Gift Card Bag - Tutorial

Tutorial..

Lets take sizes... I used

2 x 9cm x 16cm white card stock

2 x 8.5cm x 15.5 cm light green card stock

2 x 8cm x 7.5cm backing paper from Victorian Romance cd ( Joanna Sheen)

Topper image cut into a circle with Nestabilities from Victorian Romance cd ( Joanna Sheen)

Scalloped Circle light green card stock

Punch out slots on both cards at the top, the best way to do this is to punch out the 1st then line this up with the next piece turn the punch upside down and align the Punch so the hole will be punched in exactly the same place keeping the 2 pieces of card together and re-punching.

Stick the next size card (mine was light green) down on top of the white card covering the slot holes, these will be re-punched.

I punched out the holes again by aligning the punch up with the first slot holes, then add the background paper the ribbon and the front embellishment.

Put the card pieces to one side until you need them.

Now to making the bag - you will need a piece of A4 paper

Along the long side of the A4 paper score at 2", 5". 7" & 10" there will be a small piece left over at the end.

Turn the paper 45% and make a score line at 2" down the length of the paper.

Fold all of the score lines before moving on to the next instructions.

At the extra edge that was left over from the first set of score lines add double sided tape, this edge will stick down on the inside of the bag as shown in the 2nd image.

At the side of the paper where the 2" scoreline is you with fold this to form the base the best way to describe how this is done is imagine you are wrapping a parcel creasing in the short sides of the bag first so that you are left with triangle points on the wider sides.

stick these triangles down with strong double sided tape.

From the open end of the bag crease both of the sides inwards as you get near to the bottom you will need to turn up the base of the bag as shown in the second image

You can see the bottom of the bag shaped so that there is a V shape in the bottom of the bag this allows the bag to open when everything is stuck in place.

The second picture is showing the bag stuck down with strong double sided tape to the back card.

Add tape to the last side and align up the card front before completely removing the tapes.

Side view of finished bag.

Read on to learn how you can take advantage of greeting cards in so many ways

New single sheets La Pashe Decoupage

This is one of the new Decoupage sheets that I designed for La Pashe and is sold as a seperate sheet rather than in a set.

The artist is Jim harker and I designed the decoupage so hense the number plate JH being both our initials so it is JH X2 The make of car is a Vintage Lagonda.

Ther is also some New La Pashe Christmas sheets and the all can be found here

And in Green, the just Married is an extra piece on the sheet along with the cans.

Floral Punch Craft - Poinsettia

No card as yet for this one as I was so tired last night I only managed to make the flower it self, however, I love this flower, both leaves and petals were made using the giant dahlia leaf punch and at the center of ot I added gold and red seed beads for the stamen.

Floral Punch Craft - Batchelors Buttons

I love this little flower arrangement, the flowers were made with the Cosmos punch by Carl and lots of layering, card base was made from the same colour as the flowers.

A white card slightly smaller than the base card and stamped with a navy ink to make the background. stamped a sentiment & cut out using the Nestibilitie Dies.

Layered all the elements of the card and finished with a white ribbon

A closer look at the flowers

Gift Bag Card

This card Bag was a labour of love, I saw something similar done with white Kraft bags but I couldn't find any in my local area and as Ihave to do something straight away I couldn't wait untill I could buy them.

So out came a sheet of Vellum and I set about making the flat bottomed bag from scratch, I took 2 shots of the finished Gift Bag card so that you can see how it is put together.

All product used are from PTI and the back of the gift bag is decorated exactle the same as the front minus the circles and butterfly.

I will make instructions on how to make this at a later date if interest is shown.

Rose Wedding Card

I stamped the PTI leaf image directly onto the card stock in Pallete Green Moss ink then distressed the edges of the card in a colourbox ink to match the rose, I printed my rose designs onto smooth card stock and the wording onto Vellum then matted them onto the card I tore the Mr & Mrs wording so that the vellum looked distressed and punched holes and ties white ribbon through the holes, I stock the vellum over the card using glue dots behind the ribbon so that it was invisable from the front of the card.

Below is the images that I designed for the above card you are free to use them for personal use but please do not share my designs instead link back to my blog for people to download them they are copyright to me.

Click on the images to download at full size.

Christmas Ribbon Flower

Such a clever little idea this one but I can't claim the Glory as it was designed by a very talented lady Claire and she explains beautifully how it is done here

The only problem I had with it was how to cover the ribbon at the back of the card so here is what I did.

I took an extra piece of the gold card and cut a hole where the ribbon was with a Nestabilies die and kept the scalloped circle to one side, I covered the inside of the front with the gold sheet then added the scalloped circle with foam pads to allow for the bulked up ribbon at the back of the card, see images below.

Floral Punch Craft - Daisies

I used the daisy stamp from PTI to stamp the background onto Kraft card stock and cut the squares with the Nestabilities Dies, stamped PTI sentiment onto the white square.

I used a medium daisy punch and punched out 6 white daisies shaped and layered them and punched 3 small yellow blossoms for the centers, the leaves are medium birch leaves scored and shaped aranged and attached at the top corner of the sentiment with silicon glue.

Tied a lemon ribbon around the top to finish.