A Baby Gift Bag

Hi, its Colleen here today and I have a little project to share with you.

The 'We Are Family' stamps released in March, were perfect timing for me because I had two friends who had just welcomed new little babies into there lives and what a special time this is. So I went shopping for tiny little clothes and made a special little bag to put them in.

I used a white paper bag I purchased from a local shop and I went through my supplies and pulled out some patterned papers and embellishments. The bag measures 153mm x 260mm.

I have used Baby Henry and coloured him with Copics.

Cut patterned paper 143mm x 250mm and adhere to paper bag.

Cut patterned paper 143mm x 250mm, machine stitch around the edges and then adhere to the centre of the bag. Adhere paper doily, muslin and Baby Henry.

Finish the gift bag off with a sentiment, some flowers and butterflies.

And there you have personalised and special gift bag to welcome a new baby! Thank you for visiting and I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial.

Making patterned paper from old book pages

Hi, all! It's Alice here. I made a couple of fun patterned papers from some old book pages that I have laying around and here is how I made them.

You will need:

• Old book pages or music sheets. Or they don't have to be old, newspapers would work, too.
• A piece of cardstock. I trimmed mine to 5 1/2" x 4 1/2", you can use any size paper you want as long as you have enough book pages to cover it.
• Muti-purpose glue and sealer. I used Ranger's Glue n' Seal with matte finish. Modpodge would work, too.
• Foam brush. Or anything that can be used to apply the sealer.
• A pair of scissors or paper trimmer.

First, tear the book pages into smaller pieces.

Starting by applying the sealer to the cardstock at one corner.

Lay done a piece of torn book pages. I made sure that it over hangs the edges.

Apply more sealer over the torn book page and going over so that it's ready for the second piece of book page.

Keep repeating the above step. Make sure to over lay papers and rotate the papers around so that they have a random look.

When the whole paper is covered, I went over the entire piece with more sealer to make sure that they are all glued done. Since the sealer is acid-free and non-toxic, it would also make sure that the piece is safe for paper crafting.

Here are a couple of pieces that I made before hand and dried. All you need to do is trim off the excess and they are good to go on your projects.

I think you can also just do the same thing to 3D objects. Just apply the sealer to the object and glue the torn book pages directly like you did on cardstock.

Here is the card that I made using one of the old book page patterned papers that I made.

I used the newly released Reading Cherub for my card. I inked all paper edges with Tea Dye and Vintage Photo distress inks and the sentiment is from General Sayings II set.

This is a very simple and fun way to make one of a kind patterned papers for your projects. Hope you will give it a try! =)

Thanks for stopping by!

hugs,

alice

Maternity gift

 Hello dear tutorialblog readers! Today I (Ingrid) want to share a maternity gift idea with you. I saw the idea on Katharina's blog a while ago and wanted to give it a try. I will show you how I colored my image with copics.

What you need:

a glass jar (and a little present for in the jar);

acrylic paint;

a tag;

a stamped image, I used "Baby Henry";

copic markers;

ribbon;

embellishments to decorate your tag;

a cup of tea or Latte Macchiato, but this is optional ;-)

I started with painting the cover of the jar, so that it can dry while I'm coloring my image. 

 I like to color my Henry images with the E40 copic numbers. Here I used E47, 44, 43, 42, 41 and 40.

 I start with the darkest color (E47). I choose where my lightsource comes from and color the places wich are darkest.

 Then I take the next color, E44, and go over the E47 and a bit further.

And so on with E43... This is where I also start to color the ears. I start coloring on the outside. I took the next picture for my inspiration ;-)

Henry in real life, LOL.

And go on with E42, now also adding details to his tummy.

 And with E41 I finish his face and body. I only leave some space uncolored in his ears and on his tummy.

 With E40 I also finish those last places.

For the cheeks and inside of the ears I start with R21...

... and blend it with R20...

 ... and blend it again with a bit E40.

 His nose and footpads I color with E13 and his eyebrows with E44.

It is now turn to the diaper, starting with RV34...

 ... next is R81...

... RV32... 

 ... and finally RV00.

 His teat I colored with R59, 46, 35, and I won't bore you with the different pictures. I already have to much pics!

 I'm not totally satisfied with the ears, so I go back and now I start with E44 instead of E43.

 Then I take E43, 42, 41 and finally E40. The coloring is finished now :-)

 I choose a nestabillitie to punch out my image and hold it in place with a post-it, really handy!

 I punch out a cute heart with a Whiff of Joy die.

At this point I thought about the cover and went to the kitchen to give it another layer of paint. And I also grab a cookie for myself ;-) Yum...

 And here you see the finished jar. The pink flower is from the Whiff of Joy shop and the pink button and the satin polka dot ribbon are both from the Sew Sweet shop.

Within the jar I put a hand made bib, if you want a closer look on that one, please visit my blog.

I hope you liked my tutorial! See you next time, happy crafting!

Colouring on Acetat

Hi everyone, Karina here today to show you some inspirations. I decided to make a tutorial how to colour on acetate. Here we go...

This is what you need:

• a sheet of acetate
• stamps (I used the tree and sentiment from the spring kit 2011)
• StazOn inkpad
• Copics
• Eyelets
• designer papers
• cardstock

Stamp the image of your choice on the piece of acetate. You need to use a StazOn inkpad, as this ink will stay on the acetate and don't smudge.

When it happen that some parts didn't stamp well you don't have to throw your acetate away. Just take a waterproof black pen and add those missing parts.

When you colour your image it is very important that you do this on the backside of the image. This way your colouring is safe! On acetate you cannot blend the colours very well. But you can add shadings with two same toned colours. It is difficult to colour a nice background as you can see the lines. So I mostly only surround the image with a colour.

Chose a paper where you want to mount your image. Then add some eyelets or brads through the acetate and paper. I cut it out afterwards, which I think is easier than to do before.

Put your paper choice together and prepare it for finishing the card. I distressed the paper and added white crackle paint to the edges. I also tried to add it to the acetate. But it didn't work well. Some paint dropped off. 

Add some more items like a sentiment, lace, flowers, pearls, ribbon and what you wish. And here we go... the card is finished!!

Here is a close up of the image.

Well, that's it. Try it out, it is really fun to make and so different to the 'normal' colouring. Hope you was able to give you some inspiration. Thank you so much for looking.

Hugs, Karina