Tuesday 29 January 2019

New Cutting Craftorium Magazine 7

Just to let you know the Cutting Craftorium 7 is now available alongside the Pretty and Purposeful 3 USB. I am one of the designers featured we each have 3 Projects featured in this issue, they are Pretty and Purposeful 3 projects which I have altered using canvas, in the magazine it talks you through (with photos) how you can achieve this using canvas.

Monday 14 January 2019



Got my copy of the latest Cutting Craftorium (6) magazine today, just a bit proud to be a guest designer having 2 projects included in this month's edition 😊

An Alice inspired box.




This is a gift box I made using  Grey board 750 microns and my craft studio cdrom A Very Important Date. I printed the papers off using a background and figures from the cdrom adding a shadow. After printing I sprayed with inkjet sealant spray and left them to dry thoroughly. The box is from a kit n kaboodle USB it is a tissue box with the insert removed from the lid and then I enlarged the pieces (all done in canvas). I used 4 layers of the 750 micron greyboard using pinflair bookbinding glue, a thin layer is all you need then once glued store under a weight (I used my e-bosser) so it dries nice and flat. after all pieces glued sand the edges ink them then add the printed papers. I did this by gluing a larger piece in place then once dry sand the edges away. once completed and dry I then commenced gluing the pieces together. once the box was complete I mod podged using matt mod podge.

Coming tomorrow at 8am on @Create&CraftTV the launch of the Jungle Book E-Dies




Friday 11 January 2019

Alice inspired box




A gift box totally handmade using grey board multi layered. The box is from a Cutting Craftorium USB (apologies as I cannot remember which one), it is a tissue box with the slot in the lid removed and the file enlarged. The patterned papers are from a My Craft Studio cdrom - A very important date. once the papers were printed I covered them in a printer ink sealant spray allowed it to dry and them glued it onto the finished box once the glue was dry I used my sanding block to remove the excess edges. I them covered the whole box in mod podge matt finish.