Pretty Planner Clip

I am a huge planner geek and I love spending weekend afternoons decorating my planner pages for the week ahead. I decided to make a video this week to show how I made this pretty planner clip.

I hope you enjoy seeing how it was made. I really enjoyed shooting and editing the video!

Supplies used:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

Standard Magnetic Platform

Mint Cutting Pads

Thinlits Die - Intricate Garden Flowers

Thinlits Die - Back To Nature #2

Card stock

Hot Glue

Glue Stick

Paper Clip

Autumn Leaves Gift Box

Autumn has really arrived here in the UK and I am loving all the changing colours of nature. So this week I was inspired to make an autumn leaves gift box. Emily Atherton has produced some beautiful dies for us to work with; each with a pretty nature theme.

Here are the supplies I used for this project:

• Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit
• Emily Atherton Timeless Love Gift Box Die (#660883)
• Scrapbooking papers / Card stock
• Glue

Cutting the box out is so simple as it is all one piece and doesn't require any glueing to hold it in place. I just used a little bit of glue to attach the leaf pieces. 

I think this will be a great die to use for gift wrapping at Christmas. I might make some truffles for my neighbours in these gift boxes.  

What do you think? I like the geometric pattern in contrast to the soft leaves. I'm definitely cutting more of these out for my autumn mantel display!

Marbled Gift Bag

This week I wanted to try a quick and easy project with some amazing purple and gold marbled scrapbook paper I had in my stash. I have a serious love for gold craft supplies at the moment!

I love this Thinlits bag die as it cuts out in one piece and then is as easy as folding the scored sections and applying glue or double sided sticky tape to the flaps. Perfect as a gift bag or even for holding sweets/candy!

I think I'll make some of these with Christmas papers for putting peppermint creams and festive treats in as gifts. What do you think?

Paper Bunting Banner

A theme for most of my craft projects is positivity. I like to create prints, cards and banners to hang in my home studio to put me in a good mood. So today's project is a quick DIY paper banner for your craft space!

I started with some pretty mint coloured scrapbooking paper and the Bunting Framelits Plus Die Set. The bunting die set is really good as it includes so many different sizes and can be used as a stencil if preferred.

Once I had cut out my paper bunting flags on the Sizzix Big Shot Plus, I used a length of white cotton yarn and some washi tape to fix the flags on. Washi tape is great for quick projects because it is repositionable and doesn't leave a residue.

I then used some gold thickers stickers to spell out the word YAY! on the flags.

It looks really cute don't you think? A super quick project to brighten your space and bring some positivity. 

I also made a banner for my kitty so everyone knows her name is Tammy! 

Pretty Floral Gift Wrap

I enjoy gift wrapping as much as buying the gift! I adore using brown paper to wrap a gift, then decorating the package with pretty embellishments and tags.

So I took the Thinlits Intricate Garden Flowers die and some peach and pink scrapbooking paper and got to work.

The leaves in this die set have a really sweet heart design as the veins. I chose to layer the flower pieces in the contrasting papers.

I used a hot glue gun to assemble the flower pieces and pulled up some of the petals once it was fixed to the package.

Such a pretty gift wrap don't you think?

Sizzix At The Handmade Fair

Last Sunday I took a trip to Hampton Court Palace to experience The Handmade Fair. It is a huge fair filled with craft workshops, talks, demos, shopping and food. I went to visit the Sizzix team at their stand to say hello and take some photos.

I thought I'd share them with you today!

The decorations inside the tent were really pretty!

Lots of people were learning to use a die cutting machine for the first time.

The project was to make this decorative match box - one I'll be trying out very soon too!

It was really great to see so many people enjoying the Big Shot Plus machine! I hope you enjoyed my photos today and I'll be back next week - maybe with a little Christmas project!

Super Simple Glitter Brooches

I went to my fabric stash for this week's make and decided to try a DIY with some glitter fabric I've had for a while! I adore the heart dies so want to share how I made a super simple glitter brooch.

I cut out 2 hearts in glitter fabric and 2 in felt to stabilize the glitter fabric.

I used a hot glue gun to secure the glitter fabric to the felt and then added the brooch backs with hot glue too.

How cute are they when complete?! Such a simple make as it only takes a few minutes!

Here's a list of the items I used to make the glitter heart brooches:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine
Sizzix Bigz Die - Tribal Hearts
Sizzix Mint Cutting Pads
Glitter Fabric
Felt
Brooch Backs
Hot Glue Gun

Monochrome Favour Box

Recently, I picked up some marbled cardstock to make a few projects with. I thought it would be great for the gift box die which is included in the Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit.

I like to use a bone folder along all the folds of the box and then a hot glue gun to assemble it.

I added ribbon and a scalloped trim to make this monochrome favour box. It would be great for a classy wedding or even as a gift box for a birthday.

It was hard to photograph the marbled pattern, but I hope you can see it a little bit in these photos!

Decorating A Planner

I am a bit of a planner nerd at heart and often find new planners to add to my collection. I recently received a spiral bound 'Life Planner' which was fairly blank on the front and back covers, with the exception of some gold lettering.

So I decided it needed the Sizzix treatment and made some pretty planner decorations for the cover!

The planner cover is made from a nice cardboard so it was easy to stick decorations to it with some PVA glue. I used a gold and peach colour theme and used some of the cut out shapes to decorate with too.

Items used include:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Machine

Sizzix Bigz Die - Tribal Hearts

Scrapbooking Papers

PVA Glue

A quick and easy DIY to make the planner look a lot prettier. Customising a planner is a great way to put your own style on it too!

Happy planning!

Claire

First Anniversary Card

Each year for wedding anniversaries, people gift each other items made from a different material. For the first year, the gift is paper. One of my friends asked me to make a card for his wife using the newspapers from the day they were married. How romantic is that?!

I started by photocopying pages of the New York Times and The Times newspapers, so I could cut out sections and collage them onto a blank greetings card. They were married in New York so I wanted to try and incorporate some stories from the city in the design.

Once I had completed the collage, I cut out some details using the Sizzix Big Shot Plus to embellish the card.

Here is a list of the items I used to make the newspaper card:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit (Includes Heart Dies and Scalloped Trim)

Sizzix Thinlits Die Set: Friendship Words Script

Newspapers

Blank Greetings Card

PVA Glue

Red Card Stock

Foam Sticky Pads

I hope you liked this card DIY today. I'm really enjoying using the word dies, they will be great for my Project Life scrapbook layouts. I'll be sure to share some soon!

 

Smile Arrows Greeting Card

I love any project that uses the Bigz dies, so today I wanted to share this greetings card with you. It's a quick and easy make so I hope you will try it out!

I decided to use pastel colours for the card - pink and blue are my favourite pastel shades.

I think this card would be a great one to send to someone who needs a bit of cheering up.

Here are the supplies I used:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus

Sizzix Bigz Die - Ethnic Elements

Sizzix Thinlits Dies - Friendship Words: Script

Mint Cutting Pads

Corner Punch

Card stock 

Washi Tape

PVA Glue

See you next time!

Claire

Planner Dashboard

I am such a planner nerd it was only a matter of time I used my Sizzix Big Shot to decorate my new Kikki K planner.

Planner 'dashboards' are the inside cover of your planner and usually indicate the theme and colour scheme for the rest of the planner. I decided to make all my own inserts and dividers for the planner in a grey and pink palette.

Here are some step by step photos of how I made the planner dashboard.

I like using a combination of embossing folders, thinlits dies and bigz dies for each project.

I added a slogan to motivate me and keep me in a productive mindset each time I open the planner.

Here is the finished layout! I wanted to use a mixture of textures and patterns, but used a colour theme to tie it all together.

Here is a list of all the supplies I used to decorate my planner dashboard:

• Sizzix Big Shot Plus
• Sizzix Bigz Die - Tribal Hearts
• Sizzix Thinlits Die Set - Speech Bubbles
• Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing Folder - Candy Hearts
• Glue Stick
• Dear Lizzie Thickers - Gold Foil on Foam Letter Stickers
• Pale Pink Glitter Tape by Heidi Swapp Marquee Love
• Fiskars Single Hole Punch
• Craft Asylum Scrapbooking Papers

I hope you enjoyed my planner DIY today. Do share your planner projects with us too!