GDT - Tanya Johnson

Easel card with Box

by Tanya Jonhson

1. Cut the following size pieces of cardstock

 

Box

2 - 4'' x 6 7/8''

1 - 6 3/4'' x 5 1/4''

Easel Card

1 - 8'' x 5 3/8''

1 - 4'' x 5 3/8''

2. Score the 4'' x 6 7/8'' piece of card at 3/4'' and 6 1/8'' on both pieces

3. Place glue the small edges of the each piece to each other

4. Form a wrap for the drawer to go in

5. Take the piece of cardstock that is 6 3/4'' x 5 1/4'' score 3/4'' in on each edge

6. Form the drawer (you may have to cut one slit on each corner to make flaps

7. Create the easel card by taking the 8'' x 5 3/8'' piece of cardstock and scoring at 4'' and 6''

8. Decorate the top and base of the easel card as desired. Here I took a couple spellbinders to use as a base for my image

Final project

Supplies used:

80's Anya from The Greeting Farm

Copics

Black Cardstock

Mango Luau DP from BoBunny

Green Flower from BoBunny (coordinates with Mango Luau)

Butttons/Rhinestones from BoBunny (coordinates with Mango Luau)

Hugs!

Tanya

Tanya thank you so much for putting this fantastic tutorial together for us. It is just the coolest little project! You can find Tanya's blog at www(dot)little-scrapper(dot)blogspot(dot)com or,

 just click HERE .

Don't forget to come back Monday and check out the winners of our Double Duty Challenge. We've had some fantastic entries again this week. Pop on over by clicking HERE and check them all out through the Mr. Linky link.

If you haven't had a chance to see the BRAND NEW PUDDLEJUMPERS and the other Amazing stamp sets from Claudia & Company, pleae take a moment to stop by DCRU and check them out. These are seriously adorable and they now have sentiments too! Two of those sets were designed by our very own CLAUDIA!!! She has put together the nicest sentiments not only in English but also Spanish for our Latino friends. I'm super excited about this for her and I hope you'll give her a little love here on the blog!

Have a happy and blessed weekend!

SMiLES!

GWeN
 

GDT - Melisa Kreamer

Water Bottle Flowers

By Melisa Kreamer

- You will need 1 water bottle for every flower you want to make. You want to use a water bottle with a bottom that looks like flower petals like this.

 

- Cut through the water bottle and cut off the bottom.

- You want to cut the flower pretty thin right to the indents of the bottom of the bottle. This will give you a thinner flower to sit on your project

 

- To create the indivdual petals cut into the side of the bottom of the bottle along the indents.

Only cut the sides for a fatter looking flower 

 or you can cut all the way down the indent for thinner flower petals.

- Flip over the flower and paint the concave side of the bottom. 

 For a see-thourgh mottled look only use 1 coat of paint. For a thicker more uniform color, you may need several coats of paint. I used acrylic craft paint for this.

 

- Once dry, flip the flower back over and decorate the center of your flower.

 

- Once done you flower is ready to be placed on your project. I made my flower for a

Mother's Day card.

Supplies:

Cardstock- Prism

Basic Grey- Green at Heart 6x6 paper pad

Buttons- Basic Grey, Green at Heart

Paper flowers- Mulberry Street

Digi Sentiment- TLC Creations

Melisa Kreamer

http://melisascraps.blogspot.com/

Thank you Melisa so much for giving us a new way to recycle all of those water bottles!

Please stop by Melisa's Blog and give her round of applause for doing

this very earth friendly project for us.

Our big move is coming up quickly...only NINE days to go! Drop by and get a feel for the new site at

 A Crafty Little Place (dot) blogspot (dot) com.

SMiLES Y'all!

GWeN

GDT - Mary Vogel

We have another fabulous Guest Designer with us this weekend.

Mary Vogel of http://www.mbryt1.blogspot.com.

Here is the amazing project that she put together for us.

A Touch of Embroidery

Fabric, ribbon and stitching are popular elements in paper crafting and add beautiful dimension to your cards and scrapbook layouts. But why spend money on pre-made embellishments when you can add charm with handcrafted sweetness? I created a simple card featuring a couple of basic embroidery stitches you can learn with ease. Let’s get started:

I chose The Greeting Farm’s Miss Dressy Anya for my stamp, Cosmo Cricket’s Material Girl papers and Copic markers and embroidery floss to match the papers.

I stamped the image with my favorite ink, Memento Tuxedo Black and then colored in the image. You can see the main colors of Copics I used in the photo above and I used additional markers for shading.

Be sure to use a cardstock that isn’t too heavy – this will make the stitching a little easier.

I then laid out my card and adhered the DP to the card front. Set this aside.

Now let’s start stitching! We are going to add 2 flowers using the lazy daisy stitch and a backstitch. Here are a couple of “official” diagrams of the stitches:

Start by threading your needle with two strands of embroidery floss and bring the needle from the back of the cardstock to the front. Put the needle back into the hole you just made and pull but leave a small loop sticking out of the card front.

Make a 2nd hole from the back, to the front, bringing the needle through the loop. Then put the needle back through the hole you just made and pull snug but not too tight or your loop will flatten out and not look like a petal.

Now continue to create petals, starting each stitch in the center hole and then securing each petal at the outer edge of the petal. 5 petals makes a great number for a well spaced flower. And the petals don’t have to be perfect! The little variances make for more realistic and whimsical flowers.

To start your stem, thread your needle with 2 strands and bring your needle from the back of the card to the front just a little ways away from the flower’s center. Then “back stitch” by putting your needle back into the cardstock closer to the flower’s center. The next stitch starts a little space away from the first and then you back stitch to meet the first stitch, and so on – see the photo for a sample of these stitches

Make as many flowers as you would like and then finish up your card.

I chose to keep it simple, cutting the image with a Nestabilities die, and sponging a little light yellow ink and a light tan distressing ink around the image before adding it to the card front on foam tape for dimension. The ink toned down the “whiteness” of the cardstock and created a look that matched the DP better. A loop of ribbon tied with a section of embroidery floss finishes the

embellishing of this springy card.

I hope you’ll try your hand at hand stitching on your next project!

The DCRU Team hopes that you try it too!

Mary thank you for a wonderful tutorial.

After you pop over to Mary's blog and leave her some LOVE why don't you move on over to our new address: A Crafty Little Place? Take a peek around and sign up to follow.

SMiLES!

GWeN

Guest Designer - Michelle Hollings

Quick and Simple Chenille Flower Embellishment Tutorial

Michelle Hollings for Die Cuts R Us

michelles-mbellishments.blogspot.com

Quick and Simple Chenille Flower Embellishment Tutorial
By Michelle Hollings for Die Cuts R Us michelles-mbellishments.blogspot.com

Supplies you will need:

Chenille Pipe Cleaner (available at any craft store)
Jumbo Brads- I used a Basic Grey Kioshi collection Stitched Brad
A round object or you can use your fingers (for picture taking purposes I used a Judikins Color duster handle)

1- Wrap your pipe cleaner around your finger or round object one time and bend the lose end around the rest of the pipe cleaner to secure the first loop.

2- Now wrap the pipe cleaner around again in the opposite direction.

3- Wrap the pipe cleaner around again multiple times until you have used the entire length of the pipe cleaner...

this will result in 4 loops if you use the color duster handle and 5 if you use your fingers.

4- Now insert your jumbo brad through the center of your flower and bend back the prongs in such a way that it secures the pipe cleaner in the shape you have created.

Finished- Now you have a finished flower to add to your card.



Here is a card I made using my Chenille Flower.

Supplies Available from Die Cuts R US
Yoga Anya by The Greeting Farm
Tim Holtz Antique Linen Distress Ink
Basic Grey Kioshi 6 X 6 Paper Pad
Kioshi Collection Stitched Brads
Memento Die Ink Pad Tuxedo Black
Neenah Classic Crest Solar
Spellbinders Petite Oval and Scallop Oval Dies
GluGlider Pro
Copic Markers:
Face: E000, E11, E21, R20
Hair: E25, E27, E35
Clothes: RV0000, RV10, RV21


Thank you Michelle for putting together such a wonderful tutorial for us. We appreciate your effort and all of those great photos! I know I'll be trying this method and I hope to see some of these sweet little embellies on some future projects.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone...

SMiLES!
GWeN

GDT - Kristen Hermanny

Well, today is another brilliant day for Guest Designers! Kristen Hermanny is going to show us how to creat a very cool project that is versatile and easily altered for many occassions. A very special door hanger, with a very special message.

I asked Kristen to give us some information about herself and here is what she had to say...

I am bluntly honest, yet a very good friend!

I love mixing the papers. I also love knowing that people love receiving the cards I make.

Tools that I can not live without are my crop-a-dile. And my Scor Pal.

I'm not a patient crafter. Anything that I have to wait for... if it has to dry overnight, or at least a few hours, I don’t like that.

Inspiration is something I get when I people watch!

When it comes to colors,  I love sage and lavender. I also like brown and sage. I love green and anything together, I would have to say.

As far as a crafting style goes... I go through transitions all the time, I think I have a definite style, but I don’t know what to call it. Arty-eclectic maybe? I tend to keep the recipient in mind most of the time.

I love to take classes, and plan on taking quite a few this coming year. I would like to get recognized for my digi-stamps someday, I am thinking of going back to school and do something with my creative self.

I like the camaraderie that goes on at DCRU's DT Blog. All the artists, design team, and people becoming friends through their love of creativity. I also love the variance of all the styles. There is inspiration at every corner!!!

I do, I work with Compassionate Cards out of Gig Harbor, Washington. Each month there is a new mission and Julie (the wonderful woman who runs the program) sends the cards out to a designated site. One month it was a group called Still Someone. All the cards went to elderly people that do not get visitors. This month the cards are going to a domestic violence center in New York City. http://compassionatecards.blogspot.com// is her link.

Here is Kristen's tutorial:

Isn't that a really neat project and I love her theme..."Summer in Winter Bar-B-Q". I think we could all use a little summer right now. Thanks so much Kristen for sharing this tutorial with us and for all the time you put into it.

If you didn't catch all of the great products that Kristen used from DCRU here is a list:

Quickutz Reuse LE

Basic Grey Origins

Quickutz Chicken Noodle LE

Basic Grey Nook and Pantry

Quickutz Ant Die from Enjoy LE

Scor-Pal

Stop by Kristen's blog: Kards and Klay to check out her other wonderful creations and to give her a little Blog Love. 

Are you interested in being a Guest Designer for the DCRU DT Blog? Well, just give me an email and let me know at: busylittlehands at sbcglobal dot net. Please list DCRU GDT in your Subject Line.

GDT - Kristy Young

Introducing Kristy Young...

Kristy describes herself as bubbly, fun, easily excited and a shabby chic paper designer! Learning new techniques is one of her favorite aspects of paper crafting. Her favortie color combo of the moment is Kraft and Chocolate.

Kristy just LOVES her Tim Holtz Paper Distresser and will show you why in her beautiful project.

When asked what her crafting goals were, Kristy answered like so many of us...BETTER ORGANIZATION of her crafting space. We are right there with you Kristy!

One of Kristy's greates sources of inspiration is her best friend, Kellie Winnell. She also credits the DCRU DT designs that she sees each week. Thank you, Kristy!!!! We appreciate that you find our examples "inspiring".

Let's take a moment to check out the project that, Kristy has made for us and get a little information on how she acheived this fantastic look...

   

Hi my name is Kristy, I'm from Melbourne, Australia. I was sooo thrilled when Claudia and Gwen asked me to be a Guest Designer and share a tecnique with you. I chose to share distressing. I LOVE distressing and do it on almost every card. I use a Tim Holtz Paper Distresser which DCRU offers in the store. 

(Before)

(After)

 

To acheive this look you take the T.H. paper distresser and rub it back and forth on the edges of your paper. And that is it, how easy is that!! I do it to almost every strip of paper I add to my card, including nestability shapes etc.

Here is my completed card...

Recipe:

DCRU February Card Kit

Basic Grey Nook & Pantry Papers

May Arts Ribbon

Stella - TGF

Tim Holtz Paper Distresser 

Thanks for looking I hope you enjoyed.

Kristy Young

Now...isn't this just the prettiest little card. When Kristy said she was a shabby chic girl, I think she hit the nail on the head. She is a fabulous shabby chic paper artist!

If you would like to see more on Kristy you can visit her blog at:

http://www.youngstamper.blogspot.com/