Chevron love

Have you seen that chevrons are everywhere at the moment. I recently wanted to use some on a male layout but i didnt have the right colour paper so i attempted to make my own. I loved how it turned out so here is a quick how to.

Take a piece of patterned paper or cardstock measuring 12" wide x 8" high. Draw pencil lines every 1/2" across. Repeat going upwards. Carfully begin drawing in diagonal lines. At this stage you can make each chevron thick or thin.

Carefully cut them out and arrange them in strips on your page.

And do you notice the barn stars. They are very easy to make. Roughly draw a 5 pointed star onto card as a template. Draw around it onto card or patterned paper. Cut it out.

Take your score board and score down every point. Bend the top points mountain and the inner points valley, IYKWIM.

Add to the layout. I used wet glue on the underside of the points to secure.

Materials Used Stampin Up Twitterpated designer series paper 12 x 12 Crumb cake cardstock. Perfect pairs stamps Black Stazon

And i will leave you with a simple card i made from the scraps.

Materials Used Twitterpated Attic Boutique 12 x 12 crumb cake Seam ribbon

TFL Sarah

Afternoon tea anybody.....

Here is a project i mentioned earlier. I saw this cute little teabag dispenser on pinterest and i just had to make one. I dont know why as i dont often drink tea myself or know any tea drinkers, but it looked so cute.

The original one i found by Heidi Baks and whose instructions i followed can be found HERE. I had to tweek mine a little bit as i didnt have 16th on my score board.

Materials used

 124274 Crumb cake 12 x 12 card stock  125407 Attic boutique Designer series paper  106550 Very vanilla card stock  106549 Whisper white Card stock  101406 Black stazon  125598 Framelit dies  121686 Early Expresso Card stock  119670 Classic stamp pad Early Expresso  121812 Sixxix fun die  119667 Classic stamp pad Daffodil delight  125582 Pool Party seam binding ribbon  122976 Ruffled ribbon Calypso Coral

And here is a quick how to on making the flower at the top. Cut 2 of each flower from the fun flower die using whisper white card stock. Put them to soak in water. Make a "O" with your finger and thumb. Gently place a flower over the "O". Using a pen, push the flower into the "O". Carefully wrap the flower around the pen. Remove the pen, tighten the wrap of flower. The tighter the wrap, the more texture you get. Leave to dry over night. Next day, carefully open the flower. Glue all the layers togther with a hot glue gun. To colour, i misted the flower with water. Made a pale wash of colour using a ink pad and aqua brush and coloured the whole flower. I dried with a heat gun. Next i made a concentrated wash of colour and dipped the flower into it. This gives the Ombre effect, Darker colour graduating to paler in the middle. TFL Sarah

A simple scrapbook page and a mini

Demo 3. A simple scrapbook page
I wanted to show the ladies that SU is more than just stamps and card making and they can be used on scrapbook pages, mini albums and even for making your own embellishments.

Embossed butterflies direct to 12 x 12 as background

More background embossing and handmade embossed embellishments.

More embossed embellishments and paper catherdral windows to add a bright bit of decoration.

Materials Used

• 124298: Soft Suede 12 x 12 card stock
• 121686: Early expresso A4 Card stock
• 121685: Crumb cake A4 card stock
• 106550: Very vanilla A4 card stock
• 125407: Attic boutique designer paper
• 119670: Classic stampin pad, Early expresso
• 109133: Stampin embossing powder, Black
• 109132: Stampin embossing powder, White
• 109130: Stampin embossing powder, Clear
• Non SU chipboard
• 114526: Sizziz originals Dies, Circles#2
• 119850:1 3/4" Circle punch
• 125598: Framelets Dies, Labels collection
• 113463: Sizzix Bigz dies, Top Note
• 122647: Creative elements stamps
• 120516: Perfect punches
• 119864: Round tab punch
• 122976: Ruffled ribbon, calypso coral

And a quick mini. This was going to be a make and take but i ran out of designer paper so i showed the ladies how to make the album and showed how to decorate with paper and stamps then demonstrated a emboss resist technique on the tags for the pockets.

TFL

Sarah