Tuppence Coloured: Be Mine

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Wednesday, 11 September 2019

All my love

Hello, and welcome!

A quick card today! I love monochrome with just a pop of red- I think it's rather chic!

It's a handy way of using up some of those scraps of card that seem to multiply when nobody's looking!

I made it like this -

This card would be good to send for any occasion and the strong colour scheme is gender-neutral.

Till next time,

Keep Crafting,

Keren Product List

Saturday, 7 September 2019

Favourite things - faceted gift bag

Hello and welcome!

It’s Favourite Things time – in this case, this faceted gift bag.

I just LOVE the shape – and the Perennial Essence paper. This little gift bag works well made with 4, 5 or 6 facets (I did try it with 3 but it didn’t end well). I particularly like the 5-facet version, so that’s what I’ve made today.

Would you like to make this bag with a different number of facets or in a different size? Want a calculator to help you? I have a Google class with spreadsheets to help you resize several styes of box! Go to classroom.google.com, sign in (if you don't have a Google account you will need to set one up - it's easy and FREE!) and join the class with the code jhab6d

Keep crafting!

Keren

PS– have you seen the new catalogue yet? What’s on your shopping list?

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Saturday, 31 August 2019

Garage Gears Pillow Box

Hello, and welcome!
So we're still getting back to normal here at Tuppence Towers. Decluttering phase 1 is more or less complete, with some items in storage still to be donated or sold. Next step will be to re-arrange what's left!
I'm still getting used to my new, streamlined craft supply storage which is my way of saying that I can't find ANYTHING.

Time and space for crafting is still limited. I needed something quick for today's project, so I used some leftover bits from an earlier project and one of the ready-to-go Polka Dot pillow boxes -

Hope you liked it!

Keep crafting,

Keren Product List

Kraft Pillow Boxes

[147018]

Garage Gears Dies

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5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

[141487]

Real Red Classic Stampin' Pad

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Real Red A4 Card Stock

[106578]

A Good Man Cling Stamp Set

[149270]

Saturday, 3 August 2019

Clockwork Heart

Hello, and welcome!

Well, the declutter/destash that's been in progress for the past few weeks (see the last couple of blog posts for details) is almost finished and I begin to have hope that I will be able to actually craft again soon, although it will be a while before I'm back to my normal routine.

It's rather frustrating, because SU demonstrators can now order from the Autumn/Winter catalogue (everyone else gets to see it next month) and there's such a lot of lovely things that I want to play with!

Anyway, today I'm sharing a project that I completed before all the chaos started.

My crafting roots are in altered art/mixed media/distress/grunge and once in a while I feel inspired to revisit them. The inspiration for this card was a stamped image I saw somewhere. It's technique-heavy, but I hope you like it.

So it's back to the clearing-out for me. This was the last of the projects that I made before we started working our way through years of accumulated stuff so I may be very quiet for a while, but I will be back.

Hope I'll see you soon!

Keep crafting,

Keren Product List

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Box basics

Hello everyone, and welcome!

Today's project has been waiting to be published for almost a month! I am still playing catch-up, so I hope you'll forgive me. I made this box to fit a notebook I wanted to send to my upline as a thank-you gift - I bound the notebook myself, using some retired DSP for the cover, so I needed a custom-sized box

As I was doing the calculations for the box, I had a lightbulb moment. Up until now, I have done my working-out old-school - using paper & pencil and good old arithmetic. It suddenly struck me that I use Excel to make calculations in my day job, so why wasn't I using it to help me calculate my box dimensions?

I am honestly ashamed that it has taken me until now to think of it.

You can download the box calculator spreadsheet here.

Keep crafting!

Keren (Disaster Magnet)

My latest adventure is to burn myself while cooking, so in future videos you may notice that I have a dressing on my wrist...I'm not having the best time of it right now...

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Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Purple Hearts

Hello and welcome!

I really love using die-cuts in my crafting. I’ve had a Big Shot since they were introduced and it’s seen regular use ever since. The basic shapes are always in use for matting and for framing images, and I am so happy that Stampin’ Up! have included some heart shaped dies in the new catalogue. I’ve really missed having heart shapes to play with!

The inspiration for today’s project came from an article in Craft Stamper magazine. The original used wooden embellishments, but I knew as soon as I saw it that I wanted to make my own version with paper and card. I also liked the colour palette in the Petal Promenade DSP – it seems quite Victorian to me. Here's how I made my version -

I debated whether the larger heart should go inside or outside the box. The original had three small hearts inside the box with a large heart on the lid. I decided to have the large heart with the sentiment inside, to surprise the recipient when they open the box. What do you think? By the way, that sentiment is a Sale-A-Bration stamp (so it was free...)

I can pretty much promise that I’ll be sharing more projects using the dies in the coming weeks. Now all we need are some star shapes and I’ll be soooo happy…

See you again soon,

Keep crafting,

Keren

https://2dcoloured.blogspot.com/2019/01/purple-hearts.html