Diamonds - Rachel Snook

Morning all,

Hope you are all well.

I heard on the radio the other day that we are 

apparently going to have the hottest August ever!!

Average of 32 degrees every day.....do we 

believe that??  Hmmm well it is going back to

winter at the moment so who knows?

Ok, Today we have a creation from

Rachel.  She has made a beautiful project

for a 60th Wedding Anniversary.

Obviously this could be adapted to fit any

occasion!

Cut a piece of white linen cardstock 11" in length

and 6" wide.  
Score the card at 4, 6 and 7 1/2" across 

the long side.

Make a small pencil mark at 2" top and bottom, 

then lining up this mark at the top of a scoreline, follow

the line down using a ruler to ensure you stay straight.

Score until you reach the bottom of the 6" scoreline.

Turn the card around and repeat from the other pencil

line to the top of the 6" scoreline.  This will then give you 

two diagonal scorelines.

Go back to the start of the card at the 4" scoreline and 
mark the edge of the 6" side at 3, line the 2" mark
 on your trimmer and cut diagonally to the 3"mark, 
turn over and repeat.  You should now have a 
diamond shape.

Take the card and starting with the 7 1/2" scoreline, fold

and score making a valley fold, burnish with a bone folder.

The one the 6" scoreline, mountain fold and burnish.

The one the 4" score Valley fold and burnish.

You are then left with the diagonal folds which 

are folded as mountain folds, thus enabling the 

diamond shape to be formed as the scoring enables the

cross sections to fold in.

To decorate cut a piece of the patterned paper

5 3/4" by 3 3/4".  Using a pencil and one back 

of the paper, on the short side mark 1 7/8".  Mark 

on all four sides.  As before line the marks up and cut off

all the four corner points and this will leave you a 

diamond shape for the card front, place this and

the four pieces to one side and repeat this again.

This time put the corner pieces to one side and cut the 

diamond shape in half.  Then cut a piece of paper 

3 1/2" wide by 6" in length and trim slightly

smaller to cover the flat section of the card.

Also cut 2 rectangles 6 long 1 1/2 wide to cover

the small part of the card.  Using double sided 

tape adhere the paper to the card as shown.

You have enough cut pieces to cover the whole of the front 

of the card and rear of the folds.

Burnish folds and put to one side.

Using a Memory Box leaf die and  the Sue Wilson Camelia
 Open and Complete dies,  die cut a selection of flowers
 and leaves .  

Arrange as desired.

Die cut numbers 6 and 0, cut twice from Mirri

Card and glued on top of each other to give depth.  
Arrange on the front of the diamond card.

Add dotty peel offs and small glitter domes to finish.

Wow.....you'll need to get your head around all
the measuring but it is definitely worth it in the end!
This is what Rachel used -

White Linen Cardstock
Craft Creations 12 x 12 Paper - 
White with holographic Pattern
Sue Wilson Dies - Camellia - Complete
Sue Wilson Dies - Camellia - Open
Mirri Card
Memory Box Dies - Numbers
Memory Box Die - Blushing Bouquet
Memory Box Die - Fresh Foliage
Glitter Domes

From stash - Dotty Peel offs

Ok, tomorrow is Inspiration Day at The Craft Barn.
Demos for 10.00am to 4.00pm, do pop in 
and see us!

Kay Carley, Carol Cockbain, Heidi Green
and me!!

The other thing not to forget is that the link will
close tonight for the July Calendar Challenge.
Don't forget to enter if you haven't already.
Tomorrow is August and there will be two new words...
wonder what they will be??????

Jane x

Homespun Wreath - Dawn Heald

Hi everyone,

Welcome to day two of our wreath week, 

today it is Dawn's turn to show you what she has been up to!

Dawn says .....

I decided to try a different colour palette and the Kaisercraft

 Blubelle paper pad was perfect. This pad is useful for

 masculine makes too as well as pretty makes so a good

 all rounder to have in your stash.

For my wreath I've made a homesy feel decorated with

 flowers and a fairy. I do like my punches so gave

 them a dusting off and I really enjoyed putting this together.

To make this project here's what I did -

Choosing some darker papers from the pad I cut them up 

into small pieces and glued then around the polystyrene ring.

 Smaller pieces are easier to shape and glue around the

 ring. When dry I outlined pieces with a gold pen.

 Now this did take a long while to do but it was quite therapeutic.

For the decorations I chose some lighter papers from the

 same pad. Punched out flowers and butterflies, edged with

 ink and made up into roses. I die cut the ivy leaves and the

 fairy three times and inked the edges, then layered the fairy 

adding glitter glue to make her sparkle.  Glue

 them all to the wreath.

Beautiful Dawn, thank you!

Products used - 

Polystyrene ring

Kaisercraft Blubelle Paper Pad

Sue Wilson Dies - Trailing Ivy

Sizzix Thinlits die - Fanciful Fairy

Woodware Punches - Flowers, Butterflies 

Distress Inks - stormy sky, dried marigold, crushed olive 

Stickles Glitter Glue - Stardust and Gold 

Matte Medium

Cosmic Shimmer Clear Glue

Glue Gel

Hope you like today's project, let us know what you think!

See you tomorrow with a project from Neil!

Jane x

Pictures from the Demos

Hi everyone,

I promised you some pics of the demos on Saturday, so I popped down to the 

shop to see what was going on.

Well, some beautiful samples were being made.

Here are just a few.....

Carol Cockbain, a tutor at the shop and famous for her Dreamweaver 

DVD and many classes was playing with Sue Wilson dies.

Come and join Carol with her Sweet Poppy Stencils

class on Saturday 28th February.

Helen Chilton, also a tutor at The Craft Barn and who appears regularly in

The Craft Stamper magazine, was using some of the new

PaperArtsy stamps and colouring with Distress Markers.

You can also join Helen with her new Inky Fingers club

on Wednesday 25th February.

Our third demonstrator was Kay Carley, a tutor and always popular at her classes 

and demos, was showing us how to use the new Brusho's.

She has a few spaces left on her Brusho Magic class on Sunday 22nd March

if you want to join her.

Lovely aren't they??

You must try to see the demos that we organize every month, it's

a good way to see how to use many of the products in the shop. 

Ok, I'm off for now, see you soon,

Jane x