Shabby-Chic Box by Sue Butler.

Hello Everyone

To start you off for the last week of November, I have decorated a box out of the Prima 'Delight' Papers and chipboard pieces.

And of course to encourage you to make one I have a step by step.

 White Gesso for the first coat and Acrylic paint for the second.

 

 Measure the sides of the box and cut and score patterned paper.

Diecut a border using complimentary papers.

Attach to the sides of the box.

Elements are Prima flowers with Diamond Dust and lace.

 

Arranging the first layer of elements; a mix of Tags, crimped paper, embossed paper, Die-cut flower, circles stamped with gesso and a piece of lace.

The second layer of elements; a fancy button, torn prima paper, more lace a butterfly chippie and a metal key.

 The top and last layer, more Prima Chippies and image, adding the flowers and pearls.

 The Pizzaz!

The Finished Box.

 Hope you are inspired by what Prima products can relate to a creation just by layering up.

Have a great week and please pop by the shop and say Hello, we are always happy to have your feedback.

Smiles:)

Sue 

Prima  Flowers

Twinklets Diamond Dust

Metal Charms

'Delight' full card by Sue Butler.

Good Morning 

Today I have made a card from the Prima 'Delight' collection,  these are great papers to make cards with that stand the test of time.

As usual I have a lot going on, so I will take you through the process on how I designed it, and you will realise that it is not too complicated!

Diecut and dry emboss the background (Bg) papers.

Diecut some Flowers and ink up.

Diecut a Flourish from the Prima paper

Paint up the frame.

This is the messy bit!

Make up the arrangement of Flowers and add a Prima Chipboard, doilies and lace.

Balance the design by placing another element in the opposite corner.

One finished Card.

All products are available at Scottie Crafts, and if they are sold out don't worry, Adrienne will always order in any item for you that you require.

Spellbinders Borderabilities.

Spellbinders 

Embossing Folder.

Distress Paints

Pearls

Cheery Lynn -Fanciful Flourish

Have a great week,

Smiles:)

Sue

Spellbinder Delight by Sue Butler

Hello,

Turquoise is a favourite colour of mine and Coredinations Cloudburst  card-stock is a wonderful hue. I have matched this with Kaisercraft Needle&Thread collection paper which is double sided.

 I cut some shapes on the cricut and some using Spellbinders Border Gold Facet dies.

My first job was to stitch around the cricut cut shape.

Then attach the 3d foam squares to the Spellbinders die cuts.

 

I stamped the sentiment and used Ranger crackle accents on top.

(Use Archival ink then it will not smudge and blur,)

The few pearls are Sullivans String blings.

I made a spray using a mix of products (details below.)

Click on image to see all the elements.

When you have layered all your pieces it looks like this.....fabulous.

The elements that have been added 

Prima Flowers.

Seam binding Ribbon.

Corsage Pin.

Couture Creations delightful phrases

Ranger starburst stickles.

 All these products are from Scotties HERE 

Smiles:)

Sue B.

All things Prima By Sue Smith

This is an almost 'everything Prima layout'.

 The background paper is from the Divine Collection available from Scottie Crafts. The flowers, wooden embellishments, metal trinket, background swirl mask and bling are all Prima. The green colour spray is Dylusions 'Green Lime' and the peach is a mix of Perfect Pearls Interference Red and pink pan pastels.

Making Flower Vines By Wendy

I made these using wired flowers and leaves from my stash.

Here are the items I will use

For the baby's breath. I used 3 flower stamen and wired them together then wrapped them with florist tape.

Here is the sample step by step.

Now twist 2 leaves and a flower together

I have coated some short lengths of florist wire with snow marker and heated it. You can then colour it with distress ink pad by pressing it directly onto the pad. Then twist them around a toothpick.

Once wired together I added 3 white roses and a cherry blossom to finish it off.

 

April Competition entry by Carol Eaton

Wow - look at this stunning creation by Carol Eaton.

 

"I have made a Family Album from the Engraver Collection I bought from you especially for this.

 

I have used only Engraver papers, Prima flowers and embellishments plus a Kaisercraft wooden clock. The Card stock is from ColourCore Elements super assortment I also bought from you.

The base chipboard album is Kaisercraft but I have aged it with paint and ink. The gold filigree is made from using medium paste through stencils made from Spellbinders Parisian Accents, stained and painted then brushed with gold-- hopefully to look liked old book binding. I used a bit of colour on the interior to show up the mono tint papers. tags show where pockets are located..

Some lutradur (atype of fabric) has been sewn on for pockets. The butterfly is a memory box die. Ribbons are various including a hand died seam ribbon. Also used  Tim Holtz Cherish and Believe bronze charms to complete the message with 'Together' from engraver collection.

I loved working with this range." Carol Eaton

 

Thank you so much Carol for sharing your gorgeous album.

 

First April Entry for the Blog Competition

Denise Allison has sent us what she has made with the Prima Doll stamps.

"I love using my Julie Nutting Stamps and tags...

 

I used Prima Julie Nutting Stamps Tags , and Prima Divine paper along with some prima flowers and crystals to create these beautiful Tags.

 Tip for those that did not have a block to fit stamps on as I didn't I used my. Cuttlebug plates as the block"

Thanks Denise for sharing they are gorgeous!!

We are hoping to get more of these stamps soon!

They were so popular they sold out within days!

Competition entry by Carol Eaton

Here is an awesome card done by Carol Eaton:

 

Here is what she has to about it:

 

Engraver Collection Grandson's Birthday Card I have made this for my grandson Max who is eight and is off to see his other grandmother in England. He tells everyone "he is off to see the world" hence the tag says "Fly- you have all the world" referring to his trip and his growing up!

 

 

Items from Scottie Crafts:

Engraver 6x6 pad,

 Spellbinders labels Eight,

 TimHoltz Distress Ink Tea Dye,

 

Thanks Carol for sharing

 

First Class in the New Shop with Beverley

Well next Friday the 30th March I will be teaching my first class at the new shop.  Places are strictly limited so please pass this on to friends and past participants of my classes.  

The time will be 10am -12pm.

Please bring your basic kit.
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

Book by phoning 4150040 or emailing me at customerservice@scottie crafts.co.nz

Here is what we will be creating:

"Frame It"

Hope to see you there.

Birthday Card by Michelle

Using more of the goodies in my kit I created a card for a special friend – I’ve printed off a calendar and thinking ahead, I’ve decided to make up birthday cards, well at least one for each month for next year and hopefully I will be totally prepared and ahead of time ... go me!!!!

The girls at Scottie Crafts will be able to point you in the right direction for the papers and any of the tools and gadgets that you might need ... you can see a flourish swirl – the team has this Cheery Lynn die in the shop and I use my Cuttlebug to cut it out and that stunning bow ... ooh-la-la – fabulous invention to help you tie bows that look just like that ... something I have struggled with before now. 

Absolutely Fabulous!!!

Happy creating ladies.

Until next time,

Michelle [aka Mrs Frizz]

DT projects - Lianne Gray

I started with this gorgeous Prima screenprinted canvas by Donna Downey and this Scrapware set, I can't find the name of it but am thinking it is this Happy days set. I wanted to do a fantasy type scene using the whole set. The words say 'Imagine a world of watercolour painted skies, colourful birds, giant suns and butterflies, and a keyhole to the next beautiful world'. I had so much fun with this. The canvas is lovely to sew. I cuttlebugged most of the Scrapware with various embossing folders, and painted them with acrylic paint. Added some eyelets to the top of the canvas to hang with some dyed seam binding. Read on for instructions.

Next I had some cool Echo Park papers and stickers to create this LO with. The background is splattered with Adirondack Colour Wash.

When I saw this Echo Park Dots and Stripes paper I fell in love. Especially because it is red. How cute is it. The flower is made using Prima Mistables Canvas sheet of flowers. First of all I machine stitched 'veins' on them to give them some texture and coloured them with Adirondack colour wash. Make sure you spray with water first (thanks Wendy for that tip). Another favourite of mine at the moment is seam binding. Scotties sell it by the metre. Here I've again wet it and sprayed with the same colours I used on the canvas flower and wrapped it around my photo. I love the tie dyed effect it gives.

Lastly, on this LO I've used this Sassafras Lass paper and this Scrapware Abstract Tree. I painted the tree first with acrylic paint then painted a layer of Tim Holtz Crackle Paint over the trunk and added some Prima flowers. A bit of messy stitching. The alphas are Studio Calico.

Excuse the photographing of these LO's. The first 2 have caught the light on the left side of the photos and they are at the shop so I can't rephoto. And I feel the next 2 may be a little dark. Oh well. You get the idea. Hope I've inspired you in some way.

Lianne