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Aunt Annie's Crafts
Craft projects and more!
Crafting fun for everyone!
Step-by-step instructions. Printable patterns. Updates each week.
Welcome to Aunt Annie's Crafts!
Take a look around. You'll find crafting fun for children, teens and adults. A craft how-to is featured each Monday, with a special craft treat added each Wednesday, and at the end of the week it's Friday Fun with simple crafts for families, groups or classrooms.
Featured this week: Super easy petal envelopes!
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Half-Moon Petal Envelope - Have fun making these delightful envelopes with half-moon flaps that fold like petals. Spring and Easter designs are included in the project. Use these envelopes as a gift wrap for small gifts or to store keepsakes.
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Wednesday Treat: Colorful banner ribbons to download and print!
This week's Wednesday treat is a set of Banner Ribbon digital downloads to use for Half-Moon Petal Envelope closures!
You can also use the Blue to Green Banner Ribbons and Red to Violet Banner Ribbons to make banners for handmade greeting cards or to make medallions for sealing Tube-shaped Gift Bags. The ribbons can also be used in scrapbooking or in box making.
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This Week's Friday Fun: Use four circles to make a square envelope!
Square Petal Envelope - Learn a surprising technique for making square petal envelopes. These simple envelopes are inspired by Japanese gift wraps and require little or no adornment. They are great for wrapping flat packages or gift cards.
For more family, classroom or group crafts see the Friday Fun Crafts collection!
Featured last week: More pop-up card fun!
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Step Pop-Up Cards - Make a pop-up greeting card for a variety of occasions. See how easy it is to make a step pop-up mechanism, also sometimes called a platform or double-slit pop-up. Once you learn this technique, it's a simple matter to create pop-up cards of your own design.
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Wednesday Treat: Pop-up card template! More pop-up options!
Last week's Wednesday treat
was a set of templates for making a variety of
Step Pop-Up Cards! Just choose the pop-up step size(s)
for your card, then cut out. Align the template(s) on the card blank's
folded edge and trace. No measuring needed!The pattern includes templates for making a 3-step pop-up like the sample pop-up card.
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Last Week's Friday Fun: How to cut five-pointed stars and string a garland!
Patriotic Star Garland - Cut five-pointed stars (it's really easy!) from red, white and blue paper and string them to make a garland! Use the garland to decorate for Memorial Day, Flag Day or the Fourth of July. This is a great craft for kids and families.
For more family, classroom or group crafts see the Friday Fun Crafts collection!
Previously featured...
Here's a sample of the crafting fun from previous weeks. Visit the Project Index to see it all.
Looking for crafts for family, classroom or group craft time?
Check out the Friday Fun index for quick and easy crafts.
Project Index
- Make Boxes and Bags
- Flexagons and Tangrams
- Friday Fun Crafts for families and groups
- Greeting Card Tutorials
- Spring and Easter Crafts
- Games To Make
- Puppets Around the World
- Craft Material Recipes
- ePaper Downloads
- Papermaking Projects
- Party Decorations
- Halloween Crafts
- Thanksgiving & Fall Crafts
- Christmas Crafts
- and more!!!
Greeting card tutorials
Greeting card tutorials are a regular feature on Aunt Annie's Crafts. Each tutorial builds on prior card projects. It's like taking a class on making handmade greeting cards.
This month's tutorial continues the second series of greeting card tutorials—Card Class 2. In the tutorial for Step Pop-Up Cards, see how to make a classic platform pop-up for just about any occasion! Review all the tutorials in the first Card Class to learn many more techniques for making beautiful cards.