Halloween Pumpkin Cut Out Banner

 Make a bunch of Halloween banners to stand up on the window sills, mantel, desktop or back window of your car.

Four happy carved pumpkin faces and two singles in different sizes - plenty of pumpkin heads to decorate the windows or hang from a string, tie onto a little treat bag or wear on your lapel.  If you have a Silhouette cutter, there's even a freebie  .STUDIO file you can get to cut these cute Jack O Lanterns from the paper or cardstock of your choice.

Check 'em out now, Happy Face JackOLantern Die Cuts are b free for personal, classroom or noncommercial use at LeeHansen.com.

Seeing Stars - Die Cut Stars Template

My favorite new craft gadget is my Silhouette Cameo craft cutter. I can cut paper, card stock, magnet material, sticker vinyl and lots more media into all sorts of interesting shapes, borders and 3D crafts. It's a simple Adobe PDF that you can print and cut or trace and cut with the cutter.

This 8-point stars cut out sheet can be printed and cut out by hand to make holiday decorations or sheriff badges. If you have a Cameo that can work with STUDIO shape files, there's also a download of the basic shape file you can customize and use for your own starry night craft designs.

8 Point Stars Die Cut Craft Sheet is a freebie for non-commercial use from LeeHansen.com. The STUDIO shape file download is on the same page.

New Printable Papers for Crafts and Gift Wraps

Blue bandana  design paper sheet

The Clip Art and Crafts site has brand new wrapping paper/craft papers you can print or use for digital scrapbooking.

Here's one sample of the new papers, a printable blue bandana paper sheet. You can use this to wrap gifts, make papercrafts, or treat the image as clip art.

Design cards or gift tags with a cowboy flair or rodeo theme.

Blue bandana craft paper printable is free for any noncommercial use.

Halloween Bats Printable Paper

Brand new printable Halloween papers in green, purple, orange or white with bats, dots and other fun patterns.

Bats Clip Art, Background Paper

Fiesta Flowers For Day of the Dead

Mexican holiday celebrations call for decorations made with paper crafts, especially papel picado punched paper crafts and big, colorful paper flowers.

Get some tissue paper and pipe cleaners together and watch this video and you'll be an expert at making a big bouquet of crafty tissue paper flowers for Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), Cinco de Mayo (5 May) or any fiesta celebration.

Ole!

Halloween Printables and Paper Crafts

Here's a crafts page that's chock full of free Halloween printables.

Print and make kids Halloween party invitations, party decorations, classroom displays, stickers, bookmarks, posters, masks, coloring pages and window displays with the goodies in this Halloween treats article.

Halloween Printables and Paper Crafts

Easter Bunny and Chick Treat Bags

These too-cute Bunny and Chick Easter Bags are easy to make and will be a big hit for kids treats. You print the colorful critter art right onto white paper bags loaded into your inkjet printer, then trim around the top of the bags.  If trying to set up the bags in your printer seems a bit difficult, no worries: simply print the cute little animals onto plain paper then stick them to your paper bags.

This Easter printable template is the first freebie available from Green Lily Designs ... let her know how much you love them!

Easter Mini Cards

If you need a quick gift tag for an Easter basket or perhaps some clever place cards for Easter dinner or brunch, try these jelly bean mini card printables. They come in pretty spring pastel colors with a border of mini eggs all around the edges.

Paper Embroidery Creative Needlework Crafts Ideas and Patterns

Quick and easy greeting card or gift idea. Use coloring pages to make your own patterns for
Paper Embroidery Creative Needlework Crafts Ideas and Patterns.

Mardi Gras Crafts - Let the Good Times Roll

Cool and fun Mardi Gras Crafts for kids of all ages features masks, decorations, party favors and a bunch of Fat Tuesday coloring printables. This Squidoo lens has more free kid craft fun  than a parade float has throws.

Let the Good Times Roll!

Christmas Printables

Last minute gifts, gift wrap and greeting cards are no problem if you have a computer and printer with ink and paper.

Download some pretty Christmas Printables from this huge collection and make like Santa and the elves to create your own crafty gifts, cards, labels, bookmarks and ornaments all made from free printable Christmas paper craft sheets.