Catchy Crafts

Basic tool kit (Crafts4U trimmer, scissors, Crafts4Udouble sided Tape, Crafts4U 3mm x 4mm Foam Tape, pencil, tweezers etc), Glue, Washi Tape (for holding dies in place), Die Cutting Machine.

Instructions:

From the 12" x 12" white cardstock cut a base card measuring 6" x 12" fold in half & score, then fold the bottom left corner to the top centre fold & score.

Cut two 14.5cm 14.5cm squares, attach one full square (xmas tree side facing up) to the inside right panel & the other one cut on the diagonal from the top left corner to the bottom right corner giving two triangles & attach to the front triangle panels of the card.

Die cut the following pieces

(NB; with nesting dies No.1 being the smallest)

Red Glitter A5 Card - Poinsettia Petals (I cut a mix of six sizes )

Yellow Card - Poinsettia Stamens (two large & three small)

Dark Green Card - Poinsettia Leaves (two)

Gold Glitter Card - Stacked Merry Christmas

White Card - No.2 Tag (together with small hole die)

Cut the "Candy Cane & Co" panel from the Authentique Collection "Happy Christmas Six" Paper, mat on a piece of dark green card leaving an even border and attach to the striped card front triangle panel.

Assemble the poinsettias/stamens, add some prills to the centres, next adhere the leaves & flowers to the front triangle panel.

Adhere the Gold Glitter "Merry Christmas" above the Candy Cane panel.

From the Authentique "Colourful Christmas" Sticker Sheet cut the left side loop off the "Unwrap the Magic" sticker & attach to the white tag, tie a bow through the hole with the gold ribbon & mount with foam tape to the inside background panel as a base stopper.

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Creative Team Mountain Christmas Card

by Creative Team member Dani Choate

Supplies:

Crafts 4U Forest Deer - 10128

Crafts 4U Stitched Rectangles - 70002

Crafts 4U Funky Xmas Trees - 10126 (stars)

Crafts 4U Merry Christmas with Star 70127

Crafts 4U Glitter Card stock- champagne

Crafts 4U Embossing Folder - tiny dots - 10112

Crafts 4U foam tape- 30005

Crafts 4U Double Sided tape

Card stock - turquoise, white, dark blue & black

Simply Dies Mountain Ridges Die - SDCY047

Tombow Mono liquid glue

Instructions:

- Cut and fold a card out of black cardstock. This will be a landscape card

- Cut a stitched rectangle, one each in white & turquoise cardstock

- Using the mountain die set, separate the three die lines (i.e. break the small links to give you three separate dies that can be used individually

- cut the white rectangle with the upper die line

- cut the turquoise rectangle with the lower die line

- Now run the white mountain die cut through the tiny dot embossing plate. This step needs to be done last so that the dots will not be flattened with any further pressing with the die cutting machine. This will now have a snowy mountain effect

- Place the white dotted mountain onto the black card base.

- Next lay the turquoise mountain die cut over the white, positioning it to still be able to see some of the white dots above. Trim the bottom of this blue layer to sit just on the bottom stitched line of the white. Pop this up on foam tape.

- Now use the 'Forest Deer' die. Cut in both black and dark blue

Place the dark blue die cut behind the black die cut but just offset the blue a little to the right (2-3mm) & slightly above (1-2mm). This should indicate a slight shadow effect. Attach these two die cuts together in this manner

-This die & shadow unit can now be added to the front of the card as one piece. Have this piece sit just inside the edge of the turquoise layer

- Lastly using champagne glitter card stock, cut 3 small stars from the 'Funky Xmas Tree' die set along with the script die 'Merry Christmas'. These can all be backed before die cutting with double sided tape for ease of attaching.

- Adhere 'Merry Christmas' to the bottom left corner of the card and 3-4 small stars just above the right upper mountain peak

Monday, 9 July 2018

Creative Team Ornament Shaker Card

by Creative Team member Kathy MacDonald

Supplies:

Crafts4U A5 Card Smooth/White

Crafts4U A5 card Smooth/Rich Red

Crafts4U A4 Glitter Card in White

Acetate or ‘window’plastic

Crafts4U Frosty Border die – 10155

Crafts4U Dangling Ornament Die – 10124

Crafts4U Double sided tape 100mmx20m

Crafts4U Foam tape 12mmx4m/2mm thick#30004

Crafts4U Wooden Embellishments – MerryChristmas/20 pack/#70075

Cadence Metallic Paints – Silver #677

Nuvo Hexagon Confetti/Green Moss and Gold/Multi coloured small sequins

Liquid glue

Instructions:

Paint wooden embellishment with the Cadence paint, leave to dry.

Score the white card 10.5 mm along the long side and fold in half burnishing fold with bone folder.

For card front, fold one piece of red card in half and cut to a matt of 10.5x15 mm. Use one.

Apply C4U Double sided tape 100mmx20m the back of all papers but not the acetate.

Cut 1 Frosty Border die and 3 Dangling Ornament dies in white sparkle paper, trim where necessary. Remove release paper placing Frosty border on card front and press in place. Place Ornament dies on card front and die cut. Adhere acetate at the back of these die cuts. Remove release paper on white glitter ornaments and carefully ‘fit’ shapes onto acetate backgrounds.

Turn red mat to back. Create ‘cells’ for shaker pieces by sectioning each ornament using foam double sided tape. Add the same tape to the 4 outside edges.

Using baby talc, corn flour or an embossing buddy tool rub over acetate to reduce the static cling for shaker pieces. Fill each bauble area with beads/sequins/metallic confetti in either different colours or the same colour. Carefully remove release paper from foam tape and press card front to rear of sequin filled red mat.

On the front using liquid glue, add ‘Merry Christmas’ embellishments to lower edge of red matt.

Adhere card front to card body using double sided tape.

Saturday, 7 July 2018

Creative Team Christmas Night Art Journal Page

by Creative Team member Dani Choate

Supplies:

Crafts 4U Funky Christmas Trees - 10126

Crafts 4U Houses (3 dies) - 70049

Crafts 4U glitter card stock green / bermudablue / royal blue / xmas green glitter

Crafts 4U Glitter - lime green laserglitter / turquoise laser glitter

Card stock - white, lime green, dark blue, turquoise, grass green, xmas green, light blue, orange, pink, red & yellow

Dina Wakley Heavy Body Acrylic paints- lemon & night

Dylusions journal A5 size

Cadence - black gesso

Cadence - White gesso

Cadence - Transparent relief Paste

The Crafter's Workshop - Mini North StarTemplate

Tombow - Mono liquid glue

Instructions:

- Starting with an open double page, paint a single yellow circle using Dina Wakley Heavy Body acrylic paint in 'Lemon'. Place the circle in the upper middle of the double page across the centre fold. This will be your moon

- Beginning at the outer edges, paint black gesso in toward the moon leaving a rough circular section around the moon blank. Keep this blank area rough with feathered edges so you can blend the next lighter colour

- Paint the remaining area toward the moon with Dina Wakley heavy body acrylic in 'Night'

- Using white gesso, watered down if necessary and a small brush, tape the stem of the brush to create light splatters to indicate stars in the night sky

- Cut some dies...

- Using Crafts 4U 'Houses' die cut x3 sets - x1 in orange; x1 in pink; x1 in red card stock. Choose one of each house design in a different colour for each. Back these three with yellow card behind all windows.

- Next using the 'Funky Xmas Trees' die. Choose the three trees without stars on top - diagonal lines; circles; plain triangle

- cut these trees out in multiple colours and texture- royal blue glitter card - bermuda blue glitter card - xmas green glitter card - lime green, dark blue, turquoise, grass green, xmas green, light blue card stock ...you may need more than one of each colour also.

- Separately, you will need 2 sheets of plain white card in A4 sizing

- Using TCW stencil 'Mini North Star', Apply Cadence Transparent Relief Paste through the stencil then cover with lime green laser glitter on one sheet & turquoise laser glitter on the second sheet

- Once dry you should have two lovely glittery starred paper that you can put through your die cutting machine. With this decorated card cut x3 plain triangle trees out of each colour.

- Lay out all the trees randomly and mix colours and textures evenly between both sides so the design is balanced

- Arrange the three small houses directly under the moon. Trees should be situated on either side extending out to the outer edges at the base of the page but thinning out toward the top so only a couple of tree points are at the top

- A quote can then be stamped in the centre. However, here I have chosen to simply hand write the first line of the poem... " 'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house..."

Wednesday, 4 July 2018

Creative Team Merry Christmas Shaker Cards

by Cookie Aguilar

Cookie loves making shaker cards and has used the Crafts for you Square Merry Christmas Die to make two different shaker cards. One is on a square card base and the other is on a standard C6 sized card base. Check out her supplies list below:

Square Merry Christmas Card:

Supplies:

Crafts 4U Merry Christmas Square Die 10202
Crafts 4U Funky Xmas Trees Die 10126
Red Foil Card A4
Sequins
Crafts 4U Foam Tape
Crafts 4U Double Sided Tape
Acetate Sheet
Assorted Christmas Papers

C6 Merry Christmas Card:

Supplies:

Crafts 4U Merry Christmas Square Die 10202
Crafts 4U Proud Reindeer Die 70016
Red Foil Card A4
Silver Foil Card A4
Sequins
Crafts 4U Foam Tape
Crafts 4U Double Sided Tape
Acetate Sheet
Assorted Christmas Papers

Monday, 2 July 2018

Creative Team Holly Christmas Cards

by Cheryl Peterie

Cheryl has created two simple Christmas cards using the Crafts 4 U Holly Xmas Frame embossing folder. She has added some of our glitter card and Little Birdie Flowers for extra embellishments. Don't they look great!

Joy is Contagious

Supplies:

Crafts4U 12mm x 50m Double Sided Tape 30009

Crafts4U Embossing Folder Holly Xmas Frame 10115

Crafts4U A5 White 20 Pack 230gsm 60037

Crafts4U A5 Glitter Red 10 Pack 60026

Little Birdie Florence Holiday Elements 8pk CR61130

Authentique Collection "Happy Christmas Six" Paper

Authentique "Colourful Christmas" Sticker Sheet

1/8" Gold Ribbon

Tools

Basic tool kit (Crafts4U trimmer, scissors, Crafts4U double sided Tape, pencil, tweezers etc), Die Cutting/Embossing Machine.

Instructions

Fold & score a piece of A5 white card in half in the portrait position.

Emboss with the Holly Xmas Frame Embossing Folder.

Cut the "Joy is Contagious" panel from the Authentique Collection "Happy Christmas Six" Paper, place the Merry Christmas flag(from the sticker sheet) & a red glitter flag (hand cut from the glitter card) to the right side on the dots border