Art Deco - Fold Card - Project of the Week

Materials:
A5 White Card Blank
Backing Papers 
Design Sheet
Glitter
Gems

Equipment:
Scissors
Trimmer
Double sided tape
Foam Pads/Silicone Glue
Score Board
Bone Folder
Quickie Glue Pen

What You Need to Do:
1) Using the A5 card, fold back the top layer to make a fold back card.
2) Cut backing paper to fit the front and inside of the card and attach using double sided tape or glue.

3) Cut out your topper and topper to the left hand side with foam pads, making sure you only fix the topper to one side so it over hangs.

4) Cut out a sentiment and fit to the top left using foam pads.

5) Cut out an extra topper or sentiment and fix to the inside of the card.

6.) Finish off by adding glitter highlights or gems.

Project of the week: Botanical Treasures

Square Easel Card

Materials

Square Large Card Blank
Design Sheet and Paper
A4 White Card

Glitter

Gems

1. Using a square card fold the top part of your card in half to make an easel card blank.  

2. Take a piece of white card and cut out a square measuring 14.5cm x 14.5cm, then attach it to the easel front (ensuring you only fix adhesive to below the score line).

3. Fix backing paper to the front section and the inside back with double sided tape or glue. Trim it a little bit shorter than the card, leaving a white edge around the card.

4. Choose your topper and cut out your shape, then fix to the centre of the card as shown, fixing in place using foam pads.

5. Cut out a ribbon strip and fix to the bottom of the card as shown.

6. Using your sentiment, cut out and attach with foam pads to the back and fix into place to act as your stopper.  

7. Cut out extra flowers and shaped them to give more dimension. 

8. Attach at opposite sides of the topper using foam pads or silicone glue.  If using silicone glue, leave your work to dry for an hour.

9. To finish your project add self adhesive gems to the flowers and the main card as shown. 

Project of the week: Poppies with a twist

Poppies with a twist

Materials

1 x A4 White Card

Design Sheet and paper

Kraft Card

1. Score and fold your A4 card in half to make an A5 Card blank. Measure and mark across the fold at 15cm. Cut down the card to make a square card.

2. Open the card and on the inside front score from the fold line on the right to the top left hand corner of your card. Reinforce the fold line with a bone folder. This is your blank twisted easel.

3. Print off the design sheet and backing paper.

4. Cover the base of the card blank with backing paper. Cut out a ribbon strip from your design sheet and fix across the base of the card as shown at an angle.

5. Cut a topper from the design sheet and back onto kraft card. Attach to the front of your card below the score line using foam pads as shown.

6. Cut a sentiment and attach to the base of the card with foam pads. this will act as a stopper for your card.

7. Take two small strips of coordinating ribbon and tie together in a decorative knot. Fix to the top left hand corner using craft glue.

Dimensional Garden Cards

Dimensional Garden

Here's a peak at some the the gorgeous dimensional garden themed cards you can create in issue 36 of our inspirations magazine! The side scene cards also fold flat for posting!

Dimensional Butterflies

Build A Butterfly

As we just launched the Build A Butterfly Collection yesterday on Create and Craft we had to share some more of the beautiful projects made from the collection!
Build A Butterfly Dimensional Collection

Monochrome Butterflies Collection

Build A Butterfly

Build A Butterfly

If you recieved a copy of the last inspiration magazine (issue 35) you may of already had a sneak peak of our Build A Butterfly collection with your free readers download! For those who missed it here are a few more beautiful samples! With endless decoupage options the design sheets and toppers in this collection offer great versatility for creating dimensional cards on the floral and butterfly theme! As always we also offer a range of vibrant colour options to give you more choice.

Vintage Floral Essentials Craft Collection

Create and Craft Launch!

Join me on Create and Craft tomorrow at 12pm and 4pm for the launch of our beautuful Vintage Floral Essentials Collection! From Papercrafting CD Roms to Cardmaking kits and Stamps take a peak at some
of the gorgeous samples from the team!