Hello, fellow crafters
Special-fold cards always offer a surprise to the recipient.
Today's tutorial features one of the Heartfelt Creations floral banners on the belly band of this triangle tri-fold card.
Card base:
1. Cut and score 2 pieces of cardstock of 29x14,5 cm as follows:
1. Mark and score as follows:
1. Adhere the pieces together as follows:
5. Complete the card:
Hello, fellow crafters
Recently, I have become aware of so many people suffering in different ways – physical, mentally, emotionally, and financially.
The Just breathe collection offers a myriad ways in which we can use our crafting skills to show caring, to encourage, to do self-discovery and record our journeys.
This gift box was created for a friend. I used a bought SVG cut file from Cre8ive Cuts but enlarged it considerably. The completed gift box is about the size of a small gift bag – standing 20 cm tall and being 16 cm wide at the narrowest part, and 7cm deep from front-to-back. It can, therefore, take some lovely treats.
I used Fabscraps paper rose packs to make pretty shabby flowers to embellish the gift box.
For This Project You Will Need:
· Fabscraps C137 Just breathe papers
· Fabscraps paper rose packs
· Ink pads and daubers to add colour to some of the petals of the paper roses
· Fabscraps white craft glue
· Cut file for the pattern (can be cut out with electronic machine or by hand)
· Stamens for some of the flowers
· Ribbon
· Lace
Instructions:
1. Cut out the pattern and assemble the bustier.
2. Make shabby flowers as follows:
i. Use 3 flowers of the same size for each completed flower. The cream and soft grey flowers are a perfect match for the Just breather paper collection. You can also use the soft blush ones. I made different sizes of flowers.
ii. Use daubers and matching ink pads to add soft colours to some of the petals of the flowers.
iii. Lightly spritz the punched-out flowers with water. Fold them in half and then fold concertina-like from left to right. Crumple up tightly on the concertina folds. Open them and then glue 3 layers together on a small circle of cardstock. Add stamens to the larger flowers.
3. Embellish the bustier gift box with lace and handmade flowers.
Thank you for visiting.
Happy crafting, until next time.
Marie Smith
Hello, fellow crafters
Today's post is the first in a mini series on how small details make a big difference on your cards.
Use geometric shapes behind the flowers on your cards. These circles behind the crescent-shaped arrangement of flowers create “movement” and “flow” in the design. Notice how your eyes first land on the two larger flowers on the card, then move upwards along the line of the flower arrangement, then back and to bottom right, ending on the sentiment.
I used the principle of repetition - repeating something - in adding a layer in silver mirror cardstock to enhance the silver sentiment. This gives life to the card, which would have been much less interesting without that additional layer.
The first circle was adhered flat. The smaller one was popped up with form tape, before I started arranging the flowers.
If you would like to learn more about how to arrange flowers in an eye-pleasing manner, hop over to our online store and get our set of tutorials on this topic for only R100. You can watch any time, and even download the videos to your computer.
The flowers were made using the floral stamp and die Heartfelt Creations curvy floral frame set. I stamped with archival ink carnation red and coloured them partially (3 petals) with the same ink and a dauber. Then the rest of each flower was coloured with archival ink forget-me-not. After colouring, I cut the flowers out with the matching die. To shape the flowers, lay them won a flower-shaping mat, coloured side down. use a groove tool or small ball tool and start at the tip of a petal, pulling don towards the centre of the flower. Repeat with each petal. turn the flower with coloured side up, and press down in the centre with a ball ttool to make an indentation. Glue two layers together and add a flat-back pearl in the centre of each flower.
The circles are from a Studio Light die set, available in our online store at this link.
If
you would like to learn how to make eye-pleasing flower arrangements on
your cards, hop over to our online store - we have a set of video
classes that you can watch any time, and download to your computer, for
only R100. https://www.purplemagnolia.co.za/.../video-class-how-to...
Studio Light die sets https://www.purplemagnolia.co.za/search?type=product...
Thank you for visiting.
Happy crafting, until next time. And please remember to tell your friends about this blog.
Marie Smith
Hello, fellow carfters
On this Valentine's day, I am sharing a slimline card that can easily also be an engagement or a wedding card,with a different sentiment.
The folded card base is 10,5 x 21 cm, white shimmer cardstock.
I added two layers of stitched rectangle die-cuts, for which I used Tutti designs rectangular die set.
Using the three largest hearts from the Studio Light die set SL-ES-CD8, I cut one each in white shimmer cardstock and 1 each from silver mirror cardstock. The white hearts were adhered to the silver hearts, slightly offset, to show only a tiny bit of silver.
The pretty flowers were from my stash of flowers on my desk. The larger double ones were created using heartfelt Creations' climbing clematis stamp, die and mould set. They were stamped with archival deep purple ink on plain smooth white cardstock, then coloured with the same ink (2 petals on each flower) an archival cactus flower (3 petals on each flower). The smaller flowers were made using the floral stamp and die from Heartfelt Creations curvy floral frame set - stamped in archival cactus flower and coloured with the same ink.
The flowers and leaves (from stash on my desk) were arranged and adhered to teh card, before adding a sentiment die-cut from silver mirror cardstock.
Thank you for stopping by. Happy crafting, until next time.
Marie Smith
