Spice up your fall decor with the simple and stylish paper pumpkins from this tutorial! Display your pumpkins on the mantle, window sills, in decorative bowls, or string them on a long cord or ribbon to create a garland of pumpkins.
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Snowy Layered Landscapes Technique
One of our favorite techniques is to create a snow landscape scene. Amy and I have created a technique tutorial for you below. It highlights one of three ways you can create a winter scene with snow.
Card Candy Convention Swap 2015
We had our 4th 2″ x 2″ swap at Salt Palace Convention Center on July 23rd. We’ve really enjoyed it again this year. It’s so fun to get together and we enjoy getting several card candy fronts to take home with us.
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Art Makes You Smart
FOR many education advocates, the arts are a panacea: They supposedly increase test scores, generate social responsibility and turn around failing schools. Most of the supporting evidence, though, does little more than establish correlations between exposure to the arts and certain outcomes. Research that demonstrates a causal relationship has been virtually nonexistent.
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Facebook Cools Off
Waste looks like the pile of plastic, Styrofoam, and cardboard that your tiny new earphones came in. It looks like plastic bottles overflowing in the waste bin beside a water fountain. It looks like a Hummer occupied by a single person. But few people think about waste when they post kitty photos on Facebook. The clusters of computers at data centers that power websites live far away from the people who use them. As a result, the energy they consume remains out of sight and out of mind.
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