Coffee Sleeve Mini Album Video Tutorial

Use your trash that maybe you put in trash to do beautiful things and gift for friends.
More details of materials used in my blog.

Nestability Christmas Tree card

I am so dreadfully in love with my Nestability dies atm!! I'm really enjoying playing around with them and seeing what I can create with them!!


To create you will need –
Nestabilities scalloped ovals set
Card
Brown ribbon
Sanding block (only if using coredinations card)
Clear Kindy Glitz
Ink pad in co-ordinating colour
To begin –

1. Begin by cutting out the size card you would like – I cut mine from a piece of Coredinations card and then sanded the edges to give a subtle blue edge to my card.

2. Next, use your nestability Oval scalloped die to cut out 4 ovals. Run each through an embossing pocket – I used a cuttlebug Xmas Snowflakes one!!

3. Once embossed, rub a white ink pad over the top of the raised section of each scalloped oval then a co-ordinating ink pad over the edges.

4. Adhere each of the oval over each other, ensuring a ¼ inch offset.

5. Finally, ensuring your oval set is laid in front of you in portrait style, mark the centre top of the bundle. This will be your cutting point for the 2 cuts you will make. Next, mark 2 radiating lines from this point, you should end up with an upside down cone shape and cut. Turn around and your tree is complete.

6. It’s now up to you to complete your card. I chose to create a special effects background using inks and a straw but it’s up to you what you would prefer. I then drew a rough white line around the background square, adhered the tree with a strip of ribbon as my trunk and a small ribbon bow for decoration!!

7. The background has been created by dropping small drops of Ranger Distress inks onto gloss card and blowing through a straw to make it spread. I started with a linen coloured ink then used a blue and finally dripped droplets of silver alcohol metallic mix onto the surface. The cool part was when the metallic mixative went on as it reacted to the water based inks and created a really cool effect I really hadn't anticipated!!

Sharon

Bow Tie CHEAT!

Howdy all! I'm Adrienne and I have a sweet tutorial of how to help you make your bows perfect every time! :D <--- Smiley Face!

But, this IS cheating! :D haha. Here we go!
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So this is my Bow Tying Cheat!

1. Start with your supplies :D

2. Deside where you want your image to go.

3. Put a line of glue where you want your ribbon to cross the page (I lined my glue with white ink... I am using Tombo)

4. Start putting your ribbon across your paper but do not go all the way to the end. Stop where you want your bow to go.

5. Twist your ribbon over once and then glue the rest of it down. (If you have one sided ribbon, twist it twice (until the image shows on top again))

6. Turn card over and glue edges down if you wish.

7. trim

8. look how magnificent it looks!

9. Now onto the actual BOW TYING!

10. Start with your loop

11. Fold back behind.

12. Bring around over the front.

13. Go behind with it again

14. Push through and pull.

15. This is how I mess with my bow to get the desired "ears". I have it like held between pointer finger and thumb. and then I have the ends held between random fingers and palm.

16. Once you have your desired shape. Cut off the ends. (And glue image to desired position)

17. This is my secret part... I attach the bow with a glue dot or two.

If you look close enough you can see where I put my dot!

18. Attach to card and marvel at the great bow you've just made!

Anyhoot! There ya go! If you have any questions feel free to stop by my blog
http://scrappin-a-rose.blogspot.com
and drop me an e-mail or a comment! I would love to see you around!

Making a Glossy Card

Hi everyone!

Here's a nice and fun technique you can make using your stamping supplies. To make this project, you will need:

• Cardstock in black, white, orange, and green
• Adhesives & dimensionals
• Scissors
• Pencil
  
• Versamark
• Clear Embossing Powder
• Heat Gun
• Embellishments

Now let's start:

1.) First off you will need to download this pattern-->Halloween Fun<--. Cut out all pieces according to the instructions given EXCEPT FOR THE PUMPKIN.

2.) For the pumpkin I grabbed a pencil and drew the shape in one side of the orange cardstock and then folded the orange cardstock in half and cut out my shape, leaving the left side untouched. See the pic!


You should now have this:

3.) Now for the fun part :) Grab the black kitty shape and with the Versamark damp the entire shape (top only).

4.) Spread clear embossing powder on top, making sure it covers the shape entirely.

5.) With the heat gun melt the embossing powder on the shape.

Repeat steps #3, #4 & #5 for the remaining black pieces.

Nice technique, ha? And it looks gorgeous!

6.) While your shapes are cooling down, grab the pumpkin and decorate it. I chalked and stitched the edges. I also added a Prima leaf on top of it, but of course you can add whatever you like :)

7.) Adhere dimensionals on the back of your pumpkin and center it on top of the black cat shape.

8.) Now finish your card by adding eyes and nose to the cat and its paws. I used my circle punches (small & 1/4 size punches) to create the eyes... even better, you can add those wiggly eyes for a funner look.

And we are done! Here's how it should look on the inside:

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

by: Yanitza Ramos

Glad Wrap Effect Cards

Everyone who knows me knows just how much I love playing with mixed media techniques, especially working with paints!! I recently found the idea of applying Glad Wrap to paint to distress and mute its appearance while blog hopping and just had to have a play, I've since changed the technique to suit my own personal style and wanted to share it with you. Here's my completed card -


Requirements –

Acrylic paint, a light and a dark shade and silver
Glad Wrap
Scrap of sequin scrap

1. Cut card to size and coat evenly with your darkest colour. Leave to dry thoroughly.

2. Squirt some of the lighter shade onto your painted piece of card. Don’t worry about being precise and exact as the paint will be moved around with the Glad Wrap.

3. Tear of a piece of Glad Wrap large enough to cover the surface of your card piece and the edges by approximately 5 cm.

4. Scrunch the Glad Wrap onto the surface of the card. At this point any excess paint will gather into the folds of the Glad wrap. Leave to dry thoroughly.

5. Once dry, carefully remove the Glad Wrap. At this stage you will notice that where the paint fell into the folds of the Glad Wrap, the paint is thinner or absent.

6. Using the Sequin scrap and a balled up scrap of Glad wrap, sponge the silver paint over the sequin scrap to create a random patterning.

7. Allow the whole piece to dry thoroughly and then attach your embellishments to finish off your card. I chose to colour in a few stamped images then attached with dimensional foam tape. To create the white area for the stamped image I simply ran a Dry Whiteout tape.

3 Way Fold Card Tutorial

Hello Ladies, this is my first post on this great blog. I was excited to find Julie's email last night when I returned from work :)

This is one of my favourite cards to make so I thought I'd share it with you.

Here is the finished card and a view of how it opens.






now on to the directions. :)

3 Way Card Instructions:
The Finished Card is 4 1/4" x 4 1/4"


Cutting and Folding:

















Assembling:







Now you're ready to embellish and add whatever you desire.
Have Fun.....!








Happy Carding!

Tamara