Sneak peeks...
Are you holding a sweep stake to what the next series will contain?
Interesting.....
Still guessing?
Do you know what it is yet ?"ha ha ha"
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Thursday, 12 June 2008
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Floral Punch Craft Card
A simple Flower card with a Tutorial
I was always admiring a flower FPC card made by my friend Pam and she kindly talked me through making the flower over the telephone, mind you I'm not really sure if I did it correctly but I liked the end result so I thought I would share it with you.
Leaf Stamps, ink & Ribbon by PTI
Tutorial - How to make the red Flowers
Tools used, Punch Bunch medium Flower, large ball tool, tweezers, scissors and fine scoring tool.
Punch the flower shape out of red paper.
Turn over the flower and score 2 more lines in either side of the middle line you have just scored. You should now have 5 scored lines in total for each petal.
Using a ball tool in a circular motionpush gently on the centre of the flower until the flower is a cupped shape.
Cut a piece of black paper into a rectangle roughly 3/4 " x 2" we will use this to make the centre of the flower.
Fold the rectangle in half to make a
thinner rectangle.
With your scissors cut little snips along the length of the folded paper from the open ends towards the folded edge about 2/3rds of the width of the paper, continue all the way to the end.
Once you have made all of the snips your folded paper will look like this.
Spread glue along the fold and nip the end of the paper in your tweezers, start to turn the tweezers towards the glue winding the snipped paper around the tweezers until you get to the end of the paper.
Once the flower centre is set, splay out the cut paper with your
fingers untill it forms a pom pom then remove it from the tweezers.
Add a wet glue to the center of your flower shape & add the pom pom quilled shape on top of it.
This is the finished flower I used 3 to make the card, I added some punched out leaf shapes to finish the arrangement.
Tuesday, 10 June 2008
Scarey Day
Well I awoke on Monday 9th June to a very worrying thing, I had pains in my fingers on my right hand on the Sunday evening and by Monday morning I could not use my fingers at all (well OK I could but it caused extreme pain) I have been struggling for the last month or so with my Psoriatic Arthritis and it has now gone into my fingers, even the simple things like holding a fork is a nightmare.
Today has been a little easier if only for knowing what will hurt and not to do it, I have managed to make a card tonight and hopefully I will get it on here tomorrow so please bare with me.
Silly thing is I normally make at least one card a day to keep me sane, so, you may have to put up with me being a little loopy until I get this under control again ha ha ha.
Sunday, 8 June 2008
My Second Try at Stamp Making
Silhouette Lady and Deco Background Stamps made by Me!!!
Lots of score lind using the Scor-Pal, black ribbon for bow and centre line and Nestabilities Dies to make the ovals.
This was great fun to make although the score lines were a bit of a headache to get even.
My little friends
We've been trying for a week to capture this little bird as soon as we get close he does his Scarlet Pimpinell act and disappears but today we managed.
Pictures are took through a window as I'm sure this little fellow has a radar to know when we are waiting with the camera
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