An engineer's creative corner studio.
This is the first in the 10 Minute Monday series and it's really like a 12 minute Monday because I did add some distress inks and a little Wink of Stella off camera, but I did it really fast, so it probably only added about 2 minutes, haha. I will be posting these once a week and hopefully I will get down to 10 minutes total. You can see the video below!
Hope you enjoyed that and check back later this week for another tutorial that's a little more in depth with some techniques. Happy crafting!
So I have done it, I have created a full page and loved every minute of creating it! I started with one of our Sepia toned wedding photos and built my page around that. I decided to go with a mono print background I did in dark, rich colors and one of my background stamps. Then I added some paper rosettes with enamel dots and buttons and layered those onto a paper heart. To mount the photo I chose to round my corners and used some Distress Ink on the mat to keep that vintage theme going. I used a quote from our wedding invitations and more Distress Ink. I adhered the photo with foam tape and added another paper flower with a rain stone center.
The finished version.
To do the mono print background I used the Creative Palette from Stampendous an I found it to be very easy to use and clean.
I will be doing more projects like this soon with videos, thanks for stopping by and Happy Crafting!
My favorite thing to do right now! I have been making cards like crazy and using markers and stamps. These are the cards I've made in the past week.
Tons of thanks!
This was done with Copic markers, distress ink, and then matted.
Robot birthday!
This used a stencil I created with my Cricut, Copic markers, distress ink, some miniature gears, and then it was layered.
A bonus birthday card.
This used Copic markers, a die, an embossing folder, and a white gel pen.
A wedding shaker card.
This used distress ink, Copic markers, the fuse tool, and a Wink of Stella Pen.
I'll be posting a few videos for how to make these cards soon. Until then, Happy Crafting!
So I wanted to make these little rosettes I kept seeing and it occurred to me that I already had all of the materials, but I did not see any clear instructions for the sizes of paper needed. Then I realized that they are just strips of paper in circles, so I used the circumference formula:
c=2*pi*r
Where c= the length of your paper, r=the height of your paper, and pi can be rounded to 3.14 and the size of the finished circle across will be 2 times the value of r. Sounds a little complex, but I'll give an example.
Say I want a rosette that is 7" across. Then my strips of paper need to be 3.5" width wise and at least 22" lengthwise, but you should do at least 24" lengthwise since the paper is folded. To go the other way, say I have paper that is 18" lengthwise, the biggest rosette I can get from that is going to be about 5.75" across, so to be safe, I should cut the width of my strip to about 2.5"-2.75" just to be safe so I'm not stretching the paper. This formula will work for any size rosette and you can adjust your accordion folds based on appearance, but remember, the further apart your folds are, the more you "shorten" your initial length, so always try to have extra length so you don't tear your paper, happy crafting!
Materials needed:
Paper of your choice, I used K & Company Double Sided paper
Glue, I used Elmer's Craft Bond
Scoring Board, I used Martha Stewart
Button
Embroidery Floss and Needle
Scalloped Die Cuts, I used my Cuttlebug, but you can also use a punch
Materials used for rosettes minus my Martha Stewart scoring board! I used one but it's not in this pic.
The above rosette is 3" across. I cut my paper 1.5" wide and 12" long. So I needed at least 9.4" length, but I wanted it to look "full" so I used the entire 12" length with 1/4" folds.
A stacked rosette.
This was done using 20" of length and 3.5" of height, I did all of the folding and glueing and then cut 1" off the top to make 2 rosettes, 1 at 2.5" height (5" across when flattened) and 1 at 1" height (2" across when flattened) and then glued them together.
In Part 1 we made the envelopes and part of the backing, this will show how to complete the invitation. I used Word to design my text and graphic inside of a 4" x 6" space and printed it.
Tree graphic with 2 little birdies.
I then cut them out and used my glue runner to adhere them to the flat part of the invitation. I decided to move the glitter rectangle to go "inside"/behind the pocket, because I liked how it looked.
Glitter paper in pocket.
I also added a quote that I printed and then placed that on top of a rectangle of coordinating vellum, but let creativity be your guide, this was just what I chose.
I also used word to type up my directions and RSVP. They directions were cut to 4" x 5.5", but anything under 5"x 7" will fit. I cut the RSVP to 3.5" x 5.5" so that when they were stacked together they would later nicely.
Inserts in pocket.
Now you're all done! The invitations here will fit inside A7 sized envelopes and the RSVP inserts will fit inside A2 sized envelopes. Mine were .70 to mail each, and I also added a small Velcro closure for my invitations to give them a little, well, snap. :) Happy Crafting!