Showing posts with label Bigshot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bigshot. Show all posts

Monday, August 13, 2012

Graduation Card Tutorial

I kept seeing Graduation cards all over the internet and for some reason no matter how hard I looked I couldn't find a tutorial on how to make one so .............I made it up myself........giggle. Its super easy to make and really gets a wow from the receiver. It can be done in white for weddings. Just embossed with the simple words of Wedding Invitation and it really is beautiful.  I have actually made this tutorial in white as I thought it would be easier for you to see in the photos.
So lets get going on making one :) All measurements are in inches.

Cut a piece of card stock to 8" x 8".
Score at 2" and 6", turn and score the next side at 2" and 6".

It should now look like this.
 
Now cut the four corner squares off. Make sure you cut out a little bit more then you usually would so that the card folds in neatly.
This will mean that the cuts will join up a fraction into the central square but don't worry this will be covered up later on. :)
This is what you card will look like now.

Now take your corner punch and punch each corner.
Your card will now look like this :)
Follow the photos below to fold it all closed.



This is it closed up.
The photo below is not great but this is what it will look like on the other side. You will have little nicks showing at the corner but we will be placing a top onto this  and it will cover them up.

Cut a piece of card stock to the same size square as the card itself.
Emboss this piece of card on your Big Shot.

Place double sided tape on the back of the embossed piece and turn back the corners .
Join your embossed piece to the top of the card, when you are happy with your placement of the piece then press down on the exposed tape sections and slide out the tape cover pieces from the side of the card.
Now all you need to do is add a button and a tassel. If you have never made a tassle before there are a some great tutorials out on the web Make-a-Bookmark-Tassel is just one of them. Nice clear instructions. They use a needle on one of the steps and if I am honest I just wrapped my thread around a few times and knotted it and cut off any bits that looked a bit dodgy!!!! lol.

Remember this card can be made in loads of different sizes. All you really need is a square that can be worked into 3 sections. In other words a 12" x 12" piece of card gets scored at 3" and 9". What this essentially means is the center is twice the size of a side piece. In this case the left side piece will be 3" the middle will be 6" and the right side will be 3". For a 6" x 6" piece of card the left side piece will be 1½" the middle will be 3"and the right side will be 1½" . 

I hope you enjoy making this little gem of a card. I have to say I love it.

Happy Crafting Everyone.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Reverse Fold Tutorial

Measure or just give it a go........................you decide!!!
 
 
To make this card: 
 
Cut card to 11” x 4 ½ “

Score down the short at 2 ¾ “ and 5 ½ “ (this means you will make your marks along the long piece of paper but will in fact be scoring down the shortest piece……it will make sense when you do it………..I promise!!!)

Fold in half at the 5 ½ “ fold.

Fold the 2 ¾ “ fold back on itself.

Decorate with papers, die cuts etc.

Wrap closed with a ribbon, trapping the ribbon under the front die cut, panel etc. Do not glue the ribbon at the back as you want this card to open into 3 panels.

Or to make it super easy!!!!!

Take any size piece of card.
Fold it in  half
Fold the front panel of the card in half backwards (towards the spine) 
Decorate and attach ribbon as described above.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy! Needless to say the second way is the one I use (giggle)

Happy Crafting Everyone :)

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Layered Hearts

Sorry for the long delays between posts lately. I have been manic with work and classes and oh life. It seems next to impossible to grab anytime for myself lately. To top it all off my camera decided to sulk for the last couple of weeks and not take any photos, thankfully this seems to have fixed itself so I am hoping to get my head down and start getting some tutorials underway in the next 10 days or so and I will pop them up as soon as I complete them.

For the moment I'm am going to start posting some of my demo cards over the next few days for those of you who haven't seen them :)

This card is using the Daisy and Dandelion papers and the Heart Xcut Dies from Docrafts. Just some simple layering up of the hearts creates a simple but pretty card.


Happy Crafting Everyone :)

Thursday, April 26, 2012

Baa!!!!!


Well after far too long I am finally blogging again. Life has been insane with work and oh EVERYTHING ......lol.

I meant to post this picture weeks ago. I go to a fantastic craft club in Kilcoole once a month and every month there are one or two demos from craft members just sharing their ideas or projects they have seen etc. Well the wonderful Averil came along to club last month and showed us all how to make this cute little sheep. Aren't they gorgeous. This little herd were made by all the members that night. I love the way they all seem to have their own little personality.
Happy Crafting Everyone.