Just like a fairy-tale

Kelly on a dragon-hunt through Sundsvall. All embellishments except the photo corners are cut with the Gazelle and then stamped and inked. A few drops of Stickles here and there completed the layout.

Make your own glue dots

By mistake I found that it’s easy to make your own glue dots… I frequently use a glue that dries tacky, Klaeber-fix, which I accidently left a few drops of on my nonstick worksheet overnight… The morning after they worked like glue dots! Yay! I immediately started making more and have used them for a week now.

So you thought Christmas was over?

Not if you’re a scrapper! I still have photos from Christmas to work with, here are a few of them

I played around some with my Gazelle here, this was my first attempt at welding alphas – and it worked!

My last play with the Fiskars cutting system – the day after I made this layout I handed the cutter and all the templates over to my daughter, Jessica.

Back to the Gazelle! The paper embellishments are all made with it. The journaling is written on handmade paper from Svartvik.

Hey, no cuts? That’s right. I can still create without it, although it’s hard…

… so I dug deep in the jewelry supplies instead!

A felt border from a nearby store and a skeleton leaf from IKEA.

The alpha “buttons” are made of FIMO-clay, I added some Alco Inks to them and topped with stickers from Mrs Grossmans.

The glittery flower center is a PopUp dot from Glue Dots covered with Doodlebug Sugar Coating.

This felt border is from Panduro. I added some dots with Liquid Pearls to it.

Except for the Prima flowers, all paper embellishments are cut with the Gazelle. The Poinsettia is cut in gold cardstock and painted with Distress Inks.

This is an acrylic frame that got dressed up with some gold leaf and Alco Inks. I was very pleased with the result and will make more of those!

TGIF!

And Friday means a new weekly challenge at CropStop! Jump over and check it out! Hint: it’s all black and white today…

Instructions for the fan can be found in my previous post (pointing downwards). The flowers are made from black cardstock cut with the Gazelle using the BossKut Daisy “die” and stamped with an unknown stamp with Staz-On in Cotton White. For the fan I used Autumn Leaves Whirly Gigs stamps and Staz-On in Jet Black, the edges are colored with Distress Inks Black Soot.

My little cool cat, Kevin.  The flowers here are Prima Esprit and BossKut Wildflowers cut with the Gazelle, inked and embossed.  The flourish is also cut with the Gazelle, a BossKut shape that I have sized up a bit. A lot of jewelry parts and so these glass decorations that I have stamped, embossed and covered with 3D-laquer.

My aunt celebrated her 80th birthday some weeks back and this is the card I made for her. WorldWin cardstock, K&Co Ancestry paper, Prima flowers and some stuff from my stash.

Fan-tastic!

I have this thing about fans… The vintage ones! I needed one for a project I’m working on, but couldn’t find them anywhere so I made my own template for the Gazelle. Those of you who use this can e-mail me at 060.615249@telia.com and I’ll send you the template. Otherwise, you’ll have to use the .jpg-file below.

I have made the parts approx 4″ (10 cm) high, and have used 8 or 9 parts for each fan. Cut them in patterned paper or cardstock to decorate yourself. I used plain white CS for mine, inked, stamped and embossed and this is what I came up with:

Put a brad through the hole to hold the parts together, and if you want you can thread a ribbon through the slits, like I did:

Thread ribbon up through slit no 1 on the part furthest back, down through slit no 2 and up through slit no 3 and continue through slit no 1 on the second part. Spread the fan as you like it to be when you have gone through all the parts, attach the ribbon ends on the back.

Finished!

Products used: White CS, stamps from Pysselmyran and Autumn Leaves, Distress Inks and Embossing Powder from Ranger, Staz-On stamp pad. Ribbon from stash.