Tuppence Coloured

Saturday, 7 October 2017

Going postal

Hello and welcome!

Did you know that it's World Card Making day today? Yes, it's the day to celebrate our ~~obsession~~ hobby. So I'm marking the occasion by making a card - bet you didn't see that coming, eh?

I'm a big fan of the background stamp. Stampin' Up! have a number of large, all-over -patterned stamps in their catalogue. One stamp and you're pretty much done - can't say fairer than that!

To help celebrate World Card Making Day, SU have been running a fab offer on Fast Fuse, where if you buy one Fast Fuse you get two refills free. It's such a good offer that it's selling out fast and may not be available right up until Oct 10, which is when the offer is supposed to close.

Now, I know some of you will be saying " I can't get on with that stuff, it's the invention of the devil!" but trust me, you can learn to love it. There's a trick to using it, which is a very light hand (the tape is so sticky, it just needs to touch what you want it to stick to!) and a quick flick of the wrist when you've got enough tape in place. Some people say you should alternate the direction of the flick (left this time, right next time) to keep the tape centred in the dispenser - but I don't find that's critical.

Anyway, enough waffling - here's the tutorial -

So there we are! Happy cardmaking, and see you soon!

Crafty Hugs

Keren

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Wednesday, 4 October 2017

All lit up

Hello and welcome to my blog.

Do you ever see something and in the SU catalogue and know exactly what you want to make with it?

When I saw the Hometown Greetings Edgelits I knew that I wanted to make a 3d scene – and that I wanted to light it up!

My original idea was to make a tunnel card, but on thinking it over I decided that I wanted to make something a bit longer-lasting.

This is how I did it –

One last thing – I used Tear & Tape to stick the battery pack to the underside of the frame but it wasn’t quite strong enough, so I added a couple of glue dots, which are holding everything where I want it to be.

And I made this as a Winter/Christmas project but you could change the colours and make it for a different season – seaside perhaps?

See you soon!

Crafty Hugs,

Keren

PS - If you're interested, I got my lights from Amazon UK

Product List

Merry Music Specialty Designer Series Paper

[144623]

Whisper White A4 Card Stock

[106549]

Hometown Greetings Edgelits Dies

[144671]

Tear & Tape Adhesive

[138995]

Foam Adhesive Strips

[141825]

Saturday, 30 September 2017

Simply Sketched 23

Thank you for joining us for another Simply Sketched Saturday
Challenge!

We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you. The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*.

This time the challenge has been set by Dee Copus-Reed.

As well as the sketch, Dee gave us a couple of extra conditions – we had to make a gift card holder with a masculine theme. Here’s my attempt.

I rotated the sketch so that it was in portrait orientation, and used the guitar from “Country Livin’” I haven’t played with my watercolour pencils for a while so I made the most of the chance to use them.

To make it a gift card holder, I fell back on one of my favourite ways of presenting a card – the “slide-up”. (If you want to know how I made it, keep an eye on my YouTube channel – I’ll be posting a tutorial there soon)

via GIPHY

OK, so that’s my contribution and I do hope you liked it. Now, if I could just encourage you to go and check out what Keila has created by clicking the button below