Bunting card 

For this card you will need:

1 piece of 3.5 × 12" plain cardstock
1 piece of 6 × 6 pattern paper
1 piece of white card
1 piece of Miri card
A set of nesting dies (I have linked the ones I used below)
A die cutting machine
A pencil,adhesive & scissors

Method

Fold the piece of plain cardstock in half and burnish the fold line.
Take a large bunting die and place it onto the folded cardstock ensuring the top of the die is slightly higher than the fold line of your card. Pass this through you die cutting machine.

Select the next size down from your nest of bunting dies and use this to cut a new peice of bunting from the pattern paper and the white cardstock. N. B use the whole of this die on the pattern paper and white card, do not leave any gaps.

Using the same die, put your miri card white side up, place the die on the miri and using your pencil draw round the outside of this die. You need to do this twice. Cut both of these out.
Adhere a piece of miri card to the front of your card and then attach the pattern paper to it. Embellish the front as required.

Adhere the second piece of miri card to the inside of the card with the white cardstock attached on top. Stamp a greeting to finish.

A video tutorial can be found at:

https://youtu.be/mDjrz_L_6Oc

The dies I used are available from here:

https://www.craftstash.co.uk/creative-dies-plus-stitched-pierced-nesting-bunting-die-set.html

Triptych Card

Video linked below

Start with a 7 × 5" cardbase. Matt a piece of 6 7/8 × 4 7/8" silver Miri card onto the cardbase.


Cut an image into three sections and then make a matt layer for them to sit on that is 1/4"  larger than the piece of picture. E.g if the picture piece is 2 × 4" the matt layer for underneath needs to be 2 1/4 × 4 1/4".

Adhere the three picture pieces to their corresponding Matt's.
Afix the picture and their Matt's onto the miri card leaving a small boarder using wet glue

Stamp a sentiment onto cardstock measuring 1/2 × 2 1/4", matt it onto a peice of cardstock measuring 3/4 × 2 1/4" and position on the card using foam pads.
Embellish as required.

https://youtu.be/qaBnWv5CYJQ

Split Panel Card - New Size

For this card you will need:

A piece of 12" x 6" cardstock
A piece of cardstock (the same colour as the above) measuring 4 1/2" x 3 1/2
A topper measuring 4" x 3 1/4"
2 x pieces of pattern cardstock measuring 1 3/4" x 5 3/4"
Embellishments of you choice

For the inside you will need:

A piece of pattern card stock measuring 5 3/4" x 5 3_4"
A piece of white cardstock measuring 5 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Sentiment of your choice

Video linked below

Take the 12" x 6" cardstock and with the long side at the top score at 6" and fold and burnish.

Open the card back up and with the long side at the top score at 2". Cute along this scoreline and keep the off cut to one side as you will need it later.

You will now have one part of the card shorter than the other. Score and cut another 2" from the shortest piece of card so that all you are left with is a 6" x 2" panel.

Adhere your 5 3/4" x 1 3/4" pattern paper to the panel on the card and the off cut panel from earlier leaving a 1/4" boarder.

Take you 5 3/4" x 5 3/4" pattern paper and adhere to the inside of the card leaving a boarder and then affix the white cardstock to this again leaving a small boarder.

Attach your topper to the piece of cardstock measuring 4 1/2" x 3 1/2"

Take you offcut panel and line it up with the bottom of the card, ensuring all edges are flush with each other.
Using glue on the top and bottom part only mount the topper onto the top panel and bottom panel on the left edge of the card.

Now in the window section where you can see through to the white cardstock, stamp/adhere your sentiment.

Embellish as required.

https://youtu.be/cTLnoDZ545c

Handmade notebook tutorial

Video linked below


To make a notebook you will need:
A4 printer paper
12 x 8 patterned paper
A cereal box (or similar)
Hot glue
Wet glue
Bulldog clips/pegs

Take a peice of A4 printer paper and fold it short side to short side. Open it back up and fold it long side to long side. This will leave you a grid of 4 oblongs. Use a trimmer or cutting tool and cut along your fold lines so that you are left with 4 separate pieces of paper. Repeat this process until you have your desired amount of pages.

Gather the pages into a pile ensuring they are neatly together and fasten down one side using your bulldog clips/pegs. Use your hot glue down the long side that does not have clips on it making sure to cover every peice of paper. Work your way up and down the long side until you have a good covering of glue. This creates the spine for your notebook.

When the glue is dry place your page on your cereal packet and draw round it. You will need to do this twice. Cut out the outline you made on the cereal packet - this is going to become your cover.

Take a other peice of A4 paper and repeat step 1. This time only cut our one section.

Take your new oblong of paper and fold it long side to long side but don't fold right to the edge this time, leave a small gap. Repeat this step on the opposite long side. You should now have the outline of a spine down your paper.

Using wet glue adhere the cardboard flaps to the paper oblong and ensure they are flush with the fold line but not across it.

Place your newly created cover onto the patterned cardstock and fold the cardstock over all 4 sides of the cardboard. Burnish these folds and then use wet glue to adhere these to the cardboard.

Using hot glue on the spine section you can now position the pages of your notebook in the cover.

Lastly use your wet glue and adhere the page next to the cover to the cardboard to hide all your seams and cardboard. Repeat at the other end of the notebook.

You can now decorate/personalise/embellish your notebook.

Happy crafting xoxo

https://youtu.be/AQ6zY-wvpoY

Gift box tutorial

Video linked below

You will need 1 peice of 12 x12 card which you score at 1 7/8", 3 3/4", 8 1/4", 10 1/8" then rotate your card to the right and repeat.
Fold and burnish your score lines,you will now be able to see the beginnings of a grid.
Looking at the bottom right corner of the card stock you will see a square which is 2 squares across and 2 square up. Cut up the center score line of this square to the second scoreline, next repeat this step on the scoreline to the right of the one you just cut.
Place the cardstock in front of you, looking at the square you have just been cutting, completely remove the first 2 squares nearest the righthand edge of the cardstock. This leaves you with 1 strip, cut away the bottom square on this strip. Repeat this step around the card.
For ease of folding you also need to remove small slithers off the side of each tab as it is done including the longer oblong sections that will appear.
Put double sided tape on the single squares then flip your template over and put double sided tape on the oblong sections.
Remove the release papers and start folding in your single square tabs ensuring the corners are flush before sticking in place. Lastly remove the release papers on the oblong sections and fold over so they adhere to the inside wall of the box. This is now a reinforced box.

For the lid you need a peice of cardstock measuring 7 5/8" x 7 5/8". Score at 3/4", 1 1/2", 6 1/8" and 6 7/8" then repeat the process you used to make the main box and you will end up with a lid for the box.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqZLivtQUb1cG2ahYnhHlLQ

It's Snome Time by Helz Cuppleditch and Craft Consortium


Today I recieved the 12 x 12 paper pad, decoupage papers and stamps.

I am a huge fan of Helz Cuppleditch, I adore her images and ranges as they are always so cute! I was very excited to delve straight in and explore my purchase and get playing. A video is linked below that shows the papers etc in more detail.

12 x 12 paper pad - First impressions of this pad is it is multi functional, not just for Christmas and fantastic quality. The papers are double sided and you get 4 of each design. The normal papers are 200gsm and the pearlescent papers are 150gsm

3D Decoupage papers - There are 5 designs but you only get 2 sheets of each. Absolutely stunning artwork. One of the 5 designs is actually toppers (and is marked accordingly) It's a real shame you only get 2 of each (10 sheets total) though.

Stamps- There are 3 stamp sets in this range and they are HUGE!! One of the stamps measures 7cm. There is only 1 sentiment stamp (It's Snome Time) but you get a generous number of stamps per set. They look brilliant for colouring and a good size for projects. They should be very easy to fussy cut or mask as well.

Other items in the range include charms and enamel dots.

I got 2 different bundle deals from Craft Stash (linked below) but they are also available direct from Craft Consortium 

https://youtu.be/KeRrNabsZWA

https://www.craftstash.co.uk/craft-consortium-it-s-snome-time-paper-and-decoupaging-bundle.html

https://www.craftstash.co.uk/craft-consortium-it-s-snome-time-stamp-set-bundle.html

Joy fold card

A video tutorial is linked below.

You will need:
A piece of cardstock measuring 10" x 6"
A piece of cardstock measuring 9" x 5"

Matt layers measuring:

5.75" x 5.75"
3.75" x 5.75"
4.25" x 4.75"

Embellishments

Take the 10" x 6" piece of card and with the 10" side at the top score at 4". Fold on the score line and burnish.

Take the 9" x 5" piece of card and with the 9" side at the top score at 4.5". Fold on the scoreline and burnish.

The 5.75" x 5.75" matt adheres to the inside of the 6" card base leaving a small boarder round the edges.

The 3.75" x 5.75" matt goes on the front of the 4" flap on the card base leaving a small boarder round the edges.

The 9" x 4" card should open to the right and has the 4.25" x 4.75" matt adhered to the top of it, leaving a small boarder round the edges.

The 9" peice of card is now adhered to the matted later that measured 5.25" ensuring that it is able to open to the right and an equal boarder is created.
Decorate to finnish

https://youtu.be/UjtVuM16WEI