Love you card with DCWV

This card was made a couple of months ago for DCWV sketch challenge and was spotlighted in DCVW blog.
I used DCVW  cardstocks, Sizzix dies and a piece of bakers twine to make this card with their sketch.
Hope you like it!

Steampunk Pocket letter inspiration with Papericious

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my Papericious new post.
After a whole Wedding month I was in this Steampunk trendy mood and decided to make a steampunk Pocket letter.
Pocket Letters are very trendy. You use this Baseball/Football cards plastic pockets and make 9 cards that are close to ATC size. Usually this is folded after it's done and you can mail it to the friend.
You also can add some small crafty supplies inside, but I didn't do it this time as this is not for shipping.
One great thing about making this project was to use the collection cover and to cut the cards, almost all of them, from the collection cover only.
Pretty much recycling thing to do.
So on the top you can see all 9 cards that all were made with the same stitched rectangle die as the background using one single sheet of Papericious Pretty Basics cardstock.
Then the top pieces were die cut with the smaller rectangle die mostly from The Vintage Attire cover and glued over the basic cards.
Each card was embellished with die cuts, chipboards, twine, sequins and yet they all should be flat as this " letter"  is going to be folded after all.
I made the central card as the letter title and this is all about a Celebration!
So two cards around are with dancing people die cuts  and they sure celebrate something.
Chipboard words were added over some cards and I added a lot of Papericious sequins on most of the cards using glaze.

An now the next three cards here:

Same paper collection, but a bit different in style. I added painted chipboards, gears die cuts (all die cuts are made from the same Papericious paper collection) and made die cut walls on some cards.

And here are a couple more of cards- colors are brighter and I die cut stars and added some Papericious twine over them.

I know that this kind of paper crafting is new to some of the blog readers.

But you can Google this Pocket Letter thing and to see that it's just fun to make them, to ship them and to get them.

Go for it! Step out of your comfort zone! Crafting can be different and still fun!

Papericious product used:

Pretty Basics collection

The Vintage Attire collection

Sequins

Twine

All these products available at:

www.lulupu.com

www.thecraftshop.in

www.craftadda.com

www.imaginationsonline.com

Anantha Stationery

www.krafterscart.in

Nirmal Stationers, Delhi

Holiday tag with Two Paper Divas

Hello my dear crafty friends and welcome to my last October post made for Two Paper Divas.
This lovely pretty small Christmas tag was made for a print submission and already was in print in Just Christmas cards and decorations! issue.
So now it's a right time to showcase it on- line.
The main stamped image is TPD fantastic You are the light stamp that was stamped with white pigmented ink and heat embossed with  white powder over a chalkboard style small tag.
Then the small tag was added over the bigger tag made with Canvas Corps cardstock and embellish with Paper House puffy stickers. The gold star is 3d  chipboard piece from Tando that was painted with DecoArt gold paint and  glued on the top.
I also painted inside the stamped image with the very same gold paint.

Wedding box and Gift card holder tutorial with Papericious

Happy my dear crafty friends and welcome to my second October Papericious post.
Today I am going to share a full paper crafting tutorial for a book shaped handcrafted box and a gift card holder.
This project was made with the most delicious Wedding kit and yes, this is a wedding trinkets box and a wedding gift card holder we are going to craft today.
So follow my easy instructions and you can make the very similar box and gift card holder in no time.
Step 1: Cut the thick chipboards to two pieces of 11 1/2*17 cm. and one piece to 3 cm*17 cm.  You can use any chipboards, even to recycle some old boxes.

2. Cut the Wedding kit dark red cardstock to fit the chipboards and leave 1 cm. for the folds.The cardstock here is shown with the front side up.

3. Use double sided glue and cover the chipboards as shown.

4.Glue three pieces of cardstock on the bare chipboard's as shown using the very same double sided glue.

Add the same glue around all four sides of the dotted cardstock for the next step.

5. Use your scoring board or score by hand the glossy pearl cardstock from the wedding kit. You just need one 30*30 cm. cardstock and score it on 1 cm so you get 12 mountain scores. Cut the cardstock into two parts vertically. Cut  each half into two pieces -one 11 cm long and one 16 1/2 cm. long.

6. Arrange one long and one short folded piece over the glue strip as shown. Arrange the second two pieces to get the full frame of folded cardstock. Add another layer of double sided glue over the folded frame.

7. Heat emboss the cover edges with gold embossing powder as shown.

You can use brand of gold ink and gold powder or just use clear embossing ink with gold powder.

8. Use stitched rectangle dies to make two die cuts for the front cover.

9. Glue the die cuts as shown over the front cover.

10. From this step on I wouldn't show  each paper piece cutting, the general arrangement of the elements.

So here is the inside of the cover here. I die cut a dark red cardstock and layered with smaller patterned cardstock die cut. Two hand cut post cards were added over the inside cover.  Then die cut two stitched circles and add the sentiment over it.

11.Use fabric stitffener over a few of lace cuts to make them " standing" after they are dry.

Make the same procedure with a long piece of red waxed twine. Let all pieces dry.

12. Die cut the stitched oval and add the lady's image inside the folded frame.

Cover the frame with deep red patterned cardstock as shown.

Add the hand cut word " Happiness" on the right low corner.

Tie the red and pink waxed twine around the cover.

13. This is how the finished front cover looks after I added a couple of die cut doilies using red cardstock and heat embossed a  few more die cut doilies with the same gold embossing powder.

The doilies, fabric flowers, leaves, butterflies and twine were arranged over the cover and some sequins and pearl beads were added as shown.

Here is a close  up of the main cluster over the front cover of the box.

And the upper embellished part is here:

14. Now lets make the gift card holder.

 Make a small  bag using patterned paper and cut the half circle on the top with punch.

Cut  the  gift card size strip using two connected paper images.

15. Embellish the bag with twine. hand cut paper, image and sentiment as shown.

16. Add photo corners to keep the gift card inside.

This is how it looks with a folded card holder inside the bag.

And this is how it looks with the gift card holder inside the box.

I hope you like my small tutorial and you can make the very similar  project with our fantastic Wedding Kit !

Papericious Products Used:All products are from the Wedding kit

Paper Stack-The Wedding Kit

Fabric Flowers

Laces

Ribbon

Twine

Sequins

Pearls

Adhesive Flairs

All these products available at:

www.lulupu.com

www.thecraftshop.in

www.craftadda.com

www.imaginationsonline.com

Anantha Stationery

www.krafterscart.in

Nirmal Stationers, Delhi

Holidays gift tag with DV

Hello my dear crafty friends!

Irit is here again and how about another Holiday's tag?

It's so easy to make a very fancy Holidays tag with one single Die Versions Angelic die and some pretty papers.

Die cut the Angels background from pattered blue stars cardstock and make the tag mattings a bit larger than this die cut card sized piece.

Arrange the die cut over double sided glue sheet and add colorful assortment of glitters over the die cut piece.

I used three colors that were great fit for my cardstocks.

Add some titles and stickers, ribbons and twine and your easy made fancy tag is ready.

Memories mini album

Together Mini Album Tutorial

This is a tutorial that was mostly made to show you the easy way to bind small cardstock pages to a self arranged mini  4 1/2*6 1/2'' mini album.  So the instructions were mostly made to show  you how to arrange the binding system with a couple of add- ons on other techniques. I didn't make the full step bu step tutorial for the over  page arrangements as this was actually an issue for another tutorial. For this tutorial I used Bo Bunny oldie, but beloved Weekend Market  collection and each and every  patterned cardstock piece / cardstock sticker is from this collection.

So here we go!
1. Cut three thin chipboard  pieces to two pieces of 4 1/2*6 1/2'' and  cut the third piece to 1  1/4*6 1/2'' size.
Cut the patterned paper to the size shown  to cover  three cardstock pieces. Make the small gap between the chipboard  pieces to allow the paper folding without tearing it. Cut the corners as shown.

2. Glue the outer cover and add an inner patterned paper cover and glue it as shown.

3. Cut another strip of chipboard to 1 1/4*6 1/2'' size and cover it around in the same way as was shown in step 1.

4. Roll natural twine around the covered piece from the previous step as shown. I made 6 strings for my mini album, but you can add one or two more. Each string will give us 4 album pages later (one folded cardstock and both sides.)So those six strings make 24 mini pages for the album.

Tie the knot and secure with 3d foam tape as shown.

5. Glue the binding  system to the inside  of your album.To add a page you just make 9*6 1/2'' piece of double sided cardstock, fold it into a hoaf and insert under one line of twine.With 6 folded pieces added we will have 12  double sided small pages.

6. From this step on I just made a couple of shots to show the major techniques used. The first one was making the outer cover matting and for this technique I used the Bo Bunny collection package (yes, I love to recycle), Rebecca Baer stencil, DecoArt Crackle paste and a lot of waiting time to let this matting dry. Actually after the trimming and embellishing the cover a very little piece of it is seen.

7. Those are the major (almost everything I used ) embellishments that I die cut for the album.

I used Die Versions brand just because I have them and they fit the vintage spirit of this album.

 The doilies are from MFT. The black shapes were die cut twice. The  back was die cut from white thin chipboard and the front from black cardstock. When glued one over another I tried to keep a very thin outline of white to be seen to add the dimension. Later each and every  one of black pieces was covered with clear embossing ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder for the shiny look you can see on the cover.

The white chipboard pieces were later heat embossed with copper powder and some blue paint was added for the patina effect too.

The doilies, that were die cut from Bo Bunny patterned cardstock were just glued inside the album " as is".

8. And now for the finished album. 

This is a cover with stencilled matting, huge chipboard that was heat embossed into this copper vintage look. Black chipboard made the  scene of a couple in the nature (the album name is Together as you can see).

And now some of the inner pages . I am not going to show all  spreads here, but some of them. Some of the pages are three folds, most of them are just  a piece of folded cardstock inserted into the twine on the back.

For this  front page I use Bo Bunny Dimensional stickers from Timepiece collection.

As you can see each page has the die cut ticket shape matting that can be just left to be seen or can be used as small trimmed photo matting later. Most of the sayings are just cardstock cuts from Weekend Market Bo Bunny collection.

This  is another  page that was embellished with heat embossed die cut.

For some inner pages I used Weekend Market stickers; here and there I added photo corners for the future photos.

And a few more pages to see.

I hope you like my small tutorial and my mini album.

Product list: I didn't add the full name of each paper piece, die or product in this tutorial as it's just a sample tutorial.

Bo Bunny Weekend Market collection

Bo Bunny Timepiece Dimensional stickers

Dies- Die Versions, My Favorite Things

Chipboards, wood - Creative Embellishments

 Stencil- Rebecca Baer

Texture paste- DecoArt

 Embossing powders- WOW! Embossing Powders

Ink- Tsukineko

 Flowers, bling- Prima

 Metal, twine- craft shop

And I enter this to some web challenges:

Anything goes for Things to alter

 Anything goes for Clique kits

Creative Artiste- Anything goes

Things to alter- Anything goes