Happy birthday my little knight !

Hello everyone ! One of my 8 grand-childs is having his birthday this month and of course, I will have to mail his birthday card this year...no party...no hugs...Lets try to make a special one anyway for a wonderful little prince !

I hope you will enjoy the following tutorial.

Step 1: Card Base

• Cut a piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock 11 X 5 1/2 ", score and fold in the middle to get a finish card measuring 5 1/2 X 5 1/2 ".
• Cut a 5 1/2 X  4 1/4" piece of light blue cardstock with white dots to make the sky.
• Shade a stripe 1 1/4" wide with a finger sponge dauber and some Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide to represent the grass.
• Adhere the sky cardstock on to the base card with some Clear Adhesive Double Sided Tape.

• Using the Mushroom House Folding Card #1796 die set, die cut the grass in some White Soft Finish Card Stock.
• Using a finger sponge dauber, shade the grass with some Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide and shade the edges with some Lucky Clover Distress Oxide.
• Wait for the castle to be ready, to adhere the grass pieces on the right spot of the base card. 

• Using the Once Upon A Time Accessories #1795, die cut the 3 clouds in some White Soft Finish Cardstock.
• With a finger sponge dauber, shade the edges of the clouds with some Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide.
• Wait for the castle to be ready before adhering the clouds to the sky on the card.

Step 2: The Castel

• Using the Castle Folding Card #1797 die set, die cut the castle on some White Soft Finish Cardstock. For the small parts, die cut them on the same cardstock but lined with some Clear Double Sided Adhesive. 
• Shade all the parts of the castle with some Distress Oxide colors of your choice and finger sponge dauber. Here the following colors were used: Tea Dye, Old Paper, Mustard Seed, Forest Moss, Gathered Twigs, Barn Door and Black Soot.

• Assemble the castle as showed on the picture below, adhering the clouds and grass before adhering the castle.

 

Step 3: The Knight

• Using the Knight's Armour #1794, die cut all the armour parts on some White Soft Finish Cardstock lined with some Clear Double Sided Adhesive. 

• Using the Prince #1791 die set, die cut the face of the prince.

• As usual, using finger sponge daubers and some Distress Oxide, shade the knight's parts and the Prince's face using the colors of your choice. Here were used Tattered Rose, Blue Print Sketch, Rusty Hinge, Pumice Stone and Black Soot.
• Assemble the Knights, adhering each piece in place.

Here's some final close-up pictures !

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

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Little Halloween Fairies and Princess

Hello everyone !

This morning I present to you an Halloween card with some Elizabeth Craft Designs dies from Joset's Storybook Collection. The format of this card is a "slimline card", that is the "new" thing in the handmade cards world so I decided to try that for a change and the little Halloween ladies was the perfect choice for this type of cards.

Here's the tutorial to make this card.

Step 1: Card Base

• This card measures 8 1/2" X 4", so you will need a 8 1/2" X 8" piece of Elizabeth Craft Designs White Soft Finish Cardstock.
• Cut a 8" X 3 1/2" purple rectangle cardstock.
• Cut a 7 1/2" X 3" White Soft Finish Cardstock.

• Fold the 8 1/2" X 8" in half on the 8" side, to make a 8 1/2" X 4" card.
• On the white cardstock, adhere a purple ribbon with some Clear Double Sided Adhesive across the card, in the middle (lengthwise).
• Using the ECD die set Pizza Box #1781, die cut one scalloped round in some orange cardstock, and two of the stitched circle die.
• Die cut some round frame in some black cardstock using the dies from the same die set. Use the two smallest round die and die cut 2 round frames and use the 2 smaller dies next to the scalloped one.

• Adhere everything on the card base using some Double Sided Adhesive Tape.

Step 2: Fairies and princess

• For this part, you will need a combination of dies from 3 die sets: Fairy 1 #1792, Fairy 2 #1793 and Princess #1790.
• Die cut all the parts for each of those 3 die sets in some White Soft Finish Cardstock doubled with some Double Sided Clear Adhesive Tape,  like so : 

Fairy 1:

Fairy 2:

Princess:

• For the Fairy 2, I used the hair of the Princess die set so that it would take less space on the card.
• For each girl, you will need an Halloween Accessory of your choice. I used the ones from the Halloween Accessories #1707.
• With some finger sponge daubers and some Distress Oxide, shade all the parts in some Halloween colors.

Assembling the fairies and princess:

• Using a pair of tweezers, adhere all the parts of each fairies and princess, except for the arms.

Fairy 1:

• Adhere the fairy in the black round frame with some Kids Choice Glue so that the head is sticking out. 
• Glue the hands on the frame.

• Using a fine pointed scissors, cut the skirt that is hanging out of frame. Glue the girl with the frame on the orange circle.

Fairy 2:

• Do the same as we did for the first fairy.

Princess: 

• Again, do the same for the princess.

• All 3 little girls done and ready to go on the card...

Finally, adhere the girls on the card base and Voilà ! 

Here's a closer look at the finish card.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and please, visit me again soon !

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Welcome to your new home !

Hello everyone ! Today I present to you a card I made for a friend who bought a new house. All the dies used on this card are from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

I hope you enjoy this tutorial.

Step 1: Card base

• Cut 11 X 5 1/2 inches rectangle in some White Soft Finish Cardstock, fold lengthwise at 5 1/2 to make a 5 1/2  X 5 1/2 inches card.
• In some dark green cardstock, cut a 5 1/4 X 5 1/4 inches square.
• In some brick patterned cardstock, cut a 5 X 5 inches square. (For this card, I used some cardstock from Mintay Papers by Karola - Bloomville Collection.)
• Adhere the layers one on top of the other with some Clear Adhesive Tape.

Step 2: The window

• Cover a 4 1/2 X 3 inches piece of White Soft Finish Cardstock with some Double Sided Tape.
• Release the sheet on one side and apply some gilding flakes to cover the sheet. 

• Release the other part of the adhesive sheet and cover with the flakes.
• Burnish the flakes into the paper and use a brush to take the excess out.

• Using the die set Planner Essentials - Planner Elements #1659, die cut the strip with the squares in some White Soft Finish Cardstock.
• With some scissors, cut the squares at each end of the strip, leaving you with 6 squares on 3 rows.

• Using the die set Fitted Rectangle #1121, die cut 2 frames with the 3rd and the 4th smallest dies in some White Soft Finish Cardstock. 

• Using a finger sponge dauber, shade the frames and the 6 squares strip with some Weathered Wood and Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide.

• With some Double Sided Tape, trap the 6 squares strip on the gilding flake cardstock between the 2 frames.

• Put some foam adhesive on the back of the window and adhere to the card.
• Add the leaves on the card with some Kids Choice Glue.

Step 3: Leaves and Berry Branch

• Using the Trio Of Leaves #1464 die set, die cut 6 leaves branches in some dark green cardstock (the one on the right of the package image here).

• Shade the edges of the leaves branches with a finger sponge dauber and some Forest Most Distress Oxide.
• Shape the branches with tweezers to give them dimension.
• Using the Berry Branch #1778 in the new Floral Collection, die cut one branch in some green cardstock.
• With some Nuvo Crystal Drops - Copper Penny, make the berries on the branch.

 

• Let air dry the berries for 24 hours or so.

Step 4: The flowers

• Using the Florals 3 #1775 from the new Elizabeth Craft Designs collection, die cut 5 of the smallest flowers.

• Shade the center of the flowers with some Shabby Shutters Distress Oxide and a make up applicator, and the edges with some Rusty Hinge and a finger sponge dauber.

• Shape the back of the flowers with the end of the tweezers to give dimension to the petals and cup the middle with a ball stylus or other sharp object.
• Adhere the flowers onto the leaves on the card.

• Finish the card by adding some more branches, the berry branches and some light green stones in the middle of each flower.

Here a closer look to the finish card:

I hope you enjoy this tutorial ! Please come back to visit me very soon !

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