3D Daisy and Nellie Snellen ~ Cardmaking Online

Hullo there everyone. For those of you wondering where I have been?? still setting up craft room, and having a big sort out almost everywhere ~ See here!

The card today is using the Don and Daisy 3D sheet - this is prettier than the sheet colours show  on site, and it is a great, versatile set by Marianne Design with very good detail. 

Cut with fine scissors the pieces of Daisy from the top of the sheet, and shape them with the shaping tool on the dense foam Shaping mat.
Adhere them in order using the small 3D mounts and 3D glue until the layers are built up. TIP: when cutting them out place them in order to one side and shape and attach as you go. This is good when working with detailed 3D.
Once the picture is assembled, Daisy is carefully coated in Gloss Kote, Set aside to dry.
Then take a white sheet of card pre-cut to size (half an A5 sheet is almost the right size, I cut a little off bottom).
Using the Nellie Snellen Corner die cut carefully out each corner.
Make sure you line up each corner properly and for the top and bottom cut there was a slight overlap, at the centre part -shown below. There is no need to emboss it.

Using the Nellie Snellen Corner die cut carefully out each corner - make sure you line up each corner properly and for the top and bottom cut, there was a slight overlap. There is no need to emboss it.
I also found when using cardboard you needed to run it through about four times to make sure it cuts around all the lovely detail of this corner piece.

Then when the four corners are cut, trim the excess to round off sides and bottom where they join the card, as shown in the two small close ups. Then attach with DST to a piece of pink card from the very delicious  Papermania A4 Paper Pack ~ Henbury Lane. 
Then add the gold Peel Offs Happy Birthday with the pricking tool to place the birthday greeting carefully in top corners. Attach to white card base. Add the finishing touch of gold border peel offs.

Thanks so very much for popping over for a peek and chat - and may our dear God bless your day wherever you may be,

Shaz in Oz.x

PS. This post was done at the weekend for my Wed post with Cardmaking Online DT blog, but since then there have been some changes and I am no longer on the DT. I've right cataract surgery coming up in 2 months, so it will be better not to have such responsibilities. 

To those who have very generously supported my posts with them and joined the DT blog I want to say a very big thank you! You are ALL really appreciated more than ever - especially a very BIG thanks to especially to Mrs A. of It's an Alien Life, Sandra from Stamping for Pleasure, Sam from Hettiecraft, Jools, 
Jani of Paper Compulsions and most of all to Anne of Brittany. I do love the blogging friendships we have, all over the world!

However still wanted to share the card with you. 

To all the WOYWW-ers, I hope to be with you next week, all being well, my room is making progress!

Tutorial: Peels Offs - Colouring + Using Transfer Sheet - Cardmaking Online DT

Hi there everyone!
This tutorial is with versatile peel offs for our newish blog, Cardmaking Online blog.
Please have a peek and comment on post if you can spare the time - see here (big blog hugs if you are able :D), and sending those especially to Mrs A. of It's an Alien Life, Sandra from Stamping for Pleasure and Sam from Hettiecraft. All three kindly took the time last post or so. :D (Addendum - also big thanks to Jools who joined our blog too! :D).
It shows uses of both pieces of an image on sheet - ie the skeleton of fish in this case and the inside of image further down. Used is the Japanese Koi, but you could use any of these sailing ship sheets or these knights, cute teddies or pretty pansies, etc.

Warning - this post is  picture heavy.

Photo a.
1. Take the sheet of silver fish peel-offs, Koi, use the fine pricking tool lift the outside skeleton of the Koi peel off and place on the plain sheet of vellum. Add the other pieces to make a small scene as shown in photo a. 

Photo b. colour vellum background

2. Colour the back portion of the the vellum to create a background on the vellum - inks used are shown in photo but use whatever you have, but it MUST not  be a wet type of ink. I brayered the ink on back of vellum, but you can use brush or sponge applicators. Allow to dry well before proceeding. (Colours will fade. Mounted final vellum on white card before making up.)

c. Gelly Roll pens colour the fish and lily pads

3. Colour vellum further on the back with Gelly roll pens (photos c. and d.).

d. Shaping tool used to shape back of vellum.

Use the shaping tool to gently shape the back of vellum fish to make them pop from the vellum a little (completed card below).

4. To use the inside of the image, take a transfer sheet and peel the backing paper off portion you will need for size of the image.
 Lay it sticky side down over the image left on original peel off sheet. Use the sharper end of the shaping tool to make all pieces adhere to the transfer paper.

e. .Image adhered to sticky side of transfer sheet, ready to apply to card.

5.Then take the image and use shaping tool (rounder end) again to rub it onto the piece of card. Gently remove the transfer sheet.

HINT: You may need fine tweezers to pick up very small pieces.
Voilà! the image is transferred ready to be used.

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Here are the two completed cards:

Card ingredients listed below.

Items used:

• fine pricking tool 
• plain sheet of vellum.
• Gelly roll pens
• transfer sheet
• shaping tool
• fine tweezers  
• Papermania A4 Paper Pack Henbury Lane
• Silver peel off border
• Happy Birthday Peel off
• Clear Adhesive Jewels
• Holographic square paper, 5 sheets
• Other items - white and black card base, Cutting die rectangle and scallop rectangle, and embossing machine.

Thanks so very much for popping over for a peek and chat - and may our dear God bless your day wherever you may be,

Shaz in Oz.x

Teabag Folding Music Cardlayer - Cardmaking Online DT Project

Hullo there everyone, let me share with you some new teabag folding cards made for Cardmaking Online Blog - it would be lovely if you would also kindly take the time to pop over to our blog - or even stop and say hi! :D {actually if you do go over would you please let me know if they have word verification on p;ease as Sandra from Stamping with Pleasure said they did and would like to know, as its not on when I comment - thanks!}

 These make really good male cards, which are not always easy to decide on.

 1. The tea bag folding papers have two sizes in the squares. Take eight small ones of the Golden Music teabag  folder paper, carefully cut eight small squares and fold in the traditional star pattern (see here for a good guide). 

2. Paste it all together in the layer pattern you would like best. There are four star patterns formed with this particular folding paper. Each view is different - I liked this one best.  I use glue stick with tea bag folding, as find this least messy.

3. Cut a circle from co-ordinating colour scrap card to match the size of the teabag with Nestabilities Classic Scallop Circle Small S4-125 . Then cut a black scallop with corresponding size die with Nestabilities Classic Scallop Circle Small S4-125,  and emboss both of these with the tan mat  and embossing machine.

4. Mount teabag on top of circle with double sided (DST) tape.  Add scalloped mount + teabag with DST to cardlayer. Cut brown card to size and adhere to the cardlayer.
5.Use brads at the top to match brown card and a black ribbon at the bottom of the card layer. . Attach black card base to finished top section of card to it. To finish add a gold Happy Birthday peel off greeting to top right corner.

  Items used

• Golden Music teabag Folding squares
•  Ivory Music Notes Luxury Cardlayer 
• Double sided tape
• Nestabilities dies  - Small Circle 
• Nestabilities Classic Scallop Circle Small S4-125
• Gold Happy Birthday peel off greeting 
• Tan mat
• Black and coloured scrap cardstock, ribbon, small brads, glue stick

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Also available in this  teabag folding paper is the Music Blues Tea Bag Folding Paper,  and here is another variation with same card design.

1. Using this time the large teabag pattern on the sheet cut out four squares fold as before in card above. Then  when you come to step 4 of the folding, take it the extra folds as shown bringing the top two triangles in to along in the centre (step 5). Bring the tips down to meet with the top and pinch them open (step 6).
2. When you have the four completed pieces, paste them to a scrap piece of card. Trim it in the shape of a square so none of the base card is showing (5 x5 cm). Attach a pearl brad to centre.
   

3.Then take another of the Luxury Card Layer A6 - Ivory Music Notes and spray with a suitable spray.

Used is a blue mist and silver mixed together to get this colour (eg Perfect Pearls Mist - Perfect Pearl and Perfect Pearls Mist - Forever Blue 60ml. 

Allow to dry.

TIP: Then to flatten the card layer after spray has dried, use a DRY (not steam setting) iron, and iron it between two sheets of Non Stick Oven bake paper (not waxed paper) with a standard iron on low temperature. Not many of us have a craft iron, but most of us have the non stick paper in the kitchen, and a regular iron. You need to use it dry though as steam affects it.

4. Then mount the coloured music layer on some deep blue card to match the size of the card you want to make, and also attach to black card base with double sided tape (DST).

 

5. Colour the silver Peel-Off Sticker - Happy Birthday 300

with permanent black and blue textas (as shown in the post here).  

6.Attach the mounted square teabag with DST to the lower right of the music cardlayer and then add the greeting to the top right at suitable angles.

Added also were some small black rhinestones in the corners of the cardlayer.

And another lovely teabag card is completed.

Items Used:

• Music Blues Tea Bag Folding Paper
• Luxury Card Layer A6 - Ivory Music Notes
• Silver Peel-Off Sticker - Happy Birthday 300
• Double sided tape
• Perfect Pearls Mist - Perfect Pearl 
• Perfect Pearls Mist - Forever Blue 60ml.
• Deep blue, black card, pearl silver brad, four small back rhinestones

Thanks so much everyone for stopping by for a peek and a chat...and may God bless your day wherever you may be,
Shaz in Oz.x
PS for those for those of you keen to try this out for your selves this is a really great video here.

Nellie Snellen Square Textile Rose - Cardmaking Online DT Project

Hi there everyone!

  Here is another post for the Cardmaking Online Design Team.

Please (pretty please:D) do pop over to our blog and leave a comment on the post over there - just so that they know that you have been over (thanks so VERY much to those who have).

Even better join our humble blog.:D

This is the second post using the very versatile Multiframe dies by Nellie Snellen, the Square Stitched die .  For first example please -  click here . You can chose how many or how few pieces to use with very differing results.
1. Chose greeting for your card and stamp/print on good white card. Peel offs would be easiest for this but need to be the right size for the small die. I used a computer generated greeting.

2. Take the middle section of the die, marked A. above, and emboss the die pattern on the greeting, using the tan mat in Big Shot/ Cuttlebug embossing machine. (Do NOT cut - just emboss)

HINT: Test this embossing step out on a scrap piece of card as it helps to line things up well, and sort out how much pressure to use as too much will spoil it.

3.Use a flat ink applicator and ink evenly the exposed areas of the die cut (I used a sponge applicator) with ink of choice. Make sure you dont make it too dark, and hide the writing -I did on first one!

4.Cut out a large white card frame with the outside Square stitch die and the larger scallop marked B. in photo above.

5. Using 3D mounts place carefully the frame on top of the inked smaller inside square greeting to frame it beautifully.

Spray lightly with Diamond Dust Glimmer mist if desired.

6.Choose patterned paper from stash to size of card you are making (used the very lovely glittery Papermania A4 Paper Pack Henbury Lane) and mount on the card of choice.

Then  add frame mounted on more 3D mounts, as shown in first photo.

7.Add across the lower section of almost completed card some delicate lace from Kaisercraft Lace Pack - White. Add three clear bling to the end to complete your first card! 

Materials:

Nellie Snellen Square Stitch Die

3D Foam Blocks

 Papermania A4 Paper Pack Henbury Lane

Kaisercraft Lace Pack - White

 Adhesive Jewels - Clear

White Card

Perfect Pearls Mist

Spellbinders Tan Mats

Cuttlebug

Lavender dye ink pad,

Greeting of choice.

 

 For the second card today using the very versatile Multiframe dies - Nellie Snellen Square Stitched die . 

1.Take the Cuttlebug Textile Embossing folder and ink it up on the positive side (the side with the name on it Cuttlebug). I used a lavender ink but could have used the Adirondack Light Cool Peri. 

HINT: If it is a light ink, you can just rub the ink pad over the surface to get a good coverage.

However when it is a dark shade (like here) use a brayer, for more even coverage.

2.With Big Shot emboss a piece of white card to make a lovely sheet of mauve embossed card.

3. Chose a computer generated greeting "Thinking Of You!' printed in black on white card.

4. Take the smallest Square Stitch die from the Nellie Snellen Multiframe as shown above. 

Cut the greeting and then emboss with tan mat. Make sure you leave the cut and embossed card IN the die, for the next stage.

5. Ink evenly the exposed areas of the die cut (I used a sponge applicator) with the same ink used on the folder. Make sure you dont make it too dark, and hide the writing -I did on first one! 

Spray the Textile embossed sheet and the Nellie Snellen Square with  favourite -  Diamond Glimmer mist.

6.Mount on Textile die in centre approximately. Add roses of choice like the Fuchsia ones at CMO, at top right, with little silver thread and ribbon.

7. Cut lace edge die (similar to Marianne designs lace )and attach it with DST to the bottom of f textile cardstock

8. Attach with DST(double sided tape)to Mauve card stock; then onto white card.

Ingredients:

1. Cuttlebug Textile Embossing folder

2. Adirondack Dye ink - Cool Peri 

3. Big Shot

4. Tan mat

5. Mounting tape;  Double sided tape

6. Kaisercraft Fuchsia Roses

7. Marianne Lace edge Die

White and mauve card, Computer generated greeting, sponge applicator, Diamond Glimmer mist, silver thread and ribbon.

Thanks so much everyone for popping over for a peek and chat and may God bless your day wherever you may be.,
Shaz in Oz.x

Oriental Lantern Peels Offs On Vellum - Cardmaking Online DT Tutorial

Hi there everyone - here is is a very different card for you today!

1. Choose Peel Off Oriental lanterns which you would like to use for this project. You may need to refer to the Card layer size to guide you in choice.
2. Lift out lantern outline with pricking tool, place on plain Vellum.
3. Take Gelly Roll pens and colour  on top of vellum the inside detail of lanterns, using colours to match the papers chosen.
TIP: Shade and blend as you go - remember to use primary colours to get secondary colours if necessary ie red and yellow make orange, add bit of blue to this and you have brown, etc. Test colours on scrap of vellum first.
4. Use curved scissors to cut around fine outside edge of the peel offs.
5.Take the card layer of choice ( Oriental Garden bridge) and turn it over use scraps to shade in spaces at the back (see photo below). For the lotus flower the glitter card from previous card was used, for leaf a piece of green plastic, and a piece of gold from another card for Chinese building and corrugated card for bridge.

6. Adhere the coloured lantern shapes to the decorated card layer with small 3D mounts.

7. Use a silver peel off border straight line to make the ;lanterns look as if they are hanging lanterns.
8.Attach to Oriental paper set - these  sheets are lovely!
9. Add to blue card to match oriental paper, with double sided tape and attach to black card base.

 Products Used:
1. Plain vellum 
2. Oriental lantern peel offs.
3. Gelly Roll pens used Sparkling glitter ones
4. Curved Scissors
5. Oriental garden bridge card layer
6. 3D mounts 
7. Peel offs straight borders silver
7. Oriental papers
8. Double sided tape.

Blue and black card for base, other scraps as detailed above.

Thanks so very much for popping over for a peek and a chat.. as this is a pre-set post, I cannot repay your kindness by visiting you as things are still very busy .. till end of May.

May God bless your day wherever you may be.
Shaz in Oz.x

Roses are - Pink! Cardmaking Online DT Project

Hi there everyone! trust things are well with you today.
This is a card I have to share with you for Cardmaking Online.
Please (pretty please:D) do pop over to our blog and leave a comment on the post there - so that they know that you have been over (thanks so VERY much).
Even better join our humble blog. There are number of very talented crafters with diverse skills to whet your appetite and to inspire you! and it is important to encourage early beginnings which our new blog is!

Here is my card - Roses are ....pink!

1.Take 3D Studiolight Rose Frame2 and separate the pieces. 

As these are pre-cut they make life much easier! this one is lovely.

2. Mould and shape the pieces with the shaping tool on the red foam mat, as shown below.

3. Use 3D mounts to layer up the layers starting from the bottom, making sure the shaping is covering the right areas of layer underneath.

TIP: Use pricking tool to place the 3D mounts on the pieces and to remove the waxed paper squares from the mounts.

4. Attach to frame of rose picture.

5. Carefully use brush applicator of Gloss Kote to cover the raised areas of the rose to highlight it with a glossy sheen.

 6. Attach frame to a square of pink card and place a happy Birthday greeting with peel oss in top left corner place pink card on the very pretty glitter paper to match. Mound on white card to size.

 Products Used:
1. 3D Studiolight Rose Frame2
2. Shaping tool
3.Red foam mat
4.3D mounts
5.Pricking tool
6.Gloss Kote
7. Glitter Fuchsia paper
8. Peel Offs Birthday gold
White and pink card.
Thanks so much everyone for popping over for a peek and chat and may God bless your day wherever you may be.,
Shaz in Oz.x

Teabag Lace Die - Card Making Online DT - Tutorial

Hi there everyone! trust things are well with you today.
This is a tutorial I have done to share with you for Cardmaking Online.
Please (pretty please:D) do pop over to our blog and leave a comment on the post there - so that they know that you have been over (thanks so VERY much).
Even better join our humble blog. There are number of very talented crafters with diverse skills to whet your appetite and to inspire you!!

1. Take the pretty peony teabag folding paper, cut it and I used the small ones on the sheet.Fold it in the traditional star pattern (see here for a clear guide).
2.Cut lace Classic Rozette Die on white cardstock, and emboss with tan mat. Lift up cut strips to make spiral around the outside.
3.Mount teabag on top of this spiral with 1mm mounting tape.
3.Cut pink card from Papermania A4 pack Hendbury lane( a delicious pack of 24, some is tastefully glittery). Emboss with Trendy Braid folder and slightly distress surface to make pattern pop.
4. Add the embossed paper to white card add then the spiral lace die with the teabag on top. Attach lace from Kaisercraft white lace pack to the bottom of the card as shown above.

5..Peel off Happy Birthday greeting and flower - these were silver but wanted to highlight the purple tones in the teabag. Take two ordinary permanent markers as shown, blue and red. If you remember the colour wheel from school, red and blue make purple.  It must be standard permanent markers on peel offs and bling, as others dont work. It looks a very shimmery purple with highlights of red/ blue all at once and is very pretty IRL.
TIP: Use the pricking tool to handle the peel offs, lay it up the stem of the tool, this supports it while preparing to place on card stock..
5.Lift outline of flower out and colour the petals only on the waxed sheet from which peel offs come. Do same for the happy birthday  greeting  and bling - three clear ones as shown, stick them on the wax peel off (the spare part of sheet to colour also.)
4.Add greeting to top left of card; put the outline of flower underneath and then add the inside coloured petals.
5. Add  the lovely Kaiser lace and coloured bling.
Another way to use the Lace die is to use it with double sided paper, or as I did in this piece here.

I inked this sample in pink and purple ink, then pasted with glue stick white paper to the back. I cut the die and embossed (highlighted raised edge while in die with chalk ink). The cut die was then woven for the lace edge around. I sprayed lightly with my favourite glimmer mist Diamond dust. I did not use it for this card though, as decided the plain white looked better.

Items used:

• Chinese Peony Folding paper,  
• cArt-Us Trendy Braiding Embossing folder, 
• Kaisercraft Lace Pack - White, 
• Lace Die - Classic Rozette,  
• Papermania A4 Pack - Hendbury Lane,  Peels off Happy Birthday 300, 
• Clear Bling embellishments; Joy 1mm Mounting tape;        
• Double sided; tape; Pricking tool 
• White cardstock, Red and blue permanent markers.

Thanks so much everyone for popping over for a peek and chat and may God bless your day wherever you may be.,
Shaz in Oz.x

Big Announcement! Design Team for Cardmaking Online

Well, there were rumours abroad that there was a big announcement to be made on this 'ere blog! (deep breath) Here we go! (and to WOYWW-ers, thanks for being patient - did not mean to be a tease just not time..)

 I have been chosen (much to my great surprise and delight) to be one of the members of the brand new Aussie Design Team for Cardmaking Online - do check out their online store here... and their BRAND new blog here!

The observant among you might have noticed this on my sidebar some weeks ago, plus the list of the other wonderfully talented members of the team, who are listed below. Please do take a peek at their blogs linked in their names and be inspired as I have been!

• Jan of Scissor Fingers
• Sandie of Delightfully Crazy Blogspot
• Sharon of My craft Cupboard
• Vicky of Vicky Pedlow Designs

So as you know the type of items on sale there, I am posting card I made for an amazingly special lady as it uses the kind of items found in their store..mostly of the European ilk. I am really excited about what we shall be creating with the new DT!

 

As you can see this card is for a 90th birthday! How many 90th birthday cards have you made in your life, dear fellow crafters?
The card also really qualifies for Di's snippets challenge this week,so pop along to the playground for that is if you dare - yep they dip your pigtails in the inkwells over there in the playground!

The elements in this card are as follows:

• the centre square piece is the snippet - it is really a vellum die meant for hand embossing - and have had it for simply ages - and bought it for four dollars many years ago. It is a discontinued Marianne die, rather similar to this Marianne die here.  I was playing one day and tried embossing it on the cuttlebug with the tan mat only embossing, it was not a cutting die. Then hand-cut around the edge and the centre square also, and mounted it on firm card to support it as the frosted paper was like vellum.
• Next snippet was the 3D mount of the columbine (this is discontinued one, but they also have great 3D pre-cut ones I do love these!). I love Columbines or Aqualegia or Granny's bonnets or what ever you call them! I love 3D and sometimes have them made up ready like this to put on card and find doing them very relaxing.
• Then made the extended base in Craft Concepts Embossing Folder - A2 Budding Vine.
•  greeting is computer generated, on Spellbinders Fancy tags2 and small pearls plus a "90" in Olivia cuttlebug die.

Many thanks everyone for popping over for a peek and chat and may God bless your day wherever you may be,
Shaz in oz.x