Saturday, 30 October 2010

Halloween Tags - 'Trick or Treat'


Trick or Treat?



These are my Halloween 'trick or treat' tags.
There are some free downloads at the end of this post.

The Tags:

I printed the tags,
cut them out,
then sponged them with distress inks.
Simple washing-up sponges - cut into small sections - are just as effective as 'craft sponges'


The inks I used were Rangers Distress inks;
1) crushed olive
2) rusty hinge
3) barn door
4) chipped sapphire

To finish;
I mounted each tag onto a 37mm x 70mm piece of black card,
trimmed the corners and punched the hole.
I cut thin strips from the plastic used to make the bags 
and threaded one through each tag.
The letters are highlighted with black holographic glitter.

The bats:

1) I printed the bat onto white cartridge paper, cut out and
traced onto black card, then cut out.
2) Scored down the wings
3) Folded along the score lines to dimension the bat wings.

The eyes:

Print then apply a light coat of gloss/varnish to each eye.
Allow to dry and cut out.

Shaping the eyes:
You will need a half-spoon and a quarter-spoon measuring scoop.

1) Place the 'eye' (print-side down) into the half-spoon measure.
2) Gently press the quarter-spoon measure into this.
3) Tip the 'eye' out, onto an embossing mat,
gently work the back of the quarter-spoon, in a circular motion,
across the reverse of the 'eye'.

I attached the bats and eyes using paper springs - made from strips of red paper.

 
The bags:

The treat bags are made from 350mm squares of  black and orange carrier bags.
I cut the edges in a zig-zag pattern.


Filled with a small selection of sweets
and a Halloween joke.

Here's the link for the jokes and lots of fab Halloween stuff:
I printed the jokes onto coloured paper and cut into strips.



 Download Sheets
 Click on images
and make sure they are full size before you save.

'Trick or Treat Eyeball Tags'

'Trick or Treat Tags'

 'Trick or Treat Bats'

Thanks for visiting and hope you have a Happy Halloween!
X

Thursday, 21 October 2010

Halloween Card - 'Skull-duggery'

 Using the tent fold in my earlier tutorial 'tent fold card'
I introduced an aperture for the eyeballs.
The skull is a free download from this fantastic graphics website :
papercrave
it has lots of other lovelies too!
 I printed the skull, cut out and traced onto ivory opalescent card.
I traced and cut it out twice so it could be layered onto my card.
The edges are inked with MEMENTO Bahama Blue ink.
The eyes and bone are from my free download 'Eyes & Bones'
I attached each eye to a strip of acetate
and glued it to the inside front fold.
I love the way the eyes bob about when the card opens.

The cobweb stamps are Basic Grey - 'Eerie Collection'
Stamped using VersMark and embossed with silver pearl.

More Halloween, with links, soon!!!!

X

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Halloween - 'Eyes & Bones' free download

Click on the image, make sure it is fully open, then save.
This is a full A4 sheet.
I do so love Halloween!

I'll be loading my card (and some fantastic Halloween links) very, very soon.

Have fun!
X

Saturday, 16 October 2010

Tent fold card - 'Poppy'

Here's a variation on the tent fold card.
Mum wanted something a little different for her craft classes and I'd seen this fold on QVC.
The featured cards were gorgeous but they required a very large sheet of basic card stock.
I wanted to use standard A4 card and here's what I came up with:
A 120mm square card using two (UK) A4 sheets. 
There's a tutorial at the end of this post.

I made the flower using the Woodware Dahlia flower punch
and the flower centre - Woodware blink blink punch.

The stamped background 'SU - Baroque Motifs' stamps, embossed with fine detail gold.
Sentiments 'Big sentiments by Paula Pascual' embossed with fine detail gold.


Tutorial
You will need two A4 sheets of card

1) From the first
cut a strip measuring 297mm (length of A4) x 120mm


2) Score A4 half fold (line 7 on the Eazi-Score board) in the centre
             and 25mm in ('box line 2' on the Eazi-Score board) from either end.
Eazi-Score board- Diamond Card Craft


3) fold into a 'tent' as shown above.

 
 4) From the second A4 sheet
cut a strip across the width (210mm) x 120mm high


 5) score the centre - A5 half fold (line 6 on the Eazi Score board)
and A5 gate fold (line 3 on the score board) either end


 6) Fold a s shown above


7) Attach the card to the piece you have just made.
flap (1) is attached under the base
flap (2) is attached on top




Hope you have a go - I think I'll be playing with this fold a little more.
Perhaps an aperture would be fun?


Thanks for popping by and I'll be back soon - promise!
X

Monday, 22 February 2010

Tim Holtz at the NEC Birmingham

Guess who we met at the NEC this weekend?

It doesn't get much better than this...

Mum, Tim and Me

What a fantastic Guy.
A HUGE talent and so willing to share his knowledge.
Isn't it obvious that he absolutely loves his work.

No Ego - just a fantastic sense of humour and a wonderful personality.

We managed to snap a few samples of his work to show you.
 He just makes everything look so effortless

This was made by Tim's friend, Karen - isn't it fabulous! 
The flowers are grungepaper, covered in printed paper then inked with the Rangers new colours.

Grungepaper holds it's shape, so when the petals are curled they stay put.

You can visit Tim's Blog here: Tim Holtz - Live the life you've imagined...

Still pinching ourselves!
Janet and Elaine

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Fairy Diorama Card with Tutorial

The definition of 'Diorama' is 'a three dimensional model, usually of a landscape'
CLICK ON IMAGES FOR A CLOSER VIEW

For this card I used a fairy stamp, stamped using VersFine (Onyx Black) and coloured using marker pens.
It was made from just two sheets of UK A4.


My measurements are in millimetres but for those of you who prefer to work in feet and inches - there is an excellent tutorial written by Diana Gibbs on Splitcoaststampers.

When folded flat this card will fit perfectly into a standard C6 envelope.


Here's How to make it:

You will need to cut two pieces of card measuring 190mm wide by 105mm high. These will form the back and the front of your card.
Full details are as follows:
A) Score line 40mm from edge
B) 110mm between score lines
C) 105mm high
D) 190mm wide


You will also need to cut one piece measuring 150mm wide by 105mm high. This will form the middle panel.
Full details are as follows:
B) 110mm between score lines
C) 105mm high
E) Score line 20mm from edge
F) 150mm wide

The next stage is to decorate your three panels:

1) Back panel - I stamped the flowers and leaves in VersaFine then spritzed the whole panel with Cosmic Shimmer Mists purple violet and peacock green.

2) Middle panel - this aperture needs to be smaller than the front panel aperture  
  • Stamped round outer edges using the flowers and leaves.
  • Fairy stamped to the centre left.
  • Coloured using marker pens.
  • Aperture cut roughly following the outer leaf and flower stamped images
3) Front panel - this aperture needs to be larger than the aperture on the middle panel
  • Stamped round outer edge using flowers and leaves
  • Coloured using marker pens
  • Aperture cut to roughly follow the leaf and flowers stamped images

The fairy wings were stamped again. coloured, cut out and decoupaged onto the middle panel fairy. Glitter highlights were added to the front (3) and middle (2) panels.

Gluing the card together

Run glue or double sided tape down either side of the middle panel (2) flaps and fix to the inside sides of the back panel (1).


Run glue or double sided tape down the reverse of both front panel (3) flaps and attach to the outsides of the back panel (1) side flaps.


 That's it!
Thanks for stopping by!
Elaine x

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

OUR FIRST AWARD!!!


A BIG thank you to the wonderful MARTHA for giving us this award - we are 'Over the Moon'!
It should be passed on to 5 others and we have listed our nominations at the end of the post.

OK, there are 35 questions to answer,
each answer must only be one single word
- DIFFICULT -
 but here goes:
(Elaine)
  1. Where is your cellphone?.......................BIN
  2. Your hair?...........................................Highlights
  3. Your Mother?......................................Tireless
  4. Your Father?........................................Patient
  5. Your favourite food?.............................Vegetarian
  6. Your dream last night?...........................Colourful
  7. Your favourite drink?.............................Bacardi&Coke
  8. Your dream/goal?..................................Fulfilment
  9. What room are you in?...........................Hall
  10. Your hobby?..........................................Craft
  11. Your fear?.............................................Spiders!!!
  12. Where do you want to be in 6 years?...........Dancing
  13. Where were you last night?......................Friends
  14. Something that you aren't?........................Wealthy
  15. Muffins?..................................................Banana
  16. Wish list item?.........................................Time
  17. Where did you grow up?.........................Yorkshire
  18. Last thing you did?...................................Webbing
  19. What are you wearing?............................Thermals
  20. Your TV?................................................Off
  21. Your pets?...............................................Noisy
  22. Friends?...................................................Fantastic
  23. Your life?.................................................MAD
  24. Your mood?.............................................Reactive
  25. Missing someone?.....................................Always
  26. Vehicle?....................................................Feet
  27. Something you're not wearing?...................Shoes
  28. Your favourite store?..................................Hardware
  29. Your favourite colour?................................Red
  30. When was the last time you laughed?..........Today
  31. Last time you cried?...................................Today
  32. Your best friend?........................................GillHBB
  33. One place that I go to over and over?..........Garden
  34. Facebook?..................................................No
  35. Favourite place to eat?.................................Informal
We would like to pass this award on to:
  • JULIA - It's always a joy to visit Julia's blog and her work is an inspiration
  • LYNNE - Gorgeous blog, gorgeous work and Lynne's use of colour is magical
  • SALLY - Sally is a mum, full time teacher and manages to fit her wonderful crafting into all of this!!!
  • MICHELLE - Michelle's work is, quite simply, stunning - I'm going to start taking exploding box lessons from her!
  • VICKI - Vicki's scrapbook pages are wonderful and packed with inventive fun
It may be that not everyone has the time to take part in awards but please visit these people - they will inspire you!

Elaine and Janet.