Friday, 19 October 2007

EXPLODING BOX - Class Instructions

As usual I am more than happy for anyone to use the following instructions for their personal use but please do not copy them (either to teach your own classes or to post elsewhere online) without permission.
Thank you :)


STEP 1 - Lid

Cut green cardstock into a square 6 1/8” x 6 1/8”

Score a line 1” from each edge

Score a diagonal line across each corner.

Fold along scorelines and glue corners in place with wet glue. (use paperclips to hold in place until dry)

STEP 2 - box

Cut red cardstock into a square 11 ¼” x 11 ¼”

Cut blue cardstock into a square 10 ½” x 10 ½”

Score green cardstock (ie 12"x12" sheet) at 4” horizontal and vertical to give nine 4” squares.

Score red cardstock at 3 ¾” horizontal and vertical to give nine 3 ¾” squares.

Score blue cardstock at 3 ½” horizontal and vertical to give nine 3 ½” squares.

Cut the four corner squares off each piece of cardstock so you are left with a cross shape.

Round corners and ink edges

STEP 3

Cut four 3 ¼” squares from patterned paper A

Cut four 3 ¼” squares from patterned paper B

Cut four 3 ½” squares from patterned paper A

Cut four 3 ½” squares from patterned paper C

Cut two 3 ¾” squares from patterned paper B

Cut two 3 ¾” squares from patterned paper C

Round corners & ink edges

STEP 4

Attach patterned paper to box as shown.

I used two different patterns on each layer and placed them opposite each other.

Join all three pieces together – use double sided tape – attach to red cardstock only.

STEP 5 - decoration

Cut a 3 ¼” square of red cardstock for the centre. Round corner and ink edges.

Attach a couple of small squares of patterned paper and emboss a Christmas pattern on the pale blue cardstock using the Cuttlebug.

Attach ribbon round red cardstock before attaching to base.

STEP 6

Cut four 4” strips from the red cardstock and emboss with snowflake embossing folder.

Attach to outside of box.

Cut two poinsettia flowers out using the template and join together using a gold brad.

Cut a small square of patterned paper to decorate the lid (round corners/ink edges)

Stamp Merry Christmas on a small piece of blue cardstock (round corners/ ink edges) and glue on top of patterned paper.

Attach poinsettia to lid using double sided tape.

Friday, 5 October 2007

More Magnolia

A few more Magnolia bits and pieces (my order arrived from Sweden this week - yaay)

Havent had time to make a card with him yet but I just love this cutie pie - so so very sweet!

I used some of the only thing I have ever bought from QVC (well the UK version anyway) on this card - I bought a K&Co set about 2 years ago and have barely used any of it so have decided to put it to use for some cards as I can't see me using it on my scrapbook pages after all this time

Some more stamped and watercoloured images...


Another card...this time paper-pieced using MM Cosmo paper...


And a coupl of non-scrap related photos. Took this one on the way back from lunch today. It has been a glorious day here today...maybe summer is here at last! LOL

Last but not least a little pic of two Momiji dolls that Robert got me for my birthday - they are so sweet. Even the bags are cute so I can't decide whether to keep them in the bags or take them out (*insert rolling eye smilie here*)

Friday, 28 September 2007

Heroes!

As I am still (im)patiently waiting for my Christmas Tildas to arrive I coloured in my ballerina stamp using Christmassy colours and made my first Christmas card of the year :)As Robert and I are both loving Heroes at the moment he(yes DH!) made this LO for my birthday showing some celebs who share the same birthday as me - so sweet (well apart from the crappy photo of me :D ) Anyone know how to get staz-on off your rubber stamps when its not cleaned straight away :D


(The smudged bits aren't on the original LO - just edited to remove some personal details - should have edited the rubbish photo too :D )

Saturday, 22 September 2007

Some Birthday Cards...

I made this card for my friend's wee boy who will be 1 on Tuesday - can't believe he is a year old already. Stamp is by PennyBlack , with a little Magnolia Ladybird and papers are from a DCWV stack.
Then Kenny decided he wanted to join in with the card-making too and made this one for his sister's birthday next week.

Friday, 21 September 2007

Today's cards...

Have had a lovely relaxing day today. Robert was off work so after Kx2 left for school we headed up to Ikea for breakfast - £2.65 for two of us (and it was only that "dear" because Robert had the big breakfast LOL ).

Quick stop off in Braehead then Robert took me over to Craftology at Hillington. This is the first time I've been there since they moved from the centre of Johnstone and I was impressed - plenty of space and tons of stock. I got a couple of Penny Black stamps (to fuel my new cardmaking/stamping addiction while I wait for some more Magnolia stamps to arrive) and a gorgeous funky alphabet, a water brush and some twinkling H2Os.
Off to Greenock next to hit the pound shops for party bag treats for Kirsten's party next week, then back in time for Kenny coming home from school.

Today's card offerings....

... I love how the trainers turned out on "cool" edwin. LOL

Thursday, 20 September 2007

And another one...

Don't most people start out cardmaking then switch to scrapbooking - LOL

Tuesday, 18 September 2007

And yet more...

And another couple of cards using the Magnolia stamps :D


I {heart} Magnolia stamps

Quick post to show some cards I made with my lovely new Magnolia stamps - I'm not even a cardmaker and couldn't resist these little cuties LOL



I can also upload my DT stuff for Angel Crafts now - a LO of my Dad (bless!!!) using BG Periphery papers (love this range so much)


And a mini tag album - bound together using my bind-it-all

Sunday, 16 September 2007

Just a quick update to include some stuff I made this weekend.

First up was a birthday card for Kirsten's "fiance" - He was 7 on Saturday. DD will be 8 in 2 weeks!

Don't ask - its all very serious. At one point they were going to immigrate to Australia but have now decided to stay in Scotland. They were also going to get a husky dog but decided against that as it wouldn't be good with the kids (crazy!!!!!)

They are both Dr Who daft so I made them into the Dr and Rose for the card. They both liked it - quite a lot :D


Anyway future son-in-law had a ceramic painting party which went surprisingly well - I stayed to help and in fact it was remarkably mess free.

I also attempted this sort of freestylie LO but I am not very sure about it. There was a discussion over on UKS and I realised that I NEVER stick on photos at an angle aka squinty!
Still couldn't do it - but I did cut around the photo for a change!


Also Kirsten started making the invites for her party - you cant see very well from the photo but they are an envelope type card and we will make a tag to go inside each one, when I have firmed up the arrangements later in the week.


Thursday, 13 September 2007

August Class Layout

As usual I am more than happy for anyone to use the following instructions for their personal use but please do not copy them (either to teach your own classes or to post elsewhere online) without permission.
Thank you :)



And tonight we were scrapping our photos from last month.

MATERIALS

1 sheet dark brown cardstock
3 co-ordinating patterned papers (the ones in the example are by EKSuccess)
Chipboard letters
Acrylic paint
Dark Brown or Charcoal chalk ink
Blue embroidery thread

STEP 1

Paint pre-cut chipboard title (Cuttlebug Olivia font)
using acrylic paint. Leave to one side to dry.

STEP 2

Crop 3 photos to size
(mine are 5” x 3 ½” and 3 ½” x 3 ½”)

Cut a strip of the striped paper approx 1 ½ “ wide.

The length of this should equal the height of your two photos. (eg 1 ½”wide x 7 ¼”high)

Cut dotty paper to fit between top photo and edge of LO (eg 4 ¾” wide x 2 ½” high)

Cut flowery paper to fit between lower two photos and edge of LO (eg 2 ¾”wide x 3 ½”high)

Dry brush edges of all photos and paper with acrylic paint and attach to layout.


STEP 3

Using a piercing bug make a row of holes round the OUTSIDE edges of the patterned paper

Sew a zig-zag stitch round the edges using embroidery thread. Secure the end of the thread on the back of the layout using double sided tape.


STEP 4

Write or print journaling on six strips of orange paper, ink edges with black ink and attach to LO.

Attach title.

Saturday, 8 September 2007

Small Candy Floss Please...? LOL

We visited the European market today that has set up shop down on the prom for the weekend. Lots of yummy goodies like german bratwurst sausages, greek pastries, french cheeses & ciders and hundreds more.


Kirsten decided to go for the candy floss - nuff said!Last night we attended a Viking Funeral (hopefully not a real one) and watched as they set fire to a replica of a viking longboat - all this is quite helpful as Kirsten's topic at school at the moment is the Vikings.

Off out again tonight to watch a re-enactment of the Battle of Largs and Fireworks display taking place at the Pencil

Thursday, 6 September 2007

Today is {thursday}...

Lots of photos of projects to share today. But first I wanted to show you what DH bought for me 'cos I had a nightmare journey home from work yesterday (all the Ayrshire trains from Central were cancelled) - wasn't that sweet :)


I made a mini album this week based on Shimelle's class at Fiskars TV - I used 3 different colours of cardstock and some scraps of old Sweetwater paper that I had in my scrap box.
The letters are chipboard cut out using the Big Shot Slim Jim alphabet (I glued the paper to the chipboard before cutting so I didn't have to trim round the letters by hand ) - Lots of Autumn Leaves stamps and blossoms from Angel Crafts - then bound using my new Bind-it-all machine







The photos of Lossiemouth and Brodie castle are not mine but were taken from images off the internet.

Then as I was in a mini-album sort of mood I finally got around to making up this kit I had bought from Melodee Langworthy at Scrapaganza - this wasn't a Scrapaganza class but was one she had taught at a Dutch scrap shop a couple of days before. I plan on using it for some of Kenneth and Kirsten's baby photographs but I haven't got around to scanning them yet - I hat scanning with a passion...its just so boring. Hmmm wonder if I could teach Kenny how to do it :D

Each page is made with a chipboard file folder that is glossy on one side. The glossy side was inked with a pale blue chalk ink pad.

Lots of stamping and inking and rub-ons



As always TFL :)

Off to finish off my instructions for the exploding box class I am teaching tonight - will post instructions for that tomorrow probably