Ideas from the forest

10 things that I love...

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Mon, 05 May 2014 21:39:00 +0000

Ten things that I love…

Kawaii
Stamps
Paper
Writing for my blog
Stickers
Coloring
Folding flowers
Embroidery
Washi tape
Cats

I love these postcards from Flexa paint. I like the colors and the funny names for each paint color. Stylish pink is one of my favorites! I made these cards for a pen pal. Just to tell her something about myself in a different way. I liked them so much that I thought I'd make a blog post of it. Hope it will give you some ideas and inspiration! See for details below.

A little bit of green

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sat, 19 Apr 2014 19:22:00 +0000

A Snail mail with a little bit of green to celebrate spring!

D.I.Y: Make your own closing stickers

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 18:10:00 +0000

To stay a while in the spring flowers I made these closing stickers. If you want to make it yourself, here's a short tutorial:

Take a sheet of stickers. I used round white stickers with a diameter of 3,5 centimeters.
Choose three paper flower punches in successive measurements. Punch the flowers from colored paper. I used paper paint samples from the hardware store.
Stick the flowers with a glue dot on the sticker. Go from big to small. I used several sizes of glue dots.

Of course you can create countless variations of these closing stickers. Use different stickers, different paper and paper punches with different motives. Stick them on letters, gifts, bags and snailmail. Have fun!

Little box of post (3)

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 15:58:00 +0000

In the series "Little boxes of..." I made a new little box. It is the " Little box of post! It contains: a little carrier pigeon with a note, 10 stamps, 10 closing stickers, 10 little letter envelopes and a garland with the text "Email is good but post & parcels are much better". I send it to Ruchama of the Postfabriek
Previously made "Little boxes" can be found at these links: Little box of Easter Little box of celebration and little box of hearts

Wreath of paper flowers

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:25:00 +0000

SPRING IS NATURES WAY OF SAYING LET'S PARTY!

This wreath is inspired by the book "Fêtes en papier" of Adeline Klam. I have not read the book yet, but the cover is very promising! The shape of the wreath is made of cardboard. Stick the flowers on it with glue dots. Some flowers have four different layers. For the heart of the flowers you can use here and there a glitter stone. Some flowers are folded. See here for instructions diy fleurs papier adeline klam. The rest of the flowers are made with different paper punches. For the small flowers I used paper of paint samples that are free to get at hardware stores.

Snailmail is an unexpected party in a letter

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 12:46:00 +0000

Baby snail mail for Nina

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 18:29:00 +0000

Baby snail mail for Nina! See my former blogpost on Snail mail for Valentine for tips and tricks.

Snail mail for Valentine

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:01:00 +0000

Here is some Snail mail for Valentine's Day! See what's in the Snail mail for my niece Lisette. When we were kids, we wrote each other letters. She loves the sea-blue color. So that became the theme of my snailmail for her and I combined it with white, green and gold.
I've made six little envelopes which are bound together with a velvet ribbon.

In the blue gift bag with the bugs on it is a craft notebook (Hema) that I decorated with stickers and with the name of my niece. The gift bag, that I received with my order at Paperbreeze, is sealed with two hearts stickers. The large craft hearts sticker is from Nikki Dotti and the small blue hearts sticker is from Hema.
In the larger white paper bag is my postcard for Lisette. On the front of the bag I stuck a fish sticker I've ever gotten at Petit Bateau. The bag is closed with a round craft sticker from Etsy. In this kraft sticker I put a golden sticker that says "Oh la la" from Hema.
In the small package, wrapped with green tissue paper, is an envelope with dog stickers. The package is sealed with golden stickers, all from Hema.
On the glitter card from Flow Book for paper lovers (see my former blogpost Thank you Dutch Castle I have stapled a little bag of gardenconfetti. This I found on the FeelGood Market in Eindhoven at Indie-ish. I finished the card with washi tape from Hema.
I collected paint samples in her favorite color. These are available in paint stores for free. Nice to use as a bookmark, or for to punch tiny figures. I put the color samples in a plastic card pouch from Moniss. Take also a look at Postfabriek for more ideas with plastic card pouches. This gift bag is sealed with washi tape from Hema. On the bag, I wrote an idea-tip with a white paint pen from Posca.
The last brown kraft envelope is the one with the special closure (Hema). This includes a little plastic gift bag with two tea bags from Rituals. I made for this bag a blister pack of blue paper with a sticker of Flow. On this you can write a personal message if you like.

Finally, I put the whole stack of envelopes in a sturdy folded page of Flow. First I sealed all the edges with adhesive tape and after that with washi tape. Name and address is written with Posca paint pens. The entire mail is then inserted into a plastic bag from Moniss with some glitter stars in white, blue and gold from Hema.

This is my Snail mail for Valentine's Day! Hope you like it. You can also find many more lovely Snail mail ideas on Pinterest and Instagram.

Let's hope that my niece does not read this blog post before Valentine's Day!

Floral envelopes

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:07:00 +0000

In a lost moment I made some envelopes of beautiful papers. Seen on one of my favorite

blogs: Ingthings Then packed in a homemade blister. The paper I used is from Flow. It was a special on floral paintings from the Rijksmuseum

Paper christmas tree

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 19:14:00 +0000

Merry christmas! Christmas tree made of paper stars. You can use the pdf file for the nine different sizes. You need six stars per size. The tree is build of 18 layers. Each layer has three stars of the same size. Take a wooden block, make a hole and stick a cocktail stick in. Thread the first layer of stars ( 3x size 1) to the stick. Then thread a piece of straw or a bead on the stick to separate the layers. Continue with another layer of three stars from size one ending with a straw or bead. Then continue with two layers of size two and so on until you've had all sizes.

christmastree template 1

christmastree template 2

Stunning folded Christmas trees XL

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:20:00 +0000

What do you think of these stunning folded Christmas trees?!! Made for the window of a paint and wallpaper store Bij Kaat. These trees are made of two types of fabulous silver wallpaper. I used a square of 52 by 52 centimeters. After folding the tree is about 35 centimeters high. See my former tutorial folding Christmas trees

Thank you Dutch Castle

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 12:47:00 +0000

I have won the book for paper lovers from Flow!!!! Thank you Dutch Castle!!! These are a few of my favorite pages.

Christmas, paper balls and gift tags

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 12:02:00 +0000

Easy to make.. paper Christmas balls. Punch 6 circles and fold them in half. Glue the circles together with a string in it.

Tutorial: paper hearts for teachers

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 16:36:00 +0000

Assignment for "teachers day": make hearts! Together with my son I made these hearts. If you like them read here the step by step tutorial. Use paper with different patterns. We used thicker pink paper and different beautiful wallpaper (once bought at a market in small rolls).

See below the hearts made by Sep for his teachers!

Budget wrapping

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 18:20:00 +0000

Wrapping gifts is super fun to do! With a little searching you can find pretty good but also cheap wrapping paper.
Over the wrapping paper I did a layer of transparent paper. All the wrapping paper and the gift tag comes from Flying Tiger . One of my favorite shops at the moment.

Little box of Easter (2)

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:56:00 +0000

And ... here's the other one.. "Little box of Easter". Maybe it can inspire you!

Artichoke for Easter

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:43:00 +0000

I could not resist ... another artichoke for easter. See my previous blogpost napkin-artichoke

Daisy ornaments for an Easter decoration

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:01:00 +0000

Handmade paper daisies for an Easter decoration. I bought the egg shaped vase by Oogenlust my favorite flower shop. It's easy to make. Look at the tutorial below.

Tutorial

Take a piece of thick white paper and punch out two daisies (using a
daisy-shaped paper puncher)
Cut a small cotton thread of about 8 cms (3.5 inches)
Apply some glue to the heart of one of the daisies (using a glue pad)
Fold the cotton thread into two and glue the ends together with the
glue at the heart of the daisy. Apply some more glue on top
Attach the other daisy on top, turning it a little sideways, so that
there are no spaces in between the leaves
Cut some hairs from a yellow pompom and attach these to the sides of
the daisy in the middle, so that a yellow heart appears. I used
regular superglue for this and a cotton tip to apply the glue
Hint: you can also vary the colours of the hearts of the daisies. You
can also turn the daisies into a garland.

Little boxes (1)

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:52:00 +0000

I made these boxes of large matchboxes. For the "little box of celebration" I made a garland, confetti, two pompoms, a party hat and a small piece of wrapping paper with a gift tag. For the "little box of hearts I made a hearts garland, table scatter, a heart pattern for Hama pearler beads and also a small piece of wrapping paper with a hearts sticker It took me a long time to make everything in mini-format. Love to do this...see you soon for my next post for the little box of Easter!!

Dance in the rain

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:54:00 +0000

This is one of my favorite quotes.

Do small things with great love

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 11:27:00 +0000

Love to do this! When I have a few hours....

Gift in a jar

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:47:00 +0000

Gift in a jar for sinterklaas!

Wreath (1)

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:47:00 +0000

Look at this little "gnome" wreath! It's too cute...made by my aunt Jose. It fits a small candle in. Made of moss, pine cones and mushrooms.

For birds (2)

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 08:17:00 +0000

Bird-feed idea for the season greating of Puur Sang. Check their wonderful interiors for profit and non-profit organizations. I'm lucky to work in one of theirs!

Gift wrapping (4)

noreply@blogger.com (Saar) — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 17:39:00 +0000

Gifts for a little friend. I used stickers and cards from Paperchase