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eCraft creation

Hands up who thought that the eCraft from Craftwell was just about cutting paper and cardstock. You would be forgiven for thinking this but did you know that this handy machine can also be used for cutting material? That's right, your faithful eCraft will help you out with sewing projects as well as all your papercrafting creations. Over on the Craftwell blog there is a fabulous step-by-step project showing you how you make a cushion for your home. Here's the finished item...


...and if you like the look of this then hop across to the Craftwell blog to get the full instructions on how to create it.

Hopeless romantic!

I saw a post on our American Crafter's Companion blog that was just too good to not share with you you guys. It's a sweet card by Carmi using the Humphrey's Corner stamps and Spectrum Noir pens. I'll let Carmi explain in her own words how she created this adorable project...





In the Humphrey unmounted rubber stamp collection is this sweet girlie elephant.

She is very shy.

I stamped her using my Rock-a-blocks and black ink.





The image on the package inspired me to colour her in this palette. Happily, I was able to use the new Crafter's Companion Spectrum Noir markers. They are fabulous to work with!





I cut my coloured image into a smaller square and added some foam tape to the back to give it some height on the card.





I placed the bouquet behind her arms by using an x-acto knife to cut a little insert.





Isn't she sweet?





She is originally from the "Birthday Girl" set.

You can see how she can be used for all occasions!





What do you think guys? Do you agree that she was just too cute to stay purely on the American blog?

weekend project

DT member Pam Leng has been busy again creating step-by-step projects for us. This time she has created the most gorgeous little set of drawers using Humphrey images for you to store things in. There are quite a few steps in this project so is definitely one for you to try out over a weekend but, believe me, the results will be worth the time spent on it!







Set of Drawers

You will need:

PLEASE NOTE THAT PAM DID NOT USE ANY GLUE TO MAKE EITHER THE DRAWERS OR DRAWER BASE BUT THIS IS JUST PERSONAL PREFERENCE.

1. Score your piece of 12x12" cardstock using your boxer board, starting from the left-hand side at 2”, 4”, 8” and 10”.

2. Turn the piece of cardstock a ¼ turn and score again from the left-hand side at 2”, 4”, 8” and 10”.

3. Leaving your card on the boxer board, at the 6" score line score a line 2” long from the top down. This is shown by the dark blue line.

4. Next cut away the three corners on each corner as shown.

5. Cut along the yellow lines as shown. Cut out along the dark blue lines as shown, this should be ⅛" wide.

6. Cut a strip again ⅛" wide as shown by the green lines.

7. Next take your piece of 8x8" cardstock and, from the left-hand side, score at 2", 4" and 6".

8. Turn your cardstock ¼ turn and score from the left-hand side at 2" & 6". Leaving your cardstock in place score at the 4" score line, score a line 2” long from the top down. This is shown by the dark blue line. Cut along this line - it should be ⅛" wide.

9. Place your piece of card in front of you as shown.

10. Using your bone folder burnish all your score lines, folding the middle score line into a mountain-fold as shown.

11. Next take your piece of 12x12" cardstock and burnish all your score lines. Take the square marked A and the one marked B and fold towards the centre and fold panel marked C over the top.

12. It should now look like this.

13. Now take your piece of 8x8" cardstock you prepared earlier and place inside your drawer base.

14. It should now look like this

15. Fold the four side flaps over.

16.Fold over the last remaining flaps to complete the drawer base ( as in section 14 ). Your drawer base should now look like this...

17. To make the small drawers you will need two of these:

Take a piece of cardstock that measures 9⅜"-square, and from the left-hand side score at 1⅞" and at 3¾" on all sides.

18. Now cut away the three corners from each of the corners and cut along the lines indicated by the green lines.



19. Burnish all of your score lines.



20. Take the squares marked A & B and fold into the centre and fold panel C over the top.







21. Now do the same at the other end.





22. Fold the two side panels in over.





23. To make the larger drawer you need to take your piece of cardstock that measures 11⅜ x 9⅜" and score from the left-hand side 1⅞" and 3¾"on all sides.



24. Cut three squares away from each corner and cut along the lines as indicated by the green line.



25. Burnish all your score lines with your bone folder.

26. Fold square A & B into the centre and fold over panel C, then fold over the other end in the same way.

27. Fold over the side flaps.





28. You now need to decorate the drawers. You will need twenty
1¾" squares of paper and another four pieces of paper measuring 1¾x3¾". First put the decorative squares on the outside of the small drawers, on one square find the middle and make a small hole, double up a small piece of ribbon and push through the hole, fastening to the back with two small strips of strong tape. Then decorative the inside of the drawers. Do same with the larger drawer but this time make two holes on one of the larger panels and put the ribbon through these. Cut four pieces of 1⅞x4" paper to decorative the outside of the drawer base. For the backstand of the drawer base I used a Spellbinders die and traced around the outside of the die onto cardstock, cut out and then cut out the die using my backing paper. I layered the paper onto the cardstock and then attached to the back of the base with glue.

Christmas Ornaments step-by-step project

It may be still only August but there's nothing wrong with being prepared for Christmas...after all it does have a habit of sneaking up on you!...so I'm going to share with you this unique and eye-catching little tutorial that DT member Pam Leng has created to get you making Christmas ornaments that will get everyone raving about!


You will need:
7 sheets of tea bag papers - Pam used Cute Companions Winter's Tale
Glue
Scissors
Two pieces of ribbon, each piece about 18" long
Paper clips or mini pegs




1 First of all cut out your tea bag squares, with the pattern side outer-most then fold in half diagonally to make a triangle.





PLEASE NOTE THAT AT ALL STAGES USE YOUR BONE FOLDER TO CREASE



2 Fold the outer corners into the centre, this should then form a square.





3 Fold the flaps back on themselves, along the outer edge of the square.







4 Open out the flaps so that they form a kite shape on each side.





5 Fold back the point of the kite shape so that it is level with the square.







6 Fold the outer edge of the kite in towards the centre.







7 Fold the outer edges together and glue. At this stage I held together with either a paper clip or mini pegs. This forms one petal.







7 When these have dried, the ornament needs to be made in two halves. Firstly you need to glue five of the petals together to form a flower.


This is how the back will look.





8 When the flowers have completely dried you need to adhere six together to make one half, one in the middle and five around the outside. You now need to make the second half the same as the first half.





9 The next step is to spray both halves with Spray and Sparkle.





10 Glue your two pieces of ribbon to the back of one half then when dry glue both halves together. You may need to use either your paper clips or mini pegs to hold in place until dry.





There you have it...just by following these simple steps you too can create stunning Christmas ornaments!

Fairyopolis frame cards

I saw some gorgeous frame cards over on the American Crafter's Companion blog, created by the lovely Carmi and I wanted to share them with you as a step-by-step tutorial. Here's how Carmi has explained so well how to create these fab frames...





Materials...

Fairyopolis CD

The Boxer Board

Neenah cardstock

Spray and Sparkle



To create...



These frame cards start out as artwork you print from the CD. I printed my set on white cardstock.





The fairy in each frame is a 3D paper decoupage. I cut out all the parts and used 3D glue or foam pads to layer the images into place.





The frame itself was my favourite part of each project. It is a marvel of maths! I cut out the main box image and immediately noticed the white dash lines indicating where I needed to make score lines.





The boxer score board was perfect for this task! I was able to line up the dash marks with score line easily!





The frame builds itself when everything is scored!





This is the back. I then attached the main image, the extra pieces to complete the inside frame and of course, my fairies.





A little Spray and Sparkle glitter gave it some shine!





Voila! Stunning Fairyopolis Frame cards!