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Monday, 20 February 2012

Kaisercraft drawers project...

Kaisercraft drawers

Start by staining the drawers with a Tim Holtz Distress ink refill. I used walnut.

When this has dried rub over with kitchen towel and the spray with a clear varnish.

Assemble the drawers as follows. Put the back into the base. Add the sides. Then the shelves and finally the top. Use wood glue to hold in place.

For each of the nine drawers you will need to cut paper at the following sizes;

2 x 3 11/16” by 3 11/16” squares for the base.

2 x 2 9/16” by 3 ¾” for the left and right hand sections.

2 x 3 11/16” by 2 9/16” for the front (this is the section with the semi circle cut out).

Placing the drawer flat use a copic or pro marker to colour around the edges of each individual section. Use the chisel end of the pen line the edges with the pen. Then add dashes around each piece of paper.

Using paper glue stick each piece on the inside of the drawers. Then put paper glue down the outer edges of the front and the back sections. Bring the side pieces up to the front and back sections and hold in place until they are dry.

Attach the relevant pieces of paper to the outside of the drawer. Repeat this on all nine drawers.

Decorate the front to suit your taste. I simply used buttons. I then stamped the images from the Tina Wenke range and stamped them again on matching papers and cut sections out to paper piece the images. Score a small piece of card and fold in half to attach to the back of your images and sit on top of the drawers. By not glueing the images down on to the drawers it allows you to mix it up depending on your decor or mood!

Sunday, 15 January 2012

Photos of Flower Shoppe Wreath

Hi Crafters
Just spent two fabulous days at Inspirations in Preston teaching this class using the Cricut Flower Shoppe cartridge. Thought you may like to make one too.
Enjoy
Melanie xxx

FLOWER SHOPPE WREATH

Products needed

2 x sets of co-ordinating coloured card. Each set needs to consist of a DARK shade, a MID colour and a LIGHT colour. These sets will make up your large flowers. You then also need a set of FOUR pieces of co-ordinating card. This will be used to create the smaller daisies that sit in-between the large flowers. These need to be a DARK, a MID colour, a LIGHT colour and a BRIGHT colour

2x Different shades of green card. One must be darker than the other.

Two different colours of neutral card which will make the centres of the flowers.

A Brown ink pad and dry foam. Black and Brown fineliner pens. (You only need these if you intend to ink and dash your paper flower and leaf sections)

I am typing these instructions to suit the colours of my wreath. So is you are using different colours go on the shade of the card.

STEP BY STEP

1. Place the DARK purple card on the mat. Make sure your pressure and blade depth settings are correct for the cardstock. Load mat. Set the size dial to 3”. Open the book at page 12. Have a good look at the page and you will see that the pictures of the cartridge overlays show you where the button is that you need to press. Press BASIC 4, three times and CUT. Unload the mat.

2. Put the MID purple colour on the mat. Load mat. Turn to PAGE 15. You are going to use RUFFLE 3. You need 9 of them for each purple flower. So press RUFFLE 3 27 times. How you do this will depend on which machine you are working on. If you are working on one of the smaller machines, then you will press the RUFFLE 3 button 9 times. Then when it has finished cutting simply press REPEAT LAST and CUT. Then REPEAT LAST and CUT again.

If you are working on either of the Expression machines, you can set the quantity you want. Unload mat.

3. Put the LIGHT purple card on your mat. Load mat. Turn back to page 12. Press BASIC2 three times and CUT. Unload mat.

4. Put one of your Neutral colours of card on to the mat. I have used a PALE YELLOW for the centres of my PURPLE flowers. Load Mat. Press BASIC 1 three times and CUT. Unload mat.

5. Set the size dial to 2 ½”. Put the DARK PINK card on to the mat. Load mat. Turn to page 14. Press HEART 4 four times and CUT. Unload mat. Put the MEDIUM PINK card on the mat. Load mat. You will need 5 of the HEART 3 shape for each flower. So altogether you need 20. So again, the machine you are using will determine how you do this. CUT and then UNLOAD mat.

6. Put the LIGHT PINK card on your mat. Press HEART2, four times and CUT. UNLOAD mat.

7. Put the other neutral colour card on your mat. I have used a LIGHT CREAM card for the centres of my PINK flowers. LOAD MAT. Press HEART 1, four times and CUT. UNLOAD MAT.

8. Put the DARK YELLOW card on the mat. Set the size to 2”. LOAD MAT. Turn to page 20. Press STACK 2, Eight times and CUT. Unload mat.

9. Put the MID YELLOW card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Press REPEAT LAST and CUT. UNLOAD MAT. Put the LIGHT YELLOW card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Press REPEAT LAST and CUT. UNLOAD MAT.

10. Put the BRIGHT YELLOW card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Turn to page 15. Press RUFFLE1 eight times and CUT. Unload MAT.

11. Put the DARK GREEN card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Leave the size at 2”. Turn to page 22. Press the SCALLOP 5 leaf thirteen times and CUT. UNLOAD MAT.

12. Put the LIGHT GREEN card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Set the size to 2 ¼”. Press EXOTIC 5, ten times and CUT. UNLOAD MAT.

13. Ok, now it is time to start building your flowers. Take all the pieces for the PURPLE FLOWERS including the CENTRES. Ink and Dash the edges to suit your taste!!!!!!! This is the time to SHAPE the petals if you want to add dimension to your flowers. Start by sticking the DARK purple flower together with the tab. Then glue the individual MID purple petals to the inside of the DARK purple flower. I alternated these ie stuck every other one in place and then went back around and filled in the gaps. This gives you a neater flower.

14. Then glue the LIGHT purple flower in to the centre using double thickness of foam pads. Take the LIGHT YELLOW centre and starting at the outside, roll it up to create the middle of the flower. Glue to hold in place.

15. Pink next. Take the DARK PINK flowers and glue together with the tab. Take five of the MID PINK heart3 petals and glue them to the outside of the DARK flower. Repeat this on each flower. Take the LIGHT PINK flowers and cut into the petals slightly. Emboss them at this stage if you like. Then Glue them into the middle of the flowers using double thickness of foam pads. Finally take the LIGHT CREAM centres. Roll and Glue them and then stick them in to the centres of your flowers.

16. Take one of each of the DARK, MID and LIGHT YELLOW flowers and in that order layer them on top of each other so the petals intersect each other. Roll and add the BRIGHT YELLOW centres.

17. Make a BOW!!!!!!!!!

18. Then build your wreath. I put my flowers on first and then added the leaves in between. I split the SCALLOP 5 leaves in to two sets of five and put some of them on facing one way and then flipped the other five and used them facing the opposite way.

19. Hang it on your wall, and ADMIRE.xxx

STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS AS PROMISED

FLOWER SHOPPE WREATH

Products needed

2 x sets of co-ordinating coloured card. Each set needs to consist of a DARK shade, a MID colour and a LIGHT colour. These sets will make up your large flowers. You then also need a set of FOUR pieces of co-ordinating card. This will be used to create the smaller daisies that sit in-between the large flowers. These need to be a DARK, a MID colour, a LIGHT colour and a BRIGHT colour

2x Different shades of green card. One must be darker than the other.

Two different colours of neutral card which will make the centres of the flowers.

A Brown ink pad and dry foam. Black and Brown fineliner pens. (You only need these if you intend to ink and dash your paper flower and leaf sections)

I am typing these instructions to suit the colours of my wreath. So is you are using different colours go on the shade of the card.

STEP BY STEP

Place the DARK purple card on the mat. Make sure your pressure and blade depth settings are correct for the cardstock. Load mat. Set the size dial to 3". Open the book at page 12. Have a good look at the page and you will see that the pictures of the cartridge overlays show you where the button is that you need to press. Press BASIC 4, three times and CUT. Unload the mat.

Put the MID purple colour on the mat. Load mat. Turn to PAGE 15. You are going to use RUFFLE 3. You need 10 of them for each purple flower. So press RUFFLE 3 30 times. How you do this will depend on which machine you are working on. If you are working on one of the smaller machines, then you will press the RUFFLE 3 button 10times. Then when it has finished cutting simply press REPEAT LAST and CUT. Then REPEAT LAST and CUT again.

If you are working on either of the Expression machines, you can set the quantity you want. Unload mat.

Put the LIGHT purple card on your mat. Load mat. Turn back to page 12. Press BASIC2 three times and CUT. Unload mat.

Put one of your Neutral colours of card on to the mat. I have used a PALE YELLOW for the centres of my PURPLE flowers. Load Mat. Press BASIC 1 three times and CUT. Unload mat.

Set the size dial to 2 ½". Put the DARK PINK card on to the mat. Load mat. Turn to page 14. Press HEART 4 four times and CUT. Unload mat. Put the MEDIUM PINK card on the mat. Load mat. You will need 5 of the HEART 3 shape for each flower. So altogether you need 20. So again, the machine you are using will determine how you do this. CUT and then UNLOAD mat.

Put the LIGHT PINK card on your mat. Press HEART2, four times and CUT. UNLOAD mat.

Put the other neutral colour card on your mat. I have used a LIGHT CREAM card for the centres of my PINK flowers. LOAD MAT. Press HEART 1, four times and CUT. UNLOAD MAT.

Put the DARK YELLOW card on the mat. Set the size to 2". LOAD MAT. Turn to page 20. Press STACK 2, NINE times and CUT. Unload mat.

Put the MID YELLOW card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Press REPEAT LAST and CUT. UNLOAD MAT. Put the LIGHT YELLOW card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Press REPEAT LAST and CUT. UNLOAD MAT.

Put the BRIGHT YELLOW card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Turn to page 15. Press RUFFLE1 eight times and CUT. Unload MAT. Trust me it is eight not nine x x x

Put the DARK GREEN card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Leave the size at 2". Turn to page 22. Press the SCALLOP 5 leaf thirteen times and CUT. UNLOAD MAT.

Put the LIGHT GREEN card on the mat. LOAD MAT. Set the size to 2 ¼". Press EXOTIC 5, ten times and CUT. UNLOAD MAT.

Ok, now it is time to start building your flowers. Take all the pieces for the PURPLE FLOWERS including the CENTRES. Ink and Dash the edges to suit your taste!!!!!!! This is the time to SHAPE the petals if you want to add dimension to your flowers. Start by sticking the DARK purple flower together with the tab. Then glue the individual MID purple petals to the inside of the DARK purple flower. I alternated these ie stuck every other one in place and then went back around and filled in the gaps. This gives you a neater flower.

Then glue the LIGHT purple flower in to the centre using double thickness of foam pads. Take the LIGHT YELLOW centre and starting at the outside, roll it up to create the middle of the flower. Glue to hold in place.

Pink next. Take the DARK PINK flowers and glue together with the tab. Take five of the MID PINK heart3 petals and glue them to the outside of the DARK flower. Repeat this on each flower. Take the LIGHT PINK flowers and cut into the petals slightly. Emboss them at this stage if you like. Then Glue them into the middle of the flowers using double thickness of foam pads. Finally take the LIGHT CREAM centres. Roll and Glue them and then stick them in to the centres of your flowers.

Take one of each of the DARK, MID and LIGHT YELLOW flowers and in that order layer them on top of each other so the petals intersect each other. Roll and add the BRIGHT YELLOW centres.

Make a BOW!!!!!!!!!

Then build your wreath. I put my flowers on first and then added the leaves in between. I split the SCALLOP 5 leaves in to two sets of five and put some of them on facing one way and then flipped the other five and used them facing the opposite way.

Hang it on your wall, and ADMIRE.xxx

Monday, 26 December 2011

Penelope's Secret Garden project

Penelopes' Secret Garden project.

Cut twelve 5 ¾" squares from the violet cardstock. Now you need to score all the four sides of the squares at just short of 1 ½" in from the outer edge. I want you to be very accurate with these measurements.* Try one piece first and make it up in to the base and then make one of the outers and make sure you are happy with the fit before you go ahead and score the rest of them.*

When you have scored all your squares, lay a square in front of you and I want you to cut up the right hand scoreline from the bottom to where the two sorelines intersect. Then cut from that point to the bottom outer point on the diagonal. I hope that makes sense!!!!! Repeat that on the left side. The two cut sections should mirror each other. Then turn the card 180 degrees so the cut sections are at the top of the square and repeat the whole thing again making sure it mirrors itself.

Next cut twelve strips of card 3" deep by 12" long. Score thes at the following increments: 3", 4 ½", 7 ½", 9". Make sure the remaining section is 3" long. Crease the scorelines really well and then fold them so they create an outer for your box base. So the first 3" section will be the base. The next 1 ½" section will be a side. The next 3" section will be the top. The next 1 ½" section will be the other side and then the last 3" section will be the part that sticks it all together and strengthens your outer slightly. Put each base inside the outers.

Glue three of the drawers on top of each other. Repeat this until you have four sets of three drawers.

Cut two 6" x 6" squares of violet card. Glue your sets of drawers on to one of the squares, making sure you ONE set of drawers that open on each side of the 6" base.

When you have completed that then attach the other 6" square card to the top of the drawers.

Cut four pieces of violet card measuring 3" wide by 4 ½" deep. On each side of your chest of drawers you will have a section that can't be opened. Take one of the pieces of card you have just cut and attach it to each one of those sections. Repeat on each side of the drawers. Then cut four pieces of gold mirri card 2 ¾" wide by 4 ¼" deep. Then cut four pieces of the Garden Girl paper of your choice 2 ½" wide by 4" deep. Glue some ribbon around the paper as seen in the photo. Then using foam pads attach each piece of paper to a piece of the gold mirri card. Using glue attach each of these to your sealed sections of the drawers.

Next, cut twelve pieces of gold mirri card 2 ¾" wide by 1 ¼" deep. Then cut twelve pieces of Garden Girl paper of your choice 2 5/8" wide by 1 1/8" deep. Glue the paper to the gold mirri card and then using foam pads attach each section to the front of each individual drawer.

Using the stamp from the Garden Girl collection stamp twelve of the medallion onto CLEAR shrink plastic using black STAZ ON ink. Allow to dry. Cut each one them out without leaving a border. Punch two holes in the middle of each one to create the holes in your button. I used a cropodile but a hole punch will be just as good. Just make sure that the holes are big, as they will shrink down when you heat them. Place each shrink plastic piece on to a piece of tin foil. Have an acrylic block ready. Hold it down firmly with a pair of tweezers and heat it until it has shrunk right down. Turn of the heat gun and put the acrylic block on top of the shrink plastic button to flatten it. Do this with all twelve. Put a small piece of ribbon through the holes and tie in a knot. Attach one to each of the drawer fronts with pinflair glue.

Stamp and colour the Penelope stamped image and the flower pot image. Cut the flowers pots out as a 3 ½" circle. Cut a gold mirri frame at 3 7/16" and 3 5/8". Cut a flower shape from violet card. I used my Cricut and a flower on the Essentials cartridge that is inside the E2. Just choose a flower you like and use that. I then hand cut the orange flower so that it is slightly bigger than the violet one. Build up the flower as seen in the photo. Cut Penelope down to a rectangular shape and mat on to gold mirri card.

Next cut a piece of the violet card to 6" wide by 12" deep. Score it at 6" and 9" to create an easel. Attach a sheet of the 6" Garden Girl paper to the base of the easel card. Cut two pieces of gold mirri card, 5 3/4" wide by 2 ¾" deep. Cut two pieces of Garden girl patterned paper 5 ½" wide by 2 ½". Stick the paper to the mirri card and then attach these to the front of the easel as seen in the picture.

Attach the flower pot section to the front of the easel as shown. Cut a strip of thick acetate 5" long by 1" wide. Fold it in half. Attach to the back of the Penelope picture and then stick the other piece to the base of the card. This will allow the Penelope picture to fold back and lay flat.

Using a border punch, (I used an EK Success punch) Create a border 2" deep by 6" wide from gold mirri card. Make a slightly narrower border from paper and lay on top of the gold one. Attach this to the bas of your easel to create a stopper.

Stamp the medallion stamp you used for the buttons on to three different garden girl papers. Cut out different sections from each piece and layer up to make an embellishment. Attach to the bottom of your easel card. Add a little extra ribbon as shown in picture.

Sit back and admire your work.

Enjoy

Melanie xxx

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Flower Card Using Ornamental Iron 2

Flower Card

Check which pressure and blade depth your machine needs for this card stock.

1. Place the dark purple card on your mat. Load mat. Set the size dial to 3 ¼, press LACE 1 SHADOW, GATE 8b (page 40) eight times and CUT. Unload mat. Repeat this with the violet pearlescent card. Unload mat. Remove LACE 1 SHADOW.

2. Put the patterned paper on your mat. Load mat. Adjust your settings if necessary. Press SHIFT LOCK, LACE 1 SHADOW and GATE 8b eight times and CUT. Unload mat. Remove LACE SHADOW 1. Remove SHIFT LOCK.

3. Adjust your settings for card. Put medium purple card on your mat. Press LACE 1, GATE 8b eight times and CUT. Unload mat. Put light purple card on your mat. Load mat. Press REPEAT LAST and CUT. Unload mat.

4. Put bright pink card on your mat. Set the size to 2 ½”. Load mat. Press LACE 1 SHADOW, GATE 8b eight times and CUT. Unload mat and remove LACE 1 SHADOW.

5. Put the patterned paper on your mat. Adjust settings. Press SHIFT LOCK, LACE 1 SHADOW eight times and CUT. Remove mat and take off the SHIFT LOCK.

6. Put the light pink card on your mat. Re-adjust the settings. Press LACE 1, GATE 8b eight times and CUT. Unload mat.

7. Put light pink card on your mat. Set the size to 51/2”. Load mat. Press GATE 8d and CUT. Remove mat.

8. Put dark pink card on your mat. Press BASE SHADOW, GATE 8d and CUT. Unload mat.

9. Put the green card on the mat. Load mat. Change the size to 5 ¾”, press REPEAT LAST and CUT.

10. Build up each petal and card as seen in the photograph. The base card is 6” square.

Gate 7a Ormanental Iron 2 Card.

Gate 7a Ormanental Iron 2 card.

For those crafters who have the smaller Cricuts set your size to 5” instead of 5 ½”.

Make sure your machine is set to relevant size and NOT REAL DIAL SIZE!

Set your pressure and blade depth to suit mirri card.

1. Put black mirri card on your mat. Set the size to 5 ½”. Press BASE SHADOW, GATE 7a (page 29) and CUT. Remove mat. Remove BASE SHADOW.

2. Put pink mirri card on your mat. Load mat. Press SHIFT, BASE SHADOW, GATE 7a and CUT. Unload mat.

3. Put silver mirri on your mat. Load mat. Press GATE 7a and CUT.

4. Put purple mirri on your mat. Load mat. Press SHIFT LOCK, BASE SHADOW, GATE 7c (page 49) and CUT. Remove mat. Remove BASE SHADOW. Remove SHIFT LOCK.

5. Put black mirri card on your mat. Press GATE 7c and CUT.

6. Put purple mirri card on your mat. Press GATE 7b and CUT. Unload mat.

7. Cut out the centre (butterfly) section using SCISSORS.

8. Put black mirri card on your mat. Press SHIFT, GATE 7a and CUT.

9. Build up card as shown in picture.

Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Penelopes Secret Garden Project

Hi Crafters,

It's no secret that I am a HUGE fan of BoBunnys fabulous Garden Girl collection. I have created this project (pictured) for my classes and thought I'd share the result here. I will try and get some written instructions up as soon as possible too.

You will need..
BoBunny 6x6 Garden Girl Paper Pad
10 sheets of Violet Cardstock
Stampavie Penelope Stamp
Stampavie Flower Planters Stamp
BoBuny Pink Punch Ribbon

Happy Crafting,

Love Melanie xxx

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

Wall Decor (cricut) project. (Male card)

Materials

Cricut machine

Wall decor Cricut Cartridge

Timepiece papers by Bo Bunny

Gold mirri card

Dark brown card

Light brown card

TPC Travel stamps

Glaze

Step by step instructions

Before you begin cutting the shapes for your card you need to find the correct pressure and blade depth you need for your machine to cut through the card and paper.

1. Put the dark brown card on to your mat. Load mat. Set the size dial to

2 ¼”. Press SHIFT, BORDER and COMPASS (page 66) and CUT. Unload mat.

2. Put the cream and burgundy patterned paper on your mat. Load mat. Leave the size at 2 ¼”. Adjust your pressure and blade depth to suit paper. Make sure the Border feature button is still lit, but the shift is off. Press compass and cut. Unload mat.

3. Put gold mirri card on your mat and set your pressure on full and your blade depth on 6. Remove the border feature. Load mat. Set the dial size to 4 ½”. Press Compass and cut. Leave the mat in the machine. Press Shift and compass and cut. Unload mat.

4. Put the brown paper (back of the cream and burgundy key paper) on to the mat. Adjust the pressure and blade depth to suit paper. Press Shift and compass and cut. Unload mat.

5. Put the dark brown card on to the mat. Load mat. Press Compass and Cut. Unload mat.

6. Put the light brown card on the mat. Press shift. Compass and cut.

7. Put the burgundy and cream paper on the mat. Set the dial size to 5 ½”. Load the mat. Press the Eiffel (page 54) and cut. Unload mat.

8. Put the brown paper on to your mat. Adjust your settings for paper. Set the size at 3 ½”. Press Key (page 36) and cut. Then press shift and key and cut. Unload mat.

9. Put the burgundy and cream paper on the mat. Press shift, key and cut. Unload mat.

All the pieces need to be inked with a brown/black ink pad. Stamp TRAVEL on to the cream and burgundy patterned paper. Cut out and glaze the letters.

Glaze the key, the left and right compasses on the border and the brown paper compass.

10. Cut a 3 ¼” gold mirri circle. Put it inside the circle embossing folder and run through the Cuttleug. Cut into two pieces making one larger than the other.

11. Cut a piece of Burgundy paper 5 5/8” deep by 7 ½” wide. Stamp the edges with a flourish stamp and then stamp the postcard onto the paper. Stamp the sentiment on to the paper in the bottom left corner (ish).

12. Glue the Eiffel Tower onto the burgundy paper. Cut a strip from the burgundy paper ¾” deep incorporating the roman numerals. Attach this to the top of your burgundy paper approx 1” down from the top.

13. Attach the gold circle sections. Cut the bottom off the gold compass and attach it to the top of your card as shown.

14. Using foam pads attach both the compass border and the compass to the card as shown.

15. Cut a piece from the burgundy and cream patterned paper to create the lock diamond. Attach to the card.

16. Decorate the inside of the card as shown.