Hello, and welcome! I can't stop playing with the Hearts Come Home bundle. It was the first thing on my wish list when I saw the Autumn-Winter catalogue back in the summer (one of the advantages of being a SU demo is that we get to see - and buy - new products before they go on sale to everyone else. Sweet!) Today it's a Tulle shaker card. I like this style of card because, if you're careful you can move the shaker bits (sequins in this case) through the net. Here's how I made it -
I did promise that I'd tell you where to score if you are using 8 1/2 by 11 card, which would be at 3 7/8" and 7 3/4" (Metric - score at 10 cm and 20 cm) Hope you have a go at this kind of card - they are fun to make! See you soon - and keep crafting! Crafty Hugs, Keren Product List
Hello and welcome to my blog! This should have been a straightforward card. My younger son's birthday is later this month (he's 30 - how is that possible? I'm only 24! 😆 ) and I wanted to make his card. It turned into a bit of a learning curve. To begin with, I forgot that ink takes FOREVER to set on vellum and wiped off the embossing. I also made a hash of trimming the vellum strip to size. I thought I'd filmed myself correcting it, but can't find the clip (it may have been a casualty of the great iMac collapse of 2017 - see my previous post for details!) Anyway, in case you wanted to know, I straightened out my wonky trimming by going old-school - I used a craft knife and ruler. I was awake enough to remember to use a cutting mat - then decided to trim the edge of the card while I was at it, but after I'd put the cutting mat away...and cut right through my silicone mat. Sigh. Luckily, I wasn't filming that bit, because I said some very Bad Words.
After all that, if you still want to see the tutorial, here it is... See you again soon and keep crafting! Crafty Hugs, Keren Product List
Hello bloggists, welcome to my blog! It's being posted a bit later than usual. To be honest, I had a bit of a 'mare yesterday. Perhaps there were more than the usual number of evil spirits flying around! Gather round, and I will tell you all about it...
I should explain that, because I work full-time, I film and edit my video tutorials in advance - usually at the weekends - and then upload them to YouTube just before I write the blog post that accompanies them. I generally leave it to the last minute to write my blog (hangs head in shame)
SOOO - yesterday was a bit on the hectic side, involving an unplanned trip to the vet to collect a repeat prescription of the cat's eye drops (she's had a poorly eye and had to have surgery).
Wearing the cone of shame!
She's getting pretty good at dodging so that the drops go down her nose, which means she's going through them too fast. Husband had an emergency visit to the dentist as well - yes, it was one of THOSE days all right.
Never mind, once home I was ready to crack on. Then I spotted a notification that there was an update waiting to be installed, so I decided to get it over with. It was only for Safari, it's just a web browser, shouldn't take long...BIG mistake!
I'll spare you the details of the next few hours, but suffice it to say that, after some quality time with Apple support, I wound up having to reinstall the Mac's OS. I didn't lose any files but by the time I'd uploaded the tutorial to YouTube I'd had enough, and went to bed.
I don't know whether it's as the result of all the shenanigans but the tutorial loses sound for about a minute at the start - sorry about that, it was fine at this end!
So there it is! Better late than never, I hope - and I hope you enjoy the tutorial.
