Waterfall Card.

Time once again for Rudolph Day.

I haven't a clue where February went to.

If anyone knows let me know. 

I had a rummage in my to recycle Christmas card pile 

and found  this card front

and immediately  thought

Waterfall card (as one does!)

so with a further rummage in my stash

and a great tutorial  from 

Dreaming About Rubber Stamps on Youtube

here is my Waterfall Card.

The card front fully closed.

With the  first waterfall pulled down.

The sentiment is a self adhesive sticker from

Craft Creations Ltd 

which just happened to match the papers perfectly.

With the second waterfall pulled down

revealing fully the last picture.

Now that's what I call natty!

Inside of card decorated with remaining papers

and a further larger sticker.

I have had the design paper ( a magazine freebie)

in my stash  for ages as I thought I would never be able to use

because of matching up the colours.

Entering into the following challenges:

Rudolph Day. Make one Christmsas themed card. 

City Crafter #250 Use it up. (christmas card front & scraps of blue pearlised paper).

The Crafter's Cafe #105 Lots of layers.

Creative Knockouts #78 Lots of layers.

Brown Sugar # Anything goes.

Jo's Scrapshack #77 Anything goes.

Sister Act #95 Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop # 166 use up your snippets.

Hexagon Shaped cards.

I have 2 new shaped cards to show today

as inspiration for my butterfly challenge.

#25 Butterflies+ H is for Hexagons.

The first one is called 

Hexagon Fold Out flower Card

and I found the design in Cardmaking and Papercraft

Quick cards made easy.

Here is the card almost closed up.

You can see that the petals are in a hexagon shape

and sit in a double layer.

The papers were a freebie in Making Cards Magazine March 2015

and are called From a Friend.

Backing card from SU.

First layer fully opened.

Second layer of petals opened to reveal the sentiment

and in this case the butterflies .

Punch is by Tonic Studio using scraps of matching card stock.

Sentiment and bows in my stash.

Inside of the finished card.

Entering into the following challenges.

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes.

Penny's Paper Crafty #216 Lots of layers.

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Cute Card Thursday #361 Floral Delight.

Crafting From The Heart #48 Anything goes.

Craft Your Passion #250 Anything goes.

My second card is called

Shaped Aperture Card 

and I got the idea from

Papercraft Inspirations magazine

 but modifying the shape to be a hexagon.

Design paper is a freebie from Making Cards July 2013

called Florals and flutters.

Backing card from SU.

Sentiment from Scrapmatts.

Hexagon stencil by Imagination Crafts and I used black chalk.

Twine from my stash.

Butterfly punch by Woodware.

I used Xcut Nesting Heaxagons to cut the shapes.

Side view showing the shapes attached to the twine.

Entering into the following challenges:

My Craft Creations # Anything goes.

Tuesday Thowdown #233 Anything goes.

Inspiration Destination #22 Anything goes.

The Pink Elephant #287 Anything goes.

Sister Act #94 Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #165 Use up your snippets (twine was an oddment in stash)

Imagination Crafts # Anything goes. (Used Hexagon Stencil).

Twine Sunflower.

 Found a card from a Swap I did February of  last year

which I have never blogged about!

 The theme was to make a card using twine.

I spent ages looking through my paper stash

for inspiration and finally found this paper

with the circles on  so decided to make

 a Twine Sunflower (as you do) to go with it.

I used a Sizzix Circles Scallop for the  flower shape

and yellow/white twine from my stash.

We used to make loads of these when we were kids

with oddments of wool and cardboard packaging. 

Lace was an oddment from stash as well.

Words created with a Britannia word die.

More Sizzix  die circles inside 

 left blank for my partner to add her own message.

I used Kraft card for the base card and chomped one corner off.

Entering into the following challenges:

Melonheadz # Die cuts.

Scrapper's Delights #41 Anything goes.

Inspiration Destination #21 Anything goes.

Crafting For All Seasons #96 Dies and or punches.

My Time To Craft #280 Lace.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #165 Use your snippets. (yellow card & twine).

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

Triangle Trifold Card.

We are now on  the 2nd week

of my Butterfly challenge

#24 Butterflies + R is for Ribbon

and this is the card I have made for your inspiration.

I wanted the ribbon element of the challenge

to take centre stage.

I haven't done any ribbon weaving for ages.
After I had made the weaved mat

I had about 1mtr of the cream over and just sat 

and spuddled with it and fashioned this little Rose too.

Having made the ribbon embellishments

I searched around for a card design to compliment them

and found this one on Splitcoaststampers.

Triangle Trifold Card.

I chose pale yellow and greens for a spring like feel.

Backing papers are by Buckwells Crafty.

I used a combination from their Flutterby and Butterly sets

using  a combination of the plain papers with a yellow butterfly paper

which I used to print over the plain green with.

I used white card stock for the card shape.

Die cut butterfly was in my stash so unknown.

Bead and gems also from stash.

The sentiment is from a Sheena Douglass stamp set

called 'A Little bit Sketchy True Colours'.

Stamps have butterflies and sentiments to chooose from.

I fussy cut two butterlies from the backing paper

leaving a little of the green around them and it has

unintentionally  given a 3D effect to them which I quite like

and also conveniently  hides two smudgy ink  blobs!

Entering into the following challenges:

Ooh-la-La Creations #174 Add something green.

Love to Scrap #48 Anything goes.

Crafty Boots #  Use a sentiment.

Through The Craft Room Door # Anything goes.
Ruby's Rainbow #98 Anything green.

Southern Girls # Winged things.

Pile It On #56 Butterflies.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #164 Use up your snippets ( odds of green ribbon used).

Crafts Galore #  Use a stamp or digi. (digi papers and sentiment stamp used).

Filigree Card.

Another new shape for you.

this one is  called a Filigree card.

Not been  able to show before as this was 

part of a swap which has now been received

by my partner 'Merry'in Oz.

We had to send 2 cards with stickers on.

I nearly got stuck (sorry about the pun) on this one

as I don't have many stickers and then I remembered 

some sheets of stickers by friend Lesley had given me. 

This is the first one that I made.

I used a Spellbinders die for the shape which is hinged at the top.

Christina has a good tutorial  for making these.

The stickers element are  the sentiment  by Anita's

and the embossed flowered tag by Papermania.

Lavender bow had already been tied and was in my stash.

I didn't think the card needed anything else. 

I used SU card stock  for the linnings and front

and used my corner rounder for the edges

Side view of card.

Entering into the following challenges:

Inspiration Destination #20 Anything goes.

Scrapper's Delights #40 Anything goes.

Creative Knockouts #76 Floral delight

Brown Sugar #133 Use a Bow and a die cut.

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge #67 Anything goes + add a bow.

Crafting from The Heart #47 Anything goes.

Craft Your Passion #249 Anything goes.

My Craft Creations # Anything goes.

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #4 Anything goes.

Scribble and Scrap #38 Anything goes. 

Sorry not been around much but just getting over 

a bad back to back attack of Cystitis.

Have finally climbed back  down off the walls

and will be around your blogs asap.  

A Curved Card.

Another new shape card for you

and it is also time for the girls

in the Christmas card club to show our latest cards.

The theme was chosen by Mary H and is for 

'Snow covered Trees.'

I had this used Christmas card

in my stash so this was my starting point.

I had in the back of my mind to do a type of curved card

and having trawled the web to no avail for instructions

just set to and made it up as I went along so to speak!

There was probably an easier way of making it  but here

is the finished card..

The tab tucked  in place to make the curve.

Side view of card.

Backing paper by Alison Butler and the silver stick on border

came from Poundland.

Front of the card laid out flat.

You cab see the tab that is used to tuck  into a slot on the inside of card.

I used Stickles on the trees to enhance the snow effect

and found some turquoise gems in my stash that matched

the backing paper.

Navy pearlised card from my stash as well.

Entering into the following challenges:

Simply Create Too #79 Anything goes.

Sister Act #93 Anything goes.

Pixie's Crafty Workshop #164 Use up your snippets (Gems were odds in my stash).

Crafty Hazelnut's Extra# Christmas cards only.

Crafting From The Heart #46 Anything goes.

Craft Your Passion #248 Anything goes.

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper # Anything goes.

That's My Girl!

Look whose made the front cover of

Making Cards this month!!!

Faye.

Muver Hen is strutting her feathers here!!

Cutaway Triangle Shaped Card.

Here is my next new card shape.

A Cutaway Triangle Shaped Card

to spotlight my current

Butterfly Challenge #24

Butterflies + R is for Ribbon.

The design paper is by Buckwell's Crafty

and is part of my win from them with my

Little boxes entry on their challenge a few weeks back.

I used the digi set  Flutterby 9

and 

Plain pink colour  8.

The scroll work and sentiment are by Scrapmatts

another win from last year.

The ribbon is actually two pieces on top of each other.

A wider pink spotty  on the bottom with 

a thinner mauve spot on the top.

I fussy cut out some of the butterflies

from the design paper and adhered them

to the triangle with 3D foam pads.

The pearl was a freebie  in my stash.

Another view showing  the card closed.

Entering into the following challenges:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper #Anything goes.

Crafting From The Heart. #46 Anything goes.

Brown Sugar #132 Anything goes.

Jo's Scrapshack #74 Shaped cards.

Suzy Bee's Bloomin Challenge #66 Anything goes + add wings.

Lil Patch of Crafty #3 Anything goes.

Scribble and Scrap #37 Anything goes. 

That Craft Place # Anything goes.

Butterflies, Hearts and Valentines.

Some more inspiration for you

for my Butterfly Challenge 

#23 Butterflies + V is for Valentine.

Please see the tutorial post below this one 

to see how the box was made.

As I already had the red card  out for taking the photos for 

the tutorial I decided to make another box lid up 

and went slightly larger than 6" square and used the 

white 6" box lid which became the base for this one.

Simples!

Butterflies are die cut using SU Beautiful Wings.

Red ones were already in my stash and I cut some more

from an odd scrap of Black card  to compliment.

Oddments of red and black ribbon and red gems in my stash

along with the shiny red heart cut outs and large black heart.

Small white doily in bottom of box also from stash.

And to  finish  Red  Heart chocolates.

Entering into the following challenges:

The Shabby Tea Room #245 I (Heart) you.

Dream Valley #99 Valentines  Day.

Crafty Boots # Hearts and Valentines.

Natalie and Amy's challenge #29 All about the love.

Live and Love Crafts #32 Hearts.

Great Impressions # Love,love,love.

Quirky Crafts #3 Love is in the air.

Crafting For all Seasons. #95 Have a heart.

Cute Card Thursdays #359  crazy in love.

Pixie's Crafty workshop#162  Use up your Snippets.

Little Boxes Tutorial.

I promised a tutorial for the Little Boxes

that I had made from old Christmas cards.

Seen in the original post here.

Sorry it has taken so long but the decorating has been

quite disruptive. All finished now and just waiting 

for the paint to have a chance  to  dry properly  and then move 

everything back again in situ at the Weekend.

On to the tutorial.

To make the instructions easy to see I have used white 160 gsm card

which I have cut to 6" square and used dark pencil to show my lines.

You would be using the reverse of a 6" x 6" Christmas card front.

1. Draw lines from corner to opposite corner.

2. Fold one point  up to the centre mark and crease using a bone folder.

3. Fold up again to the centre  mark and crease using the bone folder.

Unfold creases.

4. turn card  90 degrees  and repeat steps 2 & 3.

5. Repeat for the other 2 corners.

Your card unfolded should look like this.

6. Turn card so that you have a diamond effect.

i.e a point top and bottom towards you.

Mark 4 X's as shown . i,e, 3 creases in from each side.

7. Cut down as far as  X marks the spot!

Your card should now look like this.

8. Shade in  all the small triangles and then cut 

each one away.

9. Your card should now look like this.

Place a small strip of double sided tape on the 4 out side triangles.

10. Bull dog clip is not necessary at this stage

unless you are trying to hold a fold in place and  a camera steady

at the same time! 

Fold the2 short flaps into the centre.

Remove the sticky strip from the point.

11. Fold the point  up and down over the flaps and adhere

to the inside of the box base.

Repeat on the opposite side.

12. Your card should now look like this.

13. Fold in the last 2 sides to complete your box lid.

Now make a base using plain white card and make your

dimensions  just slightly smaller.

ie. For a 6" square box make the base 5.75" sqaure.

14. You now have a completed box which if you have used 

an old Christmas card just needs a few embellishments

to finish and a small gift  to pop inside.

Happy Crafting.

See the post above this to see how I completed my box.

Jolly Santa.

Time once again for the girls

in the Christmas Card Club 

to show our cards for the latest challenge. 

 Lorraine has set us  the theme of

Jolly Santa Ho Ho Ho.

Things are a bit manic here as the painter is due tomorrow

and we are busy moving/clearing the room for him.

We have boxes in the dinning room,

bedding in our bedroom and the furniture

is in the spare room I normally craft from.

(no room left to swing a cat so to speak !)

Anyway back to my card which should have been 

an easy quick one 'A Centre Fold' card this time.

First major mistake was cutting one side panel wrong

so I decided no probs just trim the other side down to match!!!!!!

Second mistake was that I should have just ditched said card

and start afresh but did I ? Did I heck!!!!!!

So many, many moons later I give you a card 

with the thinnest  ever  side folds 

a scant 10mm each .

I bought this stamp last yr and this is it's 1st outing.

Creative Expressions  HH447 F

Roly Poly Santa.

I coloured using promarkers and stickles.

Backing paper, gems, felt trim all from my stash.

I fussy cut the image and mounted on 3D pads.

 I stopped just short of shoring the sides  up with concrete!

I think I used everything else hidden under layers.

(several layers).

Entering into the following challenges after which I'm going to have a nervous breakdown. I would go and lie down in a dark room but there isn't any space left.

Crafty Hazelnut's #214 Something beginnings with B. (bobble hat).

Fab 'n' Funky #244 Christmas.

Through the Craftroom Door # Anything goes.

The Pink Elephant #283 Anything goes.

Me and Mine# Beat the rush.

Jingle Belles # Shape up for the New Year.

Winter Wonderland # Lots of layers.

4 Crafty Chicks #231 Anything goes.

Crafty Hazelnut's Extra# Anything goes.