Easter Celebrations!

Hi all,

A very happy Easter to you. Whatever you choose to celebrate, hope you are enjoying your weekend and are not too tired from losing out on an hour of your day. The kids have been watching the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory on a continual loop, not sure if I can take listening to the singing for much longer lol!

As a crafter, I am inspired by lots of different styles of cards and creations that other people make. I also take inspiration from my surroundings. As Spring has now arrived, I felt inspired to make a colourful, cheerful Spring card.

 

For this project, I made an easel card. I used a Tattered lace frame to mat and layer my topper and finished off with a Tattered lace birdcage tapestry die cut which I placed on the top. I then attached a ribbon and some lace to the side and made a matching bow.

Using a Tattered lace heart tapestry die, I snipped out the word Love to use as an embellishment in the corner of my topper. I used my sparkle pens on the birdcage and the Love sentiment and then added some glossy accents to the two love birds.

Next, I printed out my chosen lily paper and then die cut a lily out using the Tattered lace floral layers die and CD rom set.

Finally, I made a stopper for my easel card using a scallop edge die and then cut some small Tattered lace flourishes to finish off the card.

Hope you all enjoy the week again and for now happy crafting!

Pop-up card tutorial

Hi everyone, hope you are all well and that you have had a good week. I have made another pop-up flower bouquet card and as promised, here is the tutorial.

You will need:
A4 piece of good quality card stock
Tattered Lace floral layer collection
Die cutting machine
Scoring tool
Acetate
Adhesive

First take your A4 card stock (lay it down landscape) and score lines at 7.5cm intervals. At one of the ends, score an additional line at just 0.5cm from the edge. Now turn your card (portrait) and score just one line at 8cm. Burnish creases (landscape creases towards you, portrait crease fold away from you).

Next, cut along your five creases, up to the portrait crease (at 8cm) then stop. Snip away the 0.5cm piece at the end which should leave you with a 0.5cm flap for the bottom part of the card. Now join your card together and stick down the side flap which will form the basis of your card.


Using your floral layers CD, select your colour choice and print off chosen images. Next, attach your matching dies to your images and run them individually through your die cutting machine. Cut out several flower and leaf pieces as required, these will eventually form your bouquet.

Emboss and curl your petals and leaves and then start assembling your flowers together, not forgetting to attach the middle parts to your flowers as well.

Once you have enough flowers, you will need to cut out pieces of acetate or clear plastic about a cm thick and cut them to your chosen length. Next, you will need to cut out two strips of card which will go inside the base of your card . The acetate pieces will then be able to attach to these pieces of cards which will give the impression that the flowers have been placed in a vase.

For the strips of card, you will need to cut out two strips of card, 4" in length and 0.5" wide. Score 0.5" from the end at both ends and fold to form a Z shape. Attach these two strips to the inside of the card.

Finally, attach your flowers individually to your acetate strips and then attach them individually to your Z strips to form your bouquet. I also cut out some Tattered Lace dreamy words sentiments , added then individually to acetate and then spaced them out throughout the bouquet as shown in photo.

To complete the project, I made a tag using Kraft card, lace, twine and stamped a sentiment using a Dreamees stamp.

Using the basic card shape above, you can decorate it anyway you like, the card will fold down flatter in order to put it in a box envelope.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorials, any questions then please do ask,

Bye for now and happy crafting!

Pop-up flowers

Hi all, hope you are all enjoying the weekend. Well it has been another busy week here at the Lovell headquarters! Here are some of my crafty makes from this week.

I have wanted to make a 3D pop-up box card for ages now so I have finally had a go at completing one. It is not perfect but not bad for a first try. I shall have another go at one again soon and will post a tutorial on how I constructed it shortly.

This card was constructed from a piece of A4, pink satin card (although looks more red in the pictures!). I then embossed the flap pieces to add some texture. I used a Tattered Lace Tapestry Love die to cut out the heart on the front of the card in purple satin card. I then shadowed from behind using black card and finished the front by attaching a black, satin bow to the top of the heart.

For the inside I then cut out various Tattered Lace pieces and attached them to pieces of acetate which I had cut into strips and suspended in the middle of the card. The finished card is then able to fold flat and can easily be popped in an envelope.

 

 

 

Here is a rose flower I constructed out of card whilst playing around at my desk. I used white card stock and distress inks to create it.

 



Finally, my niece's birthday is coming up shortly, so here is the card I made her. I used Craftwork Cards stamps by Julie and a Dreamees 'Just for You' stamp. The 'Niece' part was cut out using a Tonic die and I constructed the flower from a Lindsay Mason stamp set and then finished it off with my sparkle pens.

Hope you all have a good week, thanks for reading and bye for now!

Mothers Day Fun!

Hi all.........

Hope you all enjoyed the weekend. I was very thankful to be able to share Mother's day with my children and also to spend some quality time with my own Mum which was lovely too. My kids surprised me with some fabulous homemade cards (think my craftiness has definitely rubbed off on them!). With a little help from their Dad they also made me a colourful marbled picture printed on to fabric and then they lined a blank notebook with it, very clever and looks great.

Well, thought I would share the Mother's day card I made for my Mum. It is quite a simple card and I just kept to two colours, cream and white.

I used an 8 by 8 inch cream, scalloped card. I mat and layered some silver mirror card and some white hammered onto my card base.

Using a Tattered Lace 'lacy layers' die set, I cut out the largest die using white card stock. The second and third dies were then used with cream card stock.

For the centre piece, using white hammered card stock, I then cut out and made three roses using a Tattered Lace 'rose' die. I also cut out and shaped three leaves and using the inner part of the leaves, I then added these pieces as 'foliage' to my centre piece.

To complete the card, I die cut the name Mum in white, hammered card stock and shadowed it with silver mirror card from behind. Lastly, I then added four Swarovski crystals to the corners of the card.

Here is the link to the Craftwork Card 'official' blog which I promised as they have now featured some of my projects in their guest feature http://blog.craftworkcards.co.uk/2016/03/guest-feature-rachael-lovell.html

Bye for now and happy crafting!

Tattered Lace Crafting

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a productive week so far. I have just received my new die cutting machine which has been lots of fun trying it out (any excuse!!!). Its all go, go, go here but loving every minute of it! Here is a Tattered Lace project I have just finished. Here is how the card was made.....

For this card, I used an 8 by 8 inch card. I printed out one of the beautiful 'birdcage' papers from the Tattered Lace Designers Directory USB.  Using some black card to mat and layer, I then trimmed the edges of the card to a scalloped design.

Next, I scored the end of the card several times and then folded it into a concertina shape. I attached a piece of card to the back of the front of the card to strengthen the front and hide the concertina part.

For the centre part, I cut a couple of Tattered Lace frames and attached to the front. I then cut two 'with love' sentiments, one in black and one in glitter card. Using the black card, I shadowed the glitter card and attached to front of card.

Next, I carried part of the design to the inside of the card. This can then be viewed from the front of the card also.

I created three roses by hand using white satin ribbon. once attached to the card, I then added a couple of flourishes to them and finished them off using my sparkle pens..

Here, I cut out a Tattered Lace humming bird die twice, once in the patterned paper and once in black. I shadowed the black from behind but did not stick the wings down to give some depth. I also used my sparkle pens to add a bit of appeal.

I created a box for the card and made it co-ordinate by adding a matching panel and bow.

To complete this card, I added a little butterfly, some black ribbon and a bow. I also added some subtle pink organza ribbon to the concertina part of the card which gives a lovely sheen when the light catches it. I then finished  up by adding a couple of Swarovski crystals to the flourishes.

I hope you  have enjoyed this tutorial and for now......happy crafting xxx