Green - Neil Walker

Morning all,

The weekend is here again!

Hope you all have something excited

planned!

It's our second day featuring Green

and oh my goodness what a fabulous 

project we have here for you from Neil!!

This is amazing, you are going to love it!

Neil has made for us....

An altered letter rack in shades of green!

Cut three pieces of card to fit inside the letter

 rack and apply texture sand through the mask,

Vary your placement to create three different

 pieces.

Apply texture sand to the letter rack.

Leave everything to dry thoroughly.

Use Fluid Acrylic to add colour to the rack and 

the textured card.

Add washes of Transparent Red and Yellow Iron

 Oxide to add age and depth.

Stamp the map image onto white tissue

Apply to the inside areas of the rack with

 Faux Finishing Medium

The finished rack.

Add a bit of metallic highlights with Treasure

 Copper.

Add further detail using Liquid Pearls to finish.

Fabulous Neil, if you want to have a go,

this is what'll you need -

Wooden Shapes - Letter Rack

Mixed Media Texture Sand Paste

Tim Holtz - Layered Stencil - Clockwork

Mixed Media Fluid Acrylic Paints

White Tissue Paper

Archival Ink - Jet Black

DecoArt Faux Finishing Medium

Treasure Gold - Copper 

Liquid Pearls

Well that's all for today, I'll

be back tomorrow with our next letter

for The Alpha/Dictionary Challenge!

Oooooh wonder what it will be this time?

Jane x

Paper Folding - Rachel Snook

Morning all,

Welcome to day two of our paper folding 
week.  I do love papers and have to feel
them and sniff them!! Ha ha bet I'm not
the only one?? Come on ....you know you do too.

Today Rachel is here with us to show how she 
has made two lovely tree decorations.
Christmas is only a month away now.....
note to self - Christmas Cards need making!!

Cut two 4" squares of patterned paper.

Fold into quarters.  Along the fold lines,
cut in about 1" on each fold line.

Fold the corners using the cut folds to make
a cone shape and glue the edges together.

Repeat on all four corners.
Do the same with the other piece.
this forms your star shape!

Punch two circles of matching paper (I
used the blue scalloped circle Woodware punch).
Take some ribbon, folding it in half and
secure with double sided tape between the
two circles.  Leave enough ribbon above the
circles so you can hang the star.
Glue the circle to the back of one of
the stars, this covers the hole!
Stick the other star to the other side of the
circle, off setting the points.
You can now leave it as it is or
decorate if required.
I added a small die cut Poinsettia
to mine using red glitter card.
Hang  and enjoy!!

And for Rachel's second project -

Punch out twenty 2" scalloped circles.

Make a triangle template by measuring between

 the scallops you will have two eight and one nine

 scallops so the ninth scallop is folded an half.

As you can see this is a small template that

 helps for folding and add a T at the top.

 You just the need to raise the sides to form the triangle.

You need to do this for all twenty circles.

 Divide the circles in two sets of five and one of ten.

This forms the bauble.

Glue together, start with the five, you need 

to match the scallops up so that they align. 

As you can see from the photo you do not 

stack the fives to form the circle until the ribbon

 is put through.

The ten are glued together into a line.

Take half a metre of matching ribbon and fold

 in half. You will either use a piece of thin 

wire or needle threader to thread through the

 beads, you may find it easier to tread one end at a time.

Punch out a small flower or die cut if easier

 one in the cardstock used and one in Mirri card.

 Make a small hole in each and thread on the

 ribbon below the beads a little glue may

 be required to hold the flowers.

Take the ribbon and place on the first set of 

five and then glue together.

This is the top of the bauble. Then take the

 row of ten and as before matching the scallops

 this makes the centre of the bauble.  It may 
help to line them up and hold with paperclips

 until you are sure you have the correct fit.

 When happy you can start to glue. 

 Then attach the bottom five ensuring that the

 ribbon hangs through.

When you have your bauble glued, you need to

 repeat with the flowers and beads to finish.

Punch out or die cut Mirri card little flowers and glue

 one to each corner. Add a holographic 

peel off dot or self adhesive dot to match.

What a gorgeous bauble to make for 

your Christmas Tree.

Do you fancy trying these out?

This is what you will need ....

Maja Christmas Paper
 3mm Satin Ribbon - Red

Poinsettia Die or embellishment of choice.

Red Glitter Card
 Mirri Card

Woodware Blue 2"Scalloped Circle Punch
Flower Punch


I'll see you tomorrow with
another project!

Jane x

Homespun Wreath - Dawn Heald

Hi everyone,

Welcome to day two of our wreath week, 

today it is Dawn's turn to show you what she has been up to!

Dawn says .....

I decided to try a different colour palette and the Kaisercraft

 Blubelle paper pad was perfect. This pad is useful for

 masculine makes too as well as pretty makes so a good

 all rounder to have in your stash.

For my wreath I've made a homesy feel decorated with

 flowers and a fairy. I do like my punches so gave

 them a dusting off and I really enjoyed putting this together.

To make this project here's what I did -

Choosing some darker papers from the pad I cut them up 

into small pieces and glued then around the polystyrene ring.

 Smaller pieces are easier to shape and glue around the

 ring. When dry I outlined pieces with a gold pen.

 Now this did take a long while to do but it was quite therapeutic.

For the decorations I chose some lighter papers from the

 same pad. Punched out flowers and butterflies, edged with

 ink and made up into roses. I die cut the ivy leaves and the

 fairy three times and inked the edges, then layered the fairy 

adding glitter glue to make her sparkle.  Glue

 them all to the wreath.

Beautiful Dawn, thank you!

Products used - 

Polystyrene ring

Kaisercraft Blubelle Paper Pad

Sue Wilson Dies - Trailing Ivy

Sizzix Thinlits die - Fanciful Fairy

Woodware Punches - Flowers, Butterflies 

Distress Inks - stormy sky, dried marigold, crushed olive 

Stickles Glitter Glue - Stardust and Gold 

Matte Medium

Cosmic Shimmer Clear Glue

Glue Gel

Hope you like today's project, let us know what you think!

See you tomorrow with a project from Neil!

Jane x

Saturday Savers Autumn Leaves - Jane

Hi, 
A different take on the Autumn leaves with different shades that could be autumnal or be used all year around. Jane used different pieces of cardboard to create a beautiful desk tidy.
She used decomache for this project, which is a quick and easy way to cover cardboard or wood. We have a large selection of papers to choose from (click here to find them) .

 We all have cardboard tubes and boxes to hand

 Because I am covering them with a fairly thin paper, I have painted them with white acrylic paint

 I thought I would use the lovely decomache papers to cover the rolls etc., tear the papers into small pieces

Cover the tubes using decomache glue 

When dry, you could leave them now but I decided to try out the crackle coat so..... apply two coats of the base coat, making sure the coats dry before adding next one.  

Then apply top coat, quite thickly if you want lots of crackle!!!  When dry rub over acrylic paint, working into cracks and then remove excess

 To decorate I have decorated with Summer Border diecut and ribbon.  

First Edition Deco Mache papers - Leaf Repeat, Purple Stripes

First Edition Deco Mache - Matt Adhesive and Varnish, Antique Crackle Base Coat and Top Coat

Pebeo Acrylic Paint - Iridescent Violet Blue

Mirri Card -Silver

Memory Box die - Summer Border

Ribbon

See you tomorrow

Izzy