How to make a castle out of old greeting cards

Tutorial by Oriana Lauria

For more ideas and greeting card inspiration, visit Hallmark’s website and have fun! Should you have any comment, suggestions for improvements, please let me know in the comments below.

Washi Tape

Oh I’m so, so excited, Fantastic Ribbons are getting the Washi Tape, oh and I’ll be one of the first to get it.

This is right up there with the must have craft items for 2012, if you haven't heard about it or seen a sample of it then you are missing out.

What is it?

Washi tape is essentially decorative masking tape from Japan. It is useful for card crafting,gift wrapping, home decor and scrapbooking to name just a few.

Washi comes from wa meaning Japanese and shi meaning paper, and the term is used to describe paper made by hand in the traditional manner. Washi paper is commonly made using fibers from the bark of the gampi tree, the mitsumata shrubor the paper mulberry, but also can be made using bamboo, hemp, rice, and wheat.

Wow what a mouthful.

What does it look like?

Here are just some examples of what you will be able to buy from Fantastic Ribbons

So what can you do with them?

The list is endless but here are a few ideas.

Use as a decorative strip on a card, you can write onto it, stamp on it, cut shapes from it, tape the corners of an image to hold it onto a card, wrap it around the envelope as a decorative strip punch out shapes from it.

Decorate a pencil or pen by wrapping it around. make a border frame for an image, use it as file tabs on the top of divider card. decorate a pen pot.

Now don’t miss out on it’s arrival or even special offers from Fantastic Ribbons, hop over to them and subscribe to their news letter Here you will also get the chance to winn £100 worth of ribbons (squeal)

Baby Buskettie

Oh how I remember this, don’t you? it would be in their hair up their nose and in any nook a cranny you can think of.

Buskettie by Mo’s Digital Pencil 

Coloured with Promarkers by letraset and a little bit of Prisma pencil.

Gems from Mei Flower and Prima resin poppy, ribbon from Ribbon Carousel 

A Couple from the Create and Craft Show

I know I'm a little late showing these but I have just caught breath to get the photography done.

The first is from the Pickles and Podge Decoupage Plus sheet.

This one is Bearside the Seaside and can be found here and it has been made up using the Drawer Easel Card pack from here.

The next is also a Decoupage Plus Sheet called Beside the Seaside and can be found here.

 

Gardening Boots for Her

You know we often to gardening cards for the males in our life but it isn’t very often we see female gardening cards, as it happens my Mam although wheelchair bound is an avid gardener and indeed one of my DT friends is also an avid gardener and has her own business doing other peoples gardens for them. Then of course we have Charlie Dimmock who was a TV celebrity on Ground Force.

So here it is, Gardening Boots, Hers from Just Inklined 

Bloom where you’re planted

Coloured with Copic markers and Prisma pencils some K & Co pretty paper and some lace and ribbon.