Author: Jennie Moraitis
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How to Make a Super Simple Pop-up Card
Who doesn’t love a pop-up card? It’s mail with a sweet surprise all wrapped up in one. Maybe you’ve wanted to try to make one before but the thought of spending quality time constructing such a piece has left you disheartened. Or maybe that’s just me. You see 90% of my crafting/writing/painting/everything-creativity time is during…
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Write Your Sponsored Child With These Easy Tips
Write your sponsored child today with these fun (and easy) tips! And be sure to print the free letter writing template too. 🙂 Today I’m going to share a few fun tips to write your sponsored child, but you could easily use these ideas for writing your own child or nieces and nephews. All kids…
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Five Fun Ways to Decorate Envelopes
As a part of letter-writing month, we wouldn’t want to forget the envelopes! After all, that’s the first thing your friend will see when they open their mailbox. You could absolutely send a plain envelope and no one is going to begrudge you that (after all, it’s REAL MAIL!) but I thought I’d compile five…
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How to Make Gorgeous Butterfly Cards
Thank goodness for Anthropologie catalogs. I’ve used those beautiful pages for more projects than I can count, and today I’m going to share the world’s easiest butterfly card tutorial using the lovely pictures found in an older Anthro catalog. Now, of course, you can use any magazine you’d like, but the reason I especially like…
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Say Hello With This Fun Watercolor Card
Today I’m excited to introduce you to Maggie, the blogger behind Maggie’s Butterfly Kisses. Her blog is packed with card-making tutorials, and I’m so glad she agreed to writing a tutorial for our #30DayMailboxLove challenge. Enjoy! ~Jennie I didn’t purposely plan to do a card involving watercolors just because I know Jennie loves them as…
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Letter-writing Resources
I love receiving letters in the mail, don’t you? Since sending cards in the mail is becoming a lost art, I thought I’d compile a list of letter writing resources to help you out! Related: April is Letter-writing Month! Tutorials to Get You Started The {10 Minute} Letter Writing Retreat Bundle Free Thank You Card…
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Three Reasons a Springtime Retreat is AMAZING
Have you ever taken a springtime retreat? I recently took one and came home so refreshed. Spring is here. At least, I’m pretty sure it’s here. The rain is still pouring outside but instead of the rivulets pooling around bare sticks and mud puddles, those bare sticks are covered in a magical shade of new…
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Three Easy Ways to Personalize Little Girl’s Clothing
Recently, I’ve been thinking about making some outfits for my daughter and yet the reality of how long that would take (my sewing machine and I are not on friendly terms) made me take a step back. As a creative person who has a penchant for cute things, this kills me. I mean, little girl…
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A Quick Start Guide to Creative Retreats
If you’ve been around here for a while, you know I’m a big fan of creative retreats (so much so that I wrote an entire workbook about how to DIY your own.) Taking time to pursue my own creative practice in the many varied ways it shows up these days has been so life-giving to…
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How to Make Planner Bookmarks (The Easy Way!)
If you’re a planner girl, you already know what I’m talking about when I mention planner bookmarks. They’re literally everywhere these days. For those who are unfamiliar, you can buy bookmarks and page tabs so you can easily turn to certain sections of your planner or so you can mark places you want to go…