Crafty Marie

Step into summer already by making these very cute Perler bead flip flops. A girl can simply never have too many shoes, especially in the summer when you get to show your painted toenails off with sandals and open-toe footwear. These fun beaded designs are just a little bit smaller than my palm and make really ideal embellishments for cards and papercrafts. They're crafted from tough plastic so they can also be used for DIY keychains and bag clips too. You can turn these mini beaded flip flops into bag charms, novelty necklaces, keychains and keyrings, cake and cupcake toppers, party favors, hanging decorations as well as handmade card and scrapbook embellishments. They look great for loads of cool summer projects.

I just love the dimensional, raised effect of 3D decoupage. It makes for beautiful cards. One downside is that it can take a long time doing it the traditional way because of all the cutting involved. Welcome to the no scissors required die cut decoupage method which is so much faster. I'll show you how to use die cut decoupage with Hunkydory kits. You can apply this method to other pre-cut decoupage sheets too such as Anita's foiled decoupage and Hot Off the Press 3D Papier Tole. I picked the stunning Deco-Large Spring Tweetings set by Hunkydory to demonstrate how you can do die cut decoupage and just how stunning the finished results can be - with very little effort.