Papercrafts 2025 Weekly Creativity: January 1 – 4
January 4, 2025 Andrea

Four days into January and I have spent most of it setting up my new planner. Although I have loved using my 5 x 8.25 inch hardcover Moleskine weekly planner for the last two years, I decided to switch it up in 2025 for something with a lot more page real estate. I chose an 8 x 10 inch soft-cover Eccolo planner instead. I love the monthly view! At a glance, I can see how busy my December was and can appreciate all the different groups of people I met up with based on my colour coding. The adorable planner…

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Papercrafts 2024 End of Year Craft Round Up
December 27, 2024 Andrea

Every year, I make many more crafts than I post. I always intend to post them but I frequently put up mental barriers to stop me from actually doing so: I need to wait for better lighting to take the photos, I haven’t thought of the perfect caption yet, I should wait until the second attempt at this before posting…. And before I know it, it’s the end of the year and it seems like the time for sharing those projects has passed. I look back and get frustrated at myself for not following through on my plans.   So…

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Cardmaking The Flames of Inspiration
April 21, 2023 Andrea

“Does anyone have a 50th birthday card? At 2 am on Saturday morning, the message went out on my family’s Whatsapp chat like a card-maker’s bat signal – I was so ready for this! There’s nothing like a goal and a deadline to increase the odds of completing a project. I did not have a lot of time since my extended family was throwing a surprise birthday party for one of my aunts that evening and I still had a list of chores to complete. As I sipped my morning latte, I scrolled through my Pinterest account, looking for inspiration….

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