Paper Piecing House Card

I find paper piecing to be one of my favorite type of cards to make. Bit by bit you build your picture and its only at the end that you get the full impact of the card. The stamp is from Dimension Fourth, the papers are from the Born to Shop range by Docrafts. The stamp itself had stitching around it so I just mirrored that by using a thin black pen to create stitching around the papers and finished it all off with a cute little button in the middle of the sun.

I taught this in class and I just put a big folder of left over paper pieces from other projects on the table, you should have seen what everyone turned out. The cards were all unique. The girls used papers I would never have thought to use on this project and the colors they put together ended up looking stunning. Happy days :)

And the Winner is..................................

Maurice Corcoran

Well done Maurice. Those scrummy goodies will be winging their way to you. Give them a crafty home :)

Entries for Summer Cardmaking Challenge are up on the Blog

Hi all, well here are the fantastic entries for the Summer Cardmaking Challenge and I loved getting them in my inbox. Well done and thank you to everyone who took part. Your entries are really really beautiful. The draw is talking place as I type and as soon as I get the phone call to tell me who has won. I will blog it straight away. I am so excited.... everyone keep your fingers crossed............it could be you :). Either way you are all winners for taking up the challenge and taking time to enter. Well done again.

Eileen Carrick

Jacqui Haskins

Geraldine McCormack 

Maurice Corcoran

Angela 

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Nikky Smith

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Pamela Corcoran

Entries for Summer Cardmaking Challange

Its now Midnight on the 31st of August and entries for the Cardmaking Summer Challenge are closed!!!! The winner will be announced in the next few days and I will get the pictures up of all the entries. Well done everyone who took part, I have loved getting opening my email everyday to check if anything has come in.

Best fun EVER :)

Home Sweet Home

This was my favorite card of the demos in May and June. Its made with Kraft card, Xcut Punches and Tulip papers. I think it is totally scrummy! Kraft card is my new found love. When I first went to work with it I just couldn't imagine what I would make but once I started it was non stop ideas. hehehe, Love it.....

Summer Challange Prize and Incentive Photo!!!!

Hi Everyone, I just thought you might like to have a lookie see at the challenge prize. Yep, I went SHOPPING today, Premier Arts and Crafts didn't know what hit it!!!!!! Yahoooooo. I may have to take out a second mortgage to send it to the winner!

I posted the Challenge in June and if you haven't seen the link or want to have a look at it again then just scroll down on the right had side of the blog and you will see the link to Cardmaking Summer Challange. The closing date is the Wednesday the 31st of August 2011 so its time to get your skates on!

The Challenge is open to everyone, 1 entry per person and it does not matter where you live or if your a beginner or advanced crafter, all are welcome, just join in :)

Since it is the first challenge I thought I would go a little bit mad and make it a scrummy prize with lots of different things. For those of you who were dithering about doing the challenge, go on,  give it a go. Its for fun and its a random winner so no thinking your not up to it OK. Its all about having a go, trying something new and then the hardest part which is being brave enough to enter a challenge, I know its a hard thing to get the nerve up to do if you haven't done it before (I am still working up my nerve to do one myself!!!) but with this challenge its worth giving it a go. Go on look at the yummy prize again.... lol.

Box Drawer Card Tutorial

This is a cute little Box Drawer Card that I made in my last demos. It is so simple to make, just a few score lines and some double sided tape. Its a fab project for using your leftover paper and embellishments. The cutting, scoring and folding of this box can take about 10 minutes, fantastic for a quick little project. You can put anything from Jewelery to sweets in this. LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DRAWER HOLDER 

(all measurements for this tutorial are in Inches)

Drawer holder: Cut a piece of card to * 3” x 12”

Score  card at  3”, 4”, 7”, 8”, and 11”. 

Cover with your paper or stamp now. Place sticky tape on the small flap.

Fold flap over into a square and stick with double sided tape. (see photo)

DRAWER

 Drawer: Cut a piece of card to * 4 ⁷/₈" x 4 ⁷/₈"

Take the card and score it 1" from each edge. 

On two opposite ends, cut the scored line up to where the scores join. Fold all the joins inwards in valley folds.

Turn card over and put double sided tape on the 4 flaps you have just created

Working corner by corner, take off the double sided tape and join all flaps into the side of the drawer as shown in the photo. Your drawer should now look like the photo below.

I decorated the front of the drawer with a semi circle of paper.

Pierce a hole in the center of the drawer front and add a brad to act as a drawer handle.

I add the brad quite loosely so there is a little bit of space between it and the drawer as it just makes it much easier to open the drawer

Place the drawer inside its card pocket. Voila, you card box is made.

For those of you who are Do Crafts Creativity Club Members you should check out Clare Curds Easel Box Card  (Episode 56) and there is a template of her easel version to download from the Creativity Club download section on the Do Crafts web site.