Kraftyhands New Die Cuts

Samples made from the new die cut range out this January.

Lovely cup cake die cuts with a french chocolate feel. Mixture of chocolate, turquoise and pinks.

I wanted to use as many of the die cuts as they are all so pretty so I went for this card shape to be able to use three.

I found this little pot of chocolate Easter Eggs and the die cut from the tea cup animals fits on perfectly. I trimmed it with a simple pink bow.

This is a 6 x 6 inch card with the front founded back, shows off the die beautifully with backing papers from Vintage Treasures CD.

Inside and outside of this 8 x 8 card. The centre image hangs on a thread and rotates.The sentiment on the front is a Tonic Die 'You're a Star' The stars on the inside panels are from a memory box circle die cut up and re-arranged.

This is a small stepper card made with white and silver. The sentiment is decorated on each side with some silver beads on wire.

The decorative card was coloured with distressing inks to tone with the colour of the image. A crisp green gingham bow trims some small red roses. The sentiment is cut with a die cut in green to match the mount for the image.

Kraftyhands Blog Challenge December

Christmas Crackers

This month the challenge is for 'Anything Goes' so I decided to make some crackers with the papers from S for Santa and my Tonic die. I did have to enlarge the 6x6 papers a little to get the patterning to be correct.

I then had the challenge of making a box for them. The base is gold card and the top is acetate which fitted first time, thank goodness. The red cord is elastic and tied at the back. My grandsons where not impressed as they do not have a 'snapper' inside...hmmm but you could place a small gift inside them.

Crafty Wishes

Merry Christmas

&

Happy New Year.

Vintage Tranport

Some cards made with the new Vintage Transport CD.

I had great fun making this card using cog templates and distressing inks.

outside box card

and inside the book card.

This book card design would be great for putting small gifts in.

A large 8 x 8 card. The background was made with a cog template and distressing ink.

Smaller card made as a stepper. I used a template for the stepper from another Kraftyhands CD Twelve days of Christmas. I love the background image of the old watch and writing desk, it can be used for so many cards.

I found this image of the fairground horses and thought I had to go to town on it with glitter and gems. The ribbon is some I had tucked away with my ribbons until I found a suitable card and this was it.

A very useful gift wallet that you could use for a gift card, voucher, tickets or money.

Hope you have enjoyed a closer look.

Crafty Wishes Laura.

November Kraftyhands Challenge

I have made a large card again for this months Blog Challenge. The picture of the partridge was enlarged to fit this 8 x 8 card. It is hard to see on the picture but the golden pears are glittered and decoupaged as is the number 1. The ribbon is slightly wired which made it easier to give shape to. I also used glitter around the frame of the partridge to enhance the pattern.

Please join us and play along on the Kraftyhands Blog Challenge. There is no prize this month so it is just for  FUN.

Kraftyhands October Blog Challenge

Autumn Colours

Using the scrumptious new Craft Nouveau CD. I enlarged the image, layered it on some purple mirri and added punched leaves. The leaves were too bright so I muted their colours with walnut stain. I added tree small dew drop beads in red.

September Blog Challenge

Thought I would use a Christmas theme to follow the sketch.

The CD I used was S for Santa

August Kraftyhands Blog Challenge

This month I thought that as the title is 'Anything Goes' I  would try enlarging and printing an image to sew on a bag.

I created my image using the copy facility on Adobe and also added a background. I put the design together using Word.

It was then printed onto transfer paper and then ironed it onto plain cotton. I  sewed the cotton onto an existing bag which I think I bought for a £1. I left the top open and trimmed the edge with blue ribbon. The lovely apple buttons were in a huge bundle of buttons bought from Create and Craft when it first started.

The pocket it created at the front is just the right size to fit an ipad or tablet in.

The CD used is Equestrian Events.

It is the first time I have every really had a try at copying the images and playing around with them. The images remained excellent quality to resize and play with.