Cullercoats Charms and Curios

  Miniature Guitar   Made for recycled cardboard   I was asked to make a special 60th birthday card for a colleagues wife.  She plays bass guitar in a band and likes travelling, flowers and hedgehogs.  After a bit of research I discovered that Gibson released a new model of bass guitar in 1961 the year she was born.  I thought a guitar case would make a great 3 d card and decided to have a go at making a model guitar to put in it.  YouTube provided lots of tutorials on making cardboard guitars.  After getting some ideas I made a start. The guitar case was made from cardboard from an Amazon box.  I covered the outside with a leather look paper and the inside with flowered paper.  I made personalised stickers to decorate the outside of the case.  One is the name of the band she plays in.  I even got a little hedgehog on there for her. Initially I printed out some front and back views of the guitar to use as a template. ...

Chronology Embossing Folder Technique 1 I think this is a simple but effective way to use an embossing folder with craft card.  I have used a darker craft card to emboss on and a lighter craft card for some of the cogs to create a contrast. Products Used: Docrafts X Cut Tri Boss Chronology Embossing Folder Robert Addams All Occasions Dies - cogs Hunkydory for the love of stamps: Time to celebrate Docrafts Mr Wilsons Workshop Tags Rangers Tim Holtz distress ink - Brushed Corduroy Craft card A6 brown card blank Cut a piece of craft card to the fit into the embossing folder. Place the card inside the embossing folder and run through your die cutting machine.  The plates you use depend on the type of machine you are using. Using a brown distress ink highlight the embossed areas of the card.  Cut out some cogs using dies and stamp a suitable sentiment. Layer some of the dies to make them thicker and give more depth to th...

Have these bits and pieces left over from other projects so thought I would try and use some up.    Thought I would try and use the two strips with the santaro gorjuss girls from 8 x 8 papers.   They are too small for a standard size card so thought I would have a go at a matchbox type card. I measured the width of the strip I was going to use on the inside and the length I wanted it to be.  This is the size of the base of the box.  I cut scored a piece of 240g card stock 11cm x 15cm and scored l;eft to right across the 11 cm side at 1cm 2 cm and then 3 cm then added on the width approx 5cm so scored at 8 cm across then 9 and10 cm.  I scored left to right across the 15cm side at 1,2 ,3,12,13, and 14 cm.  I cut the paper as shown.  Added red tape  and glue for good measure  then folded as shown to make the inside of the matchbox.  There are plenty of tutorials on you tube showing how to make a matchbox if y...

Mixed Media Canvas Heart You will need: Small canvas / mdf / cardboard heart  15 x 15cm Docrafts Natures gallery decoupage birds, flowers and butterflies. White gesso Pink acrylic paint Texture paste Post card and flower stamps Distressed paper Old book pages distress ink: scattered straw, pumice stone, blueprint sketch Dark brown dye ink  Cut a hole in the heart to hang it from when finished then cover front in white gesso.  When gesso is dry paint front with a pink acrylic paint - I mixed red and white together to get the pink I wanted.  Leave a distressed look at the edges of the heart. Distress a piece of paper 12.5 x 8 cm using distress inks. Stamp using a postcard image and flowers / butterflies. When the pink paint has dried use a stencil and texture paste to give a stone wall look.  I coloured white texture paste with the pumice stone distress ink.  Cut out some swirls as shown fro...