Handmade Holiday Gifts and Crafts with Paper
I forgot how fun it is to cut up magazines and glue with glue sticks.
My paper crafts project for the Holidays by Hand festival is a pop-up doll house scene for Lane. So much imagination goes into creating scenes. It’s fun to pick out pictures to include. Lane did not want to go to bed with all the paper and craft supplies everywhere.
What I love about this:
1. Making it with your child is as fun as the finished result.
2. It uses basic supplies (no special tools needed).
3. Did I mention pop-up?!
More pictures and my simple pop-up instructions are here: Craft a Pop-up Doll House Scene
Now let’s go see the wonderful things you’ve been making!
Notebooks & Gifts
Notebook by Simply Vintage Girl
Personalized Little Notebook — from Simply Vintage Girl
A Set of Botanical Prints — from A Soft Place to Land
Fabric-Covered Notebooks — from Planning With Kids
Dates to Remember Book — from Snapshots of Us
Accordion-Style Book of Days — from Life as Mom
Mini Scrapbook Albums — from Such a Time Scrapbooking
Print Art for Infants — from Frugal Front Porch
Greeting Cards
Hand-made Monogrammed Notecards — from Vintage Mommy
Holiday Cards, & Picture Block Ornament — from Kirstyn Knits
Especially for Kids
Make Your Own Wrapping Paper — from Almost Frugal
A Self-Portrait Technique for Kids — from My Many Colored Crayons
Kid-Friendly Paper Ornaments — from Domestic Cents
Stars & Ornaments
Stars by Lost Button Studio
3D Paper Stars — from Lost Button Studio
Mini Album Ornament — from Gifts by Hand
Finnish Star – from Craft Ideas
3D Paper Snowflake — from Perspicacious
For More Ideas
Envelope Books — from Martha
Handmade Story Books — from Glitter Goods
Storybook Puzzle Blocks — from Chasing Cheerios
Paper Mosaic — from Carly and the Clan
Origami Nesting Boxes — from Martha
Thank you so much for participating in Holidays by Hand this week! I’ve enjoyed seeing your projects. Next week Kelly will host Ribbons & Thread.
If you wanted to participate this week, it’s not too late, just add a link to your project in the comments. I hope you’ve found some ideas to inspire you!
About Rachel Meeks
Hi Rachel! Thanks for featuring my project. There are so many wonderful ideas in this post. I’m so glad that I got to be a part of the Holidays by Hand festival.
Kimba
Thanks for participating in Holidays by Hand everyone! And thanks to Rachel for doing such a great job of hosting this week’s segment.
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Thanks for featuring my projects, Rachel! It was fun putting all the card and ornament ideas together! You received so many wonderfully creative links!
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Rachel, I love the pop-up collage!! How fun.
I’m looking forward to digging into the other links for more great projects.
Vintage Mommy’s last blog post..Holidays by Hand: My Papercraft Experiment
Eeeeeeeeeeeeee! LOVE the pop-up book. We are going to get right on that.
I am deliriously excited about all these amazing links. Now I’ll for sure have some great reading awaiting me when the girls are in bed tonight. Thanks for hosting!
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Hey Rachel, thanks for featuring my project. It’s the first post I’ve had featured so I’m very proud! I’m a newbie blogger and love being able to share my ideas with the world.
Thanks again for the feature.
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What a great collection of handmade gift ideas. I love them all so very much. I’m going to try to make the personalized notebook.
Thank you so much for sharing. I love your blog and added it to my favorites!
Hugs,
Shannon
http://www.lilyhavencollection.blogspot.com
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I am so loving this series – such great inspiration! Thanks to all who contributed!
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Thanks for linking to me!
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Thanks so much for featuring me! I love all of these projects. I have lots to make and do before the holidays. Thank you!
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I stumbled on this site and definitely love all the ideas!
Really excited about all these great holiday projects!
Great idea. My girls are addicted to cutting out the pictures from the Sunday paper. They have “Paper Pet Shops.” The problem is these “Paper Pets” are allllll over their room and hiding under beds and couches. Argh! But, I have to let them have their fun!
I will have to show them your idea and let them at it!!
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What a fantastic bunch of ideas, thanks for the inspiration!
I didn’t get mine sent to you on time {{blushing}} so if anyone is interested in making personalized coloring pages, here is a tutorial: http://problemsolvinmom.blogspot.com/2008/10/personalized-coloring-pages.html
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My local Scrapbook store, Green Tangerines, has a great make and take every Monday night. For 12 weeks they are doing the 12 tags of Christmas. I do these each week with my daughter and it’s great to try new techniques and tools for a tiny investment. These tags are enough to elevate plain paper to super special status. But they would also be a stunning banner strung together or as a Christmas memory album.
the pop up doll house is adorable and a fabulous idea!
thank you for all the other great ideas as well and for hosting this homemade holidays feature. we are doing homemade this year (mostly) and it is the first in awhile. it feels so rewarding!
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Hi!
I just posted one that I think qualifies …
http://jeannewinters.blogspot.com/2008/11/its-beginning-to-look-lot-like.html
I make these decoupage balls for Christmas using cards from the previous year! Sorry I wasn’t quicker with my post!
Thanks!
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The more the merrier, feel free to add more paper projects!