Vintage card for Dad by Chris W

Yes, Father's Day will be here next weekend (Sunday June 16th) so here's a quick vintage style card for you to make.

The background is made from a simple patterned paper on a brown mat using a corner punch to add a little interest. You can see that the larger elements are all from the one stamp set (Time traveller). I added a zipper pull on a chain using a memo pin. (I've had the zipper pulls for years but there are similar items called 'Word sticks' which are part of Tim's Idea-ology range.

I used watercolour crayons to colour the images and Vintage photo Distress ink pad to darken some of the edges.

You can use an oval frame die of about the same size as the stamp to add both depth and texture. The ticket was in a strip of mixed message ones I was given for Christmas but you can easily make your own using the ticket strip die and either Tim's ticket stamps or, as I often use, the Creative Expressions ticket stamps.

 

This sentiment is great and useful for all types of greetings cards regardless of gender. You can see that there are various layers and patterns used for textures here and I made it as an easel card just to make it a little different. You can make your own putting your personal slant on it of course.

Hope to see you soon,

Chris xxx

Tim Holtz - Time traveller stamps	Tim Holtz - Way with words stamps	Tim Holtz - Ticket strip die	Creative Expressions - Ticket stamps	Tim Holtz Ideaology - Lace chain	Word sticks
Memo pins	Distress ink pad - Vintage photo

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Using the Dimensional Cutting Pad

We’ve been asked a few times now just what the dimensional cutting pad does, what it’s for. I’ve found three uses for it so far….

One standard cut.	The standard cut inside another.	The standard cut inside another with the outer trimmed away to leave the first.

If you find other ways to use it let us know and we’ll add them to our blog.

Have a great week everyone,

Chris xxx

Look at the bright side by Chris W

The beautiful new Susan’s Garden dies by Susan Tiernay-Cockburn for Sizzix are brilliant! No matter what your favourite flower there’s sure to be one there for you and they’re so simple to cut, colour and use.

As you can see, I made two of the Thinlits Poppies for this tag – simply and quickly.

The dies are so effective that it really doesn’t take much else to make a card or tag.

These were painted with Distress stains and then spritzed with water. The tag itself was coloured using Distress ink pads and a blending tool, it too was spritzed.

Have a great week and thanks for visiting,

Chris xxx

Plan card by Chris W

This card is great for anyone on the move or for a guy's celebration.

 

I made the grid background with a black felt tip and a ruler and photocopied a sewing tape measure.

Emboss a piece of card with a texture fade and ink it before adding the die cut Eiffel Tower and bakers twine.

The blueprint compass stamped, inked and edged is placed on top adding a sentiment of your choice.

Simple to make and very versatile. Thanks for stopping by, hope to see you soon,

Chris xxx

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A JOFY tag by Chris W

How beautiful the JOFY stamps are! (If you've heard JOFY but don't know what it is, it's actually the acronym for Jo Firth-Young, one of the very talented PaperArtsy designers.) This lady has created a fab' range of stamps in both small, one-off, collage designs and full, stand-alone stamp collections. Better still, you can mix and match the whole range!

This tag is simply made using the JOFY 10 Collection of stamps, a tag, a little ribbon, some thread and beads.

You will see that I added cut a mountbord base for this tag but you don't have to. Simply sew around the edge of the tag in pink silk thread.

Stamp and colour a rectangular piece of white card and ink around the edges before tying ribbon around it and sticking it down on the tag.

Finish the tag with glass beads and fine bead wire.

You can create your own version if this tag very easily. Whatever you create, you'll find these stamps a great addition to your tool kit as they mix and match with so many images.

Have fun,

Chris

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