My Crafty Friend - Donna's Easel Drawer Card

Hello Crafty Friends!

WOW! Our November Kit has the Creative Team girls so busy that they are STILL having creative fun with it. So as we head into December, keep an eye out for special BONUS posts featuring more November Kit projects!!
Our Crafty Friend Donna is back from her mega road trip around Australia and is busy crafting crafting crafting!!!! Today she creates a fabulous Easel Drawer Card. Have a look...... you'll totally love it!

Hi all, well after six months travelling around Australia, I am finally home.  I had a wonderful time, hassles and all, and even though I crafted on the road I feel excited to start again with the Creative Team for Aunty Vera.

I have created for you three projects for the month of November. I didn't get the chance to use the gorgeous stamp or die set but know I will use it in a future project for Aunty Vera.

My first project is an Easle Drawer Card; with the gorgeous papers I knew that was going to be one of my projects straight away..

Look at this gorgeous kit, Wow!! 

I am making three of these at the same time so you will see different colours as I progress as I would complete a step and forget to take a photo so hence three of them lol.

Cut one piece at 6 inches x 6inches and score 1inch on all four sides

Cut as shown (cut a small sliver off the tab to fold easier).

Adhere as shown (see the different colour lol)

Cut one piece of cardstock at 4inches x 8 inches and score on the 8 inch side at 2 inches and 4 inches.

Fold as shown. This is the easle part of the card.

 Cut one piece of cardstock at 4inches x 11 inches and score at 1inch, 5inches, 6inches, 10inches.

 Fold as shown and adhere the end to make a band (as in the back of the photo)

Cut your mats as shown in the photo.

Ink all the edges of your mats..

Adhere the gorgeous paper to the mats.

Adhere the front panel on the box then insert a brad. Cover the back of the brad with a panel. as well as the other three sides as shown. I covered the bottom of the box with one of the 3 3/4" x 3 3/4" pieces of cardstock. DO NOT cover the outside sides of the box as it wont slide in the cover, just the outside front and back.

Place the box in the band and adhere the easle on the top of the box as shown. I added a plain mat and some of the gorgeous paper.

Cut a 4inch x 4inch piece of cardstock and adhere half of the bottom to the easle.

I hope you can see what I mean as yep forgot to take a photo of this step completely..

 DUH!! (still in holiday mode I think).

Decorate as desired. I just loved this quote as in my case, it really is..

I covered the dress form chipboard with Distress ink and using my finger smooched the gorgeous pearl drops over it. Loved the effect..

I hope you like this little project and hopefully understand it,, 

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I hope I have inspired you to create Glorious things..

Thank you for stopping by..

Hugs

DONNA xx

My Crafty Friend: Lolly's Upcycled Wooden Box

Hello Crafty Friends!

I just love it when our Crafty Friend Lolly uses the Monthly Kit for an upcycle project. I'm always blown away at the difference between the before and after views. Today Lolly takes a very ordinary wooden box and transforms it into a totally gorgeous Crafty Friend treasure box.... well I think it's a treasure box!

Remember how I said I adore boxes?   I asked myself if two box projects in one month was too much.  Nah!   Let's go for it!  I wanted to use the stamp in this month's kit, but I wanted to use it in a way that would frame it and make it the centerpiece of a project, so I shopped my stash -- my big bin of projects-to-upcycle.

 I had this wooden box and thought it would be perfect to showcase that stamp.

I removed the image that came with the box and used two coats of white chalk paint, sealing with a clear wax finish.

 I have used so much of this kit's paper that I no longer have one piece large enough to mat this stamped image, so I layered strips of my leftover papers to make a mat.  I think I prefer this over a single paper anyway!

I colored the image in with Prismacolor pencils.  I needed a super fine point to color the tiny parts, and I didn't think markers would be a good choice.

For the inside, on the bottom of the box I cut out a thin piece of cardboard and lined it with fabric to make a pretty new bottom.  On the left side (the inside of the lid), I layered denim colored card stock with a strip of paper from the kit, and I added a real denim pocket (using Heat-N-Bond).  I put some cute papers in the pocket, and on the top left of the paper I added the stamped sentiment from the kit.   I fixed this paper to the inside of the lid with Fabri-Tac.  It's perfect!  That denim pocket makes me so happy!

At first, I wasn't sure that I wanted to embellish the outside of the box:

But the next day I decided to include  ribbon and flowers from the kit, and I'm glad I did.  They add a splash of color that helps the image to pop.

I have a short video about the process HERE.

These kits were so popular that they are selling quickly.  You'll want to see if there are any more, by checking HERE.

Thank you, my crafty friend, for looking at my upcycle.

~Lolly
http://www.LollyPalooza.net

My Crafty Friend - Suzanne's Bookmark Pocket Tag, Accordion Album and Box

Hello Crafty Friends and Happy Monday!
Today our Craft Friend Suzanne shares a gorgeous trio that really makes the Julie Nutting Paper Dolls collection shine!
Enjoy!.....

I am so totally IN LOVE with the November kit from Aunty Vera.  'My Crafty Friend' just speaks to me.  The beautiful paper from Julie Nutting, gorgeous Stamping Bella stamp and the Prima flowers are all so beautiful and match perfectly with the gorgeous Santoro Pearl Drops and lovely ribbon from Docrafts.

For my third project, I have made a bookmark pocket tag, an accordion album and a box for it to go into.

Bookmark pocket tag.

First I cut a large tag using my sizzix bigz xl die and covered it with the beautiful blue check paper from the collection.  I used another die to cut a pocket for the front of the tag.  This pocket is for the bookmark to go in.

tag and pocket

The pocket for the front of the tag

 I made a bookmark to go onto the pocket using a spellbinder die and the beautiful Julie Nutting papers. This die has several layers.

and added one of the doll stickers from the sticker sheet and a sentiment on a banner flag sticker

Also in the kit is this beautiful spellbinders Thank you and birdie die

Here I have added the 'Thank you' sentiment and the little bird.  I also cut the doll with sentiment from the cover page that is with the paper pack and glued it onto the pocket tag

The beautiful Maya road feathers made a beautiful accent for the top of the tag along with some of the gorgeous docraft ribbon

 I decided to use a sentiment from one of the 4 x 6 cut-a-parts to add to the tag and a one of my handmade roses

This is the finished bookmark pocket tag.

 
You can watch a process video of me making this bookmark pocket tag HERE.

 Accordion album

The accordion album that I am decorating was from a destash that I attended recently.  The small album measures 5 1/4 inches.

I cut 12 pieces of patterned paper to cover all of the accordion album pages and used a 3 x 4 cut-apart for the front cover.  I used coordinating ink to ink all the edges of the paper.

 Below you can see all of the covered pages and the stickers and die cuts that I used to make frames for some of the pages.  I wanted to be sure there was plenty of room left on each page for photographs.

page 1

page 2

page 3

page 4

page 5

page 6

 page 7 (back of album)

 page 8

page 9

page 10

page 11

Front of album:
For the front cover, I used a 3 x 4 cut-apart from the Julie Nutting paper and I used one of the small dolls from the cover page that is included in the paper pack.  I have added a small heart and flower die cut, one of my handmade flowers and a metal scissor embellishment.

 I also made a box for the accordion album to go in.  It measures 5 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches.  I totally forgot to take pictures but the process is very simple.  Because the album measures 5 1/4 inches I made the base of the box 5 1/2 inches square.  The sides of the box are 3/4 inch high so the piece of cardboard for the box needs to  measure 7 inches by 7 inches.  Score at 3/4 inch all the way around the box and cut small tabs into each corner.  To make the lid all the you need to do is add 1/8 of an inch to the inside measurement of the lid top.  This means you lid will measure 7 1/8 inch x 7 1/8 inch and score at 3/4 inch all the way around. Cut small tabs into the corners to form the lid.  I get this very strong cardstock from Daiso.  It comes in a pack of three pieces on kraft, green or brown.

I added some of the beautiful paper onto the lid and sides of the box

and added a sticker from the sticker sheet to a decorative die cut and popped it up on foam tape on the lid

 To finish it off, I used a piece of the beautiful ribbon from the kit as a closure for the box

Here are some shots of the finished project

 I hope you, all my crafty friends, have enjoyed having a look at this project. 

You can see a process video of me making the album and box HERE.

You can get the kit from Aunty Vera HERE.

xx Suzanne xx