Directions:

Dye eggs as normal. Cut out the cupcake wraps from the Rolly Pollies Printables or any other cupcake wraps. Tape together (you will need to bring in smaller than you would for cupcake. I had about an inch overlap. Set your eggs in cupcake wraps. Use sharpees to decorate egg faces and cupcake wraps. Cut out bunny ears for top of egg, or you can use arms from the Rolly Pollies Graphic Set or Cut Set. Shop the Rolly Pollies Collection on sale until tomorrow at midnight, MST.

Also check out these cute ideas for hosting an Easter Egg Hunt also using the Rolly Pollies Printables:

Bunny Wall Art

Need a fast, simple adorable Easter decoration? Create this piece of wall art in just under 10 minutes.

Materials:
Easter Cut It Simple Shapes
Cardstock
Yarn
Glue

Directions:

Cut out your favorite simple image from our Easter Cut It Simple Shapes on sale for Just $1 during Dollar Days. Cut out strands of yarn sized to fit your art. On a second sheet of cardstock, using a glue gun, working in small sections, glue your yarn to the piece of cardstock. Glue finish piece to the back of the bunny silhouette and frame!

2-Minute Treat Bag

Here's and quick and easy festive bag, you can easily make today.

Just print out one of the fun images from the Kiss Me I'm Irish Graphic Set  (on sale for just $1 during our Dollar Sale).

Fold into 3rds, leaving a half inch border for sealing the side. Adhere at the bottom and tab at the side and fill with your favorite green treat!

Grow Your Own Beanstalk

My toddler and I read Jack And the Beanstalk and decided to grow our own beanstalk. We used the castle from LD's new Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum Collection as a marker so we can watch the bean grow up to meet it! She loved the story, but loved the activity even more!

Chinese New Year Crafts

Happy Chinese New Year! Check out a couple simple ways to create a fun little New Years crafts.

Materials:
Chinese Zodiac Simple Shapes
Valentine Fortune Cookies
Takeout Boxes Cut It Boxes
Kiss the Year Goodbye Cracker Boxes
Ribbon or twine


Check out our photo how-to to create some simple paper fortune cookies and put in one of our easy-to-make take out boxes. I cut a circle that was about 3.5" in diameter, or you can grab this month's FREEBIE to help you out!  It's the year of the Goat, so cut one of our Chinese Zodiac Simple Shapes for a fun festive tag!

Our 3-sided Kiss The Year Goodbye Cracker Boxes, make great fun candy favors. Group six together for a cute party bundle!

You'll eat this up! Final Day of Sale!

I Eat You Up Collection 

Calling all Walking Dead fans! You'll lose your head over this! Get I Eat You Up on sale right now and not only use it for that person you want to take a bite out of, but prepare for any zombie apocalypse.

Long-Legged Love Birds 

We've got both cut-sets and graphics in this adorable product. Tip: replace the birds legs with candy for a great treat/gift. Shown below!

Get our new Anti-Valentines Graphic Set on sale now!

Oh Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou? Romeo and Juliet are both here at LD and you can earn them for FREE! Learn more here!

New Hearts-a-Flutter 50% off! Exclusively at checkout! Learn more here!

Grab today's Freebie! We have the I Eat You Up Zombie Sucker available as graphic or Cut It, FREE until Sunday at midnight, MST.

Squawk Box Valentine's Box

With some minor tweaking, you can turn your Squawk Boxes into the perfect Valentine box.

Materials:

Squawk Box Cut Set
Squawk Box Cut Project
cardstock
glue

Directions:

First you will need to size both the bag and the Squawk Cut It you decide to use together. My bag went from 5.71 x 9.8495 to 17.2975 x 29.7984.  There are many programs you can do this in, either the cut program you use, or one of the vector art programs, like Illustrator or Inkscape.

Then next thing I did was had to cut apart the bag, so it could fit on 12" paper. You can see where I cut apart below. Again, do this in your Cut program or vector base program.

Next you will have to make some revisions to glue the bag together. I copied two of the tabs I cut off from the right side of the bag and merged them together, (Make sure you keep an unmerged copy of this, because we will use this tab several times more.  I also copied the score lines on the right and added them to the left.

For the other half of this topmost piece I again copied the right side I had previously cut off and rotated it around, then shrunk it down a hair. Basically I only want the tab from this piece so that it can glue to the rest of the bag. Should look  like this:

The bottom half of the bag uses the same tab again, to create another glue tab. Again rotating around and shrinking it horizontally then applying it to the piece that will be the flap. I also created a small hole for valentines to be dropped in in the back as well.

Follow the directions on the pdf on how to putt he bag together, then build the rest of the Squawk Box Cut It as normal and glue to the top flap of the bag.  Shop our Valentine Sale right now. Tonight is the last night to get 50% off any purchase of $16 or more with coupon code: Touchdown.

You've Stolen my Heart...

Get artsy and create your own Stolen Heart Valentine. with the new Valentine Schmalentine Collection on sale now!

Materials:

Valentine Schmalentine Tag Cut Set
Key - Lockets of Love Keys Cut Set or So Happy Together Cut Set
Heart - Just released this heart from one of the tags from Valentine Schmalentine
cardstock
bakers twine

Santa Gift Card Holder

Add Santa flair to your gift cards this holiday by making this fun and easy gift card holder.

Materials:
Teabag Envelope Cut It
Buckle Cut It Simple Shapes
Cardstock

Directions:

I used the Teabag Envelope Cut It from the Love you A Latte Cut It Bundle, however I did have to resize to fit the card. You can do this in Make-The-Cut or a vector manipulation program like Illustrator, or the free version, Inkscape. You will want to size it to 9.5" by 3.5" inches.  I then sized the Buckle down to 1.5" wide. I cut both out. I then created a stripe of paper 8 inches long by .6968" for my belt.

Fold your card and glue tabs into place, wrap belt around. I secured the back with glue and left the front of belt free. Insert your gift card and secure belt with the buckle.

The Buckle is also available in our amazing Simple Shapes Super Plus Bundle on sale now!  Save an additional 25% on any purchase $15 or more with coupon code: Merry25.

Do you want to build a snowman?

We've got some great gift and card ideas for you made with the new "Melting For You" Product!

For a cute and easy gift make some white playdough for your "snowman" gift.  If you want to really add a little magic, you can mix in some white glitter.  Here is our favorite playdough recipe:

Playdough

• 1 cup flour
• 1 cup water
• 2 tsp. cream of tarter
• 1/3 cup salt
• 1 TBS vegetable oil
• optional: food coloring
• optional:  peppermint oil or other flavoring

Combine all the dry ingredients in a medium size saucepan and mix.  Add the water and oil (and peppermint oil if you wanted to add that).  Turn the stove on medium/low and stir.  It's really lumpy at first.  Keep stirring until it gets thick.  Make sure you scrape the bottom of the pan as you stir.   As soon as the dough doesn't look "wet" anymore, take it off the burner.  Dump the dough out on wax paper or plastic wrap and let it cool down.  Come back about 30 minutes later and knead the dough for a few minutes until it feels smooth.  You can add  food coloring if you want at this point.  Make sure you store it in an air-proof container!

For your gift, you can either put the "snowman" dough in a baggy or a jar.  Cut your "snowman" pieces out of the "Melting For You" Product and attach to your gift w/ a little baggy.  

If you don't want to give playdough, think about giving the snowman pieces on a darling card because really... who doesn't want to build a snowman?  And this snowman won't make you wet, messy, or cold!

As you can see from all the photos, there are many ways to go about making your snowmen cards.  

Shop for the Melting for You product now at LD and pick it up now in the "Warmest Wishes Bundle" for a 75% discount!

Grab today's FREEBIE, our Warmest Wishes Surfing Santa in graphic and or Cut It.  Freebie expires at midnight, Sunday night at MST.

Reverse Stencil l- Easy Toddler Gift Idea!

Create adorable toddler gifts, with reverse stencil art. Grab this super cool tree in our Simple Shapes Super Plus Bundle on sale during our More the Merrier Sale.

Save an EXTRA 25% when you use coupon code: Merry24 on purchases of $15 or more!


Directions:
1. Just cut out your image on vinyl and adhere to mug or other ceramic.
2.Use colored sharpees and have your child scribble around. 3.Remove, the vinyl.
4.To set marker, bake in your oven at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Reindeer Noses Gift plus a new bundle exclusive!

 One of our best selling bundles now has a new face! Get the baby reindeer exclusively with the Ice Princess Bundles. Shop the sales now and get your product 75-95% off! 

Use your baby reindeer to make this fun adorable treat!

Stenciled Pillow

Have you checked our new Pinterest Perfect Fonts Bundle? 
Use one our new favorite scripts, LD Write A Letter to make your own stencil and paint on a pillow, creating an easy fun, homemade gift.
Shop the sales now and get your product 75-95% off!