Acetate Card Tutorial

Good evening everyone, Brand Ambassador Vannessa here and welcome to my first tutorial of the month. For today's project I am going to show you how to make an acetate fronted card.  I have used the adorable Kawaii Coco 4 Coco digital stamp and sentiment for this card. 

Before I start I will apologise for the shine on the photos. Even with my desk lamp turned off, the acetate picked up all the shine from other lights in the room as well as that from my phone! 

To start you need some acetate 1 inch longer than your card front. I used some snowflake printed acetate sheets - perfect for the season! I also cut a piece of white card for the back of the card in the usual A6 size and then cut my layered card and patterned paper at 1/8" smaller each time. 

I also printed, coloured and cut my image ready to use and gathered some ribbon and some white card to make snow drifts as well as the sentiment and the layer for it too.

Next, you need to score and fold the acetate 1 inch from the end so the fold can be attached to the card back. 

Now attach the acetate to the card back so the folded part is inside the card. As acetate does not stick with glue, I used double sided tape for all the pieces being attached to it. 

This is how it looks from the side.

Now add the card mount and patterned paper to the inside, covering up the folded part of the acetate sheet.

As acetate has a tendency to bend, I added some snow drifts to the bottom, one on the outside and one on the inside. This provides some stability and strength to the bottom of the card.

I added some snowflake printed ribbon to top, attaching it with double sided tape again.

Now time to add my sentiment and Coco. For the sentiment I added the printed sentiment to the outside and the blue mount on the inside, making sure that none of the double sided tape could be seen.

And for some finishing touches, I added some Star Dust Stickles to the snow drift and the bobble on Coco's hat. 

And that's the card all finished. I love the effect the acetate gives this card. I really looks like he is outside in the snow enjoying his hot cup of cocoa! 

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. I would to see what you make with this card style, so be sure to share your projects over in the Stampers Delights Facebook Group.

You can read more about this card, including the Copic combos I have used over on my blogpost here.

Christamas Ornaments - Color Tutorial (two copic colors for each color)

 

Hi, 

Eivor here again, and today I am going to show you a Christmas Ornament with a image that I colored with less numbers of copics. I think it is good to show that you don't always need to have so many copics. 

I have made my ornament like a Christmas card, it means that I can send it to a friend to wish her Merry Christmas, and then she can hang it on the Christmas tree as a decoration. 

On my Christmas ornament I have used the beautiful stamp Anime Xmas Wreath. I think it is a beautiful stamp, perfekt for Christmas.

So to my tutorial...I have already colored her face and hair, so my tutorial is on the wreath, the ribbon and her top. 

We start with the wreath and the green colors. I started with G17 and I color around the sides and where I like it to be darkest.

The next, second color and also the last, is YG06. With this I go over G17 and exteding and coloring the hole space. After that I go back to G17, color the side/edges and then I take YG06 again and go over the hole space again. 

So to the ribbons and the red colors. I start with R29, go around the edges.

My next color is R24 and with that I go over R29, extending and then color the hole space. I also do the same as with the green. Go over the space with the colors again. First R29 and the R24 as the first time.

I also enclose photo on how I colored the bow. I used same red colors, R29 and R24 and did the same way. R29 where I wanted the bow a little darker.

Then it is time for the R24, extending and also coloring the hole space. Going over the bow once again first with R29 and then R24

 For the top I started with YR24.

My second color is Y15 and I am extending a little. As you can see I left some white space and I do that to get some more darker spaces. So now I go over the image again with YR24 and then Y15 and now I'm going over the hole space/top and filling the white space.

To make the ornaments I cut the image out with a round die, then I used another die with bubbly edge and cut two pices in red cardstock. I glued the red and white ribbon between the red cardstocks and then I glued the image on one side. 

Below is the backside of the ornament with the greeting "Merry Christmas", I will write mine and my familys name below when we send the card, thats why it is so white at this moment.

Hope you all liked my tutorial, and hope I can inspired anyone to try copics now when you see that you can create lovely colors with only two copics for each color. 

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you remember to check out our Stampers Delights Fan Group and also that you will join us in the mountly Progressive FB Challenge. 

Box In A Bag Tutorial

Good evening everyone and welcome to the first of my two tutorial posts for this month's new releases. 

For this project, I have used the gorgeous Anime Secret Santa digi stamp and the accompanying sentiment. 

I have made a Bag in a Box, which is perfect for small gifts this time of year. You could also reuse the bag as a Christmas tree decoration as well. 

For this project, you will need:

• a 4.5 inch square for the base
• a piece of patterned paper measuring 11 inches x 6.5 inches (or whatever height you prefer)
• a piece of punched or die cut card measuring 11 inches long
• some ribbons
• a tab (I used a tag die and folded it in half before adding a punch out die for the ribbons to go through)
• your stamped and coloured image
• oval die cuts for the image to go on (or whatever shape you want)
• the die cut sentiment and card to layer on

First you need to score at the 1 inch mark on each side of the card square. You also need to score diagonally in each corner. 

Fold and burnish using a bone folder and glue the corners together to make the square base. 

Add some double sided tape along one long and one short edge only of the patterned paper. Line up the bottom of your box against the patterned paper and roll the paper around each side, ensuring it is stuck well to the base. Remove the backing from the short side and attach to the start of the patterned paper to close the bag. 

This is how it will look after you have finished this step.

    

Now it's time to decorate... I added the punched strip to the bottom with the green strip of card in the middle. You could easily use ribbon here instead of card. I added my digi stamp to the oval die cuts and attached with glue on just the centre of the die to the bag. I added one of the tab dies to each side of the bag and closed it using two different ribbons. 

On the back, I added the sentiment after attaching it to some red card and fussy cutting the shape out. (The die I used didn't have a larger size for mounting).

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. We would love to see all your projects in the Stamper Delights Fan Facebook Group, so do share them there! 

You can read more about this project including the Copic combos I used on my blogpost here. 

November Thrifty Thursday

 

Welcome back to another Thrifty Thursday here at Stampers Delights.  The team is excited to show you the wonderful Christmas creations they have been working on this month.

So, let's take a look and please visit their blogs and leave them some love.

Anime You Are Invited Created by Judy Ellender VanZandt

Chibi Open Gift Created by Mieke Duckers

Chibi Xmas Scene Created by Mollie Smith

Chibi Holly CoCo Created by Priyadarshini Ramakrishnan

Chibi Angel Globe Created by Wendy Batchen

Chibi Holly CoCo Created by Helen Nile

Chibi Open Gift Created by Jane Proffitt

Aren't these projects and images amazing this month?  They are all available for purchase in the Stampers Delights store.  Or you can also click the link under the photo's above for each particular image.

Important Links for You!

Stampers Delights Store

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Progressive Challenge

For the month of December Thrifty Thursday will be earlier in the month.  So, mark your calendar for the next Thifty Thursday.  

Happy Holidays!

X-mas image with Glittery snow tutorial

 

Hi, 

Eivor here again, and today I want to show you a tutorial how to make glittery snow in a pretty easy way.

I have some problems and I think it is difficult to get "a good looking" snow when I make my cards, so I thought I could try something else and not use my copic markers. 

The image I used today is Chibi Tumnus Fawn. 

This image you can get in both winter and spring version. So so nice!!

So to my tutorial...

This is what I used for my tutorial today. The colored image (of curse), then glossy accent glue, a needle and the GLITTER!

I have a small dollop with glue on a paper, a needle and my glitter. I wanted to used the needle and take some glue on the needle and place the glue gently on the areas I want. If I do that, I think I have better controll of where to place the glue. Then I  poured the glitter over the glued area and let it dry. To get the extra glitter to fall off I tapped a little and gentle on the image. As you can see on the photo the glitter is all over the paper and the image...*smile*. 

This is it, a easy way to make your Christmas (or any other card) glitterly and shiny!

I hope you can see the glittery "snow" on the road arrows and the little snow hill. I love how it is different colors in different lights and angles, and how it glitter!! 

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you liked my tutorial. If you have other ideas how to make snow please share this with us at Stampers Delights Facebook Fan Group. We love to see!