Cupcake collars

I found these cute cupcake collars on sale. For a small fee, you can print them out cut them and then slide your cup cake inside circle. They have some really fun designs.

See all their designs at www.cupcakecollars.com

Christmas Thank you card designs & ideas

www.crafts.kaboose.com

Recycle your wrapping paper and christmas ribbon using these cute thank you card ideas found at the link above.

Site for Digi Scrap Products

Digichick has digi scrap products.

Free Digital Scrapbooking Site

summertimedesigns - a wonderful site for free digi scrap kits.

Cute Holiday Papercraft

Imperfectly Beautiful has this super easy and cute paper craft. I think the kiddos and I will have to try this. They would also look cute in pink and white for Valentines day in February!

Background Fairy

Visit the Background Fairy for cute free backgrounds and elements for your blog.

Graphics Fairy

The graphics fairy has tons of cute free images and crafty projects to download.

Clip art/digi scrap site

PcCrafter was kind of confusing to figure out at first, but once I realized I had to download their hugbug delux lite to view the images and use them, things got a lot easier. I love the selection at PcCrafter.

Digi scrap

J Rett graphics has these great paint can wrappers for sale. Just purchase, download, print and attach! Imagine the great gifting you could do with these next year :)

Printable templates

at Jersgirls you can find all kinds of printable templates for great craft ideas!

Digi Scrap Site

At Aimee Asher they have great printables and digi scrap items to purchase. Also be sure to check out their freebies section for some neat downloads.

Polkadotplum

I use polkadotplum for some of my digi scrap needs! They have a great selection of kits and digi scrap items to purchase.

Sketching Stamper Digi-Stamps

At Sketching Stamper you can purchase digi stamp images individually for your digi designs!

Lazy daisy designs

Lazy Daisy Designs features word art for Digi scrappers. Check out her free and for sale items here.

More Digi Scrap freebies!

Check out Grandma's Templates for free digi scrap downloads. She uses Sketches by Becky Higgins and others as her inspiration.

Squigglefly.com Digital Stamps!

Check out Squigglefly.com for digital stamp products. Be sure to try their free downloads before you buy. Also read their tips to heat seal your ink before you hand color your images :)

Templates by Tenille

A link to a site called Templates by Tenille for custom designed blogs and more free blog backgrounds.

New Year's around the world!

Want to find out how other places in the world celebrate the new year? Check out the holiday spot.com for LOTS of information about how other places celebrate the new year. There are also games ideas, party planning ideas puzzle, recipes and much more!

Drinksmixer.com

Here is a link to Drinksmixer.com. They have a great selection of alcholoic beverage recipes as well as a HUGE list of non-alcoholic recipes. They also offer mixing tips, terminology and other helpful things for party planning.

Ginger bread reindeer

This post on martha stewart shows how to turn your gingerbread upside down and decorate to make reindeer! I'm thinking Santa would love to see these at my house next year!

http://www.marthastewart.com/good-thing/gingerbread-reindeer?backto=true&backtourl=/photogallery/holiday-cookies-for-santa#slide_19

Play tent

http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/2009/10/felt-playhouse.html

This is a link to a post about the cutest play tent and it includes templates and instructions! :)

Craftbits

www.craftbits.comNeat Crafty ideas that would make great gifts!

Car Cozie

This car Cozie would make the cutest Christmas gift for a preschool boy! Get instructions on how to make it at my little gems.

Pizza Pan Advent Calendar

Am putting this Pizza Pan advent calendar idea on my to do list for next year!

View more ideas from Crafty, Yummy & Funny here.

Digital Scrapbooking Freebies

Midnight Scrapping offers tons of great digital scrapbooking kits and templates for free! Check her out today!

Holiday Templates, Clipart,

At www.christmastimeclipart.com you can find pretty card templates for all holidays. They also have invites, clipart and more. The site offers these templates for download to members. Click on the membership area to see their yearly fees.

Christmas Printables, Projects

Visit Christmas-Projects.com for tons of free craft ideas, printables, advent calendars, gift tags, etc.

Santa Claus.net

Visit SantaClaus.net with your kids for Christmas facts, games and printables.

Northpole.com

Be sure to visit Northpole.com with your kiddos to find more Christmas related games, recipes, areas to write to santa, etc.

Track Santa

Use this link to Track Santa on Christmas Eve as he makes his flight around the world. There are also games for the kiddos and a Christmas Countdown area.

Felt Food

I just bought a Felt Food pattern from Gulf Coast Cottage and Love IT!

Here is a link to their blog.

http://gulfcoastcottagepdf.blogspot.com/

Blogaroozer

Blogaroozer has some cute backgrounds for free and also shares great blog design tips and tricks on their site.

http://www.blogaroozer.com/

Dotty Dot Dot Free Blogger background

There is an extensive list of different backgrounds for free at Dotty Dot Dot.

http://dottydotdotdesign1.blogspot.com/

Simply Blog it

More Free Blog Backgrounds can be found at Simply Blog it.

http://simplyblogitbackgrounds.blogspot.com/

Shabby Blogs

Here is a link to Shabby Blogs. They carry free blog backgrounds, buttons and headers.

http://www.shabbyblogs.com/backgrounds.html

Smitten Blog Freebies

Visit this blog and view the freebies link at the top of their page for cute free designs for blogs. They also sell super cheap and cute templates for blogs.

http://www.smittenblogdesign.com/

Free Blog backgrounds

Here is a site to get CUTE free backgrounds for your blogs. Simply paste the code below the image and then place it in your layout as an HTML document. Simple and easy!

http://hotbliggityblog.com/index.php

Chef's hat & Apron Tutorial

www.michaelmillerfabrics.com/Blog/Chef_Hat.pdf
http://www.michaelmillerfabrics.com/Blog/Classic_Apron.pdf

Visit http://stardustshoes.blogspot.com/

for these cute Chef's hat & Apron tutorials!

Felt Crayon Holder Idea!

http://www.skiptomylou.org/2009/12/18/felt-crayon-holder/

Santa Cones

http://thriftydecorchick.blogspot.com/2009/12/ho-ho-ho-santa-craft.html

No Peeking Label Download

These would be great on my gifts. I have a habit of sneeking a peek once in a while before the big Christmas day unwrapping ;)



http://www.dykast.us/freebies/no-peeking-printable-tags

Free Stuff!

Cute Free Gift tags to download.

http://freshpickedwhimsy.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5503379c68834012875e68557970c-pi

Snowman Kit

http://makeitdo.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/make-it-a-snowman-kit/img_8031/

Money cards!

http://heroarts.com/blogs/club/2009/12/16/who-said-money-doesnt-grow-on-trees/

Send a Personal Video From Santa

I discovered a really neat place to send a personal message from Santa. You fill out the info (name, age, eye color, hair color, toy requested, etc) and Santa sends a video messge. Really cool. My kiddos LOVED it! You can even upload a photo of the child that santa finds in his Naughty and Nice book!



Check this link to send your own video from Santa.



http://portablenorthpole.tv/home

Santa Cards!!!

LOVE these santa cards! They are soo cute. And at Skip to my Lou they show you STEP BY STEP how to make them! Wonderful. Go Check them out NOW! Then get Crafty :)

http://www.skiptomylou.org/2009/12/06/guess-whos-coming-to-breakfast/

Another version of an advent calendar

Here is another simple advent calendar you could make.

http://somewhatsimple.blogspot.com/2009/11/magnetic-advent-calendar.html

Advent Calendar Ideas

Here is a cute and simple advent calendar for those who don't have a lot of time or space.

http://bluecricketdesign.blogspot.com/2009/11/25-days-of-christmas-count-down.html

Innkeepers Key

Here is a great idea to remind people of the reason for the Christmas season! So easy to make with skeleton keys. Remember you can find skeleton keys online or on e-bay.

http://theidearoom.blogspot.com/2009/12/innkeepers-key.html

Santa Keys

Here and simple idea to help Santa visit! Use a skeleton key (you can find these on E-bay and at many online stores) and print and attach one of these poems! A cute and simple gift for those who still believe in the magic of Christmas :)

http://www.theideadoor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=552