Punch Board - Elizabeth Hammond

Morning all,

Hope you are having a nice warm, sunny week wherever

 you are!

I'm hoping summer is arriving here in the UK at last but

 who knows could be snowing here tomorrow!!!

Hope not.

Ok today we are bringing another fabulous project using 

Punch Boards by our guest designer 

Elizabeth Hammond,

those of you who visit the shop or phone will, I'm sure 

have spoken to her!  

Elizabeth has created a beautiful gift bag for you -

To make Elizabeth's bag.....

Cut the Maja Design Paper to 6" x 12" to make the base of the
Gift Bag and follow the instructions printed on the Punch Board
to make the medium sized bag...

Punch holes along the top of the bag using the reverse side of
the board so you can create the handles....

Crease the score lines with the score tool and use Stix2
ultra clear tape to stick the bag together....

Using the Sue Wilson Camelia dies, cut the two layers of the
flowers in different colours from Coredinations card.....

Layer and glue the flowers together in coordinating colours, then
shape the flowers using the handle of your scissors
 or a shaping tool....

Cut some leaves in the two shades of Coredinations card.
Layer and shape them in the same way as the flowers.

Arrange the flowers and leaves on both sides of the bag and
 stick with tacky glue.....

Thread the ribbon through the holes and cut to the length of
the handles you require.....

Finished !!

Isn't that just lovely, wouldn't you be over the moon to 
receive that, no matter what the gift was inside!

This is what Elizabeth used -

We are Memory Keepers Punch Board - Gift Bag
Maja Design 12 x 12 Nyvan - A Dockside in Bloom
Coredinations 12 x 12 -
Buttercup, Amaryllis, Purple Moon, Blue Lilac,
Persimmon, Apple Green, Celery Stick
Organza Ribbon 7mm -
Gold Beige, Baby Blue, Baby Pink, Lavender
Sue Wilson Dies - 
Camelia Flowers - Open Petals, Complete Petals
Stix2 Ultra Clear Tape - 12mm
Cosmic Shimmer PVA Glue - Dries Clear
Paper Trimmer 
Scissors
Big Shot Die Cutting Machine


Thanks to our Guest Designer Elizabeth!

Ok, I'll be back tomorrow with another 
project, this time from Neil!

See you then,

Jane x

Punch Board - Dawn Heald

Hi everyone,

Welcome to another week here on The Craft Barn Blog!

If you have visited the shop at all in the last few months, you

will have noticed that we have quite a few different 

Punch Boards in stock for creating different projects.

So this week that is what we shall be featuring and a few goodies

 you can make with these very easy to use boards.

We will start the week of with Dawn and what she has used

her chosen boards for.....

Dawn says -

I've been looking forward to this week's topic as these

 boards are genius. They're versatile, easy, fun and work 

well with the other WRMK boards.

 This is what I wanted to show

 how combining the boards is great crafting. 

With supervision my

 children also liked using them as they could create something

 that was quick to make.

I decided to make two banner pieces for our little girl 

Katie's 5th Birthday on 24th June. With this in mind, 

they had to be colourful, bold, pretty and include some bling. 

 

I trimmed and punched all my pieces before getting the inks

 out so I didn't have to keep washing my hands between or

 get ink everywhere.

Here's how to make them -

Trim blue and pink card 8 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches. Then trim

 blue and pink pattern papers 8 inches by 5 inches. Use Banner

 Punch Board to create banner shapes.

Next trim four pieces of green patterned paper 4 inches x 4

 inches square. Use Pinwheel Punch Board and create two

 A and two B shaped pinwheels.

Next cut the two pink and two blue patterned papers 1 3/4 inches 

by 6 inches. Use Flower Punch Board to create four flowers. Use 

some of the left over plain coloured card from the banners and

 punch and shape some leaves.

Die cut your letters and numbers using Sizzix 

Word Play.

With the Pinwheel shapes, on the white reverse side, repeat

 stamp the lined flower in Mowed Lawn Distress

 Ink.

Apply coordinating Distress Inks to all the edges of everything

 you've trimmed and punched. Assemble the flowers and

 pinwheels.

Double punch some scallop circles as shown from yellow pattern

 paper. Keep the small circles and emboss from behind to curve

 the circle into a dome shape and glue these to the flower centres.

 Repeat the circle dome from pink and blue card for pinwheel

 centres.

Now it's time to put it all together. Stick the pattern banner shapes

 to the main base card banners. Glue the holey scallop circles to 

decorate the background. Then glue gel your pinwheel, flowers

 and leaves to the banner shape as shown. Glue buttons and

 gems and die cut number to banner  and add the lettering

 to flower centres. Finally thread ribbon through the holes 

(I did two at each corner by putting card corner in on both

 sides when punching the holes with punch board) at top

 corners to make the hanger.

What a beautiful idea for a banner, hope your daughter

 loves them, I'm sure she will!!

This is what Dawn used if you want to have a go....

WRMK Banner Punch Board

WRMK Flower Punch Board

WRMK Pinwheel Punch Board

Craft Creations 12 x 12 pattern papers -

 Diamonds White on Magenta, Diamonds White on Cyan,

 Diamonds White on Spring Green, 

Small White Dots On Pale Yellow.

A4 300gsm Coloured Card - pink, blue, white

PaperArtsy - Lin Brown 15 Stamps

Sizzix Word Play Die

Woodware Large Circle and Big Scallop Circle Punches 

Distress Inks - Mowed Lawn, Picked Raspberry, 

Salty Ocean, Mustard Seed.

Green Buttons 

White Satin Ribbon

Clear gems

Well, that's our project for today, join me tomorrow

for another amazing creation using the Punch Boards,

this time from our Guest Designer!!!

 

See you then,

Jane x

Weekly Challenge Winner

Hellooo,

It's time again to find out who our Weekly Challenge Winner is...

We had 20 fabulous entries this week, some new names 

which is brilliant, thank you so much for joining us!

As usual our Random Generator has been busy so

that I don't have to choose the winner....I think it would be

too hard.  

So who has he (I'm assuming it's a he)

chosen this time ........

.......no 9.......

Caroline - My Mixed up Crafts

Congratulations Caroline, please contact me at 

janecraftbarn@gmail.com

so that I can send you your prize voucher!

Ok, I shall be back Thursday with the first of our three

posts for this week.  We have a guest designer.....

wonder who it is????

Enjoy the sunshine,

Jane x