Oh Christmastree... oh Christmastree {Christmas Decoration}

Hello there...

this week i've been in a christmas mood.
Only a few days and it is time to let the christmas thing in...

Lets welcome it with handmade decoration...

The first thing i made this year is a christmas tree - and it is so
easy - your kids can make it too...

All you need is:

Sizzix Framelits Die Set 6PK - Hearts
Sizzix Framelits Die Set 5PK - Stars
Wire,
liquid glue
glitter, glitter, glitter

Cut out 6 hearts each size, 6 stars (the smallest one), fold them and glue
them together (there you can use normal glue).

Model the wire (i wound it around my pencil). Put it into the tree and fix
the star on.

Now run the liquid glue all over the tree and put the glitter on.

Have a wonderful weekend, Stephanie

catching fall memories in a frame.... Homedeco

Hi there,

i know its summer out there, temperatures are rising, the skirts are getting shorter
and everybody is having fun at the pool....

But when it is to hot outside - sometimes i feel a desire for fall.

So i decided to catch fall memories in a frame...

All you need:
Sizzix Bigz Die - Tattered Leaves
Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit (White & Gray)
Sizzix Framelits Die Set 6PK - Hearts
Some Words...
and a frame...

Now there is always a little fall in here - although its summer outside...

Have a great weekend, Stephanie


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Hallo ihr Lieben,

ich weiß es ist Sommer, die Temperaturen steigen, die Röcke werden immer kürzer und
alle haben Spaß im Freibad...

Aber wenn es so heiß draußen ist habe ich in mir immer eine Sehnsucht nach Herbst...

Also habe ich mir ein Stückchen Herbst in einem Rahmen eingefangen...

Alles was ihr dafür braucht:
Sizzix Bigz Die - Tattered Leaves
Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit (White & Gray)
Sizzix Framelits Die Set 6PK - Hearts
Wörter..
einen Bilderrahmen...

...
...
...
Und nun habe ich immer ein klein wenig Herbst zu Hause - auch wenn Sommer
draußen ist...

Habt ein schönes Wochenende, Steffi

Pizza my heart!

On April 1st I posted a blog featuring a grey bag embellished with a die-cut flower. In the centre of the flower is a large diamanté gem which was taken from a hair band  that I found in one of the shops down the road from here. As I was waiting in line to pay for the hair band and other assorted costume jewellery (I get the funniest looks!) I spotted a t-shirt which was the inspiration for today's blog; I just transformed it into a card.

When I saw the t-shirt I had just completed a couple of blogs using my beloved heart Framelits dies so they were fresh in my mind and it just made perfect sense!

I used one of the dies from the Framelits Hearts set which has six identical hearts in various sizes. I die-cut 3 separate hearts from ivory,pale yellow and red card before gathering all 3 together and cutting away a wedge with a good sharp pair of scissors. I created some contrast around the edges of the ivory wedge using Antique Linen and Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

Next, I used my scissors to trim away part of the red wedge and attached it to the ivory wedge. To complete my pizza slice, I trimmed the yellow wedge to size before using a couple of hole punches to add the pattern which when layered onto the red wedge gives the appearance of pepperoni. Finally, I used my inks to apply a little contrast.

If you don't have a set of the Alphanumeric alphabet and number dies then you are really missing out. This set has multiples of each letter so that you can actually spell out a word to cut an aperture if you wish....LOVE this set!

I used the dies to cut out the letters to spell the word 'PIZZA' from a lovely olive coloured card before laying them out and measuring the height and width of the word.

Once I had the dimensions of the die-cut word I could create the rest of the phrase using my PC and printing onto white card. I took the red heart from which I had cut the wedge and smothered it with red glitter before assembling all the elements onto the card as shown below. I used adhesive foam pads to mount the heart and pizza slice to bring a little dimension.

Hope you like it!

Travel voucher

Hello!
A few weeks ago we have been invited to a birthday party and we presented a coupon for a trip to Denmark.
For another invited couple I made an additional coupon for the same trip.

I used different alphabet dies and cut out the german word for voucher/coupon 'GUTSCHEIN'.
I used the same white cardstock as the cardstock for the card, so the letters looks like embossed.

You need:
Big Shot (Powder Blue & Teal) #657900
SIZZIX Bigz XL Alphabet Die - Block Talk Capitel #658563
SIZZIX Bigz XL Alphabet Die - Block Talk Lowercase #659442
SIZZIX Bigz XL Alphabet Die - Word Play Tim Holtz #657837
SIZZIX Framelits Die Set 6PK - Hearts #657561

I found the flag of Denmark on the internet, printed it and cut it out with one of the SIZZIX framelits hearts. Finally I add some beads and ribbon.

I hope you`ll like it.

I wish you a lovely weekend.

Annika

Eggstatic!

Here I am again with my awful Easter themed puns, although I have decided to stop apologising!

Last week we made a cute tiger using a set of Framelits hearts dies this week we are making an Easter bunny using the same set. I have made the bunny before on this blog but I have added a few extra details. 

If you want to use the same card/papers then you can download them for free from the Sizzix website by following this link. I like to attach the papers to stiff card using spray adhesive to make them a little more substantial when die-cutting.

I will number the dies 1 to 6 with 1 being the smallest and 6 the largest to make the instructions easier to follow.

You can also download the solid colours to complement the pattern papers and embellishment sheet. I have used these solid colours to die-cut the bunny.

Die-cut two pink hearts using the the number 3 heart one magenta heart using the number 2 and one magenta heart using the number 1 heart

Cut one of the number 3 pink hearts and one of the magenta number 2 hearts in half down the centre and use the parts to create the ears.

 Attach the ears to the rear of the pink number 3 heart and attach the number 1 magenta heart using an adhesive foam pad to create the nose. Die-cut a white number 1 heart and attach it upside down below the nose to create the distinctive teeth using an adhesive foam pad. Add a couple of black adhesive pearls for the rabbit's eyes.

Die-cut a pink number 5 and a magenta number 3 heart before cutting both in half and use two of the halves to form the body.Die-cut a pink number 2 heart and cut it in half to form the feet and die cut a white number 1 heart to form the tail.

Trim around the green 'Happy Easter' phrase and die-cut a pink number 1 heart before cutting it in half. the two halves will form the bunny's hands/paws. Attach the hands to the top of the banner as shown using adhesive foam pads and gently curl them around the rear of the banner.

Assemble all the bits of your bunny prior to mounting onto the base card. My white base card measures 14 x 21 cm, almost A5 in other words. I have attached a rectangle of the yellow spotty paper and a strip of the diamond patterned trim taken from the embellishment sheet.

And here is the finished article, as you can see I have mounted the various bits using a combination of double-sided tape and adhesive foam pads to create a little dimension, For the finishing touch, I added some thin strips of white card to my bunny's cheeks in place of whiskers. I had so much fun revisiting the bunny, hope you like it? 

Hello Tiger!

Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to teach workshops in the beautiful Slovenian city of Maribor. It is the second year that I have attended the Art Trade Creative Week event  and it was so good to meet old friends and make some new ones along the way. I would like to offer up a big thank you to Primoz and Mihaela for once again being the most generous and helpful hosts imaginable, I would also like to thank their incredible team who work tirelessly to bring it all together and I can't finish without a big thank you to everyone who attended the workshops and supported this wonderful event, I could type up a list of names at this point but the truth is I would hate to forget someone..... You know who you all are!!!

If you want to see a few of the photographs and find out more about this truly international event then click on this link, and if you fancy a city break next March combined with some top quality art and craft workshops then my destination of choice would be Maribor!

I was teaching mixed media style projects at the event but at the end of each workshop I showed the class how to create a bunny from a set of Framelits Hearts after which I promised to blog the idea this week but..... I'm going to break that promise and post a new cuddly creature (the clue is in the title!!!) instead, however, if you want to see the bunny idea and many more like it, all you have to do is go to the top of the page and click on my picture before scrolling back to posts dated March 5th/February 26th 2014. 

As I mentioned I'm going to use my Framelits Hearts and the New Thinlits Alphanumeric alphabet from Tim Holtz as well as a lovely little Thinlits set called Happiness Phrases.

I'm using the 3 smallest hearts from the set and I have cut one large and three small orange hearts, one medium white heart and two small pink hearts. Good stiff card stock is  the best thing to use.

Next, I used the large heart die to cut the medium white heart in two pieces before attaching to the large orange heart. next I used a pair of scissors to snip a few pieces of black card into triangular lengths.

I attached six of the black pieces to the face as shown before adding one of the small pink hearts for the tigers nose using an adhesive foam pad. I then took two of the small orange hearts and made a couple of snips in each one as shown before attaching to the rear of the tigers head along with a couple of black pearl gems. For the finishing touch I attached the the last pink heart to its orange counterpart as shown before attaching to the rear of the tigers face with an adhesive foam pad to create a smiley mouth (he merely looks confused otherwise!)

 I took my 'Hello' die and the Thinlits letters to create the word 'TIGER' and placed them on grey and olive green card before die-cutting through my Big Shot.

Here's the finished card, as you can see I used the negative letters for the word 'TIGER' which was trimmed to size and attached using a brad and eyelet.

I hope you like it because I have a few more heart die ideas to share at some point in the future.

Heart tag

Hi everyone

I hope you all had a great week, today I have a tag to show you using Texture Fades Embossing Folders-Chevron & Lattice set

 

 Items used:

Sizzix Texture Fades Embossing Folders-Chevron & Lattice set 659448

Sizzix Framelits 6 Dies Hearts 657561

Sizzix Movers & Shapers Tag & Bookplates 656938

Supply list:

Paper. Prima-School memories 6x6 pad

Ink: Archival ink-Coffee-

flowers and ribbon

How to make:

Die cut using Tag & Bookplates, emboss using the embossing folders, cut out 7x13 cm in patterned paper and emboss, glue to the tag ,ink the edged uusing Arhival ink-Coffee-.

Die cut inpatterned paper using Sizzix Framelits-Hearts-, glue to the tag using 3D foam. decorate using flowers and photo , card- cutting out of the paper

 

 

Thanks for stopping by, wish you a lovely week

Pia

Hej alle

Jeg håber du har haft en god uge, i dag vil jeg vise en tag hvor jeg har brugt Texture Fades Embossing Folders-Chevron & Lattice set

Sizzix dies jeg har brugt:

Sizzix Texture Fades Embossing Folders-Chevron & Lattice set 659448

Sizzix Framelits 6 Dies Hearts 657561

Sizzix Movers & Shapers Tag & Bookplates 656938

Andre materialer:

Papir. Prima-School memories 6x6 pad

Ink: Archival ink-Coffee-

blomster og bånd

Fremgangsmåde:

Udstans sizzix Tag & Bookplates, emboss ved at bruge embossing folders, skær et stykke mønstret papir 7x13 cm og embos det, lim til tag ,ink alle kanter ved at bruge Arhival ink-Coffee-.

Udstans i mønstret papir Sizzix Framelits-Hearts-, lim til tag ved at bruge 3D foam. dekorer ved at bruge blomster, udklippede elementer fra papiret, foto , kort o.l

 

Tak fordi du kiggede forbi, ønsker dig en skøn uge

Pia