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Blue dragonfly

August 14, 2023

Hi everyone, Sylvia here for you on the blog today with a cute “bug”card. As you might know, I really like to mix and match my dies to create new characters. For today I made this blue dragonfly (in Dutch we call them “waterjuffers”) and used mainly the grashopper dies for it. So let’s get started, shall we?

Step 1: cut a base card of approx 21 x 15 cm (8 1/2 x 6 inch) from the new Beautyful brights cardstock in a teal/blueish color. Also cut a panel from white card, using the second largest die from set 1695 fitted indented rectangles (you might wanna stretch it a bit, by diecutting it first from one side [not all the way through], shift your card to the length you need and then diecut it from the other side, aligning your die)

Step 2: diecut the following parts from the grashopper: head, face (save the dropouts), belly, upper largest hind leg, both antennas, 2 small hind legs (all from designpaper), eyes, mouth, nose from white cardstock

Step 3: diecut the body from the grashopper, the wings from the ladybug (all in vellum), the antennas from the small butterfly (in designpaper), 2 x the leaf from the grasshopper in a green colour of card or designpaper. Ink all edges.

Step 4: Colour the inner eyes black, the nose teal and the tongue pink. Assemble the head. Using the dropouts from the face, assemble the tail (as shown in the first photo), Attach the body to the head, then the dropout mouth, next the larger dropout eye, next one the smaller dropout eye and finally the upper hind leg to form the tail (see second photo for reference). Attach the antennas from the butterfly to the head as antennas, the antennas from the grasshopper as front legs, and the smaller legs as hind legs.

Step 5: Glue on the larger vellum wings on the back first (both pointing backwards), the smaller wings are glued on top of them (see photo for reference).

Step 6: Using stampset CS 316 stamp the dotted line in the lower right corner of your white panel, diecut the smallest banner from set 1329 and stamp that with the “buggs & kisses” sentiment from the same set.

Step 7: Arrange alle elements on your card, I popdotted the dragonfly to get a little dimension and glue them down.

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask, I’d be happy to help you out.

Happy crafting!

Love

Sylvia

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Bee-utiful August Sidekick Planner

August 10, 2023

Hi everyone, Happy Friday! Katie here with todays Bee-rific Sidekick Planner, using Joset’s new ” Bugs and Butterfly Collection”. I have been having so much fun with this collection creating cute summer themed pages for my sidekick! So, grab a coffee or your favorited beverage and lets begin!

Step1: You will want to start creating your bees, honey pot and flowers. I cut all the images from solid cardstock except the wings they were cut from heavy vellum cardstock. Then ink the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink, and assembled as per the photo above.

Step 2: Cut two base pages from Sidekick Essentials 20 with your choice of coordinating designer paper.

Next, I took Pocket Page Fillers 2 and cut out a photo mat and adhered it to my page. Once my photo matt was down I adhered my month (August). Then I pop-dotted my Bee and Flowers!

Step 3: On the second base page, create a pocket using Planner Essentials #26 then ink and attach your pocket. Next, I adhered my honey pot and pop-dotted my Bee and Flower. I stamped out the word Bee-utiful and matted onto black cardstock and adhered it to the top of my base page. I created a few tags and added them to my pocket.

Last you will want to add your reinforcement rings to both pages.

Step 4: Last step, I always like to add a little splatter with heavy white acrylic paint.

If you have any questions in regards to these sidekick planner pages please send me a message via Facebook to Katie Porcina.

Have a wonderful day and happy creating!

Joset Designs Uncategorized

Bugs And Kisses

July 25, 2023

Hi everyone, it’s Tina here. Joset Designs has a new Bugs and Butterflies Release. At the moment it can only be purchased at Local Craft Stores. It will be available online at the Elizabeth Craft Designs Website soon. I used the Ladybug dies and the new sentiments.

Step 1 – Trim White Soft Finish Cardstock to 4 1/2″ x 11″, score at 5 1/2″ and fold in half for a vertical side fold card. (A2)

Step 2 – Trim White Soft Finish Cardstock to 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″. Ink Blend Inks of your choice. I used 4 colors. Pink, Yellow, Teal and Purple creating new colors in between blends. If the inks are water reactive spray some water and remove the excess using a paper towel.

Step 3 – Diecut Stitched Rectangles to the panel created in Step 2. Adhere to card front using Foam Tape.

Step 4 – Stamp sentiment using Versafine Onyx Black Ink. Diecut it with the Fitted Fishtails. Adhere to card using 3mm Clear Double Sided Adhesive Tape.

Step 5 – Diecut Ladybug in various colors of Cardstock. Assemble and adhere to card using Kid’s Choice Glue.

The new release will be in the ECD Website soon. Once it is on the ECD Website I will update the Products below. Thank you for stopping by and Happy Crafting!

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Dragon Birthday

July 24, 2023

Hello crafty friends, it’s Summer Hills-Painter here on the blog today. My son wanted a birthday card for a friend and wanted it to have a red dragon. Here is how I made his card.

Preparation: 

Preparation: 

Cut and assemble the dragon and flames from the Dragon die set. Cut the second largest rectangle from the Indented Stitched Rectangles die from green cardstock. Cut an A2 card base from another shade of green cardstock. Cut a the second largest rectangle from patterned cardstock using the indented Rectangle die set. Cut the words “happy birthday” from Birthday Flip Card die set out of dark green cardstock.

Instructions: 
Adhere the patterned indented rectangle cardstock panel to the green cardstock panel

Adhere the the words “Happy Birthday” to the card front panel

Adhere the dragon and flames to the cardstock panel

adhere the card front to the A2 card base and the card is complete.

Elizabeth Craft Designs Supplies used:

Dragon

Indented Retangle

Stitched indented Rectangle

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the most wonderful time of the year

July 20, 2023

Hi all! It’s my time on the blog again and today I have an early Christmas card for you. I really love to make Christmas cards year round and since it’s July already, you can never be too early, right? And how about a Christmas card with a summer feel to it, I bet Santa would like that as well, so let’s get started!

step 1: using Soft Finish Cardstock, cut a panel of 4 x 5 inch, ink it diagonally from the bottom right upto approx midway in a blue tone (I used distress inks tumbled glass and broken china) to represent the sea, and from the upper left corner to appox midway in antique linen to represent the beach.

Step 2: diecut all Santa parts, (except for his mittens, hat and fur trims), and his upper arm twice. Diecut the sunglasses from set 1803 (globe) in black, the small flowers from set 1625 (adventure edges) and the beach ball from set 2039 (Summer state of mind). If you don’t have that set (it was a limited edition), you might wanna use the beach ball from set 1541 (sandcastle).

Step 3: using set 1117 (fitted circles), diecut a small circle (the one next to the smallest in the set) from Soft Finish Cardstock. Use the smallest circle in the set to trace the inner part on the diecut circle, so that it looks like a floating device. Draw stripes (see photo for reference) and colour them alternately in red/white. If you end up with 2 red or white stripes next to each other, don’t worry, it will be covered up once Santa is glued in place.

Step 4: ink all body parts (that sounds a little weird) in a skin tone (I used distress ink tattered rose), his swimmers red, belt and sunglasses black, buckle yellow and the hearts of the flowers black as well. Colour all inner bits from the beach ball in a red colour, same as the floaty.

Step 5: Assemble Santa, use the flowers to decorate his swimmers, glue the arms in place (see photo for reference). His hands are behind his head, so you won’t see them. Glue the sunglasses on. You will want to trim his body slightly on both sides to fit the swimmers. Glue Santa on his floaty. I used a wobble behind the floaty to simulate Santa floating in the waves.

Step 6: Stamp the sentiment from set CS 148 in the upper left corner and glue the panel to a folded red card, slightly bigger than the panel (so approx 4 1/8 x 5 1/8 inch).

Sweat drops are made with glossy accents

I hope you like my summery Christmas card. If you have any questions, please let me know, I’d be happy to help you out. Enjoy your summer everyone! Happy crafting!

Love

Sylvia

other:

2039 summer state of mind (limited edition) beach ball

distress inks, versafine claire ink, black fineliner, wobble, OLO markers

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Hippo Birthday

July 18, 2023

Hello crafty friends, it’s Summer Hills-Painter here. For today’s blog post, I am sharing a cute birthday card I made for a friend’s granddaughter.

Preparation: 

Cut and assemble the Hippo from the Hippo/Rhino die set. Cut the second largest retectangle from the Indented Stitched Rectangles die from pink patterened cardstock. Cut an A2 card base from white cardstock. Cut a the second largest rectangle from white cardstock using the indented Rectangle die set. Cut the words “happy birthday” from Birthday Flip Card die set out of pink cardstock. Also cut the “i” a second time from the same pink cardstock

Instructions:
To create an “o”, lay the Happy Birthday die on the edge of your die cutting plate and run through your machine

Flip the cut out around and cut the other side

Adhere “Hippo Birthday” to the front of the white panel

Adhere the die cut hippo to the center of the white panel

Adhere the white panel to the pink patterned panel

adhere the pink panel to the A2 card base and the card is complete.

Elizabeth Craft Designs Supplies used:

Hippo/Rhino

Indented Retangle

Stitched indented Rectangle

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Fairy cute and simple!

July 17, 2023

Hello everyone, I hadn’t crafted with this adorable fairy for some time so out she came to play. Keeping things in my go to clean and simple design makes this a super quick card for when you need a card in a hurry!

If you haven’t got a circular stencil then create your own using a piece of acetate and a circular die.

Die cut a rounded corner panel to fit smaller than an A2 card blank then fix the stencil over the top using washi tape and gently blend the centre creating the background.

Next die cut a few clouds and attached them around the circle, I have used a stapler for added interest. Stamp out the sentiment along the bottom edge.

Use foam pads to attach the prepared panel to the front of a top folding A2 card blank. Build up the fairy using whatever colour combination you prefer then fix her to the front using more foam pads.

Finish off by adding some bling, add as much or as little as you like!

Well that’s my super quick and simple card for today. Thank you for taking the time to stop by and I hope I have inspired you to have a go. Happy crafting – Jackie xx

Planner Essentials Uncategorized

Sunflower’s are natures smile- Planner Pages

July 7, 2023

Hi everyone, Katie here with todays blog post! I seem to be on a Bee theme right now so I might as well keep it going! This time, I am bringing you a Sunflower Planner Page perfect for some of your garden pictures. So grab a coffee and I will walk you through how I created these pictures.

Step 1: You will want to cut out your right and left base page using Planner Essentials #39-Torn Paper. I used the G45 “Let it Bee” Paper. Next, I cut two rectangular mats, cut yours to fit your picture leaving a bit of an edge.

Step 2: Using the Washi Tape Reminiscence Tape #1 I ripped strips and placed it down on my page like above. I used the Washi tape on both pages.

Step 3: Cut some Honeycomb from the Art Journal collection die Honeycomb Dots #1849 and rip it up so its into pieces.

Step 4: I added some fussy cut sunflowers, flowers and leaves from the collection, and my Garden Word from the Seed packet collection. (I used a lot of foam dots, see picture below)

Step 5: On the second page you will want to continue adding a photo mat, washi tape, G45 card, fussy cut sunflowers and Honeycomb. You will notice on both pages some black string like fiber, its colored sisal.. I like to add a little texture on my pages to keep it natural.

Step 6: Ink some of your edges and add your reinforcement rings.

Step 7: My last step is to always speckly with heavy body white paint.

I hope today brought you some inspiration to add your pictures from your garden into your planners.

Have a wonderful day >Katie<

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This “Bee”! has a fancy folded card.

June 21, 2023

Hi everyone, Katie here with todays blog post. Today I wanted to feature a super cool fun folded card using Anette’s Greens Bee and flower die from her Everyday Elements. So grab a coffee and let me walk you through how to create this card.

Out of your favorite card stock cut out your Bee, and “Thanks” word. Ink your edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink and assemble your Bee and word quote.

Out of the designer paper of your choice (I used Bee Happy by Echo Park) I cut out the green stem and flower heads, ink and assemble.

Using a heavy white card stock cut your base 5 1/2 x 8 1/4. Score along the 8 1/4 side @ 1″, 2″, 3″, 5 1/4″, 6 1/4″ and 7 1/4″ , next at the red lines cut as per above.

Next fold up your score lines, and pop out your folds as per picture below.

(Back part of the card)

(top view)

After you have your card folded, you will want to cut your front cover strips.

Cut-two black strips of card stock 1 x 4″ and two strips of designer paper @ 7/8″ x 3 7/8″ (Top and bottom)

Cut-two black strip 1 3/8″ x 4 and one strip of designer paper @ 1 1/4″ x 4 7/8″ (Middle piece)

Cut-two black strips the side of the card base 1 x 5 3/8″ and two strips of designer paper at 7/8″ x 5 1/4, ink and assemble as per picture above.

Next, using the Everyday Elements Postage Stamps, cut out a large postage die using black card stock and a yellow mat from the coordinating designer paper.

I attached my flower, and added some black colored sisal underneath the pop-dotted Bee. Add your word and speckle using heavy white acrylic paint.

Thank you for joining me with todays blog post, have a wonderful day!

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France in a Sidekick

June 14, 2023

Karen here! I’m excited to be sharing with you a few Sidekick Essentials pages I made for a trip scrapbook. My parents and I had planned to spend about 3 weeks in France back in May 2020. Of course, that got delayed, but we finally did it in August/September 2022. I created two copies of each page, so I could give my mom and dad their own album. Each of these pages has a smidge of the Everyday Elements release from Annette. Fun!

First up is the cover. I kept this page pretty simple, but at it’s center is one of the flowers from the Playful Flowers set. So sweet. The page base is a Sidekick Essentials 4 with the “green” part cut from the Sidekick Pocket Page Fillers 1. The word “France” is cut with the Alphabet Tabs, and I used Planner Essentials 56 (tickets) to cut the month names, and the Ticket Stamps for the 2022.

One of our epic adventures was a trip to climb Pont du Gard. (Yes, I did it – it’s a HUGE beautiful bridge!) The page base here is a Sidekick Essentials 7. I used a Label Tab stamp at the top, and added some Lace Borders to this page. The “Epic” die is from Sidekick Essentials 8. The paper is from a combination of Books 2 and 5 Reminiscence.

And on the back of the page is more pictures from the Pont du Gard climb. Stunning view at the top.

Another page is from our day at Villandry. What an amazing experience to visit the homes of royalty from hundreds of years ago! Just beautiful. The page base here is a Sidekick Essentials 10. The “Love this View” is from a retired page.

More pictures on the back along with a couple flourishes from the Fancy Flourishes set. I added a stamp from Adventure Awaits. And finally, no page is complete without the amazing reinforcements from the Reinforcement Variety Packs!

Craftily yours, Karen

Supplies from Elizabeth Craft Designs

Other Supplies

Pastel patterned cardstock, white cardstock, black ink, metallic pens for dots.

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