This card I cased earlier in the year (can't remember where) when I received my embossing folders and scallop punches. I just had to sit down and make it. Absolutely loved everything about it, especially the colour combinations. The black background is also embossed with the same folder.
My first tutorial! This is for Sibylle who I met Wednesday night at her friend Rachelle's workshop. She absolutely loved this purse card just like I did when I first saw it. This is also for Julanne Rostran from Glitter Freak who inspired me to not put off a tutorial as too hard. Check her out at http://glitterfreak.blogspot.com - Thanx!
The first template I got was off Linda (Annabelle's friend) which was a photocopy on an A4 sheet of paper. Too big as I needed to make 50 cards and too fiddly so I had to find another solution. So here is what I did. 1.Cut A4 sheet into two and place one in portrait position to you. 2.Fold down flap of about 3-4cm (an inch). 3. Take bottom and bring it up just below that fold line. Crease. This is the body. 4.Open flap. Measure 2cm (3 quarter inch) from sides and mark.
5.Line up the mark and corner of bottom folded edge of body and cut both sides. This way all sides are perfectly aligned. (The rest is per instructions).
6.Measure 2cm in from sides of flap fold on both sides and cut slits of about 1cm (half inch). These are for the handles. 7.Stamp other side of card to your design. 8.Thread fiber/ribbon through the 2 cut cut slits so the ends are on the inside and tape about 2cm down and towards the middle so it would be hidden.
9.Inside part: Square off piece of A4 (normal copy paper) fold diagonally twice so you get an x. 10.Turn it so that the folds are on top and creases at the bottom. Bring the bottom edge up to meet the top making a rectangle.
11. Bring the two newly creased lines together and everything should fold neatly in together to make a triangle.
12.Fold sides into middle. Crease well. 13.Center and align folded paper to the inside of card making sure that bottom point does not go over the middle fold. Mark paper just underneath flap fold where the pencil is. This is where you need to cut so that the paper can sit nicely inside.
14.Open paper to cut as it may be too thick for the bladed to go through. Refold and push the sides inward and crease well.
15.Place sentiment inside. Note that folded rectangle line are the side parts. 16. Center velcro at top flap - this is the fastner. Tape one side of paper, center and place just underneath fold line, making sure handles are not seen underneath. 17.Tape top, bring bottom of card up, press into place.
Take backing off velcro, close and we're finished. Hope I made sense.
ROCKIN GIRL BLOGGER - My first nomination for this tag is: Julanne Rostran. Congratulations girl!
Our swap meet at Makare's today was cool. The challenge came from the Summer edition of the Take Ten Sampler. None of us had done it till this morning and I for one bemoaned the fact that I had set it. Very difficult especially if one had to cut out the diamonds by hand. There was no way I was going to do that two hours before the meeting so I just punched out 3cm squares which meant that I had to make the card longer to fit all four in. Only two things came to mind yesterday was that it had to be my new Montaga Maori stamp and the colour had to be green. Above was the result with the first two cards only having three diamonds. I used only one ink colour which was handsome hunter - at long last as I never use this colour. The other stamp set was French Flair. The cs was handsome hunter, old olive, and garden green. Accessories were black ribbon, gold wire and fun fiber.
This is Joeleen's effort. I was intrigued by her colour combinations. Bashful blue, cameo, barely banana and certainly celery. Such a complete contrast from mine. Cool!
I received my 'Bind it all' this week and this is what we made today out of chip board coasters. This was so I can get someone to read the instructions of the 'bind it all' and show us how to use it. Joeleen did the honours - Thanx!
Thanx Maria for nominating me to be a Rockin' Girl Blogger. How cool!! (Haven't a clue what it means but I'm jumping up and down:). I'll have to think about who to pass this fun award on to. Hey doesn't it match my letterhead.
Judy from Stamp and Create showed this technique one night using a special embossing powder that seems to float on top of normal ep making the work look very metallic and substantial yet you only use a very small amount. It comes from an Australian company called Pipe Dream Ink I think. An image was stamped on a white sheet of paper and after embossing an old piece of jigsaw puzzle, the same stamp is inked, (in this case in black) and placed lightly on top of the jig saw and after a few minutes, taken off. The puzzle piece is then placed on top and matched with the stamped image below. This is the technique I like to use on the monograms. I thought it would have been better if the black image was done in brown then it wouldn't look so photo copy - ish. Fun tho!
I would like to feature another artist today. This is my friend Tuihana Whites' earlier work.
This is one of todays projects of our two day holiday programme in Highbury. I forgot to take the camera so I don't have any pics but they did some great work. I was very impressed with these future stampers in the making. Awesome. I loved being with them. There were 24 girls with the oldest being 13 and the youngest seven. We used the Headline Alphabet and I had the girls put down their birth dates yesterday (which I typed up and printed last night) then had them use the large oval or key tag to them punch out. We also did a purse card and a book of coupons using the Create a Coupon set.
These are my 12 and 11 year olds who were very keen and quite capable of taking instructions so they were able to move forward a little faster. Yesterday we did the pleated skirt and then after lunch I let them create their own. Interesting!
My little seven year olds took a little bit more work but I so loved their enthusiasm. Yesterday they all stuck their work up on the counter top for display and I just had to take a shot of them. After that I just completely forgot to take photos so I was so glad to get these which is a shame because each of the four tables had a different set of inks, cs colours and stamp sets with same project. Well done girls.
This is one of my favourite cards from Joeleen. She went through a tiki phase . . . I think she is still on it. She absolutely loves them. I think this stamp is from Kiwi Impressionz. I love her understated colours and clean lines which she offsets with a dark crumbled frame, heat embossed copper image and koru shaped embellishement (nice authentic touch there). The dark chocolate twill gives the card weight and substance. Her colours are: mellow moss, chocolate chip, and close to cocoa. Perhaps she can comment next time she is passing through. Kia ora koutou. . . did I get that right? Check this site out if you have the time: http://www.islandpaperie.com/
Talking about Primas - here's my stash so far. Love those frangipanis and of course you would think that I would do something about them and not go off on an orchid tangent found at a $2.00 shop.
Yesterday I was at the Two Dollar shop in Northcote and saw these sprays of artificial orchids that caught my eye. There were more muted colours of apricot and lilac but this one jumped at me and said 'make me into a card.' Here is my first attempt. Ink colours are: old olive, true thyme and Brilliance white. Card stock: old olive, garden green and green galore.
And here is my 2nd try. I used the same ink and cs colours for this one except for the ruby red and I have them in a different order. Stamps used are: Water Colour Vine roller, French Script and Weathered backgrounds and wonderful words. Extras was the fern punch and polka dot ribbon. These would make great primas if they were a quarter size smaller.
Our swap group met this morning and Joeleen (first photo) took us through embellishing these small band aid tins and making matching cards to go with them. This was a class that she had taken with Jacque awhile back. I have been slow to warm to these tins but I'm coming round. It was a miserable cold morning so I had egg and corn soup ready for everyone. Kirsten is middle in the 2nd photo and Makare on the right working the sizzix machine.
Third photo is Joeleen and Kirsten's trifold cards. This picture doesn't do them justice - the colours are much more vibrant. The fourth photo are Joeleen's tins. Love the one on the left that she did today. We used the cuttlebug 2 step scribble die for embellishment and they look so awesome. We were baffled that sometimes the die would cut through and other times it wouldn't until we figured out a couple of hours later that if we did not center the die in the middle of the converter then it would not fully cut. My effort is the fifth photo and Makare's is the last. She has a son in Japan so she used the Kanji stamp set for her sentiments and I used Warm Words. It has ben a great day.
Had a fun afternoon yesterday with Ann who showed me this technique for making jewellery. The original idea for this came from her friend Wendy who works at Stamp Zone in Albany. The small squares of bamboo were painted with a metallic paint and when dried stamped with an image using Staz On. This was then finished off with beads and a layer of Crystal Effects. Holes were then drilled from the sides and joined with matching beads to make bracelets or a necklace. The samples she had were just gorgeous. I only had two stamp sets with me so no competition - I had to see how Do the Hula looked on these tiles. Awesome possibilities here. Tile on the right is one of Anns. I think I may have too many metallic colours on mine. OOooo, can't wait to show my girls :)
