20 Sunday Mar 2016
Posted in Beautiful Butterflies, Big Shot, Birthday, Dies, General occasion
Hi!
I wanted to show you the card I made for my Mum’s 70th birthday.
I picked some card stock and matching pretty paper for the base. I added a paper doily and a punched white circle in the centre, then added a die cut butterfly. Then added extra detail with stick on pearls.
I was very happy with how it turned out, and the birthday girl seemed to like it!
Thanks for reading 🙂
Caro x
02 Sunday Mar 2014
Hello
One of the things that my little boy loves to do is make a “scribble scrabble” – a piece of paper where you scribble colours all over it to make a pretty picture.
He loves making them, and sometimes we use them as wrapping paper or the background for a card.
The other day it occurred to me that they would make gorgeous butterflies, so I got out my Beautiful Butterflies die and the Big Shot, as well as my butterfly punches and set him loose. He adores being allowed to play with “Mummy’s precious toy” (AKA my Big Shot!).
This next photo shows you how to make the largest butterflies from the Beautiful Butterflies die – fold a piece of paper in half and line the fold up along the edge of the ‘half’ butterflies on the die. This way you get 6 butterflies out of one run through the Big Shot.
This is his ‘art work’ after spending a happy half hour with his butterflies and a glue stick.
You could use the same technique to make gorgeous butterflies for grown up cards and decorations.
Thanks for reading
Caro x
26 Friday Jul 2013
Posted in Beautiful Butterflies, Big Shot, General occasion, Tutorial, Using up scraps
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Hi
Just popping by for a quick post to show you another one of my favourite card layouts. This one is also really simple – but because it’s a little different to the cards you usually see in the shops it can have a bit of a ‘wow’ factor. But check out how easy it is to make!
This is a gatefold card. So when you untie the ribbon you get to open up the card to see the message inside.
The dimensions will depend a bit on the size of your envelope! My square envelope for this card was 14 cm square. So I wanted to make a 13cm square card to fit inside.
This means I cut a piece of cardstock 26cm x 13cm.
To make a square card that opens the normal way you would just score and fold the long side at 13cm to make a 13cm square card. To make a gate fold card you need to fold in from either side to make the ‘gates’. So you score and fold at 6.5cm in from either end of the long side.
Here’s a little sketch to show you what I mean:
And here’s another picture of the card showing a little more of the inside. I’ve used some butterflies cut out with my Beautiful Butterflies die to decorate it.
The strips of paper on the front are 12.5 cm x 6 cm. And the strip at the bottom is 13cm wide – I can’t remember how high but it really doesn’t matter. This layout is another good way to use up those little scraps of paper you can’t quite bring yourself to throw out because they are so pretty!
You can add the ribbon in a couple of different ways. For this card I’ve just glued the ribbon across the back of the card. You can also punch holes in the front of the card and thread ribbon through and tie a bow.
You can use this layout in so many ways. I will try and post some more examples of cards I’ve made using this layout soon.
Thanks for reading!
Caro x
28 Tuesday May 2013
Here is another idea I borrowed from the very talented Tanya Bell’s blog – this time, making magnets or paper holders out of pegs covered with DSP.
These are so easy to do! Step one, measure the size of your peg (cheap wooden pegs are the best). Step 2, cut out lots of strips of DSP (this is such a great way to use up tiny little pieces you couldn’t figure out what to do with but couldn’t bear to throw away!). Step 3, stick onto the peg! Snail adhesive works well but starts to lose its “stick” after a few months so double sided tape like Sticky Strip is best.
I turned my pegs into magnets by sticking some magnets onto the back side of the peg. One tip I learned here – if you want to use the peg as a magnet, either don’t decorate the reverse of the peg, or definitely use sticky strip to adhere the DSP to the paper. Snail adhesive is not strong enough to keep the DSP stuck to the peg once it is stuck on the fridge with a magnet!
Here are a bunch of pegs with the DSP stuck on, waiting to be decorated.
And here are a bunch more, after being decorated with butterflies, birds and flowers. I’ve used die cut and punched butterflies, the bird from the Stampin’ Up! bird builder punch, and various flower punches. Pearls and rhinestones can add some added ‘bling’.
They can look quite cute packaged up in cellophane bags for a small gift for someone.
Adding some pegs with a little covered notebook (see yesterday’s post) can also look really cute.
So next time you finish a project and have a thin piece of DSP left over, why not turn it into a cute little peg fridge magnet?
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