Facebook Group

Good Morning blogland.

I just wanted to let you guys know that we have a group on Facebook called The Friendly Crafters. It has been set up by Seema Khan

the group is there to support all crafters with any problems they may have and to encourage crafters to show their work.

I am part of the DT over there and we all just try and answer queries and give advice etc. Its a great friendly group but we are trying to make it even better. Seema is doing a DT call over on her BLOG and all the details are there. if you think you would be interested in joining our little team then please leave your detasils over on Seem'a blog.

Good Luck

Just For Fun blog launch

Good morning everyone.

I have just popped on to tell you about a great new blog that is launching today. It is called Just For Fun.

It is a new challenge blog with great themes (in my opinion) and the first theme running for the month of August is 'Anything Goes'. I am super proud to be a part of this fab new challenge blog and look forward to seeing all the lovely entries. Please do pop along and have a look around and spread the word as it is a new blog and we need to get it out there into thre land of blog so everyone can join in.

There will be a prize for this month given by the faboulous Elaine who is the owner and creator of Just For Fun. You can see here fab blog HERE

I created a double 12x12 scrapbook layout for this months challenge as it was my daughter's birthday on 24th July and I have set myself a challenge to scrap her birthday photo's before her next birthday, seems like a long way off but believe me it will be a challenge lol.

Here is my entry

I have used papers from the Dovecraft 12x12 Princess Fairytale paper pack ( i LOVE this paper pack)

 As you can see I have left the spaces for the photo's to go as I have not had them developed yet, I love the colours in this paper pack and think its girly without being overly pink and frilly as this is SO not my daughter lol

I have added in hidden tags for journalling and added a nice big title to my layout using my cricut cartridge Allphalicious.

Please do pop along and check out the new blog the link is HERE for you again incase you missed it above.

Thanks for looking and please feel free to leave a comment.

Hugs

Marie 

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Teacher gifts and cards

Good Evening blogland, and welcome to me newest followers. 

I forgot I had not shared with you the teacher exploding boxes that I made for my daughter's teachers.

I got the little keyrings and statues in my local Card Factory and they where just £1 each so a bargain asthe boxes are made out of a 12x12 sheet of card.

I also made matching 6x6 cards

The school girl Chloe and school boy Andy are from Pink Gem Designs and are digi images so you can resize them to suit your project. I used Do Crafts digital designer to create the tag and frame for this card, just nice and simple as I had 4 of them to make.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my creations and please feel free to leave a comment

Hugs

Marie

xxx

Butterfly Card

Afternoon Everyone,

Just a quick post from me I wanted to share this card I made using a freebie. Its a Crafts U Print sheet and I just fell in love with this design when I got it in my mag a few months back.

I just love the colour, I havent added a sentiment or anything at the moment as im not sure what I will use the card for but I just wanted to make it up and see what it looked like.

Hope you like it

Hugs

Marie

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Engagement card

Afternoon, I thought I would share with you a card I made over the weekend for my brother's best friend. He has just returned from Paris after proposing to his long term girlfriend.

I decided I would use my Boofle cd rom and had a play about with the image and made my own pirimage and backing paper.

 As you can see I added in their names onto the heart before i printed the pirimage. I also used the software to create the sentiment

On the inside of the card I made my own backing paper using the do crafts software and I then added in the names again I was very pleased with how this turned out and will probably use this same technique again 

Hope you like it

Hugs

Marie

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Bamboo Birthday Card

Afternoon everyone, is it as wet and dreaery today where you are???

I wanted to share with you this card I made yesterday. I used the Crafters Companion Bamboo papercrafting kit aswell as the cd rom to make this card. I just love this cute little guy.

 I used my Do Crafts software to create a digitage of this image, the paper is from the papercrafting kit. I have used some waahi tape as a border strip behind the image and then some 'Thickers' letters for 'daughter' and the 'age'. I used white embossing powder for the sentiment, then heat set it.

For the inside i have just used a plain mat onto the spotted backing card and I foun this large wooden showin my stash and I thought it went well so I added that also.

I love working with Bamboo and this is one of my favourite card styles to work with alos. It is an *x8 card with an A4 backing.

Enjoy the rest of your Thursday folks

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Marie 

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Tea Light Gift Card Tutorial

Good Evening everyone.

This is my first post on behalf of a group I am a DT member for on Facebook called 'The Friendly Crafters'.

I have been tasked with making a tutorial for an A5 Tea Light Gift Card. This is my adaption on a tutorial I found a few years ago HERE. I made this one and decided I wanted it bigger so changed the sizes and came up with the A5 size that holds 12 tea light candles instead of just 6 in the original.

This will be a long post with lots of pictures, but if you have any questions about this project then do feel free to contact me either on facebook or via my e-mail mazza.1979@hotmail.com.

Tools needed:

1 sheet of A3 card 

1 sheet of A4

alternatively

3 sheets of A4

scoring board or ruler and pencil

backing papers

toppers

sentiments

embellishments

Step 1A

I originally made this from 3 pieces of A4 card stock so that you didn't need any specialist sized card but if you have A3 then you can use that and you will need to trim it down to 8.2 inch tall by 13 inch wide.

You will need to score at 6" then again at 7" this makes you 'card' (you will need to skip to step 2 to continue)

Step 1B

If you are making this from A4 card however, you will need to do the following

 Cut 2 pieces of cardstock to 7" wide and leave the height (should measure 8.2 standard A4 card, do not discard the pieces you have trimmed off we will use it later on)

Score at 6" on both pieces, as shown above

Now you will need to attach these 2 pieces of card together to make your 'card' base. see above picture, you need to glue the 2, 1" flaps together.

Step 2

Now we move onto the box again you will need 1 sheet of A4. Cut it to 10.2" wide leaving the height (8.2")

• You will then need to score on the shortest side (longest side butted up against your score board) and score at 7/8" then again at 1 6/8" turn paper 180 degrees so the score line you have just done are now on your right and score at 5/8" and then at 1 3/8" 

• Now score along the longest side at 7/8" and 1 6/8" flip the card 180 degrees and score at 7/8" and again at 1 6/8" - should look like below pic

Step 3

 Now you need to trim the edges to create the box shape I have shaded the areas in the below pic so you can see where to cut

  Once you have cut the shaded areas off it should look like the below pic

Step 4

 You will need to then attach all your backing papers so that its completely covered for when you start to assemble your box.

Use a nestie or anything you have to create an aperture on the front of your box then attach acetate to create the window - as shown below

Step 5

 
Once you acetate is in place you can assemble your box, you will notice there is no back to it.

using one of the pieces of card we cut off our card base earlier we will create a 'back' for our box. You will need to trim it down so that it fits the back of the box (this does not have to be exact so just do it by eye)

Once you have your card trimmed down then add glue along the 2 sides and the bottom and slide into the back of the box as shown.  

A trick I learnt after making a mistake with this is you will need to attach ribbon around your box so that it holds the flap at the top closed keeping your candles safely inside. Do this before you stick it down to the card base. It just means the recipient can access the box easily without having to rip it open and ruin the card in the process.

Step 6

 Now its time to decorate your gift card.

You can decorate your card anyway you like I have made these for xmas gifts, birthdays, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter and New Baby.

 I create a pocket on the inside of the card with a tag so that you can write on the tag but it is entirely up to you how you finish off your very own creation, have fun with it.

  If you wish to add ribbon to fasten the gift card as I have then please remember to stick your ribbon down before you stick any backing paper on (believe me I found that out the hard way more than once lol)  

Rather than bombard you with any more photo's I have created a link so you can view more finished examples HERE.

I hope this is clear and I would love to see your very own take on this. Remember the box doesn't only have to hold candles so have a play about and do come and share your creations with us over on our Facebook group 'The Friendly Crafters'

Hugs

Marie

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