Month: October 2018

Hi Everyone! Interactive cards are so fun, specially those who surprise you. And this card most definitely will. It’s a secret pull slider card, you pull your tab and out in the other direction another panel will slide out. I had so much fun creating this and making sure that both the front panel, pull tab panel and secret panel is well decorated.

I started by stamping up several 4×5” sheets of marker cardstock with multiples of the leafs, acorns and pumpkins from the Fall Friends Stampset, I also stamped the focal images and a couple of squirrels . I then coloured them with my Copic Markers and cut them out with my scissors, it would have gone so much faster if I had used the coordinated dies, but I had opted to buy some more stamps instead.

The next step was to create the card and the slider construction. I cut out two panels that was about 3 1/4” wide with some stitched rectangle dies for the pull tab and secret panel. I also used one of the bigger rectangles from the same set to cut out pattern paper and cardstock for the front panel. For the slider mechanism I cut a piece of 4 x 5 1/4” cardstock and cut out two 1/2 x 3 1/4” rectangles from the top and  bottom of that piece, leaving me with something that looks like a capital H with a very thick middle.

For the slider part of the mechanism I used a 3 3/16” strip of plastic (mine is from a doggy bag), which I wrapped around once, taped down and then cut of the excess. To make it slide better I used a tea light candle and rubbed the cardstock before adding the plastic bag strip. While putting the card together I recommend keeping track of where you taped the bag together as that part can’t slide over the edge, so you want the pull tab to be taped on top of it and then you don’t have to worry.

I use foam tape on the side tabs, but If you don’t decorate the panels with as many images as me you could getaway with just using strong double sided tape. After decorating the panels, you want to put double sided tape on the secret panel on the right side, on the underside. And on the left, on top on the pull panel. If you want to make it easier to pull, you can add some ribbon on the right side on the pull panel, then it’s easier to grip and pull.

Line up the secret panel on to the mechanism and the left side, and line up the pull panel underneath and the right side. Then you can remove the paper of the foam tape and line it up with the front panel and then the back panel, I used an A2 card base so that I could write a more private message inside.

Hope you enjoy the card and the video tutorial. See you on Friday when it’s my turn to join in with the Save the Youtuber Blog Hop.

Copic:
E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R30, R32
E51, E53, E55, E57, E59
YG01, YG03, YG05
G03, G16, G17
YR21, YR15, YR18
T0, T2, 0, B63

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Hi everyone! Autumn is the time of colds, at least for me, that is why this video is up a little late. I love sending some get well presents to people and what is better for a sore throat than a cup of herbal tea? So todays tutorial is a Teabag pouch box that fit two bags of tea.

The challenge over at Lawn Fawnatics is currently Bling It Out! I love glitter and I love glitter cardstock, so how to bling it out was given. I decided that it wasn’t yet time for Christmas tutorials (but don’t worry, they start next week), so an autumn project it is. I’ve been wanting to use the Caramel Apple Mini Stampset for awhile and this little box was the perfect project for it.

I’ve combined it with the Flea Market pattern paper pack by Doodlebug Designs and there was also where I borrowed this real cool color combination. Who knew that turquoise and orange would go so good together!

To make the box you need a piece of cardstock that measures 8 1/2” x 4”
You want to score it at the short side at 1/2” and 3 1/2” and on the long side at 3 1/4”, 6 1/2” and  8” See below for a cutting scheme for the box. The mats are cut at 3 1/4″ x 2 3/4″ for the glitter card stock and 3 1/4″ x 2 1/2″ for the pattern paper.

Copic:
YR15, R05, R08
YR23, YR24, YR27
E33, E35

Supplies: 

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Hi Everyone! I love small little milk-boxes, this one is designed to fit a votive candle, but you could really fit anything in it, like a good amount of candies! I wanted to make it pretty simple, something you could make many of to a halloween party or with other papers you could definitely use for Christmas, new years and more.

I’ve been wanting to colour up little Henry for some time, it was hard to choose which one to use as he comes in three different positions, but I ended up choosing Henry Tail Twirl. He started out purple, but I can honestly say that I didn’t find a good marker combination (not that I tried to hard), and ended up making him green! And with the green came scales, it’s a simple technique but it does give that sense of scales without having to be perfect about it.

I choose Henry first and then I needed something to put him on, I made 3 cards which you will see me share on my instagram @craftybitcreations in the next couple of days, then I realised that he just needed to be on a box, so I scraped the card videos and made one for the box instead.

Below you can find a score and cut chart, but I also know that some of you might want just to read the measurements so here they are:


Cut a piece of card stock to 6 1/4” by 5 3/4”

Score on the long side at: 1 1/2”, 3”, 4 1/2, 6 (mark notches at 3/4” and 3 3/4” for the triangles)

Score on the short side at: 1 1/2”, 4”, 5 1/4”
See the image for how to score for the triangles.

Copic:
YG05, YG07, YG09, G09
Y08, Y17, Y38
T0, T2, 0

Supplies:

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Hi Everyone! Thought I would take a little break in all the autumn and halloween cards and do some Mermaids, who doesn’t love mermaids! I will again use a card sketch, this time it’s just a simple one but I wanted to show how you can use it to fit your stamps and also to fit other card sizes than the standard A2 (4 1/4” x 5 1/2”).

Back in august I won a guest spot for Some Odd Girl, sadly that was when my migraine was getting real bad so I ended up not being able to neither start nor finish it. However I did get a couple of stamps to play with. I love Some Odd Girl and I really love the Mini Stamp Sets that they have started to release as then I can play a little bit more with the cards themselves!

I combined the Mini Mermaids with the Under The Sea 6×6 patterned paper pack by Doodlebug Designs, and I also borrowed the collar combinations for the mermaids from that paper pack. This is a great way to find colour schemes for your coloured images with colours that will match even when using many different ones.

The sketch I’m using is a simple one that goes across the card, with two stripes. You can really changed this up in so many ways, but I was on a roll so I made the cards same but different. I also  gave all the mermaids different kinds of texture on their tails, showing you multiple ways to colour mermaids.

You will see all of that and more in the video below. Hope you enjoy!

Copic:
E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, R32, R30
BG53, BG57, BG09, BG78, BG49
R01, R12, R14, R05
V01, V12, V15, V17
RV10, RV13, RV14, RV25
YG01, YG05, YG07

Supplies:

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Hi Everyone! I told you this before but I love good challenges. Challenges makes me think outside the box and it makes me use my supplies in ways I hadn’t thought about before. Todays card is following the card sketch from the My Favourite Things Card Sketch Challenge 405, and instead of colouring I decided to create my focal image with stitches.

I’m an avid stitcher and I’ve owned the Cross Stitch Tag Die for a long time, and I finally got around to use it! I’m still in a very autumnal mood, but I decided to go a little bit softer with the colours and ended up with a more coral/latte design. By the way, not only is the cross stitch design a take-away coffee mug, the stamp sets I’m using for the sentiment topper is both coffee related and the brown card stock and ink is called latte!

When figuring out the cross stitch design I tried a couple of different patterns, and I thought maybe you wanted to use them? So I put together a little image here with four different design that you are free to use. I have added the thread colours I used below but with these kind of simple designs the fun is to just pick the colours you have in your stash and make the card up to match.

DMC Colors:
Lid: 3866
Background: 3824
Brown:841
Light Pink: 948

Supplies:

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Hi Everyone! Todays project is a Instant Cocoa Pouch Gift Box, And even though the gift box is made to fit the O’boy Cocoa Pouches it does have room for so many other things. To match with the theme I’m using the Thanks A Latte stamp set by Lawn Fawn and pair it with fall papers.

To create the box you need a piece of cardstock that measures 4 1/4” x 7 3/4”, you could use pattern papers, but I recommend cardstock to make the box sturdier.

You want to score on the long side at: 1/4”, 3/4”, 7”, 7 1/2”
And at the short side at: 1/2”, 2”, 2 1/2” 4”

Below is an image on how to cut your scored piece, you are welcome to save and/or print the image for future use.

For the decorations I’m going for the Lawn Fawnatics Challenge 38 theme, which is Awesome Autumn! Fall for me is bright oranges and musky browns, it is also sitting in front of a fire drinking cocoa when the rain is falling outside. So I combined these in to this gift box. The pattern papers I’m using today is sadly retired long time ago, but I have linked similar Lawn Fawn papers below so if you so wanted you could re create the box in a similar fashion. I think the Knit Picky Fall papers would look awesome for the scarfs and the oval and the Perfectly Plaid Chill would look awesome to use as the panels on the box. Which by the way is cut to 1 1/4” and 1/4” strips across the 6” width of paper.

The topper is created with the Thanks A Latte Stamp Set combined with dies from My Favourite Things. And as usual you can see how I put the whole card together and coloured the images in the video below. Hope you are enjoying fall as much as I am!

Copic Markers:
E21, E23, E25
E50, E51, E42
W0, W2, W4, 0

Supplies:

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Hi everyone! I find inspirations to my cards everywhere, and todays card sketch is no different. The sketch I’m using today is based on the pattern paper packs from Doodlebug Designs. I really love the idea of a belly band with a circle on for the focal image, so I added that to my card. Have you ever CASEd a packaging of something to make a card sketch from? Please tell me in the comment section.

The image I’m using today is Scruffy the Elf by Make It Crafty, I love these elves, they are so adorable! I choose a color scheme to match the pattern papers that I used which was the Milk & Cookies 6×6 Pattern Paper Pack by Doodlebug Designs.

Todays videos are a little different, well the real-time colouring video is the same, but I have moved around the clips in the card making video so that you can watch the card technique first and then continue watching if you want to see the sped up version of the coloring. I would really appreciate you letting me know if this is a set-up that you like.

The video is also full with small tips and tricks as usual, for example what to do if your circle dies doesn’t layer as you want, and a good sketch to use those more busy papers that you still love and want to use.

Hope you enjoy todays card and video tutorials.

Copic:
E000, E00, E21, E11, E04, B63
YG67, YG17, YG07, YG05
T4, T2, T0
E35, E34, E31
T10, T8, T6, T4

Supplies: 

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