So, it’s that time of the year again 🙂 You can never be too early creating your Christmas Cards. The coming weeks, like every year, I’ll sharing lots of Christmas card tips with you, helping you along to get yourself unstuck and go create your own! It really doesn’t have to be difficult, nor expensive! To prove this, I’m kicking of this C-card season with several easy-to-create lowbudget Christmas cards that I decorated with only 1 sheet of design paper! And of course a few extra embellishments, but you can even do without those if you want to – or perhaps have to because of budget reasons.
So go ahead and check out the video, and then go ahead and Create!
In this week’s video I’m sharing a nice quickscrapproject: a unicorn card, created without cardstock, using the wonderful Unicorn sheet from the Wonderland collection by Stamperia.
Also, a summer announcement: this summer I’n doing a four-part series called Scrap With Me, with four basic papercrafting technique tutorials, starting next week! 🙂
Napkin fold cards or origami fold cards are always the perfect creative card if you don’t have a lot of time. You can make this within the hour, which adds it to my quick scrap category 🙂
This week I’m sharing three tips with you for this type of card, variations you may not have tried yourself yet and which I hope will inspire you. So check out the video for those tips. Below that you’ll find my free video tutorial for napkin fold cards, which I hope will come in handy 😉
I’m very happy and honored to be a Guest Designer for Crealies this month! 🎉
For my first guest designer project I designed a completely new variation on my own micro album designs, and I’m calling it a Tea Bag Micro Album! This title says it all, for it literally is that: a micro album (3 x 2¾“) with tea bags for pages. Which of course makes it a great and original gift, plus it’s stinking cute because it’s so very small! 💛
It was very fun to make and super affordable for it only takes one sheet of 12×12” design paper for the bulk of what you need! Sweetness 👍🏼😃
You can find all dies and the stamp set at Crealies’s (internationally oriented) website.
Enjoy the video and pictures below, and don’t forget to check out my tutorial, which is suitable for anyone, regardless of whether you are a beginner or an advanced paper crafter.
See you next week, and let me know what you think by leaving a comment and sharing this post on all of your social media!
Filled up with tea bags! / Gevuld met theezakjes!
Ik ben blij en vereerd dat ik deze maand een van de guest designers ben voor Crealies. 🎉
Voor mijn eerste guest designer project heb ik iets nieuws ontworpen, d.w.z. een nieuwe variatie op mijn eigen microalbum ontwerpen, en ik noem het een Theezakjes Microalbum!
Die titel zegt in principe alles, want dat is precies wat het is: een piepklein albumpje (7.5 x 7 cm) met theezakjes als bladzijden. Die Crealies-theezakjes stelen echt de show vind ik, door de prachtige details, die het geheel een authentiek gevoel meegeven. 💛
Dit microalbum is natuurlijk een hartstikke leuk en origineel kadootje, en het is superschattig doordat het zo klein is! Het was erg leuk om te ontwerpen en te maken en het is nog betaalbaar ook omdat je feitelijk maar 1 vel dubbelzijdig designpapier nodig hebt van 30.5 x 30.5 cm. 👍🏼😃
Geniet van het filmpje en de foto’s, en kijk gerust in mijn webshop voor de rijk geïllustreerde werkinstructie (tutorial) voor dit kleine albumpje. En je vindt de gebruikte Crealies-producten in het lijstje hierboven. Je kunt ze uiteraard allemaal krijgen bij www.crealies.nl.
Laat het me weten als je dit een leuk projectidee vindt door een comment achter te laten, en natuurlijk door deze post te delen op al je social media!
One of the great craft ideas floating around on the internet is what I would call a chocolate bar envelope. I think lots of people have made these by now, but only after I had the pleasure of receiving one myself, was my attention drawn to it.
I waited for the right occasion to create one myself and when the moment came, tadaa! 🎉 There it was, my very own version.
I sent it to my friend Christa, so it would be waiting for her when she got home from a short vacation. I mean, nothing says Welcome Home like chocolate & tea don’t you think? 🙂
Have you ever sent someone food or snacks? 🙂 Let me know in the comments!
Tea bags are – in my experience – a fun gift to send with a Welcome Home card. This week I’m sharing my idea to send two, by way of what I’ve since dubbed a swing bag card: a double card with a swinging bag hanging from its ‘nook’ fold 🙂
The very sturdy double-sided design paper I used was perfect to use as is, with no cardstock at all. The sheet is called Rooster Row and it’s from 49 and Market’s latest collection, Cottage Life.
I also created a little stand to prevent the card from being pulled down by the weight of the suspended tea pouch.
All in all a pretty simple card, yet with an original design element. Let me know what you think in the comment section below! And of course, like & share! ??
In my last post I shared an XXL album with you, created with Kaisercraft’s Salty Kisses paper collection. As is most often the case, I had some papers left over. So I created a lovely summer-themed birthday card, combining a Kaisercraft sheet with the awesome die-cuts of Studiolight’s Summer at the Beach collection and a fun sentiment stamp by Crealies.
And by the way, cards also make great mini album page inserts! So there’s a bonus idea for you 😉
I remember the time, not too long ago, when almost all condolences cards were rather stark. Most had only small illustrations on a large plain of white, and always in black and gray-tones. Then, slowly but steadily, color was added. First came the browns, with a few small and very tasteful autumn leaves, then here and there a flower creeped in.
Nowadays many condolences cards show more colors than just blacks, grays and browns. Only a few years ago I would probably be hesitant to send a rather colorful condolences card to someone, but I have to admit, since I have been the recipient of several of those when my father passed away, to my own surprise I appreciated the colorful ones very much. This is not to say that the more traditional cards are not a good choice of course. It’s just that my own personal experience in this area has convinced me not only that it’s okay to use color, but that it may actually add to the card’s (admittedly limited) effect.
So here’s an idea for a condolences card for scrappers and card makers: create a card of color, which requires only one sheet of double-sided design paper; do not embellish it too much, just let the paper speak for itself.
For instance, I decorated my card sparingly with only two stamps, some die-cuts and a swing-tab. Some folds and cuts did the rest.
All in all a very simple yet stylish choice for a condolences card. Meanwhile I truly hope you won’t need to send out many… though unfortunately we’ll probably all have to at least once or twice in our lifetimes.
If you’d like to add a very personal touch of comfort by creating this 1-sheet condolences card yourself, you can follow the clear instructions (with 63 pictures) in my tutorial.
When it comes to design paper, I’m a bit of Collector. By which I mean that collecting specific older collections that are no longer manufactured, particularly scratches my collecting itch. It’s the Hunt you see, scouring the most obscure local scrapbook stores, the forgotten corners of the internet, and the hidden treasures of people who are destashing all of a sudden. And then the thrill when I find that one last sticker sheet, belonging with an ancient collection in my stash!
Of course I do regularly buy some of the latest collections, but even those I tend to leave alone for quite some time. Not consciously, but usually it’s only when they are somewhat older and no longer in print, the urge to create something with them hits me.
The Secret Admirer collection by Kaisercraft is one such treasure. It’s a Valentine’s Day collection from 2012, and I designed my Cross-haired Memories Folio Album with it, which I showed you a while ago. Of course I had some papers left over, so in this and the next post I’m sharing the projects I created with them.
Today it’s a 1-sheet project, with a particularly gorgeous 12×12″ Secret Admirer sheet. I found this mini drawer box in one of our dollar bins, and after painting it, I used the Mystical sheet to mat. Added some labels and flowers, and there it was, a beautiful, romantic set of drawers. Love it!
As a bonus projects, I used the tiny scraps I had left from my previous project to decorate a chipboard box, turning it into a great stamp little storage!
This December month I’ll post many projects on my blog, to give you some inspiration and ideas for your Christmas projects – and also to help you spend your holiday time creatively. In my previous posts I showed you several December projects, the first of which was a quick Christmas Mini Album, so you can start there if you’d like to see them all. Today: Part 8 of this December Deluge of creative ideas 🙂
As you may know, Graphic 45 paper collections always have a so-called signature sheet, which features the title design of the collection. It’s always the first sheet in a 12×12″ or 8×8″ paper pad, and its design generally depicts a collage of elements that together make up the title of the collection.
In several of my previous December Deluge projects I used the Nutcracker Sweet collection, and used up all of my 8×8″ papers – that is, excepting one: the signature sheet! There’s two of them in each pad, and I saved them for something special. So in this blog post and my next I’m sharing two ideas to use these special signature or title sheets.
First: a Christmas Treasure Chest – enjoy the video and pictures below!
This December month I’ll post many projects on my blog, to give you some inspiration and ideas for your Christmas projects – and also to help you spend your holiday time creatively. In my previous post I showed you a quick Christmas Mini Album. Today: Part 2 of this December Deluge of creative ideas 🙂
There’s a particular 1-sheet mini photo wallet of which I’ve created several by now. It’s created from only one sheet of double-sided 12×12″ design paper, and it looks something like this:
If you click on the picture, it will link to my free video tutorial for that kind of mini wallet.
This week I’m showing you a new micro version of this design, created with a 6×6″ sheet of paper! So cute! They measure only 2⅜” (6 cm) and can hold little pictures, or you could write little notelets with personalized messages, as I have.
These are quick to make and would make great alternatives for your standard Christmas present tags 🙂
What’s fascinating about the Oxford collection by Basic Grey is that while at first glance it has a mostly masculine feel, when you take a closer look some of the sheets are of a more feminine persuasion as well!
So this time I used it to create a little project for myself, instead of a male friend or relative 🙂 . This micro folio is perfectly suited to carry your most current & precious pictures with you in your handbag. You could also turn it into a micro portfolio representing your most important projects – like I have. It’s small, flat, magnetized and offers room for at least 11 pictures!
It’s also very easy to make, as you can see in the video.
So enjoy, and let me know for which kind of photos you would love to create a micro folio!
(Nederlandse tekst + video hieronder!)
