A giftbox for Easter by Camilla S. Bakke

Hi! Today I will show you how I made an Easter giftbox. Under you can see the papers I used, pluss the gorgeous stamp illustrated by Norma Fickel for Whiff of Joy.
Here are the measurements for the box. With this measures I will have a box at the size 11x11x3,5 cm.
I have made the box and the cover separately.

Under you see how the papers looks like after I have inked and sewed them.

I use some adhesive tape to fasten them on all four sides.

And now for the cover:

I have put them together and seved the cover aswell. Then I place it on the side of the box, to see where I am going to fasten them together.

I use the strips I made with the word window punch, and eight brads. Make sure you have some space between the to parts, so it also can bend.

I also use the strips with some smaller brads to fasten the sides together. Under you see the inside of the box. I could also have fasten them on the outside...

And under you see the outside of the box.

Now all sides are fastened, and the box is ready to be decorated.

And here it is! The girl with the lamb is coloured with Distress Ink, re-inkers on water colour paper 300g. I have used a 00 size brush.

A closeup:

The whole cover:

And inside some yummy chocolate-balls filled with milkcream;))

Here you see the box from the other side, with the strips. I think they made a spesial decoration.

Thank you so much for looking at my tutorial today! Hope you got inspired!

Hugs, Camilla.

Gift Bag by Liza

Hi Everyone, I'm Liza and today I am going to show you how to make a gift bag from a brown paper bag.

Supplies
Block bottom paper bag - mine measures 15 x 30.5 cms
1 x card measuring 18.5 x 15.5 cms
1 x card measuring 29 x 15.5 cms
Border punch (optional)
Bone folder
Strong adhesive

Step by Step


Step 1: Cut down your paper bag so it measures 17.5 cms tall. Fold down the bottom flap and crease well with your bone folder.


Step 2: Take your card that measures 29 x 15.5 cms and score at 18.5 and 19 cms. Fold and crease along both score lines. What you have is the piece of card that will cover the back of your bag, fold over the top and the front flap. If you would like your front flap to have a decorative edge, punch at this point.

Step 3: Add double sided tape or strong adhesive to both sides of your paper bag. Remove the backing tape off one side and adhere your bag to the section that is going to be the back cover. I find it easier to adhere the bag to the card rather than the other way round! You will notice that the bag is a bit smaller than the card, make sure you stick it in a central position and a little card is visible all the way round the bag. This just gives your bag a nice even finish and you don't risk any of the brown bag being proud at the edges.

Step 4: Next adhere your other piece of card that is going to be your front cover to the bag, making sure that the edges match up with the back cover.

Step 5: Now the main structure of your bag is complete, now you just need to decorate it.

Everyone has different creative styles so I am not going to do a step by step on how I decorated my project, but I thought you may find it useful if I give you the dimensions of the card and DP that I used in my example below. In my example I created a pocket in the back to hold a gift tag:
Front panel: Card - 18 x 15 cms, DP - 17.5 x 14.5 cms
Front flap: Card - 15 x 8 cms, DP - 14.5 x 7.5 cms
Back panel top: card - 11 x 15 cms, DP - 10.5 x 14.5 cms
Back panel bottom: card - 11 x 15 cms, DP - 9 x 14.5 cms (punch the top edge of the card to make a decorative edge on the pocket.


Here is the font of my bag. The stamps I used are all from the Whiff of Joy Store Kit Blooming Spring. To keep the bag closed you could either used velcro, a small magnet, tape, ribbon or if you add an image like I have it is quite heavy and holds itself closed nicely.

Here is the back of the bag and you can see how I incorporated a pocket to hold a gift tag.

My final picture shows the bag, tag and card I made to go with them. Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you find this tutorial useful. Liza x

Easter Basket

Hi its Jacqui here and its my turn to try to pass on some inspiration. This is a tutorial for a very simple but effective Easter Basket, it would also make a lovely basket for Mothers Day.

First you need to assemble what you need for the basket,

I piece of Card 6” x 6”

I piece of card 2 “ x 8”

8 pieces matching Backing Paper 1.7/8” square

An Edge Punch

Glue, 2 Brads, Whiff of Joy image of your choice

Score the piece of 6” sq card 2” in from each of the four sides, cut along the solid lines and crease along the dotted lines

You should end up with your card as above.

Attach the 8 x 1.7/8” square to the scored and cut card as above.

Bring up two of the cut squares crossing the middle square, place one end of the handle (which I have punched with MS Border Punch), behind the square and attach both sides square and handle with a Brad.

This is how it should look on the inside of the basket.

Now repeat the process on the other side, and you have your finished basket.

Finish your basket off with as much or as little embellishments as you like, I have used the Tulip stamp from Whiff of Joy Spring Store Kit, with ribbon and pearls, (I have decorated both sides of the basket the same), then fill with lots of yummy Eggs.

Hope you found this easy to follow and I would love to see your baskets if you decide to make one.

Hugs

Jacqui x

3D Easel card, with aperture scene by Fran

Hello!  It's Fran here.  Today I'd like to show you a twist on the easel card which is so popular at the moment as it's so easy to make.  I thought it was perfect for propping up this little 3D aperture scene and it all  folds flat so will fit in an envelope.

So, here's how I did it. (click on photos for closer view)

Materials:

• Stamps Used: store stamp kit 'Blooming Spring' for Oakley, Willow and the sentiment.  The birdtable and the flowers are from the 'Birdie Love' stamp kit
• Regular white cardstock for stamping/colouring on
• patterned cardstock for the background (I've used MME 'Bella bella') and coloured cardstock for decorating
• cardblank 6x6 or cardstock to make your own
• your choice of ink & colouring medium (I've used Memento inks & Copics with bit of Sakura glaze pens in places)
• Craft knife, DS tape, 3D foam, border punches, distress inks and various flourish stamps and stickles for decorating

Instructions:

1.

Using the cardstock you normally use to stamp/colour with, cut piece 5.5" by 8".  Score along the long side at 0.75", 1.5", 6.5", 7.25" as shown  (Basically a 5x8 rectangle in the middle with 2 strips measuring 0.75" either end).

Once you are ready to fold it, it should fold and look like this but you may want to keep it flat until you've done the next stage.

2.

With the strips running top and bottom, stamp as shown; First Oakley, then mask him and stamp the birdtable behind him on the left.  Then done the right edge, randomly stamp the flowers.  I've then drawn straight lines around the edges between the images to create the frame.  Using craft knife, just cut all the way around - I like to leave a thin border as I find this easier then cutting right up to the edge and as long as it looks even you don't have to be too exact :)  On a separate piece of card stamp & cut out Willow.  Colour both in.

3.

Cut out your background piece of card stock 5.5" x5.75".  Stamp sentiment and decorate as you wish then add Willow on with 3D foam. This is also when you want to finish decorating the aperture frame with Oakley on it.  On mine, I've stamped some flourishes along the bottom, inked around the edges, added strip of decorative paper to the strip near the top and used border punch on the top edge.    It is then ready to stick together.

You want to turn the frame to the reverse and stick DS tape to the bottom strip and stick it behind the piece with Willow on as shown in photo.   You then want to add DS tape to the strip at the top (on mine this is where I have used my Martha Stewart 'Iron fence' border punch) before you fold this over and back onto Willow to complete your little aperture scene like so . . .

I've then stuck this to a piece of brown cardstock slightly bigger than 5.5x5.75, but this is optional.  Leave to one side.

4.

Then it's just making the base easel card (just a regular card blank with fold in the middle as shown) then decorate the inside as shown (this is what also keeps it standing when you open it up). My card base is 6x6.

5. Then just add DS tape to the bottom half and stick your finished aperture scene frame to it and you'll get this . .

Here's another photo from different angle

and a close up shot of the cute couple

And just to prove it does all fold down relatively flat  . .

Well, I hope you've enjoyed your visit and hope it's given you some ideas.  Have fun!

Hugs,

6x6 Joy-Fold Card by Claudia Rosa

Hello to all of the Whiff Of Joy fans! Thank you so much for visiting our Inspiration blog. Today i would love to show you a fun card, which not only makes a special gift to a loved one.. no you also have endless possibilities to play with several of your stamps without "overloading" your card design.

The card we are making is called "Joy-fold" card and a smaller design can be found over at Splitcoaststampers. Since i like to play with patterned paper i wanted to make the card larger to 6x6 inches which gives me more room for my papers to show and embellishments
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Lets get started you will need the following basic supplies:

On my card i have used

Stamping Kit Birdie Love
- scoring board (i prefer Scorpal)
- Paper cutter
- several different coordinating Designer papers
- glue
- Embellishments of your choice (Important hint: you may want to keep all embellishments you want to use on the left side very flat and more towards the inside of your 4.75 x 4.75 scquare, otherwise your flap does not open nicely)

- i used also Nestabilities for my focal point image (circle and blossom shape)

cut one sheet of card stock to 6 x9 inches or 23 cm x 15.5 cm and score at the 6 " mark

second cut a contrasting piece of card stock to 9.5 by 4.75 inches or 12 cm by 24 cm and fold in half (here you can see i have already cut the mat and Designer paper to cover the front of this card piece)


This is a shot, to show you how you will have to assemble your card pieces together, after you have glued all your design papers to your card bases. I hope this helps.

Here are all my papers (Design paper is always matted with a contrasting piece of card stock) layed out to be assembled to my card base.

you are going to have at the end:

1 x 14.5 cm x 14.5 cm piece (yellow with chicks bottom of picture)
2 (covers front and inside) x 11.5cm x 11.5 cm (floral pattern on pic to the left)
2 x (covers front and inside) 14.5 x 7 cm (shown on pic to the right - chick and floral paper)

Thank you again for you time. I hope i could inspire you to recreate this fun card.

See you soon :-)

hugs

Claudia