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Vase embroidery cards

Make embroidery card

 

Make embroidery cards

Chrismat gifts: cards

 

Embroidery cards

gifts valentines: Valentines Day Cards

Valentines Day Cards

Materials: (for all cards)

•Card: Bazzill – French Vanilla, Blackberry
•Paper: Dark blue web paper; Graph paper.
•Embossing powder: Opals Franklin
•Heat tool
•Adhesives: Double sided sticky tape (DSST), Double sided sticky paper (DSSP), Foam mounting tape, Clear sticky dots (Bostik Sticki dots)
•Cutting Tools: Paper trimmer, Craft knife, Friskars ShapeCutter system and shape template HEARTS – 1 #4855
•Embellishments: Wooden craft hearts (4 of 30mm width, 25mm height, and 1 of 40mm width, 34mm height); 26 Gauge purple coloured wire; 32 Gauge silver coloured wire; Assorted beads in clear, blue and purple; 10 small silver eyelets, 3 heart shaped eyelets; Alphabet rub on stickers by Sticker Cafe
•Other Tools: Punch wheel; Card scoring tool; Ruler; Eyelet setting tools; wire pliers and cutter; forceps (to help with the beads); Needle; Metal Ruler, lead pencil.

Make the beaded hearts first

Method:

1.Cover the flattest side of the wooden hearts with DSSP, making sure the DSSP edges are cut flush to the hearts.

2.Make the large heart: 

Twist together the ends of a length of each of the purple and silver wires (approx 200mm long). 
String beads along the wires, choosing randomly from your bead selection, sometimes threading them over both wires, sometimes over only the purple wire. 
When the purple wire only has beads, wind the silver wire around a large needle to create spirals and then rejoin the wires together to continue stringing the beads. (See picture below) 
When the beaded wire is long enough, fashion it into a heart shape that fits onto the 40mm heart shape, twist the ends together, trim and wind the ends behind the beads out of sight.
Remove the top piece of backing from the DSSP and arrange the bead heart onto the sticky tile, pushing it down firmly to ensure it adheres tightly to the tile. 
Emboss as instructed below.

Fun Kids Craft: "Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve" Valentine

This is a favorite craft of mine, and you'll find me giving out hearts for sleeves again this year. I have a few friends that continue to wear their hearts year round - which I highly recommend.

For this craft, you will need:
Scissors
a glue stick
white paper (8.5 x 11)
construction paper
some safety pins
some scraps of felt
pencil crayons or markers
a small hole punch (smaller than the regular size!)

craft christmas and gift ideas

Card-making Fool

Last week I had a wonderful treat. An invitation to visit my aunt complete with bread-making, lunch for two and an introduction to the world of card making.

Years ago I did a little bit of the craft--certainly nothing special--and when I saw the boxes of hanging files full of special papers, the drawers full of stamps and embossing materials and boxes and boxes of cute little embellishments I realized that all this time there was a wide world of paper products that I'd never realized existed.

She taught me some basics and let me explore her creative archives and you can see the results here. Isn't that the cutest get well card? Because who doesn't smile when they see aliens with big ol' googly eyes. Even when dealing with strep throat or stomach flu. Almost makes me wish I had a friend who was sick just so I could give it to them. Nice friend I am, huh? Hoping my friends get sick just so I can show off my mad card making skillz.

There was a love note that I liked that had more aliens with googly eyes and the words "I only have eyes for you" on it. Now if that doesn't say love I don't know what does. And by the way, later I'll definitely be posting the fabulous spring-time shrimp salad she served. Very good.

But I'll end with the instructions for making this handmade pop-up card that is a perfect springtime bouquet. It's actually pretty easy to make, little hands could manage with a bit of instruction, and it makes you smile almost as much as a bunch of aliens with googly eyes.

I have to confess that I saw the original instructions while stumbling through the internet but I made things more colorful. Not only was the original video in double time, making it quite hard to see, the instructions were a little ambiguous, and what else was there? Oh, yes. I don't speak Italian. So I did my own English version of the video and it's much easier to understand if I do say so myself. Now get going and make those pop-up cards people! Let's move, let's move!

New Year Greeting card

If the word origami for you as usual, or you just want to make a gift to his hands by New Year, try to create a Christmas card.
Initially, this may simply be a sheet of white paper and colored paper + glue pen, and then, it all depends on your financial capabilities and requirements for materials and the image produced postcards.
So, ideas and schemes of Christmas cards.
New Year's pattern is made up of segments of paper, they can be bought already cut, or .., Well, you know it yourself:)

Paper card making: Modular cards.

everal useful techniques for those who enjoy scrapbooking and creating cards.
Postcards from the modules.