Punchboard

Punchboard

Hallo Everyone!

Trust all is well in your

little corner of the craft world

Everything is good here

Mind you good weather is

always a help when it comes

to mood and inspiration .......

Speaking of which we have

Angela Radford with us today

and she has brought her new

Journal .........

 "Hi all, Angela here today to show you 

how I made this journal using one of the 

Punch Boards.

 I started by covering the paper with a

 Seth Apter stamp using his paints by Paper Artsy.

Using the envelope Punchboard I then made

 the pages to go into the journal

This must be the easiest and best envelope maker 

ever and I've used a few!

The punch even finishes off the corners for you.

 I was surprised how quickly I completed all of these.

My plan is to cover the pages with left-over 

samples from the projects I've done using 

Seth Apter products and use journalling

cards which will be kept inside the pockets 

with notes of what I've done.

The envelopes are so easy to complete, 

just fold along the score lines

Then stick the edges with glue, brilliant!

I made some small journal cards to fit in the envelopes.

 Next I needed to make the cover for my journal

 and cut the three pieces of card ready to start.

This is the card I used...recognise it? 

What do they say? "Waste not want not"! 

This is great card for journal covers. 

Just make your order from The Craft Barn 

and you may be lucky enough to receive one of these Lol!

Masterboard for the front cover using 

Seth Apter paint and a Brayer

Place the card in position and stick down.

You may remember I mentioned this before 

to score round the corners before folding over

 which gives a good clean finish

Glue down the corners and edges.

And this is what it should look like at this stage.

Take another piece of Masterboard and a 

slightly narrower piece of card for the centre

 and glue these together. Wrap round the centre,

 cord or elastic for as many pages as you 

wish to store in the journal

Turn this over and glue down to the back 

of the journal cover.

Next I stamped several images on left-over 

Masterboard, coloured card and shrink plastic.

 Now you are ready to start decorating 

the front cover. I attached a cord at 

the same time which would 

be used as the fastening.

The flap of the envelope is used to insert the page

 making it easy to take it out if you wish to work on it.

And here is the journal completed. 

I included a few little gems, Tim Holtz embellishments 

and shrink plastic pieces made with Seth Apter stamps.

Spine view.

More samples added but lots more will follow I'm sure. 

Happy crafting, Angela xXx"

Products Used:

Envelope Punch Board

Seth Apter stamps:

Paper Artsy

Impression Obsession

Seth Apter inks by Paper Artsy

Tim Holtz metal embellishments

Gems

Cord

Shrink plastic 

Card

Paper

Brayer

Glue

A truly super project Angela

thank you.

So Everyone; have you been inspired 

to make a journal?  

This you will all agree that there is a 

lot more to any of the Punchboards

than first imagined .......

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

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Punchboard

Hallo Again!

Are you feeling energetic? 

Hope so because today

Helen Chilton is giving us

a workout with the versatile

Tab Punchboard

"This punchboard is designed to punch 

3 sizes of tabs as shown here.

However you can do more with it than just that. 

Punch on one side to get tab shape.

Punch both sides to create a different top to a tag

 Create interesting card corners and layer up.

You can also easily cut any size tab by removing 

the peg (try not to lose it like I did!) and 

punching freehand.

Here's a much smaller tab.

Different pattern again - don't know 

what you'd do with this one!

This sort of 'houses and chimneys' effect 

emerged as I was having a go in a workshop.

Punch on the fold and get interesting patterns.

Punch on the fold to make different shaped tab cards.

Here's a card idea using the chimney effect:

Stamp the Carabelle Studios windows

 with Distress Oxide inkpads.

Spritz with water and....

blot!

Stamp round the edges in black 

(a stamp positioner is great for this) 

and then paint over some areas with more water.

Sponge ink round the edges and then stamp 

 the Kaisercraft Moroccan stamp along the roof line

and emboss in Frantage Aged Enamel Copper.

To finish stamp the Kaisercraft bricks round

 the edges and emboss in a mixture of 

Stampendous enamels: Frantage aged Aqua 

and Ice Blue.

To finish: layer onto black card and add 

an embossed Tando label."

Materials used:

WRMK Punchboard Tabs
Carabelle Studios: At The Window
Kaisercraft texture stamps: Moroccan, Brick Wall
Distress Oxides: Peeled Paint, Worn Lipstick, Fossilized Amber, Broken China
Tando Small Bookplate
Stampendous embossing enamel: Ice Blue, Frantage Aged Aqua

Thank you Helen

for such an in depth 

look at the Tab Punchboard

and what a lovely card at

the end too

I do like craft tools that

have more than one application

don't you?  

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx

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Hi there!

A new week; a new theme

and this week is no exception

We are starting off with 

Claire Jackson and a

variation on the theme..........

" When I get a new gadget I always try

 to explore different ways to get the most out 

of it and the We R Memory Keepers 

tabs punch board is no exception. 

It’s great for making tabs, file dividers and

 index cards to custom sizes but I wanted

 to see if I could use it in card making. 

First I chose three co-ordinating papers

 from the Kaisercraft high tea collection. 

It helps if one is relatively plain, one has 

a small pattern and one has a large pattern.

 I cut a 3cm strip from the plainest paper 

and adhered it to the right edge of 

the inside of the card.

The punch board comes with instructions 

but it is actually quite intuitive and easy to use.

 Flip the card over to the reverse and 

with the little stop in place punch the 

bottom corner of the back of the card. 

Take the stop out, turn the card over 

so you can see the pattered paper strip,

 line the corner up with the large tab 

mark on the board and punch 

the other side of the tab.

Use the trimmer on the punchboard to 

cut off the excess and leave a tab 

on the back of the card blank.

Repeat the process to make a tab on

 the top right of the card front. 

Adhere a strip of the large patterned paper 

on the left edge (optional to wrap it around onto

 the back of the card).

Stamp the flower into the centre of the

 card and add the birthday sentiment 

onto the two tabs

Stamp the flower several times onto the

 remaining patterned paper. 

Cut out one set of leaves and a flower head 

and stick over the stamped image on the 

front of the card.

 Cut away parts of a second flower head 

to leave the petals on the front of the flower.

 Put one or two foam squares into the 

middle of the flower head and 

decoupage the petals, gluing the tips 

down to make them curve downwards. 

Cut out the front most petal from 

a third image and stick it on, 

gluing only the base so that it stands out.

 I toyed with adding more stamping 

but in the end settled on the CAS

 (clean and simple) look. 

I’m definitely going to experiment 

some more with the tabbed template though."

Materials used:

White card blank 12.5 x 12.5 cm
Kaisercraft 6½” paper pad: high tea
WRMK punch board: tabs
Carabelle Studio cling stamp: the earth has music
Archival ink: jet black
Cosmic Shimmer glue
foam pads
sentiment stamp

A nice twist to start us off

with the Punch Board Claire

thank you....Nice papers too!

I have a friend with extreme

dexterity problems and I

think this style of card could

well ease some of her 

frustrations at her difficulty

in opening more regular cards

'Till tomorrow 

Mickie xx