Something little to decorate your Christmas table with...easy place cards by tanjaak

Hello and good evening! I'd like to share with you an easy way to decorate your Christmas table...or any other festive occasion. These place cards are really easy to make.

Firstly let's go over a few materials you'll need to gather around for this project. Some beautiful papers, adhesive, City Girl Sayings sentiments set, City Girl Shape die, ink and cardstock. You'll also need several different dies or be crafty with your scissors. I have used the biggest ones from the following Spellbinders Nestabilities dies to cut my shapes: Petite Scalloped Circles Large, Circles Large, Labels Eight and Beaded Circles.

Cut your materials and remember to cut the largest circle shape twice.

Then stamp and mark your frame to write the names in, cut with the shape die.

Fold the large piece of cardstock (here cut with Labels Eight nestie) in half to form your cardbase...and this is sort of a "stand" for the place card.

...and now it's time to assemble the place card. You can decorate them as you wish of course.

Here's how I decorated mine. I just love that ginger bread men paper LOL.

Happy crafting!

xxxTanja

WoJ products used:

Perpetual Calendar by Jane Johnson

Fancy a little project to make for your own desk or to give as a little gift?? Today I am going to show you how to make this perpetual desk calendar......

..... there are a lot of instructions but please don't be put off, I have taken lots of photos to make it as easy as possible for you to recreate one and it really isn't as complicated as it looks!

You will need:

Two pieces of cardstock measuring 6 1/2" x 5 1/2"
Three pieces of cardstock measuring 5 x 2 1/2"
One piece of cardstock measuring 12" x 3 1/2"
Flowers for decorating
Number die cuts (optional)
Whiff of Joy Spring Swirls stamp set

Romanic Swirls die and Leaves die from Whiff of Joy

Take a piece of cardstock 6 1/2" x 5 1/2" and score as shown in the picture above with the short side at the top of your score board.

Turn the card so that the long edge is at the top of the score board and score as shown in the picture above.

Cut away the marked sections with scissors or a craft knife. (Sorry about this dreadful night time photo, I had to make my tutorial in stages!)

You should then be left with this shape. You now need to cut away the portions shown on the above photo. NOTE! you are not removing the whole scored squares, mark approx 1/2 " as shown to create some tabs.

This is what you should now have. Snip away the corners as marked to create neat tabs.

You can now fold all the creases and glue all tabs inside the box to create a cube. NOTE if you wish to decorate the cubes with stamping you will need to do this before you glue together.

Your finished cube! Now follow the above steps again to make a second cube.

Here are the finished cubes. I have added die cut numbers using a Tim Holtz die but you can also stamp or write them on (before glueing them into cubes though). You need to be very specific which numbers to put on each cube for the calendar to work.

First Cube should have on it: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Second Cube should have on it: 6, 7, 8, 0, 1, 2

NOTE: when using the calendar the number 6 is also used upside down to create number 9!

Now to make the month blocks. Take a piece of card 5" x 2 1/2" and score as shown above with the long edge at the top of your scoreboard.

Turn the card so that the short edge is at the top of your score board and score as shown in the picture above.

On each of the four long panels of each piece write the months of the year. Cut away the marked squares with scissors or a craft knife.

Snip the corners of the tab sections as shown in the picture above to create neat tabs. If you wish to decorate the blocks with stamping you will need to do this before glueing together.

Fold and glue together in the same manner as the cubes to create rectangular blocks as shown above. You will need to make three blocks.

Now to make the stand. Take a 12" x 3 1/2" piece of cardstock and stamp the spring swirl stamp around the edges on both sides. You can also ink the edges at this stage too.

Fold the 1", 2 3/4" and 3 1/4" creases as shown and glue the 1" tab you've created to the base with the edge meeting the 6" crease line.

Fold the remaining creases as shown to start creating the back of the stand.

Glue the tab to the fold of the base tab as shown in the picture to create the back of the stand.

Now it is time to decorate!! I have added lots of flowers to hide the holes at the sides of the stand. I have also used leaves cut with Whiff of Joy's leaves die and swirls cut with Whiff of Joy's romantic swirls die.

TIP! To add flowers, apply silicone glue to the base and sides of the inside as shown and glue the wires of the flowers into it.

Here is the finished calendar!! They're great for children too as they help with learning the date and number recognition - my little boy is 6 and already loves changing the date on it! It could be decorated with the grass die and pennants die and buttons for a child instead of the flowers and swirls! (I just need to make the coloured blocks I have planned for mine shown below).

Hope you have enjoyed my tutorial and if you have a go at making it I'd love to see it if you link it here!

Jane x

http://janeslovelycards.blogspot.com/

Box Christmas with Murielle

Hello girls!Today is my project of the month and I'll show you how to make a small box of Christmas.
You need a sheet of 30x30cm. 

Cut the sheet 28x21cm.

Draw with a bone folder in the width direction to 4cm, 12cm, 16cm, 24cm from the edge and in the direction of the length 3cm, 15cm.
As below.

Make holes with a punch or a compass (5cm diameter)

Finally cut the 2 ends of the sheet left

Fold all the folds.

Paste and decorate the box by your imagination.

Here's the result!

I used the stamp Gnome "Wee and drum".

I hope I have given an idea for Christmas.

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs, Murielle

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A simple cloud effect

Good morning today i will show you how to make a simple cloud effect to make your image pop....

I take my already coloured image, today i am using "Charlotte riding reindeer" she is one of my favorites, i have coloured her with markers and chalks, i have added some blush on both Charlotte's and the reindeer's cheeks using my red and a cotton bud, next i take a small cut scallop nestie and a small bit of cotton wool....

I place my scallop where i want the cloud effect and i dip my cotton in my chalk, and then i brush towards the top...

This is the effect that you get, if you decide that you do not like it you can simply rub it out with a pencil rubber and start again, using this technique i carried on until i was happy with my clouds...

I love the effect that chalks gives i think it makes the image pop out at you, when you are happy take a clean bit of cotton wool and dab it over the top of your clouds to blend in the scallop lines....

Here is my finished card, thank you so much for looking and if you have a go at this do let me know and i will come by and have a look big hugs love Pops x x x

Pizza mini box with little cards

Good morning to all, my dear friends!!! Here is Giò!!

Today I am happy to show you another idea for a little gift.

In this case I made it thinking about Christmas, but in effect you can made it for every occasion.

You will need:

Whiff of Joy Greeting's Sentiments Kit

Whiff of Joy Fancy metal die

Whiff of Joy Winter Pretties 6x6 paper pad

Whiff of Joy charms

Vanilla cardstock

paper trimmer, score board, big shot

Memento Rich Cocoa, Valnut Stain Distress, Blending tool

Scissor, stamp-a-ma-jig, 7/8 circle punch

organza ribbon, natural twine

double sided adhesive tape, glue dots

This is the simple tutorial step by step.

Put the double sided adhesive tape as indicate in the photo and then distress the edges with Valnut Stain Distress Ink.

With a 7/8 circle puch cut a half circle which will help you to open the box.

Now you can adhere the flap on the inner of the box and prepare the pieces for the top of it.

With a glue dot attach the charm below the ribbon.

With the help of Stamp-a-ma-jig stamp the sentiment in the right position.

After you position the clear plastic on the image, make two litte dot on the holes.

Cut with Big Shot or another cutting machine and the top of the box is now finished.

At this point we can prepare the little cards.

For the cards use the same process and the same embellishments as in top of the box.

I hope you liked this tutorial and I wish you will have a wonderful stamping time.

Thanks for stopping by

Giò

http://lepiccolecosedigio.blogspot.com/