Lene's Day Of Fun

Hello! Finally, it is my turn to have my "day of fun"

I decided early  to have a tutorial, but was very unsure of what I was going to present.

After many rounds of thinking, I decided to make a

bag card tutorial.

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Here is what I have used, but you can certainly use other products.

You need two pieces of pattern papers 12x12

one cardstock 12x12

glue, bonefolder or scoreboard

and of course paper trimmer

snowflake dies and ribbon

velcro (to close the bag)

#1

#2

Score the paper at 4" and 8"

flip the paper and score again at 4" and 8"

#3

Score the paper at an angle in every corner

#4

Fold the paper along  all the lines

#5

As you can see; It looks like an 

an accordion

#6

#7

You need five (5) 9,5 cm x 9,5 cm 

squares

And four (4) 9,5cm x 9,2 cm

squares

With those who is 9,5 x 9,2 you do this:

 Find the mid point -put a small mark at the top of the square and score from

the mark and down at an angle.

#8

Glue the parts to the folded cardstock as shown

in the pictures below.

Inside:

Outside:

#9

To close the bag you need some piece of paper

I have used 4" x 6" and scored 1/2" in the middle of the paper

#10

#11

Glue the ribbon at the inside

#12

Glue the top-closing to the main cardstock

# 13

I use velcro to close the bag

#14

Inside the bag

#15

Another bag:

Finish result:

I wish you all a very great  Christmas time :-)

DT Lene

Inger's day of fun!

Today it's my day of fun and I, Inger, would like to continue one of my favourite themes, recycling. This time I'm focusing on tissue paper and I have a tutorial for you!

This is most of the stuff I've used. I seldom seem to be able to take a before picture with all things, I always make it up as I go along. If I'm not pleased with the outcome, I add something else.

• gel medium (I used semi-gloss)
  
• glazing medium
• matte acrylic paint (MM)
• lumiere acrylic paint
• book paper
• music notes
• old stamps and paper from the post office (roughly 40 years old)
• tissue paper
• stencils
• punchinella (sequin waste)

When I came up with this technique I only used music papers and book pages. I liked that look a lot.

Brush on gel medium, put the scraps on the paper and brush on some additional gel medium to make sure its stuck. The coverage depends on how much you want the text to show through. You don't have to add this much! It takes some time!

Tissue time. I added a lot of tissue, next time I'll add a little less! The less tissue I add, the more text shines through which I like.

Time for next step which is colouring the whole thing! I grabbed some green colours and some purple for contrast. The glazing medium is important. It's mixed with the acrylic paint and makes it transparent. Without that the paint would be opaque and you would not see any of the papers underneath.

I wasn't happy with the outcome so I added some Lumiere, metallic rust. Much better!

I want a lot of texture. I used gel medium over stencils and punchinella to give me that. Let it dry. A tip to speed up the drying time is to put it on a radiator, although not an electrical one!

Drying...

Dried!

Now I want to accentuate the texture and I choose copper to do that. I put it on my fingers and brush it on the paper. You can also use metallic rubons, lumiere or rub n buff.

Highlighted. I painted the snow flakes with hi lite red, lumiere, a wonderful colour.

Some close ups. Can you see the snow flakes and the holes from the punchinella?


And what did I make of this background? Well, some christmas cards of course. Maybe it's not the most typical colours for christmas but I always like to twist things around.

I really like this green colour so I wanted the cardstock to show. The candle is stamped on transparent paper, I added double sided tape on the backside and "painted" it with pearl ex powder. Sparkly fantasy fibers.

The baubles are stamped on alco ink coloured glossy paper and cut out. I cut off the hang thing and added a cord instead. Punched out shrink plastic and stamped merry christmas in Swedish. I put down some tulle and heated with the heat gun to get some effects and holes.

I punched out holes and filled them with bees wax and mini beads. I put a stencil over the cardstock and sprayed it with pearl ex. Outlined with use of another stencil with a pen. Twisted some yarn around the swirl.

Rudolph looks a bit sad. Shouldn't he be happy with that gorgeous red flower soft on his nose? I punched out a swirl and with inspiration from Tim Holtz christmas tags, I filled the hole with sepia accent. Rudolph is stamped and embossed on a book page and painted with twinkings H2O. Shrink plastic, coloured with fluid chalk. Bandage coloured with distress ink. Flowers sprayed with a mixture of gum arabic, pearl ex and water. The sparkly thing is fantasy fiber.

Jannhild's Day of fun, a tutorial.

Hei, Jannhild her! Da var det min dag, og jeg har en liten men lang tutorial til dere. Jeg har fått noen spørsmål om det finnes en tutorial på denne "Spåkorgen" min. Jeg har ikke laget en før, så jeg bestemte meg for å lage en til min dag.

Jeg håper dere liker tutorialen min :)

Hello everybody, Jannhild here! Then it is my Day of fun, and I have a tutorial for you. I have got some questions if there is a tutorial on my "Spå" basket. I haven't made one before, so I desided to make one for my Day of fun :) 

I hope you all will enjoy my tutorial :)

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#1:

Da begynner jeg :)

Brett en 12x12 inch kartong/bazzill på midten begge veier først.

Let's start :)

Fold a 12x12 inch cardstock in the midle both ways.

#2:

Deretter bretter du alle hjørnene inn mot midten.

Then fold all the corners in to the center.

#3:

Da ser den slik ut.

Then it will lock like this.

#4:

Snu prosjektet til den andre siden og brett hjørnene på denne siden også inn til midten. Bruk gjerne en Bone Folder da det begynner å bli tykt og vanskelig å brette med fingrene.

Turn your project and fold the corners on this side also in to the midle. Use a Bone Folder if you like. It starts to get thick now and hard to fold with your fingers :)

#5:

Neste steg er å brette prosjektet på midten begge veier igjen. Brett samme vei som vist på bidet under.

Next step is to fold your project on the midle both ways again. Fold the same way as shown on the picture below.

#6:

Nå åpner du "Spå'en" slik som vist på bildet under.

Now you open the "Spå" as shown in the picture below.

#7:

Snu "Spå'en" andre veien.

Turn the "Spå" the other way.

#8:

Dette trenger du til resten: 12 ruter med mønsterpapir - mine måler 7,1 x 7,1 cm. Siden ikke alle "Spå'ene" blir helt like i målene pga brettingen, kan det være lurt å måle selv hvor stort mønsterarket skal være. Du trenger også to remser med kartong/bazzill og to remser med mønsterpapir til hankene. Til foten har jeg brukt en litt tykkere kartong som jeg kler med hvitt over og under, og litt mønsterpapir øverst.

Hankene mine måler 12 inch i lengde, bredden avgjør du selv fra korg til korg :)

What you need for the rest: 12 squares with pattern paper - mine measures 7.1 x 7.1 cm. Since not all "Spå'ene" are identical in dimensions due to folding, you may want to measure yourself how large your pattern paper should be. You also need two strips of cardboard / Bazzill and two strips of pattern paper to the handles. To the foot of your basket, I have used a slightly thicker cardboard that I cover with white on both sides, and some pattern paper on top.

My handles measures 12 inch in length, width you can decide yourself.

#9:

Lim på mønsterpapir på utsiden av korgen din med flytende lim, dette gjør at korgen din blir litt stivere, men kan også gjøre at den blir litt bøyd/krokete... Hvis du vil lime på mønsterarket tidligere, gjør du det etter bilde nr 6.

Åpne "Spå'en" og lim på mønsterpapiret, brett den tilbake igjen etterpå.

Glue the pattern paper on the outside of your basket with your liquid glue. Then your basket will be a little stiffer, but can also cause that it gets a little bent/crooked ... If you want to paste the pattern paper on before, do it after photo # 6.

Open  the "Spå" and glue on pattern paper, fold it back again afterwards.

#10:

Nå er korgen klar til å limes til foten.

Now is your basket ready to be glued to the foot.

#11:

Bruk gjerne limpistol, da fester den seg fort. Hvis du ikke har det, kan du bruke f.eks Glossy Accent eller Tacky Glue. Da må du ha litt mer tolmodighet og holde helt til den sitter fast!

Use glue gun to attach your basket to the foot. If you do not have that, you can use for example Glossy Accent or Tacky Glue, but than you need a little more patience and hold the basket steady until it is stuck to the foot!

#12:

Nå kan du lime på resten av mønsterpapirene hvis du ikke gjorde det i starten (etter bilde-tekst nr 6)

Now you can glue on the rest of the pattern paper if you didn't do it in the start (after picture-text #6)

#13:

Lim på håndtakene. Jeg bruker limpistol, Glossy Accent eller Tacky Glue.

Glue the handles on to the basket. I use the glue gun, Glossy Accent or Tacky Glue.

#14:

Jeg pynter med ett eller annet i skjøten av håndtakene.

I decorate with something to hide the edge of the handles.

#15:

Da er  "Spå" korgen klar til å pyntes og slik har jeg pyntet mine.

Ingen tvil om at jeg er glad i blomster...her kan pyntes med hva hjertet begjærer!!

Then the "Spå" basket is ready to be decorate and in the pictures below you can see how I have embellished mine.

No doubt that I love flowers ... You can decorate with what the heart desires!

Mange mange bilder dette her, men jeg håper dere likte dette, og at dere kan kose dere med å lage deres egen "Spå" korg.

Ha en flott Advents tid!!

Klemmer fra Jannhild

Alot of pictures but I hope you liked it and that you can make your own "Spå" basket!

Have a lovely Advent time!!

Hugs from Jannhild