tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81674133635581982632024-02-19T16:09:44.511+00:00Sarah's Crafty NookSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.comBlogger254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-73390566072816868282018-12-23T02:35:00.000+00:002018-12-23T02:35:48.474+00:00Hello my crafty friends, Merry Christmas and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all well and ready for Christmas if you celebrate it. I'm nearly ready, we've just got food shopping to do in the morning and I've a couple of presents to wrap for my lovely husband. I broke my little toe on my right foot a few weeks ago which is why I've not added a post for a while (and my mojo is still rather on the thin side, I'm hoping some crafty goodies in the sales will fatten it up in the new year)you might be puzzled why a broken toe would affect my ability to craft and in some ways it hasn't, what's been the challenge has been getting into my craftroom in the first place then trying to elevate the foot as I craft and to be perfectly frank my crudy is too small to comfortably do either. At one point I did grab a couple of crafty items along with my trusty Big Shot machine so I could craft with my leg up and I made 24 double layered Christmas tags for the presents. I did manage to get a couple of hours crafting in my actual crudy and though my mojo is in slow Mo mode I made two birthday cards. One is for my great niece who is one on the 27th and the other is for my youngest nephew who will be eleven on the 29th. The first card is a side folding card featuring a Fuzzy Lemon carasel horse which I embellished with golden hooves and pole, gold stamped flowers and confetti glitter on the saddle, mane and tail. I mounted the horse on black card to make it pop and made my own glitter card by adding a tacky glue to the outer edges on another piece of black card stock and then sprinkled more of the confetti glitter onto the sticky glue. Both black pieces were die cut using a nesting die set from my stash. I covered the front of a pre-made card blank with some funfair paper from Dovecraft, it's from a few years ago and has lots of glittery papers in the stack. I added the layered pieces on the front and added a mini envelope inside so I could add some money to the card.
The second card was made using the Whizz Kids collection from Dovecraft - it's one of my favourite collections and I have quite a few of the paper packs, although I'm not a huge fan of decoupage, I do wish I'd picked up the pad when I had the chance as it would has been very useful for this card. I ended up using a couple of the stickers from the sticker pack, a photo frame, a sentiment sticker, a couple of blue buttons and papers from the 6"×6" paperstack. I made my nephew an impossible card with a mini envelope containing money at the back of the main image. This made it very top heavy so I made a folding stand which I attached next to the mini envelope so the main topper stands upright but it all still folds flat. I had to make a bespoke envelope using my envelope punch board which I also used to make the mini envelopes in both projects.
I am writing this on my phone which erases all paragraph breaks and won't allow me to add photos within the main body of text so the photos will follow after the writing ends.
I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and until next time - keep crafting!
Love and crafty hugs,
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Mini clipboard for Christmas lists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLW0rS3DeVNR1hSQ8Qs4mSdtiq0W9imTvqTSZaX84gj4TtJR90Fou-0tteBHD-QX08-ROOql5yd9Pd7ylP9BFsI6TcApKQfsvDF51qZaZP3DxeAbCx6IWc-lxuvlv_twrE8yMfOSEMQmA/s1600/IMG_20181118_220711.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLW0rS3DeVNR1hSQ8Qs4mSdtiq0W9imTvqTSZaX84gj4TtJR90Fou-0tteBHD-QX08-ROOql5yd9Pd7ylP9BFsI6TcApKQfsvDF51qZaZP3DxeAbCx6IWc-lxuvlv_twrE8yMfOSEMQmA/s640/IMG_20181118_220711.jpg" width="480" height="640" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="1600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDno7oAgzwQ4my8DVu1oS5aofuYXTX4S8b42g40eEeZ6I6VmRFLhTZyPPq8KbixAV2JPzCEfAxpGzTrHZG5qSNUtHfsZIaPLz0zpSIZml645jRGUKMBotLy6zqPP03lgqZcgeVyQlqlBg/s1600/IMG_20181118_220802.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDno7oAgzwQ4my8DVu1oS5aofuYXTX4S8b42g40eEeZ6I6VmRFLhTZyPPq8KbixAV2JPzCEfAxpGzTrHZG5qSNUtHfsZIaPLz0zpSIZml645jRGUKMBotLy6zqPP03lgqZcgeVyQlqlBg/s640/IMG_20181118_220802.jpg" width="480" height="640" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="1600" /></a></div>
Hello crafty friends and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you've all had a brilliant weekend, it's been rather quiet here in my crafty nook and I haven't been able to craft as much as I'd like because I managed to strain my right hand side coughing. It feels a lot better than it did when I first did it but it still really hurts to move so I've been taking things easy. I have managed to make a mini Christmas Village themed clipboard to keep all my Christmas lists in one place. I love making lists (and crossing things off) and at this very busy time of the year it makes sense to keep them together. The clipboard didn't take very long to make and is made from a spare piece of mount board which I covered with half a sheet of scrapbook paper taken from the Dovecraft Christmas Village 12"x12" pack. It was stuck down to the board with a combination of red liner tape and glue as I want to use this during the Christmas runup for years to come. I have some mini binder clips on my desk which I usually use to hold things together while glue is drying and I thought I could spare one for this project. I was planning on sticking it to the board using hot glue but realised that the opening and closing action would quickly work the binder clip loose. I decided to add a slit to the board and thread the back of the clip through leaving the lever and front of the binder on the decorated side. I cut a little bit more than I should so covered the excess cut marks with large adhesive gems. I added some smaller gems to the clip then cut some printer paper to 4" wide by 8", stacked them together and added them under the clip. At this point I decided to make a pen loop out of a scrap of paper from the same collection and I added it to the left hand side with some strong glue. I'm left handed which is why the pen is on the 'wrong' side of the clipboard.
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I hope you like my little project, I absolutely love my prize from Making Cards magazine and have loads more projects whizzing around my head - it's just finding the time and space to make them! If you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!
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Love and crafty hugs Sarah xx xx Sarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-40593160427321525622018-11-18T07:25:00.001+00:002018-11-18T07:29:02.880+00:00Blog Challenge - yay! Hello crafty friends and welcome to my crafty nook. I hope you are all well and having a great weekend. It's been quite a while since the last blog challenge and so Michele and I thought we should challenge each other for a final time this year. As always this is just for fun and everyone is welcome to join in. Michele had the excellent idea to challenge each other to look at our stamps and dies in new ways and using non Christmas stamps and dies (either or both, it's up to you!) make a Christmas themed card (or more - why not make some batch cards?) We can use an additional five items (Christmas papers, gems, glitter etc) as well as basic craft items (please leave a comment on this blog post if you need more details on any part of this challenge) if you want to make things extra challenging you could try making a Christmas card without ANY Christmas supplies apart from a sentiment. If you don't celebrate Christmas, why not make a winter themed card instead. Now it's the run up to Christmas, I know that us crafters are even busier than usual so the closing date for this challenge is Christmas Eve, I will try to get the completed challenge blog up on or around the 27th December, I don't think I'll be able to post before that date because I will be having family around for Christmas Day and Boxing Day. I'll be prepping veg and sides on Christmas Eve and quite possibly food shopping (what a day to have to conquer your agoraphobia!) So pretty busy until the 27th, I will of course continue to post before then because I have a lot of projects in mind that I'm hoping to share. I look forward to seeing what everyone comes up with and until next time - keep crafting! ************************************************************
Love and crafty hugs - Sarah xxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-61877806014556771962018-11-16T03:54:00.000+00:002018-11-16T04:02:27.669+00:00Crafters who live in glass craftrooms shouldn't throw stones...Hello crafty friends and welcome to my crafty nook. In my last post I touched upon copyright infringement and how to avoid it when using social media. Wow, talk about timing! I've only found out about what is being called "stampgate" by certain individuals during the last 24 hours but it's something that's been known about for a while. I don't know all the facts so I will not name names but keep things general. One of my favourite crafter's/designers has been accused of copyright infringement, specifically directly copying a photo and having it produced as a stamp, the stamps aren't photo stamps but line drawings and the original photographer wasn't credited for his work or even informed that his images were being used. The designer involved as far as I know exclusively designs for one company and if she is not available to demonstrate her stamp and die range on one of the craft channels then the company will use one of it's own demonstrators in her place. This designer is very much loved by the crafting community and has chosen to absent herself from social media until her position is clarified which considering the viterol and spite that has been written on her Facebook post is probably a good idea and let's face it she's probably been advised to do so by the company that produces and sells her products and by her legal advisors. In no way am I condoning her actions if she has blatantly flatout copied images without consent BUT at this point we don't know and can't know all the facts. As I've previously stated this designer is incredibly popular and is probably under a lot of pressure to produce a set amount of stamp collections every year, I wouldn't be surprised if her employers (I've no idea if she is employed directly by them or just on a freelance basis but for ease I'll just call them her employers)specify a particular theme such as botanical, sports, fantasy or whatever because let's face it crafts like most things in life has fads and trends and many craft companies like to jump on the bandwagon if they don't manage to come up with the current trend. We don't know the full facts at this point and we don't know how this designer goes about her creative process for all we know she might be sent a load of photos etc along with the brief and then has to come up with stamp designs. She might assume the images were uncopyrighted or that it had lapsed. This doesn't excuse the copyright infringement and if it was done deliberately then shame on her. But if you are still reading this ask yourself a few questions - how many times have YOU been guilty of copyright infringement? Don't think you have? Think again sunshine! Have you ever downloaded a photo/image from the internet, printed it out and used on a card or project? Unless you've bought it from an authentic seller or it's copyright free then your guilty of copyright infringement, have you ever turned your old Christmas cards into tags for the following year? Copyright infringement. What about that cute packaging you just had to save and reuse? Again possible copyright infringement. How many times have you gone on Pinterest because you need a card and your crafty mojo has left the building and even if you've not copied it exactly if you haven't credited the originator then that's a possible copyright infringement. Do you add tickets/programs to your scrapbook layouts and then shared it on social media or even just shown it a family member or friend? Technically copyright infringement. How about those paper packs we all love to buy and in my case hoard - have you ever scanned them into your computer and then printed them out? BLATANT copyright infringement! How about stamped images you've scanned and resized? Again blatant copyright infringement yet many crafters do it. Have you ever sold diecuts from the dies you have? I see it all the time on eBay and Amazon and most of the time it's a copyright infringement - if you don't believe me check out the angel policies, most companies allow you to sell a finished card or project but don't allow you to sell the diecuts. Have you ever bought an unbranded die or stamp? There's a fair chance that those are violating copyright somewhere and I'll admit it here I have unbranded dies and stamps in my stash and there's a good chance that makes me guilty of copyright infringement too even though I've not done it intentionally - tbh I try to buy the generic shapes because they aren't copyrighted. Let's face it an original design rarely stays exclusive to one company for long, most craft companies seem to copy each other's designs or are we supposed to believe they all come up with the same idea independent of each other just a bit later? Next we'll be asked to believe that the covermount gifts are really worth what the magazines claim! *Rolls eyes* My point is it's very easy to be guilty of copyright infringement and most if not all of us are guilty of it so let's not rush to condemn someone before we fully know the facts and even when we do know, cut them a bit of slack, it's so easy to judge and condemn others for things we are guilty of too. Afterall crafters who live in glass craftrooms shouldn't throw stones! ***************************************************†****************** Crafty hugs Sarah xx Sarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-86887751578306871662018-11-12T22:52:00.000+00:002018-11-12T22:52:38.560+00:00Trimcraft Christmas Village Bookatrix Easel card with floating snowflakesHello my crafty friends and welcome to my crafty nook! Wow it's been quite a while since my last blog post, it's taken me far longer than expected to get my crudy sorted after the electrics inspection - as it turned out the electrician took one look at what was left and decided it wasn't necessary to inspect every socket which I wish I'd known before half emptying it - still it gave me a good excuse to go through my stash and prune it down, I filled three massive bags with things for my youngest nieces which they loved. If I'm honest it hasn't made any difference, I'm still struggling to find homes for everything.
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I have managed to do a bit of crafting amongst the chaos, there's been a couple of faux Bookatrix cards on YouTube well I say faux some of the Tubers have called the cards plain old Bookatrix cards but the fact of the matter is, Bookatrix is the copyrighted name of a Keepsake embossing board and calling a card a Bookatrix without using the actual board is a copyright infringement. I'm not going to name names but I did inform the first person to let them know after checking with the inventors of the boards (or at least one of them Kathy Mills, one half of the Glitter Girls) and they changed the title of their video to Bookatrix style card - apparently they were doing the video after numerous requests and didn't know anything about it and thought that Bookatrix was just the name of an open book style card. Bookatrix boards and cards have been around for a very long time but it doesn't hurt to do a bit of research if you are going to blog/vlog/put on any social media about a card style if you're not sure about it's origins - the worst thing you can do is to take credit for someone else's idea. It's fine to tweak a card fold etc and put it out there but you should always try to credit where you originally saw the idea. Obviously after a card fold/style has been in the public domain for a while it's next to impossible to credit the originator unless like in this case a copyrighted product came out first.
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Anyway I'm off my soapbox now so it's time to share the details of my card. I used my Bookatrix embossing board to make three open book pages in decreasing order, the outer pages were made using some holographic card from my stash. The other pages were made using Trimcraft Dovecraft's Christmas Village 12"x12" papers and I decorated the inner pages with die cut holographic snowflakes using dies from my stash on the left page and a decoupage scene taken from the 8"x8" decoupage pad from the same Christmas Village collection. I made the Bookatrix card into an easel card by folding an A4 sheet of card in half and then folding one of the halfs in half again. I added panels of paper to the bottom of the easel then stuck the Bookatrix down to the folded half (I think most people know how an easel card works). I trimmed around the bottom of the stuck down Bookatrix so that the bottom of the easel mechanism matched the edge of the card. I added some diecut snowflakes to strips of acetate using Dovecraft glue (very strong once it dries but takes a while on slick surfaces) and added them to the top right of the card so they appear to float. I added a pre-made sentiment from the Christmas Village collection onto the stopper and that completed the card. I need to make an extra large box for it but that's something I can do another day.
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As usual I am writing this on my phone and it removes all my paragraphs (and sometimes changes words AFTER I've previewed it!!) I'm trying something new this time and have added rows of asterisks after each paragraph so hopefully you'll be able to see where new paragraphs start. Sorry it's been so long between posts, I should be adding a new blog challenge later this week and hopefully I'll get into a new routine soon. As always if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!
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Love and crafty hugs,
Sarah xxxxxx
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Sorry it's been nearly a month since my last post, my crudy is in an awful state still and I can't really craft in there so I've just not bothered to make anything. I even resorted to a card from my stash for one neice's birthday and I used a printed topper for my other niece who's birthday was yesterday. I'm going to share this second card with you today.i added the printed topper onto some trends Centura Pearl card from Crafter's Companion. I added this to a square card blank and went around the outside of it with Dovecraft's star confetti glitter glue. If you've not come across Dovecraft's confetti glue you should keep an eye out for it as it's a rather unique product. It comes in a selection of colours and shaped confetti, the one I used on this project was iridescent glitter and silver stars but others ones in my stash include red glitter and hearts or silver glitter and mixed snowflakes. It's a bit tricky to use as most glitter glues are (unless you are just highlighting an area) because it doesn't go on smoothly, the bottles have wide mouths which act like a spatula but it's still a messy job to get the confetti in an evenly spaced layer.
I finished the card by adding CC clear shimmer pen over the balloons. It's not my best card but at least I haven't resorted to buying one lol. I'm writing this up on my phone so the photos will follow after the text and the paragraphs will run into one (do not ask me why it does that!) Hopefully it won't be as long between blog posts. As always if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!
Love and crafty hugs,
Sarah xx
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- isn't it crazy that it's October already, it doesn't seem like five minutes since August began. Things have been busy here in my crafty nook with a lot of the dreaded housework being done (and redone several times!) and my crudy has been half emptied ready for yet another inspection being done which makes it 9 in the past 12 months though I am including the work resulting from one of the inspections as it caused a lot of disruption and stress. Hopefully this one and the one in two weeks will be the last of them for a while and we can get back to normality. As annoying as this all is there will be a positive outcome out of it, as about half of my stash is now in the lounge I'm planning on giving my crudy a thoroughly good clean then I'm going to go through my stash to see what I can donate or pass out to my young nieces. I know for a start that I have a Care Bears stamp kit unused in my stash that I'm sure my nieces would love to play with, I think I have a couple of others in my stash too along with a sticker maker which I've never used (in a huge box which takes up a considerable amount of room!) The more stuff I can rehome will have mean I have more room for new stuff! Which is a good thing because I have an Every Craft's A Pound order coming Friday - I should point out that a number of items are either Christmas presents or to be put away for next Easter (ooh aren't I organised!) Even with the presents to take into account I'm still going to need to make some room for my new goodies. Some new goodies I got recently was a lovely envelope of yumminess from Making Cards & Papercraft magazine - they recently had a question on their Facebook page and the best answers will be printed in their magazine, my answer was chosen as the best one (FYI, in the private message the answer was described as being informative and insightful *proud face*) my prize is a huge selection of items from Dovecraft's Christmas Village collection including papers is in 12"x12" and 6"x6", a decoupage stack, felt embellishments, stamps and matching dies and even gold coloured bells. I felt very inspired by the collection and it came at just the right time too because I wanted to make something using Trimcraft products so I could apply for the DT callout which closed on the 30th September. I made an acetate easel shaker card using the 6"x6" papers and one of the cute images from the decoupage pack and added some chunky gold glitter to make it into a shaker card. My second project using the collection was a set of 4 mini Christmas crackers, they don't have snaps in them because the ones I have were much too long so I added a couple of the bells to each one with some Baker's twine from my stash. I'm writing this on my phone so apologies for any typos that happen after the fact (some times words change for no reason) and for the fact there isn't any paragraphs - my phone likes to eat them! As always if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!
Crafty hugs,
Sarah xx xx
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Sarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-32926429325243834652018-09-23T21:22:00.000+01:002018-09-23T21:22:13.948+01:00Cardmaker of the Year 2018 Competition Entry.Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you've all had a great weekend, it's not been too bad here but you can tell the seasons have changed and there's a bit of a nip in the air especially in the morning. I hope whatever the weather, you've managed to get some crafting done.
The closing date for the CMOTY competition was the 14th September which was a good week or so ago and I think it's about time I shared the three cards I sent in as my entry. I'll be quite honest with you, I was in two minds about entering the competition because although I had a lot of ideas and had made a few things towards the cards, I didn't really have anything completed before Jinx fell ill then passed away. As you will know his death has really hit me hard and I've not felt up to doing much apart from housework (mindless distraction)which is pretty much a reversal of my usual inclinuation. Making a wedding card for our neighbours gave me the creative jolt I needed and I liked the card I made so much I decided to replicate it as one of the three cards needed, two thirds of the second card was diecut out and just needed assembling, once those two cards were made I just needed to come up with a third card. After a lot of failed attempts I finally decided to make an acetate flip circle card using the dies my lovely husband bought me for Valentine's Day this year. I love making acetate cards and after a quick internet search failed to come up with any acetate flip circle cards on Pinterest etc I decided to have a go at making one. I will say that acetate can be quite challenging to work with, it doesn't diecut smoothly and you get white lines where you score but I still think it gives a card a real wow factor especially when teamed with kinetic elements. I wanted to deliver a more professional entry this year so made bespoke envelopes for each card and a matching tag in an attempt to stand out from the other entries - I don't know if I've succeeded and I probably haven't even placed but I'm rather proud of myself for even entering at a very challenging time. Anyway enough blathering, as is the norm at the moment I'm adding this blog post using my phone so the photos will appear after the text and all the paragraphs I've stringently added will vanish without a trace once this post goes live so apologies for that. Hopefully the photos will be consecutive and not mixed up like they have been the last couple of posts.
As always if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!
Love and crafty hugs,
Sarah xxxxxx
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Sarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-42353965940096651822018-09-19T23:50:00.000+01:002018-09-19T23:50:30.051+01:00Copper Wedding Anniversary card shareHello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! Sorry it's been a while since my last post, Chris and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary last week. Chris bless him came down with a head cold the weekend before which I hoped I'd avoided only to wake up on our special day feeling dreadful. In one way I've been quite fortunate because the initial cold symptoms only lasted for a day or two (yay for avoiding turning into a snot goblin!) Instead I've just had a hacking cough which is worse at night so I've not had a lot of sleep for the past week, not only does it keep me from going to sleep but I wake up a few hours later needing to cough up stuff - sorry to be gross, sharing is caring lol. Upshot is I'm exhausted and in a lot of pain so I've not done a great deal of crafting even though I really want to, I just don't have the energy right now.
I did manage to get a couple of cards made, the first was an anniversary card for Chris, the second was an anniversary card from Chris - yes you read that right, because he started with man flu on the Friday before our anniversary and he always leaves things to the last possible minute, my beloved husband didn't have a card for me on our anniversary so rather than go without, I made my own for him to sign. I didn't mind too much because Mixed Up Craft shared a reverse easel card on YouTube and I thought it would look pretty cool made out of acetate. I wanted to make him a card with a copper heart and that's what I ended up making him though there were a few trial runs first before I settled on the version shown later in the post. I tried wrapping copper wire around a black chipboard heart but it looked dreadful, I tried painting diecut hearts using metallic copper SparkleIT Brusho powders but even when dry the resulting paint is highly water reactive and I couldn't get it to form a smooth layer of colour so that was another idea out the window. I then decided to cover a thick diecut heart (I layered 8 diecut black hearts together to make an extra thick heart) with copper embossing powder and heat set it to make a copper heart embellishment which is what I ended up using. It took about four layers of embossing powder to get a smooth finish and I'm not totally happy with the results because there are dips where I held it with a pair of reverse tweezers while it was being heated and the embossing powder isn't the bright copper Kettle colour I'd hoped for instead it's more a bronze colour. I have a sheet of copper circle outline stickers in my stash that I've owned but not used for over ten years, these are a gorgeous bright copper so I used them to make my own backing paper, I tucked some under the heart and had others hanging off the edges which I carefully cut away so I could use them to fill in any bare parts on the edges. I added a strip of copper embossed card to the side to tie in the copper heart and stamped a with love sentiment on the bottom right hand side.
The second card is an acetate reverse easel card with a dry embossed copper heart layered onto a black heart, I used 7 mini copper hearts as the stopper. I was hoping to use more copper on this card but discovered I only had a single sheet of copper foiled card stock so I had to be frugal with what I had. If you want to know how to make a reverse easel card then check out Mixed Up Craft's YouTube channel for her tutorial. It's a very easy card to make with only one fold different to a regular easel card.
As I'm writing this on my phone, I shall add the photos under the main text as I can't get it to be part of the main post, some of the photos may become a little out of sequence but hopefully they should still make sense.
As always if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!
Love and crafty hugs,
Sarah xx xx
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Sarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-6635346472347397002018-08-29T13:39:00.000+01:002018-08-29T13:39:00.598+01:00Still sad but life goes on....Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you've all been enjoying the recent hot weather, it's freezing in comparison today, in fact it's been on the chilly side all weekend. It makes a pleasant change though, so I'm not really complaining. The cooler temperatures have given me an opportunity to get some crafting done. Our neighbours got married about ten days ago and I made them a gold and black easel card, it was my niece's birthday a couple of weeks ago and my husband's birthday last week so I'll be sharing the cards I made for all three occasions. I'm writing this post on my phone and it won't allow me to add the photos within the text and I can't see in which order the photos come out in until I add the post to the blog (it just has a load of code showing instead of the photos) so the photos will follow the text like the last couple of posts.
The wedding card was made using a Sizzix Thinlets die set. The cake was die cut four times out of different card and I added gold details with some thick gold paint, this paint was thinned down to add splatters to the cake and to the black card pieces that make up the easel card and topper layer.
The card for my niece was made using a mermaid die set, I diecut the mermaid and coloured it in with Pro-Markers, I gave her red hair because my niece has red hair and I coloured her tail in a variety of Blues as blue is her favourite colour. I coloured the fish in rainbow colours with extra blues to make the fish numbers to nine (she turned nine). The mermaid is mounted on to a circle piece because she actually slides up from the rocks up to the fish using a slider channel. I added a uple of yellow fish to the inside along with a sentiment.
The Last card I made was a floating or invisible impossible card featuring a couple of saucy corsets 😉. I made this card using an acetate sheet cut to 5"x7" and scored and folded in the usual way, I was inspired by as recent YouTube tutorial by Sam AKA Mixed Up Craft who made a couple of acetate impossible cards and it reminded me of how much I'd enjoyed making the steampunk one a few months ago. The corsets were diecut out using a couple of dies from my stash, the black layer of the red and black corset has gold speckles on it because I used some of the card I had left from making the wedding card - I try to keep all my scraps of black card no matter how small because it's hard to get a true black card of a decent GSM and I don't have a huge amount of it in my stash. I made the red card layering pieces by stamping a lips pattern in versamark ink and heat embossing them with a crimson embossing powder. The sentiment was one from my stash.
I hope you like my latest makes, I'll try to add the last blog challenge which is now severely delayed soon but I really need to get my entry for the Cardmaking of the Year competition finished - I liked the wedding card so much that I've duplicated it as one of the entries, I've also half made a fence box card which I'm planning on turning into a get well card so I need to complete that and make a third card to complete the entry. The closing date is the 7th (I think!) September so I haven't got a great deal of time to complete them. Once that's completed and sent off, I hope to get on track with blogging on a more regular basis, saying that Practical Publishing magazines haven't had their Papercrafter of the Year competition announced yet and usually the two competitions overlap and that requires a project (always my Achilles heel) and two cards so that will take up quite a bit of time assuming they have the competition this year.
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That's pretty much everything caught up, if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!
Love and crafty hugs,
Sarah xxxxxx<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbRuPDZqflN97BBcOfU1UQ0Gr7CEOv1ZcIZFSfNn2tb5Vqpd7PKLE33mIBHUPHkVsConQBIK3p654xXJEjepjH1sd6YRbXKmShhQ79nSTR9cxfr6awh6dOG-iXM6d-nNd9foQzwUhWbk/s1600/IMG_20180816_110140.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinbRuPDZqflN97BBcOfU1UQ0Gr7CEOv1ZcIZFSfNn2tb5Vqpd7PKLE33mIBHUPHkVsConQBIK3p654xXJEjepjH1sd6YRbXKmShhQ79nSTR9cxfr6awh6dOG-iXM6d-nNd9foQzwUhWbk/s320/IMG_20180816_110140.jpg" width="240" height="320" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="1600" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqX24eW5_JodNCX4NdmEJY1-3t9lbSXkUjdzEFvloMELmjpWy-jnQmS5nQDn-hnnHS6P-7AOws7P_j0t_ggk5nb2l8l-T3LegaVVJwrl_PjhuPTj9200fYZbq7XPjmyR6905CrqyFz38U/s1600/IMG_20180816_110038.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Half of it is written but I haven't added any photos or anything. I'm not sure when it will be added.
My beloved cat Jinx passed away this morning and I'm feeling too sad to write about crafting. I'm going to have a short break from crafting/blogging, I need to grieve, I've had Jinx in my life for over 17 years, I watched him take his first breath and I was with him when he took his last. He's been such a huge part of my life and I can't imagine what I'm going to do without him, his passing has ripped my heart in two. 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All I have are a few photos I've taken since getting my new phone and I'd like to share a few here.
Sarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-85678022287448002702018-07-30T12:24:00.000+01:002018-07-30T12:24:06.195+01:0021st single wiper birthday card. Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook. I hope you've all had a good weekend. Sorry it's been so long since my last blog post, the recent hot weather made it unbearable to craft in my tiny crudy, yesterday was the first time in weeks that I've been able to make anything and even just making one card in the heat gave me a migraine (have you ever tried to colour in when you've got pre-migraine auras - it's next to impossible!) I still have the residue of the migraine so I'll keep this short.
The first card I'd like to share is one I made for my God Daughter's anniversary of her Baptism - she's a little angel so what could be more appropriate than an angel card. The image is from my stash and I coloured it in using Spectrum Noir Sparkle brush markers.
The second card I'd like to share is one I made for my nephew's 21st birthday.
I'm uploading straight from my phone and it's not doing things the way I'm used to so the photos may be after the text not within it as they usually are.
I hope you like my latest makes, the Christmas in July 5from5 challenge will be up on the next couple of days - fingers crossed! Until next time - keep crafting!
Love and crafty hugs,
Sarah xx xx
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Anyway whatever day of the week it is, I find spending some time in my crudy crafting usually gets me out of my bad mood. As a precaution, I'm planning on having a bit of a craft session if I have the time.<br />
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I'd like to share a card I've made for one of my best friends, it's his birthday on Sunday and as I've mentioned before, I find men's cards to be particularly challenging. I've spent quite a few hours in the last couple of days trying to come up with something, I experimented with ink blended backgrounds (which would probably be easier to make if I had more than two distress oxides - as good as they are they still have limitations if you only have two colours lol) and though I like the results, nothing seemed to be the right thing so I decided to save my background s for another day and made an impossible card instead .<br />
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Although some of the star elements look red or gold in the photos, all the stars were diecut out using silver foiled cardstock. Most of the stars were diecut out using unbranded dies from Ebay the exception being the largest star diecut which is a Crafter's Companion edge'ables die. It's actually a Christmas die but stars are great all year round. I teamed the silver stars with a deep blue card for a sophisticated look. I really like the look of this card, stars are great for men's cards and I think the silver and dark blue cardstock really go well together.<br />
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It's been pretty difficult to even get this post up because I'm using my phone again and it's now the fourth attempt writing this because everytime I accidentally moved my phone, it would delete the post without saving -- I'm being very careful not to move the phone as I type!<br />
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I hope you've enjoyed my latest make,as always if you have any questions or comments please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!<br />
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<br />Sarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-76133882650475965922018-07-10T06:32:00.000+01:002018-07-10T06:32:36.492+01:00Christmas in July Blog ChallengeHello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you have all had a good weekend and that the weather isn't too much for you. It's not actually too bad here on the Yorkshire coast and in fact we've had overcast skies for a couple of days with what my husband calls mizzle (mist/ drizzle) which hangs around in the air but doesn't reach the ground,<br />
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It might not be the weather for it but July is good time to start making your Christmas cards etc if you haven't already started. A lot of the craft companies have released their Christmas collections or are about to so there's lots of gorgeous crafty goodies to choose from. Tbh I'm not planning on buying any new Christmas products this time as I have boxes of stuff from previous years and I really need to use some of it up plus it's not going to be long before the craft magazines start churning out Christmas freebies so I need to make space for those.<br />
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This month's blog challenge is perfect for anyone with an already overflowing Christmas craft stash like me because I'd like you to shop your stash and make five cards and/or tags using five Christmas craft items. You can either make five cards, five tags or a combination of both - heck if you're really inspired you could make five of each! You can use basic craft items such as card, inks and adhesive but try not to go out and buy new items but instead adapt what you have available. The more you use up, the more space you'll free up for new goodies!<br />
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I've already made around twenty cards so to encourage me to stick to the challenge and not be tempted to cheat if life gets in the way (we have to have yet another flat inspection this time the electrics which means the electrician needs access to every single socket - most of ours are covered by furniture which means emptying the crudy again plus stuff in the bedroom - argh!!!) I am going to share them now. Don't worry, I made the cards in batches so you're not going to have to look at twenty plus photos lol. That's a point, you can either make five batch cards/tags or five bespoke ones, it's entirely up to you.<br />
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Made last year for my great-niece who decided not to make an appearance until after Christmas Day<br />
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Although the cards are made in batches, they are still individual cards because I have used different colours of card etc for each design. This means you can make multiples of the same design quickly while retaining that individual and handcrafted look.<br />
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I hope you like my examples of batch and bespoke Christmas cards and I really hope you'll join in this five from five Christmas in July blog challenge. The closing date is the 30th July which gives us a few weeks to get the cards made. I would love it if you joined in, if you'd like your cards etc to be added to the blog then please email me with photos and a few details of your makes by midnight on the 30th July so I can add a new blog post by the 1st August 2018. My email is craftynook@outlook.com. If you have any questions or comments then please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!<br />
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Love and crafty hugs,<br />
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Sarah xxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-55295380880433510412018-07-05T22:48:00.002+01:002018-07-05T22:52:16.968+01:00A few cards to share.Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I'm trying out my phone again and hopefully I'll be able to add photos this time. I've taken some using the phone camera and I've got to say I'm very impressed by the photo quality, of course what looks good on the screen doesn't necessarily look great on a blog post. Fingers crossed!<br />
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Well hopefully that's worked and the photos are all the same size. The photos uploaded a lot quicker than the PC but it took far longer to do everything else. I hope you like my latest makes . The cards are for my sister-in-law's partner and two of his children, both girls. The cat card is for a ten year old and the gorgeous Besties fairy is for a five year old. The cat card has a rip strip inside with money hidden under it. I was concerned that the five year old might rip the actual card opening it so I'll just add the money to the envelope. The final card is for my brother--in-law and is an impossible card made using a paper collection by Trimcraft and a shirt die set also by Trimcraft.</div>
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I hope you like my latest makes, I had a lot of fun making them and the Besties fairy card is my favourite, I coloured it in with Spectrum Noir Sparkle brush markers. I hope you have a brilliant weekend (it's Friday tomorrow!) and as always if you have any questions please leave them in the usual places. Until next time - keep crafting!</div>
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One of the changes mentioned in title is the way I'm writing thit blackog post - it's on my new "smart" phone. Tbh I'm not sure how smart a phone is when it's supposed to be an unlocked sim free phone but the only Sim that will fit it is a nano Sim card - mine is far too big to go in the slot so I've had to order a nano Sim card from my mobile provider and I'll have to add all my contacts manually which doesn't sound that "smart" to me! Frustratingly it won't read anything stored on my memory card so all my photos have vanished plus all the music I'd saved , I probably sound thoroughly ungrateful and really I'm not, it"s just I'm not great with new technology and this phone will take some getting used to.<br />
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I had hoped to add some photos to this post but they are all stored on the PC at the moment and I don't know how to take photos whilst blogging, something to try another day. I will update this post on the PC with photos later on. Please excuse any typos, predictive text comes up with some complete gobble-de-gook!<br />
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I've managed to lose two conplete paragraphs which is most vexing but goes along way to explaining why new technology and I don't get on - plus all the buttons are on the right hand side of the phone and as I am left handed I'm holding the phone in my right hand and I keep hitting the buttons by mistake which is driving me insane and this post has taken me nearly 3 hours to write.<br />
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Sarah xxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-29745035029787179692018-06-21T00:27:00.002+01:002018-06-21T00:27:52.171+01:00I'm back!!!Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I'm hoping you've noticed I haven't posted anything for quite sometime - this hasn't been by choice, our broadband stopped working late on Sunday the 2nd of June and it's taken until today (the 20th) to get it sorted. We were fairly confident that the problem was with the router but our broadband provider wouldn't take our word for it and made us pay for new filters, then asked us to test and replace if necessary the face plates that the filters plug into (they were fine!), then arranged to send an engineer to our flat but didn't put the right information on the 'ticket' and the line was checked for the second time at their end. Then after a wait of five days we rang up and a second engineer was booked. He did actually turn up (yay BT engineer - our provider doesn't actually have any) and quickly decided the router was the problem (the lack of lights and our troubleshooting problem saying it was the router was a bit of a giveaway), our provider wouldn't accept his opinion and made him do countless tests which all confirmed that as we'd been saying ALL ALONG that the router was the problem. He then said he'd send in a report to our provider and they'd order a new router. By Saturday we'd still not got our router so we rang yet again to find out what was going on and we were told that they'd rung us on Thursday to see if we wanted another router sending. The mind completely boggles! No of course we don't want a new router sending what with us having perfect access to broadband without a working one (!) How stupid is that?? I would have thought it would be self evident that if someone has rung up numerous times to complain about having no internet and having an engineer state categorically that a new router is needed then one is needed to be sent - it's not like I could go online to price the damn things up what with not having any internet thanks to a broken router ffs!! I did look them up in the Argos catalogue but they don't actually sell them and in any case I don't see why I should pay extra for a new router when you can't access the internet without one and I'm paying a shed load of money to have broadband provided by my internet supplier! As you can probably tell I am far from being amused by the whole situation which should have been resolved two weeks ago and would have been if they had just listened to what we were telling them (and in all honesty if their staff knew what they were supposed to do!) *takes a couple of deep breaths* Anyway the problem seems to be resolved apart from our antivirus etc is having problems connecting to the internet to update etc but hopefully that will resolve itself - especially as I don't have a clue how to fix it if it doesn't - oh well say la vie!<br />
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Sarah xxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-48695954804737904682018-06-02T23:54:00.000+01:002018-06-02T23:54:19.117+01:00Blog Challenge Cards and why I'll no longer be promoting the magazines I subscribe to on my blogHello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all well and enjoying the weekend. It's very hot and muggy here on the Yorkshire coast and we've had a couple of downpours of heavy rain. I've got a dreadful headache which is making me a bit grumpy - I always do when the weather's this oppressive, tbh it's probably not helped by going to bed at 3am then waking up again at 5.10am - two hours is really not enough sleep! No-one asked to join in with the blog challenge but never mind Michele has made a couple of gorgeous cards and I have some to share with you all too.<br />
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Wow doesn't Michele's card look amazing!!! I love the bright colours she used and the background paper really goes well with the theme.I love the 3D bubbles too!<br />
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I don't actually drink takeout coffee because I like my coffee very weak (I drink a mild instant coffee usually black) and most coffee shops add shots of strong coffee to their drinks - I have to add a zillion spoons of sugar just to be able to drink it lol so stick to tea when I'm out. However this card looks good enough to drink! Michele made this using a freebie from Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine. I love the coffee bean stenciling and the faux coffee ring marks on the backing paper.<br />
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My first card uses `the dies in the usual way and I combined them with the impossible card fold and a Wizz Kids paper pack. For my second card I tried to use the dies in a different way and turned the fish bowl into a wide vase for a bouquet of flowers, I added a vellum piece to give the vase a frosted look and layered it on a black background. It looked a bit bare so I added some glittery splatters for added interest. The flowers were die cut using flower dies from my stash and the leaves were cut out using a Memory Box leaf stem die.<br />
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Michele and I have enjoyed sharing our creations using magazine freebies but this sort of blog challenge will be the last one for a while. Michele and I like a lot of people are subscribers to various magazines and as a subscriber you have a certain expectation of the level of service you receive. In recent months a number of magazines that we both subscribe to have fallen short of that expectation. As a subscriber you expect to receive your copy of the magazine a few days before it becomes available to buy in the shops and you also expect to have exactly the same so called "FREE GIFT" that non-subscribers receive, however that really isn't the case. Copies of our magazines primarily ones published by Practical Publishing are frequently late - in one instance earlier in the year one magazine arrived TEN DAYS after it became available to buy in the shops, sometimes they arrive the day before they go on sale but it is now the norm that they turn up the day it goes on sale or a day or two later. This isn't good enough but what particularly grates on me is the fact that subscribers don't get the same so called "FREEBIES" if these gifts are indeed FREE why do non-subscribers regularly get extra ones that subscribers are denied? The latest example is the free gift with Papercraft Essentials Magazine, in last month's issue it states that the free gifts are a stamp and die set with a bonus embossing folder yet subscribers DIDN'T receive the bonus embossing folder with this month's issue. This is blatantly unfair to subscribers and I don't feel that I can continue to promote the magazines involved through my blog and as a result I will not be sharing cards made with the freebies on this blog. There is an exception to that, I'm not yet a subscriber but hope to be soon to a magazine called Making Cards - I frequently buy it direct online because their free gifts are brilliant, the magazine is about market value so not overpriced unlike a lot of Practical Publishing magazines (I've noticed the coverprices have creeped up substantially the past 18 months!) they don't charge you postage to send you their mags direct unlike moremags.com (very expensive and bloody slow! Your mag can be out of date by the time you actually get it!) and subscribers get exactly the same free gifts as non-subscribers. Plus I really like the quality of the free gifts, quite frankly about one third of the freebies with Practical Publishing are utter crap and go in the "might use if I run out of better things to use" box (most still in there!) rather than my regular stash - a lot of the freebies lack imagination and originality (I mean honestly how many butterfly/dragonfly/floral stamps does one crafter actually need?? They're even repeating themselves now - we got a dragonfly stamp and die set a few years ago and the exact design earlier in the year just slightly bigger *rolls eyes*) If there is a particularly good free gift AND it is as stated in the magazine, then I may share cards I've made on Facebook or Twitter but until things improve I'll not be sharing them here.<br />
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Hope that wasn't too much of a rant - I feel very let down by Papercraft Essentials Magazine and their parent company Practical Publishing, I have been a very loyal subscriber for years (over ten for some magazines) and I've been left feeling very unappreciated by their unfair treatment of subscribers.<br />
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Hopefully my next card share will be a lot less angry lol, I hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend and until next time - keep crafting!<br />
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Love and crafty hugs,<br />
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Sarah xxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-73552697886529214402018-05-24T04:27:00.000+01:002018-05-24T04:27:52.613+01:00A Shabby Chic-y Pillar Fold CardHello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you've all had a brilliant week and have something fabulous planned for the weekend. It's another Bank Holiday weekend here in the UK which probably means it'll be raining lol. It doesn't make much difference to me personally because we don't tend to go out on Sundays or Bank Holidays since they stopped the town buses, if we do go out we have to get a taxi there and back which is rather costly as you can imagine. I'm hoping to get lots of crafting done, cricket starts later today which should keep my hubby occupied. You'll have to excuse any typos or general rambling in this post as I'm actually writing it at 3.30am! I love watching The 100 on E4 but it clashed with other programmes I watch so I had to stay awake until 3am to watch it (well worth it!) I used the time in between programmes productively though and tried a new to me card fold called the Pillar Fold Card - I saw a tutorial by Mixed Up Craft on YouTube (she's rapidly becoming one of my favourite crafters) and I've adapted it slightly as Sam used a piece of card 6" x 12" and I made my version using an A4 sheet of card cut to 6 1/2" by the A4 length. Here is a link to Sam's video tutorial on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-qBlOx0OA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT-qBlOx0OA</a> .<br />
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I made this card pretty much the same way that Sam did apart from the scoring is slightly different on one side. I cut the A4 card down it was 6 1/4" in height but with the full length of the A4 remaining - I can't really give you the exact measurement because whoever came up with A4 decided it should be a really stupid length - it's about 8 1/4" in width (21cm) but lengthways it's 29 and a bit cms, but to be honest it doesn't really matter what the actual length is because after scoring the card on the left side I rotated the card and did the exact same scorelines on the other side so they are both equal. If you want to make a card like this and don't have any plain 12" x 12" cardstock to cut down, just use A4 like I have. From the left side score at 1/4", 1 1/4", 2 1/4" and 3 1/4" then rotate your card so the score marks are to the right hand side and repeat the scorelines. Burnish the scorelines on both sides and add strong double sided tape to the 1/4" flaps on the ends. Decorate the middle panel and the panels of the Pillars with decorative paper - I used K&Company Brenda Walton 8.5" x 8.5" designer papers which have been languishing in my crudy for YEARS!!!! I cut the papers approximately 1/4" smaller than the panels so that there's a 1/8" border around them, I actually did my first try at this design with a complete sheet of A4 and decorated it with 8" scrapbook papers so it's possible to go from 5" in height up to 8 1/4" depending on if/how you cut your card so it's best to just measure the panels of your card and cut your designer paper accordingly. The bridging piece was cut to 5" by 2" and layered with a piece of designer paper 1/4" smaller to leave the border as shown. It's quite difficult to explain how to make the pillars so bear with me or better still check out Sam's video so she can show you how to do it. Basically what you need to do is decorate the card with the mats, remove the liner tape on the 1/4" flap and fold it over facing the inside of the card along with the next scored panel so that there are only two panels facing you, press down and 'pop' up the column pulling it up until it forms the pillar. Repeat on the other side and add the bridging piece. I found it easiest if I folded the columns flat and lined the left edge of the bridge piece with the left edge of the flattened column - I added 3/4" wide d/s tape to each end of the bridging piece and stuck down the left side first. I then pushed both the columns down and carefully removed the backing from the tape, lining the right edge of the bridge piece with the right hand edge of the card, once stuck the columns pop back up once pressure is removed. I then decorated it with a 3D butterfly die cut out of the same papers as the panels using a Memory Box Butterfly die (die cut three times and stuck wing to wing so it pops up, I wrapped thin black wire to form the body and it's feelers) a birdcage cut out of foiled card using a Marianne's Design die and a layered flower using a generic die from my stash. I added gold pearl effects to the centre of the flower and stamped a sentiment onto a small tag which I then tied to the birdcage with some black and white bakers' twine. This card probably isn't a truly shabby chic card but as near as I can get it - the layered shabby look just looks messy when I attempt it but I really love this version! I've made this card for my friend's birthday but I'm half tempted to keep it for myself as I think it's really pretty.<br />
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I hope you like my latest card, please check out Sam's video (link above) and let me know if you give this a try yourself - I'd love to see what you come up with. Have a great weekend my lovely crafty peeps and until next time - keep crafting!<br />
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Love and crafty hugs,<br />
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Sarah xxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-10564094758499450262018-05-19T21:20:00.000+01:002018-05-19T21:20:24.444+01:00I can see right through you..... (or I can see clearly now, the card has gone... lol)Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all enjoying the weekend, here in the UK the big event has been of course the Royal Wedding which I have cheerfully avoided ;) the only wedding's that's interested me this week was the SHAMY wedding on TBBT which happened on Thursday on E4 - I thoroughly enjoyed it and can't wait to see what happens in the next series.<br />
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Have you ever had an idea for a card but not had time to actually make it and end up kicking yourself because someone else makes it first so it looks like you've copied them when you finally get around to it? Well I'm very much kicking myself at the moment! As you've probably noticed I'm really loving the impossible card which has taken the card making community by storm. It was shown first on FB by the Trimcraft Blog team, quickly picked up by a couple of people on YouTube and is now everywhere, I'm on a constant lookout for new card blank designs and was pretty much one of the first peeps to blog about them after first seeing the post on FB then googling it and coming up with only two tutorials on YT. About a week or so ago I was wondering if you could make one out of acetate but I had a shed load of other cards to make and tbh I wasn't really sure where my sheets of acetate were at that point (I've been trying to save some of my good acetate recently by using old packaging when making pop up box cards etc so I put my acetate away to prevent me from using it out of habit). and decided to make a clear impossible card at a later date. The upshot of it is the Trimcraft Blog have beaten me to it and have a very quick tutorial on YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqoANHY0I3Q">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqoANHY0I3Q</a> with their version of a see through impossible card. My attempt is a lot more see through than theirs because I've not put any layers on mine, just a topper and a few steampunk elements.<br />
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In a way I'm grateful that Trimcraft made their card first because I probably wouldn't have made a card template to put behind the acetate and use it to cut the various lines like I did after viewing the tutorial, I'm not exactly known for taking the easy option in things and would have struggled with measuring and marking a very slippy surface if left to my own devices whereas putting the template behind the acetate (I held it in place with a couple of bulldog clips to prevent the acetate shifting while I cut) and cutting through both the acetate and the card is a much smarter and easier way of doing things - I've kept the template in a pocket of my card shape notebook for future use. So if you want to make one of these see through cards yourself I'd recommend making a paper or card template first just to make things easier. My acetate is cut to 5" x 7" but because the clock topper overlaps the top edge of the card base, I'll need to make an extra large envelope for it before it can be posted. I wanted to make a steampunk themed acetate card because I love steampunk and I had a couple of Memory Box Steampunk Corner diecuts left over from the first anniversary card I made for my sister and brother-in-law earlier in the week (see below for photos). I've actually still got those diecuts because I realised that it would be incredibly time consuming (and fiddly!) to try and glue them to the acetate without making a complete mess of things and it would be a lot simpler to cover the back of the foiled card with d/s tape and die cut them out again using the Memory Box die. Once it was die cut it was a simple matter to just peel all the backing off and stick it onto the acetate as shown. There was a little bit of the die cut overhanging the acetate but I just trimmed those parts off and added them to the acetate in a different place. I also used Keys & Keyholes die plate by Die-Versions for the keyholes and the Make Time Perfect Partners Time Traveller die by Sheena Douglass/Crafter's Companion which was die cut twice. I also used a Sizzix Bigz circle die for the black circles behind the clock faces. I think this card's got a real wow factor but I'm not sure who I'm going to send it to, it might just end up in a box waiting for a home.<br />
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Here are a couple of other cards I've been making this week. It was my nephew's 15th birthday on the 15th and my sister's first wedding anniversary on the 16th (it was also my God Daughter's first birthday on the 17th but I forgot to charge the batteries for my camera so didn't get to take any photos!)<br />
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The music/star themed impossible card had a mini seed packet on the underside with some money for my nephew. Black and silver may not be a traditional colour combo for an anniversary card but I think it looks very classy and I'm really pleased with how it turned out.<br />
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I hope you like my latest makes, I'm hoping to create a few more cards during the rest of the weekend. Whatever you've got planned I hope have a good weekend and until next time - keep crafting!<br />
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Love and crafty hugs,<br />
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Sarah xxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-58210356987931281732018-05-17T19:59:00.000+01:002018-05-17T19:59:11.269+01:00A Card ShareHello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all well and looking forward to the weekend. Here are a few cards that I've been making recently including a few I made a while ago but haven't shown until now.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The card I made for my lovely friend Michele who was one of the few peeps who said thank you! I (heart) Michele </td></tr>
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These cards have all been sent (some quite a while ago) and I assume received but only two people have either thanked me or let me know that they've got them. I know it's only a card and if I'd gone out and bought one off the shelf then I wouldn't expect any acknowledgement but when I've gone to the trouble of making a hand crafted card I don't think it's much to expect a quick thank you via text or Facebook in return, after all I've given you a gift of my time it's not unreasonable to hope you'd spend 30 seconds PMing me to say thanks. It's getting to the stage where I'm just going to grab a load of cheap cards from The Works and send them instead of spending hours (yes hours!) thinking up the perfect design then making it and saving my handcrafted cards for people who appreciate them and who actually take the time to let me know. If by the way anyone feels angry towards me for writing this post you should examine your conscience - perhaps you're actually feeling angry because you feel guilty for not taking the time to say thank you.<br />
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Anyway rant over, hope everyone has a great weekend, I'm planning on spend it in my crudy well away from all mentions of the Royal Wedding - I'm soooo tired of hearing about it! Can't wait for Shamy's wedding tonight on BBT though ;)<br />
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Sarah xxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-16491134840828608762018-05-03T23:39:00.000+01:002018-05-03T23:39:33.683+01:00A Card Share and an update on the Blog ChallengeHello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you've all had a great week and if you haven't, just think it's nearly the weekend!!! Things have been quiet here in my crafty nook, I've made a few cards, made some mess and I've even made myself cry a couple of times lol (usually when I've been trying to make a card and it's not gone well). One of the things that hasn't gone well is last month's blog challenge - I've started making cards for it a couple of times but nothing's turned out any good and then I managed to lose the card blanks I actually had made. I'll be totally honest with you, I don't think the Tonic die is particularly attractive and I've had a lot of trouble getting anything looking presentable, it's not helped by the fact that it's not very well explained in the magazine how to actually use the die and it just doesn't look right once it's cut - I'd much rather use a nesting die set and partially cut the shape or better still use my lovely Crafter's Companion dies which cuts beautifully and has concise instructions. Michele's not managed to complete the blog challenge either so we've decided to skip it especially as there's been zero interest in anyone actually joining in. I know that unlike other blogs this challenge doesn't have any prizes but if no one joins in that's not going to change, if we had any people expressing an interest in the challenge and better still people JOINING IN then who knows what the future might hold, companies might offer to sponsor the competition or I've got a few spare items that need a good home which may end up as a prize at some point but neither of those things will happen if the level of interest remains at it's current level - after all it's not much of a challenge if there's only Michele and I taking part so please, please if you have any interest in this challenge then leave a comment on the blog, fill in the comments form in the sidebar or email me at craftynook@outlook.com. Anyway Michele and I have decided to swiftly go on to the next challenge and it's another magazine freebie (don't worry it's the last one at least for the foreseeable future) and again it's the 'free gift' that came free with Die cutting Essentials Magazine issue 36, it's been out for a month and issue 37 is probably in the shops now (I've had my subbie copy for about a week) but I really like the fish bowl die set and need an excuse to use it. The closing date is 31st of this month which is plenty of time to make two cards using the dies. The first card we'd like you to make is just a plain fish tank themed card using the dies that came with the magazine plus any items from your stash but make sure the dies are the big event not your stash extras. The second card/part of the challenge is a bit more fun, we'd like you to use the dies in a different way, by that I mean think outside the box a little, flip the fish bowl upside down and turn it into a spaceman's helmet or is there a way you could make the dies into something Christmassy? Let your imagination run riot and let's see what we can come up with. Again you can use items from your stash and though we want you to use the dies in a different way we've got to be able to tell what you've used so try to make the die cuts your focal image if possible. We would love it if some crafty peeps joined in so please don't be shy - leave a comment with a link to your blog featuring your creations or send me an email using the comments form on the sidebar or by emailing me at the address above. I can't wait to see what you amazing peeps make!<br />
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Phew, that was a long paragraph! You must be tired now so here's some photos of a few of my crafty makes that I've not shared before, hopefully they'll refresh your eyes :)<br />
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A fishing themed card for my husband's grandad made using a die from Crafter's Companion and items from my stash.<br />
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I loved making the pop up/out Polaroid card for my dad in law so much that I made a second one (hope I've not already shared this) The (heart) this die cut was made using a die from my stash, I can't remember the brand but I'll update this post with the information once I find the die set.<br />
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Not a card but a cute photo of my lovely cat Jinx who turned 17 on the 27th April - he's 84 in cat years!<br />
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Hopefully your eyes will be a bit rested now especially after looking at my lovely Jinx =^..^=<br />
As always if you have any questions or comments then please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!<br />
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Sarah xxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-44504219565764444672018-04-23T17:08:00.000+01:002018-04-23T17:08:12.521+01:00Impossible Cards with a twist (or three!)Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you've all had a brilliant weekend, we've been blessed with a mini heatwave here in the UK though it's a lot cooler on the coast then in some parts, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of heat so I've been grateful for the slightly lower temperatures. It's rather dull and overcast at present but hopefully we'll have some more sunny days in the months to come. I am still loving the Impossible Card and I've attempted Mixed Up Crafts' triple twist impossible card too, it took two attempts to get it right (I was trying to get just one panel to twist instead of the whole card twisting - very hard to explain so check out MUC's tutorial on YouTube) but I'm very pleased with the results and I've also made another ordinary Impossible Card, this time one suitable for a teen.<br />
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I thought I'd start with the classic Impossible Card. I've made this (probably) for my nephew's birthday next month. I always find teenage cards a struggle to make so decided to make this baseball boot themed card as it's quite timeless in feel. I'm not sure what collection the sneakers paper is from but suspect it's probably DCWV, I won a massive stack of 6" x 6" and 12" x 12" paperstacks in a card making competition about five years ago and TBH I've hoarded the suckers like there's no tomorrow! I have the 12" x 12" hidden away in a cupboard which is quite difficult to get into so when I do move boxes etc to get in there for a particular paper, I tend to grab a sheet or four of anything that grabs my attention and I keep them in a protective sleeve near my desk. The only problem is I never know what papers I'm using this way (ha spoke too soon! When I was adding the labels for this post I typed in DCWV and it came up with Homeroom - I googled it and it's the paper stack I used for the sneaker paper). The baseball boot is an unbranded die set from eBay which I love as it has loads of dies including the donut shapes that go around the lace holes, I die cut mine using silver holographic card backed with d/s sticky tape so I didn't have to mess around with glue just remove the backing piece. I've made another three baseball boots including a very tactile one made of white fabric backed onto card teamed with funky foam for the side of the sole - it feels very realistic.<br />
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Originally, this triple twist card was going to be another sneaker/baseball boot themed card for my nephew because it can be backed onto a piece of card to make it stronger and I was planning on adding a zip strip to an additional piece of cad to make a hidden pocket on the underside of the card but the baseball boots are too big for the panels on a triple twist card. I saw this card style on Mixed Up Crafts YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZqOqLGrs0M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZqOqLGrs0M</a> (here's the link to the video) and couldn't wait to try it out, it is a bit fiddly to make and as I said at the beginning of the post, it did take me two attempts to get the twists right but in some ways it's actually a bit easier to decorate as you don't have to fiddle around cutting L shaped mats to cover the panels just ordinary rectangular ones and MUC has kindly provided the sizes in her blog which is linked under her YT video. I added strips of card both at the front and behind the pop up panels which meant I didn't need to adhere it down to another piece of card which looks great but distracts from the wowness of the design (if it's mounted on card you can't see it's made of one piece of card) because it gave it a sturdiness that's missing with only one strip. I used a coffee themed stamp set to decorate card panels which I added to the pop up panels and coloured them in using Flexmarkers, I tried to use similar colours to the takeout coffee cups on the backing papers - I used two papers from Trimcraft First Edition 'Grand Plan' 6" x 6" premium paper pad, the coffee cups have UV detailing on them and the die cut coffee cups have a gem finish which is very lush. The takeout cups were die cut using a Spellbinders die set called 'Hipsters 1' D Lites Etched Dies, there are two takeout coffee cups on the front and two on the back. I added Glossy Accents on some of the coffee beans for a bit of added interest.<br />
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I really enjoyed making these two cards and look forward to making some more, if I can find some Christmas themed papers without having to rake through 3/4 of my crudy, then I may very well be using this design (the original impossible card) as my batch Christmas card as it's very simple to make once you know the secret! I think it would make a great new home card too with keys linking the panels together on the front and a house die that handily came free with a magazine a couple of months ago, you could even personalise it by adding map paper highlighting the new address (make sure you use copyright free images though!) with geotags showing local attractions - the possibilities are endless!<br />
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I hope you like my latest designs, don't forget to click the link and check out Sam's (Mixed Up Crafts) YouTube tutorial and why not subscribe while you're there she has lots of amazing fun ideas using paper. If you have any questions or comments then please leave them in the usual places and until next time - keep crafting!<br />
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Sarah xxxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-29942892896462175122018-04-16T00:26:00.000+01:002018-04-16T00:26:47.466+01:00How is that possible?? The impossible card!Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all having/had a brilliant weekend, it's been rather foggy here on the Yorkshire coast but the weather's supposed to be improving next week, just in time for the kids going back to school - it's always the way isn't it! My husband was very brave and went out to meet some friends from his past on Friday the 13th (dum, dum, DUM!!!) so I spend a quiet evening catching up on a bit of housework then watched some lovely TV. He came back at half past midnight proclaiming his love and clutching a takeaway bag in his hand. Unfortunately he'd decided to 'treat' me to a Spanish omelette which true is one of my favourites but not exactly the food of midnight feasts especially if you're prone to indigestion after late night eating (I'm part Mogwai - never ever feed me after midnight, ok 8pm if I'm honest!! Unless of course you want me miserable and bad tempered lol). As a result I didn't get much sleep and I've spent most of the weekend half zombied as a result. So all in all not a huge amount of cleaning's actually got done even though that was my plan for this weekend - smh. Still I did manage to find a new card style to try - the impossible card! I saw it on Facebook, I think it might have been a post by Trimcraft but I'm not positive. It didn't give much details on the post so I did a search on YouTube and came up with two videos, the first one was by MayMayMadeIt but at nearly 30 minutes long, I decided to watch the tutorial by Mixed Up Craft - here's the link to the video I watched <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgGYZSr4zV0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgGYZSr4zV0</a> . For an even shorter tutorial click the link to view the Trimcraft video tutorial <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFwaKNVrig">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWFwaKNVrig</a> .<br />
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Here is my version using a piece of 5" x 7" smooth white card stock to make the base.<br />
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I used smooth silver glitter card to make the base layer of mats and then added another layer using Sheena's stamping card stamped with a beautiful dragonfly which came free with the fairy stamps in a recent magazine subscription that came last week. It includes a die for the wings, a tiny flower and a toadstool for the fairy to sit on but with a bit of masking I decided to have my blue fairy sitting on the tree branch instead. The die cut butterflies are some I cut out ages ago and kept in my scraps folder - I wanted something a bit different to decorate the edge and these seemed perfect. The dragonflies on the base panel pieces were stamped out using a new mini ink cube that came free with the latest issue of Creative Stamping magazine and is a lovely emerald green. The thin strip under the sentiment was stamped out using Broken China Distress Oxide ink which gives a soft chalky look to the finish but has the drawback of smudging quite easily. I coloured the stamped images on the stick up panel using FlexMarkers and added shimmery highlights with a Gelli Roll stardust pen in clear.<br />
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I really like this style of card, it looks complicated (especially in real life where you can pick it up and try to see how it works - how is it possible to have a stick up panel that's larger than the gaps??) but it's actually quite easy to make once you get past the cut and fold lines, tbh the hardest part is probably adding the panels and I will admit my first glitter panel was actually the wrong way to fit on the L shapes and I used it as a template for the next one I cut, I'll keep it as a template for future cards. It was my own fault though as I didn't bother writing the panel measurements down as I thought I could 'wing' it instead! The great thing about this card is that it will fold flat for postage even though the panel sticks up without support and if you you don't decorate the top edge it's easy enough to find an envelope to fit it or even better make your own with the WRMK envelope punch board (probably the best investment I've ever made craftwise - it's so handy!)<br />
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I'm not sure how long this card style has been around but the fact I could only find three videos in total (though I didn't scroll through the hundreds of impossible playing card tutorials on YT!) suggests that it's a fairly new style though it could just be one that's been re-named from years back.<br />
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I hope you like my quick card share, the video tutorials probably explain it a lot clearer than I have but if you have any questions about it or anything crafty in general then please leave your questions and comments in the usual places. I shall be making a few more of these card types once I've tackled my Spring Cleaning (yep it's mucking out time again lol) and I'm quite happy to do a step by step photo tutorial to accompany my next post featuring the impossible card if anyone would like to see one, just let me know. Until next time - keep crafting (and spring cleaning!)!<br />
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Sarah xxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167413363558198263.post-22111744774015159872018-04-12T18:05:00.000+01:002018-04-12T18:05:53.380+01:00A very belated blog challenge post... Hello crafty peeps and welcome to my crafty nook! I hope you are all well and have had a good Easter etc. Sorry it's been so long since I last posted, hopefully I'll be adding posts a bit more frequently once I've got a few things sorted out in my home life. Apart from the odd day it's still a pretty miserable start to spring but at least it's getting lighter (sort of!) so we can enjoy the natural light for longer. It doesn't really make much difference to my crafting because my crudy is north-facing and I can't actually reach the windows with any ease so I tend to keep the curtains closed most of the time, once the weather has warmed up (we still have the odd frosty/foggy start) I'll be opening my window to get some air in which will be very welcome.<br />
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Michele and I finished our cards for last month's challenge within a week of the last post being added but I've not had the time to add them here before now - a huge apology to Michele and my lovely readers for the delay.<br />
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For some reason the Christmas photos and the top photo have saved the right way on my PC but have come out the way shown when I add them to the blog - I'm really sorry about this but I can't alter the orientation. For her three Easter egg cards, Michele has used the blossom basket dies that came free with Die Cutting Essentials magazine a couple of months ago. I'm very impressed with Michele's cards because in all honesty I really disliked the basket die that came as part of the set though I like most of the other dies but Michele has to managed to make it look really good and I'm now quite looking forward to using it myself at some point. I love the embossing folders she's used on her cards too especially the script one and the green glitter card on her second card adds that lovely shimmery accent.I love the images and colour palette of the Christmas cards, they have a really contemporary feel to them. A fantastic set of cards as always Michele.<br />
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My first card was made using a freebie called Butterfly Dreams from issue 173 of Simply Cards & Papercraft magazine. The leaves were made using a generic die from my stash and the tree branch was actually a tree stamp on it's side. The sky was coloured using Broken China distress oxide ink (I now own two oxide inks and I love them!!!) and a couple of cloud masks. The ladybird and sentiment were from another magazine freebie and I added some glossy accents to the ladybird to make it stand out more. My Christmas card was made using a snowflake die that came free with Crafts Beautiful magazine, I've had it for months but this was my first time using it, I also used one of the snowflake dies that came with my CC Advent calendar last year to make the smaller snowflakes. I managed to get some glue on the background that looked awful once it had dried and rather than starting over again I added dabs of Dovecraft glitter glue all over the background to disguise it. My final card is a circle swing card decorated by a die set that came free with Diecutting Essentials magazine issue 32 called Woodland Friends and has a distress inked background. I used the circle swing die set that my lovely husband bought me for Valentine's Day to cut the card blank out and the circle sentiment. I added panels of wood grain paper from my stash.<br />
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I hope you like our blog challenge cards. This month's challenge is another magazine freebie but this time using the Tonic Studio Flip Flop card dies that came free with last month's issue of Diecutting Essentials Magazine, we'd like you to make a minimum of two cards using this die set with one of them being a Christmas card, you can use any items from your stash but don't go out and buy anything extra - apart from the magazine of course!- if you join in because our challenge is about encouraging you to make use of what you've got not an excuse to buy more stash (and who needs an excuse to buy more lol). If you don't want to spend a tenner on the magazine (and I wouldn't blame you to be perfectly honest) then it is possible to make a flip/flop card using any layered die in your stash. Google flip flop cards and see where it takes you or check out a video or two on YouTube - this style of card was very popular about four years ago and there are loads of videos to choose from. If you ask nicely I might even do a step by step photo tutorial for you using a basic shape die *winks* it will have to wait until I've sorted a few things though. If you'd like one then please leave a comment in the usual places. The current flip/flop card challenge will close in two weeks time and we would love for you to join in, just email me photos and details of the finished cards or leave a link to your blog in the comments section. There isn't any prizes just the satisfaction on delving into your stash and using items you might normally not use in a new and exciting way.<br />
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Until next time - keep crafting!<br />
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Love and crafty hugs,<br />
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Sarah xxxSarah Wilkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02262012778556819236noreply@blogger.com1