We are super excited to team up with Simple Stories this week. There will be ton of inspirations from both design team and prizes all week long. We look forward to sharing all the inspirations using Petaloo's Penny Lane collection and Simple Stories Vintage Bliss collection. We are giving aw...

Welcome to Paper Issues “instalove” You should have arrived here from Cassie's blog If this is your first stop, be sure to head over to Paper Issues to start at the beginning! I cannot even tell you how much I love these photos! I LOVE that they are printed to look like a Polaroid...

October Afternoon is pleased to welcome Melanie Fink to the blog as its guest designer for the month of April! Melanie has always enjoyed art, whether it was drawing, painting, or papercrafting. She has been papercrafting for almost 12 years and began sharing her creations 2 years ago whe...

I missed posting yesterday - was having a bit too much fun with the children and grands and ran out of day! The tag above is yesterday's tag and features cuts from O Holy Night, a kit I simply love from SVGCuts! It's definitely a Go-To kit for Christmas. The designer paper is from My Min...

running a little late today -- but so happy to still be a part of the 12 Tags of Christmas. This really is so fun. SVGCuts has sooo many fun files to play with, it's really been fun and some days really hard to choose which files to choose from! But today, it was a breeze! With all the snow...

We've all had a lot on our minds lately with the tragedy in Connecticut and for many the holidays are also difficult for a myriad of reasons - including loss of a loved one. The holidays are generally a pretty difficult time for me having lost both my biological father shortly after Thank...

I'm hoping you had as blessed a Thanksgiving as we had! It was quite a joyous but quiet one here. No extras around the bounteous table of food, however, we had many a blessing to be grateful for as we do every day. Our year has been one of ups and downs. Changes, struggles, trials, joys and t...

12 tags that is! A few of us decided to play along with SVGCuts.com as they celebrate their 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway and do a tag a day using some of their files. I'm keeping my first couple of of tags really simple since time is limited... Check out their blog or facebook page for all th...

Color me Happy to have been invited to join this team of wonderfully talented women and to be offered the opportunity to work with the amazing products here at Creative Imaginations. I'm a retired English teacher, originally from St. Louis, Mo. My hubby and I currently live in a small fis...