Good Clean Fun!

Hello  bloggers!  

I'm still having fun playing with SU goodies and I particularly love re-inkers.  Today's project uses them with shaving foam in a technique I first came across in my days as a nursery/primary school teacher.  

This is one that needs a minimum of materials and clean-up is easy - after all, you're working with soap!  Get the most inexpensive shaving foam you can (don't use the other half's designer-fragranced can - it just causes arguments!) - it works just as well.  I mixed my colours with rubbing alcohol (surgical spirit - you could use vodka but that would be a terrible waste!)  but water will work as well, it just takes longer to dry.

Hope you enjoyed this project - and thanks for visiting.  See you soon!

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Tweety Sweety!

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog, and thank you for visiting.  I truly appreciate that you've taken time to drop by.

Another kinetic project today.  I've been fascinated by the double pull-out slider mechanism ever since i first came across it - it was a "How do they DO that?" moment, I just couldn't work out how it was done.  

Fortunately for my sanity, I saw it demonstrated on TV and it was EASY!  This is a variation on the basic method so that, when the tab is pulled, a small drawer delivers a sweet treat.

I won't go into measurements in detail because, if you're going to be making one of these, you'll want to size it to fit your little gift.  To calculate the size of paper you'll need, there's a great resource at www.thecraftyowl.co.uk/boxbuster.  Just a couple of points to remember - 

The sleeve needs to be a little bit bigger that the drawer so that it can move freely.  I added 1/8 inch to the width & height, so if your drawer - like mine - was 4 1/2" by 2 1/2 " by 1/2" you would need card 4 1/2 by 6 3/4 (2 1/2 + 1/8" + 1/2" +1/8" +2 1/2" +1/8" + 1/2" +1/8" + 1/4" for the overlap) and score at 2 5/8, 3 1/4, 5 7/8,  and 6 1/2.

Lay everything out and do a dummy run  on some scrap card before you try this with your good card - it's amazingly easy to get things upside-down and back to front!  Guess why I say that?  

I hope you like it - please let me know if you make one of these, and I'd love you to share  pictures of your projects on my Facebook page (the link is over to the right).

See you soon!  

xxx Keren

Gift Card Slider

 Hello again, bloggers, and than you for visiting my blog.

Today I've been playing with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlits dies.  

When you pull on the tab at the top of the card, the gift card holder sides out - but not all the way.  and when you've finished, it slides back in again, nice and neat.

You can see the tutorial on YouTube - 

There's the list of materials I used.

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Butterfly Flight

Hello again, bloggers.  Thank you for visiting - I truly appreciate it!

Today's project is a waving flag card.  I've used the Butterflies Thinlits again - can you tell how much I LOVE them?

When closed the card will fit into a DL envelope.  You need one piece of A4 card for the main part and a small scrap for the flag, and once you know how it all goes together it's an easy make.

Here's the YouTube video - 

Hope you enjoyed the project - see you soon!

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

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For you

Templates are a great way of  kick-starting your mojo when it steps out for a breath of air!  Here's the template, from Sunday Stamps' challenge 92 -

and here's my version - 

The paper, ribbon and buttons all came from the Sale-A-Bration rewards catalogue - I got them for free by qualifying for rewards, and you can't say fairer than that!  I only had to  add a bit of Coastal Cabana and Crushed Curry card - matching the colours to the paper -  and stamp the sentiment (which is from a SU Hostess reward set) in Coastal Cabana ink and the card was finished.   

That was easy!

Thanks for visiting - see you again soon!

Crafty hugs, 

Keren.

Waterfall card

Hello again everyone, and thank you for visiting.

Today I’m sharing a waterfall card;  these used to be really popular, but have fallen out of fashion a bit.  

I used Coastal Cabana card and a sheet of Designer Series Paper from the Maritime set, as well as small pieces of Whisper White, Real Red and a scrap of Night of Navy on the waterfall elements.

The stamps are from the Amazing Birthday set - and if you want to get hold of the products I used, there are links at the bottom of this post which will take you to my online shop.

You can download instructions for a waterfall card here. - and you can watch my YouTube video if you want to see how I made the card.

Don't forget that Sale-A-Bration is still under way until the end of March - for every £45 you spend with Stampin' Up! you can choose an item from the Sale-A-Bration brochure FREE!  

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