I've passed Unit Five - and I'm going on holiday!

I've heard from assessor Jackie that I've received a Pass Credit for Unit Five, this is for my Baby Girl Gift Cot, Bird Box and Butterfly Magic Box.  Thank you to everyone who has left feedback for me!

We're going on holiday tomorrow - off to Norfolk and Suffolk for two weeks.   Hopefully the weather will be better than it is in Devon at the moment!

Kath x

Butterfly Magic Box

For my final 3D object for the Certificate in Papercraft I've made a Butterfly Magic Box.  I made this following the tutorial on the Magic Boxes website. 

I cut two squares from an A4 sheet of Moondust card, one of 190mm for the box and one of 82mm for the box lid.  I then scored the larger box 74mm from each side and the smaller box 20mm from each side.  I cut the corners from the larger box and folded along the scorelines.   To make the lid I snipped all four corners, trimmed the excess and fastened the corners with tacky glue.  To decorate the inside and outside of the box (both are the same) I used a turquoise and red Hot off the Press paper (a magazine freebie) and attached this to a 300gsm card to make the box sides heavy - this weight helps the drop when the lid is removed.  I stamped the butterflies onto thin white card and coloured them with Pastel Green, Amethyst and Antique Pink Promarkers.  After cutting out the butterflies I stamped the reverse.   They butterflies were attached to the end of a thin strip of acetate - the other end of the acetate was slotted through slits in the square patterned base.   When I was happy with the height of the butterflies I cut off the acetate under the patterned base and attached the ends with tape.   This was then attached to the inside of the magic box.  I then used Diamond Stickles on the butterflies so they will catch the light when the box is opened.

As this is to submitted for the Certificate I would welcome feedback or suggestions for improvement, please.

Kath x

Bird Box

I made a Bird Box for the 3D unit of the Certificate in Papercraft - this was using a template which is designed and created by Nicole Heady.

I printed the template onto cream Centura Pearl card and covered the base section in Hot off the Press Soft Nostalgia lemon/pink flower paper.   The roof was made from brown paper from the same collection which was also glued to the Centura Pearl card.  I used my Buttercup Promarker to distress the edges of the bird house before assembling it with Tacky Glue and then used my Walnut Promarker to distress the edges of the roof.   I used my Nestablilities to cut a scalloped circle to decorate the hole in the front of the bird house and made a loop from pink/white baker's twine which I coloured with an Ivory Promarker - this was attached through two small slits in the roof section.  I attached one side of the roof to the bird box with Tacky Glue - the other side was left unattached so a gift can be placed inside the box - small pieces of velcro fastened the roof section.

I used a topper from Making Cards magazine to decorate the roof.   To make the flowers I used my Woodware 1" circle punch and cut this into a spiral.  I used my quilling tool to roll this and then used Tacky Glue to attach it to a small blossom shape - also made with a Woodware punch.  The leaves were punched from a scrap of turquoise paper using my Woodware grass punch.   I made flowers and leaves to decorate both the roof and the front of the bird box.

As I am going to submit this for assessment, I would welcome feedback, please.

Kath x

Baby Girl Gift Cot

I've just finished making the first item for my 3D unit of the Certificate in Papercrafts - a baby girl gift cot.

I used a template available to students of the Craft Qualification Centre and printed it onto Centura Pearl card.  I covered the ends of the cot with pink flower paper from a Fizzy Moon paper pack and I coloured the inside of the cot with Brilliance Pearlescent Orchid ink pad to co-ordinate with the flower paper.  I inked the edges of the cot shape with the Orchid ink pad - this not only covered the white edges but will also draw the eye away from any less than perfect cutting!  I used Fizzy Moon toppers and glitter ribbon to decorate the cot and also added two small lemon brads to the ribbon.

The box section was covered in lemon/pink spot paper and then assembled following the instructions with the template.  I used a lemon brad as a handle for the drawer.   This was then attached to the cot sides.  I used lemon/pink flower paper from the same Fizzy Moon paper pad as a 'blanket' on the cot and cut the edges with Fiskars Victorian paper edgers.

Kath x

I've passed Unit Three!

I've had a message from assessor Jackie - I've been awarded a Pass Credit for Unit Three!  This was for the Get Well Soon, Floral Doodles Woodware Challenge and Bear on Motorbike cards.

Thank you to everyone for feedback on these designs.

Kath x

Bear on Motorbike

I wanted to make a card for a young boy's birthday which had a cute image and also an iris folded design, so this is what I came up with.

I made a card blank from Ivory Centura Pearl cardstock and attached blue Moondust card.   The scalloped square was already embossed with dots and had an aperture in the centre, although I made it a little larger so it was the same size as my iris folding template.   The iris folding papers were scraps of beige, gold foil, red and blue sparkle papers and the iris centre is a piece of gold holographic card.  This was attached to the card front and I placed small gold peel-off dots in each corner of the square.  The Bear on Motorbike is from a Craft Creations die cut sheet.  I layered it with silicone glue so I could shape the pieces and, when dry, I attached it to the bottom of the card.   The greeting was from the same sheet and I mounted it onto blue Moondust card to match the layers on the card.

I'm going to submit this for the third card for Unit Three, so would welcome any comments or suggestions for improvement.

Kath x

Floral Doodles Woodware Challenge

I made this card to enter the Woodware April Sketch Challenge and am also going to submit it for the second card for my Unit Three assessment.

I attached Hot of the Press Icy Rainbow papers (a magazine freebie) to a white Centura Pearl square card blank - yellow at the top and spotty paper at the bottom of the card.   The join was covered with a strip of lilac Moondust card which had lilac spot ribbon tied around it.  To follow the sketch I stamped the the top image onto white Centura Pearl card - this is from the Woodware Floral Doodles stamp set.  The image was embossed and coloured with Promarkers.  I used the Woodware Squared Corner cutter punch and then attached the image to lilac Moondust card.   The lower image is stamped with Woodware Salutations 'Birthday Wishes' stamp and leaves from the Floral Doodles stamp set.  This was embossed and finished in the same way as the floral topper.   Both were attached to the front of the card with double sided tape.   Two small lilac pearls were attached to the top right and two to the bottom left of the top half of the card.  The card was finished with an insert of white pearlescent paper.

I would welcome feedback on this card, or suggestions for improvement, as I am going to submit it for my Unit Three assessment.

Kath x

Get Well Soon

I have recently made this floral Get Well Soon card and am going to submit it for one of the cards in my Unit Three assessment.

I cut a square of pink Moondust card slightly smaller than my pearlescent card blank and then matted a layer of pink rose paper from the Pink Petticoat Vintage Rose Collection (a magazine freebie) onto the pink card.   I attached a strip of green/pink/white stripe paper from the same collection onto pink Moondust card and attached it to the left side of the card.  I stamped the Hobby Arts Floral Display image onto white pearlescent card, this was coloured with pink and green coloured pencils.  The image was cut and embossed with my large circle Nestabilities.   I used large scalloped Nestabilities to cut and emboss the pink Moondust card.  The image was attached to the card with double sided tape.    The Woodware Salutations 'Get Well Soon' sentiment was stamped into the bottom right corner of the card.  I then attached three small white pearls to the top right and three to the bottom left of the card.

As I am going to submit this card for my Unit Three assessment, I would welcome feedback please.

Kath x

I've passed Unit One!

I've had a message from assessor Jackie - I've been awarded a Pass Credit for Unit One!  This was for the Clematis Birthday Card, Wedding Easel Card and Jenigami Tortoise.   Thank you to everyone who has left feedback for me.

I'm now going to start working on Unit Three which is the cardmaking unit.

Kath x

Jenigami Tortoise

I wanted to make a 3D item for my Unit One assessment so made this tortoise using a freebie download from Jenigami   

I downloaded the tortoise template and printed two copies onto First Edition Spring Feast scrapbooking card.  After cutting out the sections I glued them together to give the tortoise more strength.   I used Diamond Stickles to highlight flowers on the shell and distressed the edge of the tortoise body.  I glued the feet onto the bottom of the body sections and doodled around the edges.   Wobbly eyes were attached to the head before the sections were assembled using the instructions from the download.  Jenigami papercraft items fold flat so I used a co-ordinating scrapbooking card to make a wallet for the finished tortoise.   This was fastened with a brad and ribbon.

Assessor Jackie, gave me a good tip for improving this design and I thought I would share it in case anyone is thinking of making anything similar.   If the outline cutting is a little rough, it is better to distress with ink as this will draw the eye in away from the edge, rather than using a file to expose the core (as I did) as this will draw the eye to the edge.  I hope this helps!

Kath x

Wedding Easel Card

I made this card for a friend's wedding and was so pleased with the result - as it was the first easel card I had made - that I made another card to submit for my Unit One assignment.  The idea for using this stamp on an easel card came from Crafty Debs.

I made an easel card from white Moondust card and used Hot of the Press Icy Rainbow paper to cover the inside of the card.   I used the bride and groom and sentiment stamp from Woodware's Getting Married set to stamp the main image and the easel stopper.  These were layered onto purple Moondust card and the image was coloured with Promarkers.   As the Icy Rainbow paper is single sided, I glued two pieces together and when they were dry I punched the large and small daisies and made leaves from a scrap of green paper.   I shaped the flowers and glued a small daisy into a larger one and then added a small pearl to the centre to make the flowers, I then glued leaves to the back of the flowers and attached them to the card front.  A purple heart on the easel and a white heart on the base finished the card.  I then made a box from white Moondust card and stamped the flowers from the same set onto the top of the box and coloured them to match the main image.

As I am going to submit this card for Unit One of the Certificate in Papercraft, I would welcome feedback on my card, please.

Kath x

Clematis Birthday Card

I was asked to make a pretty birthday card with flowers and decided to use these pretty Magenta clematis peel-offs.  I had made one of these cards in a workshop at Japonica last year and liked the finished card, so decided to make another one.  I'm thinking of submitting this card as one of the items for Unit One of the Certificate in Papercraft, so I would welcome feedback, please.

To make the card I put the main clematis peel-off onto a piece of white linen card and rounded the corners.   This was attached to a larger piece of pink linen card which had been embossed with Swiss Dots and also had rounded corners.   The other clematis flowers were stuck onto white linen card for the decoupaged image.  I used the reverse image of the peel-offs to decorate the square white linen card blank and also some of the small dots from the peel-off sheet.  I coloured the image with coloured pencils as I wanted a 'soft' finish.  I rubbed the wrong side of the flowers to give them shape and then attached them to the main flower with foam pads.  The clematis topper was then attached to the left side of the card blank.  I attached a peel-off greeting to white linen card and attached this to a piece of pink linen card which had also been embossed with Swiss Dots and had rounded corners.  This was attached with foam tape as I wanted it to be raised from the card blank to offset the decoupaged clematis image.   I then attached a small pink bow, this matched the coloured pink card and the white spots highlighted the embossed card and also the peel-off

Kath x