Tombola Prize Crafty Goodies

Hello again,

Wow I seem to have quite a few posts for you recently!  What's going on? Well as you’ve probably red my son is leaving Nursery to go to Big School in September.
Just before the start of the summer holidays they have their end of year Sports Day, Graduation & Summer Fete.  So in true crafters style I made some little crafty bits to go into the Tombola Prizes.  I decorated some little Tea Light Candles and boxed them up into a little set of 4 and I covered a few little jotter notepads with our gorgeous Designer Series Papers (DSP)

Here are the little sets of candles.  A friend of mine gave me the boxes a while ago and they were just perfect for them.  I out a piece of coordinating cardstock in the base, a little tissue paper in between and tied the boxes up with our stunning ribbons or Seam Binding.

The images on the candles are done using an image stamped onto tissue paper.  Punch a hole in the middle of the image for the candle wick to go through and punch the image out to the right size.  Put over the candle wick.   Heat up your heat gun until it is nice and hot (this will stop you from burning or melting the candle too much) and then very carefully and quite quickly melt the candle.  Don’t hold the gun to close and you’ll see the candle start to melt and soak into the tissue paper.  You only need to melt the top a little until all of the tissue paper has been soaked in the liquid wax. Once it has cooled down the wax resets and the image looks fabulous!



The jotter notebooks were very inexpensive from that store where “Every little helps”   I covered them in some DSP, a little cardstock at the top which had been trimmed with the Scallop Punch and added the letters to spell NOTES from the Broadsheet Alphabet Stamp Set.

The DSP’s cam from (Left to Right) – Lap of Luxury, Greenhouse Gala and Jolly Holiday.

I just love the alphabet letters as they are all so different and make up such lovely images when used together in your words. You can use them altogether as I have done here or you could use one as your starting letter of a word leaving the rest all plain from another stamp. A great way to do that is to only colour the second letter onwards with your Marker Pens so Happy Birthday becomes “appy irthday” but use a H and a B from the Broadsheet Alphabet to give it that WOW!

Hope you like these

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Elaine x

Scraps Valentine….

 

A great little valentine card or just to say I love you for no other reason that you do!  I just love the little tag which I made by stamping the love stamp from the Tiny Tags Stamp Set (page 66 IB&C 2010-2011), then punching it out with the Jewellery Tag punch. It’s held in place on the Silver Elastic Cord and with Mini Glue Dot.

The hearts were from the Lap of Luxury DSP from my scraps box again punched out with the Heart to Heart punch.

I really have a thing for the Silver Elastic Cord right now! It’s gorgeous!

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Elaine x

More Scraps Creations

Hello again,
I recently told you about my raiding my scraps box, where I my inspiration for my card came from some little bits of Lap of Luxury DSP.  Well I made 2 other cards from those bits and here is the next one.

I really really love the colour combinations of the DSP.  It’s just so yummy!
This is such a simple card and yet would make a fabulous gift card or a cute wedding card.




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Elaine x

Memo Block Holder–Tutorial

 

I just love this little Memo Block Holder.  It’s so easy to make.

       

It’s a great way to use 12 x 12 scrapbooking papers.  I have loads and I am always looking for new ways to use them other than on a scrapbook page or a card. Once you have made it and seen how quick it is to put together you’ll want to make loads as presents for your friends. I’ve made lots of these as presents for family, my son’s Nursery School Teachers, as prizes for the nursery raffles.

Unfortunately, I ran out of the white paper Memo Blocks so i filled this one temporarily with 3” x 3” Post it notes.

I’ve put together a small tutorial for you:-

Paper block holder

 

 Materials required:

 

·         Paper trimmer ·         1 inch circle punch ·         12 x 12 DSP (Designer Series Paper of your choice) ·         Cardboard (The white card from the DSP Packs is good for this or use cereal box cardboard and cover with DSP)

·         Ribbon ·         Pencil ·         Adhesive ·         Bone scorer ·         Cardstock (Matching colour from your Designer Series Paper Colours)

 

·          Step 1:

Take your sheet of 12 x 12 Designer Series Paper , and cut 3 inches off two of the sides, so that it now measures 9 x 9 inches (23 x 23 cm)

 

 

 

Step 2:

Fold the square piece of paper in half one way and then in half the other way……like this:

 

    

Step 3:

Fold each corner into the centre. Be sure to flatten with your bone scorer so you have a flat fold. So this for each corner, and it should look like this:

 

                

 

It looks a bit like the start of one of those games that we all made at school – Remember those?

 

Step 4:

On each long side fold in toward the centre, Making sure that the centre part will be large enough to take your memo block paper.

 

You will need to do this for all four sides and once you have done that it should look like this:

 

                    

 

Step 5: Fold out two opposite ends.

Step 6: Fold in the two sides so that they fold in toward each other, like in the picture below.

 

                  

Step 7: Take the large point flap and fold it in and over the folds you just did. The point should meet up with the others in the inside. Do this for the other side as well.

Step 8: Once you have both sides folded you will end up with a box like so. It is essential that you run your bone scorer over each fold, or it won’t fold into each other nice a flat. This is called an Origami box.

                      

 

Step 9: Cut a 3 x 3 inch square (or check size if your memo block was larger or smaller) of cardstock and place it in the bottom of the box to make it more sturdy.

Take your 1 inch circle punch and on one side punch out a half moon.

                              

Step 11:

Cut out one piece of cardboard, and one piece of DSP measuring 3.5 inches by 4 inches. Layer the paper on top of the cardboard.

 

                       

 

Step 12:

 Mount your paper box, using sticky strip or Tombow Multi Purpose Adhesive, on top of the cardboard, so that it has a sturdy base. Fill your box with 3 x 3 inch pieces of paper or Post it Notes.  Decorate the outside of the box.

 

                          

 

Step 13:

Cover a pencil or pen with some DSP and created a little holder for it on the front of the cardboard sheet. Then you’ll always have a matching little pencil to write the notes on.  My pencil came from that well known furniture store from Sweden, but you could use Golfing pencils or similar.

 

 

 

     

 

From Scraps With Love

 

Every now and then I have moments when I feel the need to raid my scraps box and make something.  It’s my justification of why I keep all those little scraps and off cuts of paper and card.

And today’s card is one of those moments.  I had some left over 3.5” x 1.5” pieces of Lap of Luxury Designer Series Paper (DSP) that was left over from a project. I know, I know.  Why on earth would you keep bits that small you ask. 

So I can make something like this…..

I just love the colours together.  Concord Crush, Pretty in Pink, Basic Grey & Very Vanilla.  Very yummy colours together.

I used the Heart to Heart punch to punch the hearts out of the DSP and attached those onto Concord Crush with Glue Dots.  The Happy Birthday is from the Perfect Punches Stamp set with a rhinestone on the dot of the i.  I really love the touch of bling these fabulous rhinestones give to projects.

I had more hearts left over and will make a a couple more cards and post them up soon.

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Elaine x