Monday, September 13, 2010

Trick or Treat Bag

by Sharon Jeffs


Trick or Treat Bag

Materials

  • Paper and Cardstock
    • BoBunny Patterned papers, Peacock Lane Flowers     ( BBP-P-03135   $0.89)
    • BoBunny Patterned papers, Peacock Lane Bleu     ( BBP-P-03132   $0.89)
  • Embellishments
    • Basic Grey Capella, Chip Sticker Shapes     ( BG-CH-2422   $6.99))
    • May Arts Grosgrain Diagonal Stripe Ribbon, Olive/White     ( MA-336-46   $0.59/yard)
  • Tools

Instructions

  • Cut the label stripe off each piece of patterned paper.
    Cut a strip from both pieces that measure 8 inches by 12 inches.
    With the green piece, cut it in half.

  • Tear off the edges of each the purple pieces along the longer side.
    Fold over and adhere one edge on each piece.



  • Adhere the purple pieces to the shorter edges of the green piece to create one long piece.

  • From the top, measure down 8 inches and score across for the first bottom fold.
    Repeat from the other end.

  • Open out and measure 1 1/5 inches in from each long edge and mark.
    Cut along the base score to this line for each of the four base scores.
    Score along each section, along the marked line.



  • Punch four holes along the top and string in the ribbon to form handles.

  • Cover Itop brad with the purple patterned paper then die cut a pinwheel from the green polka dot paper.
    Use brad to complete pinwheel and attach to front of bag.



  • Attach chipboard leaf flourish from pack to front of bag, just below the pinwheel as a decorative branch.
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Saturday, September 11, 2010

Alice's Halloween Card

by Lis Whiting




I love love love the new Graphic 45 Halloween papers! What a great combination with Alice in Wonderland and Halloween. The cardstock is high quality and sturdy. The colors are really vibrant with purples, blues and oranges. And who can resist Alice with the old drawings faithfully copied and added to this wonderful paper!

Alice's Halloween Card

Materials

  • Paper and Cardstock
    • Plain manilla cardstock, 8"x8"     (
    • Bazzill Singles, Black, 2 1/2" x 5"     ( BAZ-10-1075   $0.59)
    • Bazzill Bling, Hollywood Bling, 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" and 5 1/4" x 2"     ( BAZ-BL-401   $0.69)
    • Graphic 45 Hallowe’en in Wonderland, 8"x8" pad     ( G45-Pad8-Hallow   $9.99)
      OR individual sheets:
  • Inks and Embossing Powders
  • Stamps
    • Tim Holtz Rubber Stamp Set, Purely Random, Clock Face     ( ST-CMS088   $29.95)
  • Embellishments
    • Collage Pictures of choice, for example Vintage Memories Papers     ( SEA-BK-1170   $11.95)
    • Black Satin Ribbon, 10"     ( MA-SK4-10   $0.59/yard)
  • Tools
  • Adhesives

Instructions

  • Fold your gold pearl card base in half. The card will open from the side. Set aside.

  • Make your Hallowe’en block:
    • Cut out the Hallowe’en in Wonderland block from the Jabberwocky sheet.
    • Tear around the entire image.
    • Using your craft mat and blending tool, blend wild honey distress ink around the edges.
    • Add Rusty Hinge to the corners using blending tool.

  • Make your Alice Collage:
    • Select an image that is about 3"x4" from Curiouser paper (I chose Alice but there are many wonderful images on this paper.)
    • Select some other images only cut these out into smaller squares (doesn’t have to be exact).
      I chose some colorful victorian Halloween images of a pumkin and a moon.
    • Use the decoupage glue (or other collage glue such as mod podge, golden medium) and a foam brush (you can get the brush for a dollar usually at a Michaels)
    • Brush some glue onto your manila cardstock and adhere your first piece.
      Keep brushing glue and adhering until all pieces are glued on. Be sure to glue Alice (or your focal image) on last.


    • Take a clock stamp and stamp randomly with black ink on your collage.
    • Take a cotton swab and dab it into versamark ink.
      Touch lightly on areas you want to accent in gold. (Or use a Versamark pen; Frantic Stamper carries it.)
    • Use gold embossing powder on the areas you dabbed with Versamark ink.
      Emboss with a heat gun
    • Cut out a piece from your collage 3 7/8" x 1 1/2".
    • Attach your cut piece to the black cardstock and trim a 1/8" inch border around it.
  • Finish up:
    • Cut a 5 ¼ x 4 piece of the striped side of Uncommon Nonsense paper(stripes should be horizontal).
    • Punch three photo corners from the blue side.
    • Punch the upper left corner with the spider web punch in the striped piece.
    • Adhere your photo corners to the other three corners of the striped paper.
    • Tie a bow using black satin ribbon. Make sure to leave tails long enough to go around your card.
    • Temporarily position Alice and the Hallowe’en block on your paper so you can correctlyplace your ribbon bow.
    • Adhere the ribbon to the card with double-stick tape, and adhere the ends of ribbon to the back of the paper.
    • Add double stick tape to Alice Collage and adhere to the card so it overlaps the ribbon.
    • Use mounting tape to adhere the Hallowe’en block so it slightly overlaps the collage.
Sign the back of your card because this is a work of art!
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Thursday, September 09, 2010

Happy Halloween

by Debi Wind


Happy Halloween

Materials

Instructions

  • Cut Oslo cardstock to the size of 5 1/2"X8 1/2", score it and fold in half.
    Cut Uncommon Sense pattern paper into 3 pieces the size of 1 3/8"X5 1/4" and adhere to card.

  • Stamp Raven on Fence and Happy Halloween with Smoke Blue ink onto Vanilla cardstock.
    Trim, and using the sponge distress the edges with brush corduroy and spice marigold ink, and layer onto Orange and Oslo cardstock.

  • Adhere Raven on Fence and Happy Halloween to card and finish card embellishing with orange photo turns.
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010

Skull Album

by Sharon Jeffs


Instructions

  • Cover each of the interior surfaces of the album with a paper.
    I chose to cover mine with ordinary white copy paper as I want to give my album a spray with Glimmer Mist and the white paper will soak it up best.



  • Edge all the edges with a layer of the eggshell paint.
    Set aside to dry completely.



  • Paint the front and back of the album with the Eggshell paint.
    You will need two coats to ensure even coverage.



  • Using a dry brush technique (dab paint onto the brush then rub 90% off onto scrap paper), edge the skull with cool gray then repeat with black.
    A trick I like to use when doing this is to have a baby wipe with me and as I finish dry brushing the project, I dab it with the wet one.
    I then smudge over with the paint brush to smoothen the dry brushing effect.
    Repeat for both top and bottom of album.



  • Paint the cross bones black.
    Dry brush the edges with Cool gray and put aside to dry thoroughly.



  • Paint entire surface of the skull (both top and bottom of album) with the Rock Candy Crackle paint and put aside to dry thoroughly.
    Once dry coat with glaze medium or another type of sealer of your preference.
    Spray each of the papered surfaces with the Glimmer mist, spraying from the edge with the binding holes across.



  • Cut the Polka dot ribbon into three sections and one to each ring in a bow.
    Cut the looped trim into six sections and two onto the ring, one on either side of the bow.



  • Peel back the centre of one of the Prima flowers and punch a hole through the centre of the flower.
    Adhere the flower over the top hole of the album, aligning the hole in the centre of the flower with the hole in the cover.



  • Join all the album pieces together with the three hinged rings.


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Sunday, September 05, 2010

Vintage Wedding

by Kris Hankins


Vintage Wedding

Summer is the season for lots of beautiful weddings. Try making this lovely vintage looking “congratulations” card for the next special bride and groom.

Materials

  • Paper and Cardstock
    • Bazzill Singles Cardstock, Smoothies Texture
    • Basic Grey Cappella, Sonata     ( BG-CAP-2408   $0.85)
  • Stamps
    • Doily Style Stamp
    • “Congratulations” or Other Sentiment stamp of choice
  • Inks and Embossing Powders
    • ColorBox Fluid Chalk Ink, Chestnut Roan     ( CLE-FCP-Chestn   $5.59)
    • VersaMark Ink Pad     ( TSU-VMPAD   $8.09)
    • Ranger Seafoam White Regular Embossing Powder     ( seafoam   $3.75)
  • Embellishments
    • Prima Flower, Madrigal Blossom, White     ( PRI-TJ-540128   $4.99)
    • Pearls, white     ( KAI-PRL-713   $1.99)
    • Maya Arts 5/8" Wide Organza Ribbon, about 18" of each
  • Tools
  • Adhesives

Instructions

  • Cut brown cardstock to make a 5”x 6.5” card base. Set aside.

  • Take a piece of Basic Grey Cappella Sonata paper and cut it an inch or so larger than you want your finished card front to be (approx. 6” x 8”).

  • Stamp the doily images in two corners of your cut patterned paper using VersaMark ink.
    Sprinkle with Ranger seafoam embossing powder.
    Emboss with your heat gun.



  • At the corners, stipple chestnut roan chalk ink over the embossed doily images.
    Work the ink into the paper between the embossed sections.
    Wipe the excess chalk ink off of the embossed images with a soft towel.
    The embossed images will retain some of the chestnut roan color.
    Softly blend out your stippling from the edges of the doily images.



  • Determine the exact size you want your layer to be. Mine is 4.5” x 6”.
    Trim embossed piece to this size, picking out the best looking portion of your stamped paper.
    Softly stipple the edges and other two corners of the cut piece.

  • Attach to blue layer of cardstock and trim, leaving only 1/16th of an inch showing.

  • Wrap organza ribbons around card in an asymmetrical manner.
    I used one blue and 2 champagne pieces.
    Using the remaining blue ribbon, add a couple of “loops” to the right side of where the flower will be attached.



  • Attach this to the front of brown card base.

  • Attach your Prima Madrigal flower. Add various sized pearls in a scattered fashion.

  • Using chestnut roan Fluid Chalk ink, stamp “congratulations” on a scrap of Cappella Sonata paper (reverse side is blue).
    Attach to front of card just under the edge of the flower using 3D foam squares.

  • Add an extra finishing touch by lining the inside of the card with a scrap piece of the Cappella Sonata paper (reverse side) and a scrap strip of embossed patterned paper that was trimmed away earlier.


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Saturday, September 04, 2010

Thinking of You

by Debi Wind


Thinking of You

Materials

Instructions

  • Cut London cardstock to the size of 5 1/2"X8 1/2", score it and fold in half. Cut Cherie pattern paper to the size of 4"X5 1/4" and adhere to card.

  • Cut one pieces of Cherie pattern paper to the size of 1 1/2"X3 1/2" . Adhere to Cherie paper to London cardstock trimmed to size and adhere to card.

  • Stamp Eiffel Tower and Thinking of You with Smokey Gray ink onto Vanilla cardstock. Trim, sponge edges with Smokey Gray ink, and layer onto Watermelon Sensation and London cardstock.

  • Adhere Eiffel Tower and Thinking of You to card and finish card embellishing with Antique White Pearls.
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Friday, September 03, 2010

Tenerife Travel Book

by Polinka


Tenerife Travel Book

Materials

  • Paper and Cardstock
  • Paint
  • Embellishments
    • American Crafts Thickers, Chipboard Alphabet, Gift Box, Green     ( AMC-TH-42762   $3.99)
    • Basic Grey, Oliver, Die Cut Shapes     ( BG-S-VER-2747   $3.99)
  • Tools
    • Zutter Bind-It-All System V2.0     ( BIND-Punch2   $74.99)
    • Bind-It-All wires, 1 1/4", white     ( BIND-W1.25-wht4   $8.99)
    • A sewing machine and green and blue thread
  • Adhesives

Instructions

    As I'm going on a lastminute trip to Tenerife, I had to quickly make myself a Road Book to document my holidays... So here's how I made this very simple one:
  • I first cut two rectangles (about 6 x 8,5 '') in a heavy cardstock for the covers...

  • I painted the borders with light green acrylic paint from Kaisercraft, than I decorated them with beautiful SEI papers that I stitched together and some Basic Grey die cuts.
    The title is made with American Crafts Thickers.



  • I love the SEI papers, with their glitter dimension:







  • The inner covers are also covered with cute papers.
    I didn't add any decoration in the inside, because I didn't want the book to be too thick, and as I'll be carrying it with me, I'd rather not have embellies not adhering.


  • For the insides pages I decided to separate the journal pages,


    the cards,


    and the guide (suggestions)...


Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my project! 



Have a lovely day,
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010

Sunning Silhouette Card

by Anne Harada


Sunning Silhouette Card

Materials

STAMPS INK 

TOOLS EMBELLISHMENTS 


  • Paper and Cardstock
    • Bazzill Basics Cardstock, Smoothies Texture
    • Cream cardstock base
    • White cardstock panel to stamp image onto
  • Stamps
    • Frantic Stamper, Sunning Silhouette     ( #127-02-M   $5.00)
  • Inks and Embossing Powders
  • Embellishments
    • May Arts Sheer Dots Ribbon, Light Blue 3/8" organdy ribbon     ( MA-JD-34   $0.59/yard)
    • Kaiser Craft Pearl Strips, pearl     ( KAI-LR-501   $3.99)
    • Butterfly     (Substitute Prima Jewel Box Butterflies, Turquoise PRI-JWL-532352   $3.99)
  • Tools
    • Martha Stewart Crafts Punch, Wing Edger, Optic Dot     ( MSC-PU-42-40060   $14.99)
    • EK Success Medium corner rounder     ( EK-PSPCR-02   $5.59)
    


Instructions

  • Fold a 4-1/2”x8-1/2” a piece of cream-colored cardstock in half to create a card base.
    Punch a decorative border along the front, bottom edge.


  • Cut a 4-1/2” x 2-1/2” Hot Fudge cardstock panel.
    Layer the Hot Fudge Panel onto the cream cardstock base so it aligns with the top front of the card.

  • Cut a 4-1/8” x 3-1/2” Cardinal panel.
    Round the corners.

  • Cut a 4”x 3-1/4” white cardstock panel.

  • Stamp the Sunning Silhouette image in Fired Brick Red ink onto the white panel.
    Round the corners.


  • Adhere Light Blue Dots Ribbon along the right side of the stamped panel.
    Attach butterfly embellishment to ribbon.

  • Layer the stamped panel onto the Cardinal Panel.
    Adhere 3 small half-pearl embellishments onto vase in the image.
    Color the pearls with gold colored Sharpie pen to match butterfly embellishment.

  • Attach the layered image to the front of the card as shown in example.
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Monday, August 30, 2010

Post-It Note Holder

by Sharon Jeffs


Post-It Note Holder

Materials

  • Pack of Post-it notes
  • A4 sheet chipboard
  • Paper and Cardstock
    • Basic Grey Patterned Paper, Urban Prairie, Corn Husk     ( BG-URP-1314   $0.69)
  • Inks and Embossing Powders
    • Tsukineko Brilliance Dew Drop, Coffee Bean     ( TSU-BD-Cof   $2.69)
  • Embellishments
  • Adhesives

Instructions

  • My Post-it notes measure 3 4/10 inches by 3 4/10 inches by 4/10 inches.
    To create the base sides and top I am going to measure out chipboard pieces at the following sizes –
    • Base and Top – 4 inches by 4 inches
    • Sides – ½ inch by 3 ½ inches (cut 4 of these)



  • Cover the top and base pieces on both sides with the Basic Grey Patterned paper then ink the edges with the Coffee Bean inkpad.



  • Cut a ½ inch by 12 inch strip of patterned paper and use to cover and connect up the four sides.
    Don’t worry about not having enough left to cover all of the fourth side as this will be covered later.



  • Cut a 1 inch by 12 inch strip of patterned paper and adhere to the inside of the sides.



  • Notch each of the corners of the overlapping patterned paper and fold in.



  • Adhere to the base and ink the top edges.



  • Cut two strips of patterned paper measuring 1 inch by 3 1/3 inches.
    These will be the hinges of the box lid.
    Begin by adhering the first one to the outside side edge that wasn’t completely covered.



  • Fold this strip backwards and centre top onto the box.
    Adhere strip to top of box to create the first half of the hinge.
    Repeat on the inside of the box to reinforce the hinge.



  • Adhere ribbon around sides and tie in a bow at the front.



  • Trim off pieces of the Felt stem to add around the flower and adhere to the centre of the top of the box along with the felt stem pieces radiating from the flower.



Thanks for coming by.
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