Megans Flip Card

Megan wanted a go at making one of the flip cards
She cut it out and made it up herself
The only help I gave her was cutting off the points on the cocktail sticks
and attaching them on to her card
Megan decided to cut off the corners of the rectangle in the centre so it would "look nice"
she wrote her own message on the back

I wasn't allowed to see it when she was making it
she wanted to keep it for my birthday then she realised I would have to see it on here
so said I could see it to put it on here then she would hide it until needed

More flip cards

These cards are made in the same way as the First flip card


This one was made using a Pink Gingham paper from Free craft Downloads
I made it as a Good luck card I left the reverse blank so a personal message could be added
I decorated it with silver peel offs and some gems. I coloured the tulip peel off with metallic glitter pens

This time I used a Backing paper (printed on white card) and an image from Crafty Robots CD. I used some foil flowers and added some beads in the centre

On the reverse of this I added a pale pink piece of card with a fancy border and added some oval beads to the corners I left it blank so the card could be used for any occasion and personalised with words of own choice rather than a verse

Crafty Robots CD

Flip Card

I really like this template and I was stuck for choice which papers to use with it each time I thought I had chosen the "right" ones I wanted to use others
The card is quite easy to make & if you have some pieces of card to use up you could do a plain or contrasting frame then use the smaller pieces of card for the rectangle



To make this card I decided to use the Fairies design from a little while ago on Free Craft Downloads
1 A4 size white card to print the Backing paper
1 A4 size Decoupage
I also used
2 cocktail sticks (with points cut off)
4 foam pads
peel offs
Flip Card Template
(This card will fit inside a 6 x6 inch envelope)

You will need to use a fairly thick card with this template (I used 300gsm card) as you don't want the frame to be floppy
I printed the template on one side of the card then turned the card over and printed the Fairy design I had chosen on to the other side


Cut the template out (you will need the inner rectangle as well ) the 2 small strips and the other rectangle
You will see 2 small dashed lines at the centre of the Frame - Stick 2 foam pads either side approx half a centimetre down from the line


Place the frame flat on your work surface then place one of the rectangles in the gap in the centre this is just an easy way to find the centre of the rectangle so you can stick on the cocktail sticks (I chose to stick them on with silicone glue you could use a wet glue)


Fold the frame in half along the dashed lines
leave the cocktail sticks to dry







Stick the small tabs on the bottom of the frame this will help stop the frame from splaying out








I added some double sided sticky tape to one of the rectangles to enable me to stick one rectangle to the other Remember to stick one the right way up and the other upside down so that when you flip/turn over the card it will be the right way up






I cut out and assembled the decoupage then stuck it in the centre of one side of the rectangle I also added some border peel offs to the edges








For the other side you could add another picture or a verse or something else of your choice I chose to add a verse










I trimmed the cocktail sticks so that one was level with the frame so not seen from the edge the other side I left approx 3/4 cm sticking out this you can hold to turn so the card flips over
when I was happy with it I put it in place and stuck the foam pads to the other side of the frame holding the cocktail sticks in place

Time permitting this week I will make a couple of other samples
and add the pictures on here

Tulip Card

On Free Craft Downloads this week we have a lovely set of Tulip Backing papers, inserts, tags and labels, a decoupage and a pyramid sheet

Tulips are one of my favourite flowers and even thought Tulips are more of a spring flower I love to see them on cards any time of the year
On a dull rainy dismal days like today - Wouldn't it make you feel better if you received a card with a nice bright tulip on it
If the weather didn't make you smile the tulip would





For this card I have used
An A4 sheet of pale green card
The Tulip decoupage
Tulip 05 paper printed A5 size
Tulip 08 paper printed A5 size
Some gold border & a"Best Wishes" peel off
2 Star gems
A small Green bow

I measured a rectangle shape 20cm high, 28cm wide on the green sheet of card,
Measure in from the left hand side 4.5cm and score a vertical line, then from the same edge measure in 9.5cm and again score vertically
Do the same from the right hand edge
Then from the first score lines score a line from the top & bottom edges to the middle of the outer section on both sides (hope I havent confused anyone here it is easy to do)
cut out the rectangle shape I used some fancy edges scissors to cut the "Triangluar" edges then fold along the score lines The "Triangular edges need to fold outwards and the inner score lines need to fold in. When folded this should leave a DL size card
(picture on the left is to show you the shape)


I cut out and made up the tulip decoupage while the silicone glue was "setting" I got on with making the rest of the card
I cut a piece of the yellow tulip paper and stuck it to the middle section of the card then cut a smaller piece of the green paper and layered that on
The Star Gems I had were blue so I coloured them in green with my peel off pens then stuck them to the outer edge of the Triangular sides so when the card is folded these are on the front of the card and put a gold border peel off along the straight edge
On the inside of the card I edged the papers with gold border peel offs and stuck a "best wishes" peel off on a scrap of the pale green card I cut off trimmed it to fit in the middle panel near the bottom and edged it with a gold peel off and stuck it on with a small green bow on the top right edge of it then added the tulip decoupage near to the top

Zodiac Card - Virgo

I've had a very busy week with yet another busy weekend & week ahead so am a little behind with this project.

A Thank You must go to Bob who himself had a very busy time last week and has another ahead of him this weekend
He still managed to find time to do these Zodiac papers / Decoupage for Free Craft Downloads
Thank You and have a great time at Ely Festival


We have the last Zodiac sign for you this week which is Virgo
There are now all 12 signs on the site

The Zodiac papers are listed under their individual names

For this card I have used

1 A4 sheet of Yellow card
Virgo Decoupage sheet
Virgo 2 backing paper
Virgo 6 backing paper
Gold peel - offs (a wavy border and thin straight border)
A gold bow
Some blue and amber coloured square gems


I folded the piece of yellow card in half to A5 size
Then cut it to an Octagonal shape
I made it so it would fit inside a 6 x6 inch (15 x 15cm) Envelope








I then cut out 2 smaller Octagonal shapes
One was 1cm smaller than the yellow card
Then the other was cut 1cm smaller than that one











I cut out and made up the Virgo decoupage
I decided I would colour in the Red flower with a red glitter pen
I coloured her feet with a light gold glitter pen so it looked like she has gold slippers on
I also went over the wording "Virgo" with a clear glitter pen
A bit hard to see in the picture but shines nicely when it catches the light



After sticking the Octagonal shapes and the Decoupage onto the Yellow base card I added some gold border peel - offs around the edges of each Octagon
I also added a thin straight line border peel off to the edge of the decoupage.
Around the edge of the Yellow base card I stuck on some Blue and Amber coloured small square gems
Then finished off with a Gold bow centrally at the base of the decoupage

Here is the Finished Card

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Mosaic Fish

This week I have been busy making cards for our Church Charity Coffee Morning,
I decided I needed a break from card making the other night and Glass Painted a mosaic fish which I thought I would add here for you to see.

I used the design from the "Simple Glass Painting" book By Cheryl Owen. There are some lovely designs in this Book I bought mine from Amazon a real bargain at 1p plus P&P

I decided to use the design on a 6x4 clip frame, in the book it was painted on a vase with waves on it I didn't want the waves so filled in with more squares where the waves should have been I outlined the design using Alan and Barrys Black outliner Then left it to dry.
(Apologies for missing the right hand outlined edge off the picture)







I painted the design using Alan and Barry's solvent based Glass Paints
The colours I used were, Orange, Yellow, Light Blue, Turquoise, Royal Blue, Purple, White (for the eye) and Clear. I used the clear paint to lighten some of the other colours




I enjoyed painting this and it was an enjoyable break from card making.



Rainbow Glass Transparent Paints

Rainbow Glass Outliner

We have Lift Off - A Rocket Card

We have lift off

A Space theme from Free Craft Downloads this week

To make this card I used :-
Rocket Decoupage
Apollo7
Rocket3
Peel off letters and numbers coloured blue
corner and border peel offs in silver
2 x 5x7 size cards in Blue
small length of beading wire

The Rocket3 paper was added to the site quite a while ago but I decided to use it with this card as I thought it went well and because I liked it

I printed 3 of the Rocket decoupage cut out and made them up
1 sheet of the Rocket paper and 1 sheet of the Apollo paper.

For the front of the card I used the Apollo 7 paper and covered the front of my base card
I added a silver oval to the centre and stuck it on
To this I stuck one of the rocket decoupage images in the centre and added the wording in peel offs








I then set to work on the inside of the card


I stuck the Rocket paper to the inside of the first card.
I folded the 2nd blue card and cut out the rectangular aperture to make the pop out centre
I put a piece of beading wire between the other two decoupage images and stuck them together
I curled the wire around a paintbrush to give it a spring effect I stuck it to the back of the rectangle aperture





I stuck the card to the inside of the first card
A great card for a "space fan"

Glass Painted Mobile

My Second project this week using items from Free Craft Downloads

Using the 2nd set of letters added this week I decided to make a Mobile for My Daughter The letters are great and also wanted to show that you can do other things with them as well as use them on cards.

I printed out the sheets with the letters on I needed for her name
I used some thick acetate, put it over the letters and used black outliner to outline I managed to fit all 5 letters on the one sheet of acetate.
After outlining the letters I left them to dry.

I then used my glass paints to paint them, I left them to dry for around 10 mins before I added some coloured flower gems to the letters I then left the letters to dry for a few hours




When they were dry I turned them over and stuck some more flower gems on the other side in the same places as the ones on the previous side I stuck them with clear glass paint




I used one of the kinetic type mobiles, when they were dry I cut out the letters and I pierced a small hole through the top of them and fixed them on to the mobile






After I had fixed the letters on I liked it but even with the gems set in the paint I thought the mobile itself seemed a bit plain
I decided to use some peel off butterflies



I put them on some thinner acetate and glass painted them when they were dry I turned them over and stuck the same type of peel off on the reverse to neaten it up
When the peel off butterflies were dry I cut them out of the acetate, bent the wings slightly and stuck them with silicone on to the mobile


Here in this picture you will see them on the mobile I took the picture of it flat as when I had it hanging with the slight movement from it the picture kept blurring (Photography is not one of my strong points )

Tennis Card

One of this weeks offerings from Free Craft Downloads are some Tennis papers - Very apt as it's "Wimbledon Time " here in the UK


The Backing Papers I used were
Tennis 05
Tennis 013
Tennis 014
Tennis 08
I also used one of the sets of letters
I used 4InchCaps

I also used
A sheet of white A4 card
Gold border peel offs coloured green
A small piece of Green card
A couple of images (Tennis shoes & Rackets)

To make the card

I printed the Tennis 05, Tennis 013, Tennis 014, papers A5 size, and the Tennis 08, A4 size
I folded the piece of white card in half to make an A5 size card,
I then covered the bottom half of the card with the darker paper and the top half of the card with the lighter one
I printed the sheets of the letters I needed to make the word "ENJOY" as "wallet size" prints to make them small enough These were printed on the 08 paper so that they showed up faintly but could see enough to cut around
I cut the letters out, edged them with a green glitter pen then stuck them across the top of the card
I chose the wording "ENJOY" as it could cover quite a few occasions for a Tennis fan

Across the middle I added a strip of the 08 paper, I stuck the tennis images to the piece of green card and added it to the centre of the base card

I have not been able to do much crafting this week due to a hectic time at home
I have managed to do one card, Hopefully another project will follow over the weekend.

Robot Jade - Card 2

Crafty Robots CD

Another Sample from the CD

Just for you card

For this card I used

A4 white card
Basic image - Jade
Background paper = complimentary = background01_a4_l
Background paper = Jade = background01_a4
Silver border peel off coloured pink with peel off pens
A necklace made using seed beads
A bag made using seed beads and a piece of silver holographic card
Material flower for belt of dress and fasten on bag
Just for you peel off coloured pink

1) I printed the image A5 size as I wanted a larger image for this card
2) I made a seed bead necklace and a bag with seed bead strap and stuck them down on the back of the image
3) I added the flowers to the bag and belt
4) I folded the A4 card in half to make an A5 size card
5) I put the background paper on the front of the card then cut the background paper to approx 12cm wide and 17cm long and put this in the centre of the card
6) I added the pink peel off border to the complimentary background 1 paper and the just for you peel off to the lower left corner
7) Lastly I stuck on the Jade image

Robot Luke - Card 2

Crafty Robots CD

Another sample from the CD

Shaker card

For this card I used

Basic image = Luke
A 5x5 square aperture card
1 plastic bubble front
Tea bag tiles = 4cm = Luke4cm002
Gold peel off coloured blue with peel-off pen
Small gold stars

1) I printed the image on printable acetate to fit in the aperture card
2) I attached the bubble front to the aperture added the gold stars & placed the acetate image to "seal" the stars in
3) I then stuck down the end of the aperture card.
4) I used 4 of the tea bag tiles and folded them to make corners for the card and added the blue coloured peel off border.

Robot Matt - Card 2

Crafty Robots CD

Another Sample from the CD for you

Birthday card

For this card I used

A4 white card
Decoupage = matt_sign
Background paper = background02_a4
Background paper = background 02_a4_l
Background paper = background11_a4_l
Silver border peel-offs
Silver number / letter peel-offs
Silver Happy Birthday peel -off

1) I printed, cut out and made up the decoupage design
2) I folded the A4 card in half to make an A5 size card
3) I attached pieces of the 3 background papers to the base card
4) I added a Silver wavy edge border peel off around the edges of the card and down the length where the papers joined
5)I Added the "5 Today" to the sign and attached the decoupage to the card
6) On the edge of the pale grey paper I put the Happy Birthday peel off
7) Just to use up some of the waste dots from peel offs I stuck a few to the robot where his screws/bolts are

Robot - Jade

Crafty Robots CD

Jade

Birthday card

For this card I used
A4 white card
Decoupage = jade_sign
Background paper = complimentary = background05_a4_l
Background paper = jade = background11_a4_l
Tea bag tiles = jade4cm004
A piece of lilac ribbon
Silver Happy Birthday peel-off
Some Pink and Silver foil flowers
Some clear and pink Gems

1) I printed, cut out and made up the decoupage design

2) I folded the A4 card in half to make an A5 size card then cut the top to 9cm wide

3) I attached the background 05 paper to the inside of the card and stuck on some pink and silver foil flowers with a gem in the middle

4)On the top part of the card I stuck the background 11 paper and a piece of lilac ribbon down the length of the card

5) I added a Silver Happy Birthday peel off to the sign and then stuck the decoupage to the front of the card

6) I added foil flowers to the outer corner of the front of the card

7) I used 1 tea bag tile cut in half diagonally to make corners for the outer edge of the inside of the card

Robot - Luke

Crafty Robots CD

Luke

Party Invite

For this card I used

A4 white card
Decoupage = luke_sign
Background paper = complimentary = background04_a4_l
Background paper = complimentary = background02_a4
Background paper = Luke = background11_a4_l
Tea bag tiles = 4cm = Luke4cm002
Gold border peel-off coloured blue with peel-off pen


1) I printed, cut out and made up the decoupage design instead of having a white centre in the sign I used a small piece of the background 4 paper and typed out "You are invited to my party" and stuck it in the centre of the sign and added a peel off border.

2) I folded the A4 card in half to make an A5 size card

3) I used the background 4 and luke background papers cut diagonally to fit the card

4) The background 2 paper I cut to approx 9cm wide x 15cm long and stuck it in the centre of the card

5) I added the decoupage to the centre of the card on the background paper

6) I used 1 teabag tile and cut it diagonally then again to make 4 triangles which I added as corners.

Robot - Matt

Crafty Robots CD

Matt

For any occasion

For this card I used

Basic image = Matt
A 6x4 aperture card
Silver fine-line border peel off
Small silver corner peel-off's
Decoupage section -extras_a4

1) I printed the image on printable acetate to fit the aperture card.

2) I cut it out and stuck it to the inner of the aperture then stuck down the end of the aperture card

3) I cut out the small extras and added them around the edge of the 6x4 card

4) I put a silver fine line peel off around the aperture and put the small corner peel off's in the corners

Crafty Robots

Crafty Robots CD Rom


A Fantastic New CD
When I first heard of the idea for this CD I thought it was a brilliant one
Why?

1) Because its different
There are so many CD's available now but they seem to follow the same themes

2) It's very appealing to Children / For Childrens cards
Childrens cards can often be as difficult to make as Mens cards Quite often I feel that designs seem a bit "too young" for some children and its nice to have something other than "Fairies & Sport" In my opinion the designs on Crafty Robots are suitable for Boys and Girls in the 4-10 age group (or Robot fans of any age.)

3) The designs are suitable for Crafters of various abilities
There is some challenging decoupage through to simple pyramid designs the latter can be used by children to make cards too.

4) A fantastic selection of Papers to use with the designs
The Complimentary papers on the CD mix and match quite well with the Robot Papers.

5) The Backing papers can be printed on White card
That way you can use them with various templates to make different types of cards, boxes, bags etc

I hope you will enjoy this CD as much as I do

This is the Good Luck Card I sent to Bob for the Launch of the CD


The Robots were printed on Magnetic Paper
so they could be removed and used as Fridge Magnets

I felt privileged that I was asked to make some samples from the new Crafty Robots CD
Thank You for giving me the Opportunity Bob.