TRIPLE WHAMMY CRAFT DAY CRAWLEY

TRIPLE WHAMMY CRAFT DAY SATURDAY 31ST AUGUST Come along and join us at this fab All Day Workshop £45 You will spending time with three different designers 2 hours with Alison from Ali-craft 2 hours with Heidi   thecraftygoatgirl.blogspot.co.uk  2 hours with Jane    milliesmarvels.blogspot.co.uk We all have a different design technique, so we will be having a fab day of crafting  HEIDI AND JANE ARE BOTH DT MEMBERS FOR ALI-CRAFT They both also design for other companies, and have had card projects published in some of the top craft magazines, pop over to their blogs to see some great projects Maidenbower School Hall, Maidenbower Junior School, Festival Court, Harvest Rd, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 7RA. (off A23 motorway) Time 9am - 4pm Tea/coffee will be provided during the day, but you will need to bring a packed lunch with you  All main materials for the workshop will be provided, but you will need to bring along your basic tool kit To book a place either phone us on 07860186695, email ali on alison.iain43@yahoo.co.uk, or book through our website www.ali-craft.co.uk hope you can join us x

Doo Lally Pip Gwendoline - a stamped tag

Ali-Craft would like to give a Big Welcome to our new Design Team member Jane

Jane very kindly helped me out at Farnborough show last year when i had to leave the stand to do workshops, she did a great job using products that were new to her.  

We are so pleased that she is able to give us some of her time and share her designs with us, make sure you pop over to her blog to see more of her work

Milliesmarvels

Hello Everyone! Jane here today! I am so excited and a little nervous to be posting my first Project on the Ali-Craft blog. 

I was thrilled to be asked to join the Ali-Craft Design Team and am really looking forward to sharing my makes with you.

 For today's post, I have made a tag using the fabulous Doo Lally Pip Gwendoline and Distress and Adirondack inks to create the background.

To make the tag you will need:

• A large blank manila tag
• Doo Lally Pip Gwendoline stamp set
• Tumbled glass, Shabby Shutters and Tea Dye Distress inks
• Lettuce Adirondack ink
• A strip of vellum
• Lace and a jute ribbon
• Paper flowers
• A stick on pearl
• A button
• A tiny safety pin
• White card
• Colouring medium of your choice for the image

To decorate the tag:

1. Blend Tumbled Glass ink over the top two thirds of the tag and Shabby Shutters over the bottom section. Stamp flowers in Shabby Shutters and Lettuce inks. Blend tea dye ink around the edges of the tag

2. Stamp the image directly on to the prepared background and again onto white card. Colour the image  using the medium of your choice ( I have used Promarkers) and cut out. Stick over the image you have stamped on the tag.

3. Rip a strip Vellum to approximately 2.5 cm wide. Stamp with the sentiment and sew onto the tag over Gwendoline's legs. Trim off excess Vellum at sides so it is flush with the sides of the tag.

Glue on a paper flower, a button threaded with twine and a stick on pearl.

4. Thread the tag with some jute ribbon and tie on some lace and fancy trim. Add a safety pin and glue on a paper flower.

Here is the finished tag! I will be back again soon with another Doo Lally Pip Project!

Jane

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White on White Challenge card for Artful Times

White on White Challenge card for Artful Times


Artful Times Challenge Blog

Well this is the first time i have entered a card into someone's challenge, so hopefully i will get it right

We all have lots of bits and pieces that are white, so managed to put a few things together
I have know Neet for many years, so thought it would be great to do my first challenge for her blog

White background card is 5x5"
I then put a smaller piece of white card through the big shot using a patterned embossing folder just to give some dimension, and wrapped some white ribbon around panel and finished with bow
The butterfly was cut out of grungeboard and painted with Fresco Finish Snowflake paint. I then added a couple of bead strands to butterfly.
Finished card off with a selection of white buttons

Hope you all like the card
ali x

DOO LALLY PIP Behind the Mask + Hopeful Harriet Feeling Good project by Ali

Morning crafters
Thank you for joining me and hope you like this weeks design
I have used the

Behind The Mask + Hopeful Harriet Feelin good stamps from the Doo Lally Pip range

I started with a mount board tag, making a copy onto some cream card

I then spray a selection of Dylusion inks onto my craft mat, and swirled the card into ink, then used a heat gun to dry.  I had some ink left on mat, so used on some other card pieces for use on a later project.
I then glued the card onto my mount board.

 Stamped out image of clown on white card, coloured with distress markers, for the lighter parts i used a  water brush.  I ripped a page out of an old book, coloured with mowed lawn stains and glued to bottom of tag.
 I stamped flowers from the hopeful harriet feeling good stamp set onto the mount board tag and coloured with distress markets, then outlined with a white gel pen

I mounted the clown image onto tag, adding message

For the flowers i coloured string with mowed lawn stains, and topped with some ribbon flowers.

Added some red stickles to clown buttons + hat to finish

We have a large range of the Doo Lally Stamps on the website, and will be doing more tutorials over the coming weeks using this range. 

www.ali-craft.co.uk

Graphic45 Bohemian Bazaar and Steampunk Spells cards by Clare

Graphic45 cards by DT member Clare

http://www.mycreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk

Bohemian Bazaar and Steampunk Spells 

PRE-ORDER FROM ALI-CRAFT

HOPE TO BE SHIPPING THEM OUT BY END OF WEEK

The detail in each of the papers is once again incredible
These collections are a definite "must have" to add to your stash.

French Country

Clare has used papers from Graphic45 Secret Garden

Both French Country and Secret Garden 12x12 and 8x8 paper pads are available from our website
http://www.ali-craft.co.uk

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Guest Designer Post by Vikki

Post by Guest designer

VIKKI

Hi All

I have just finished making a 24 drawer tower.  It was something that I thought I could make as an advent calendar but as I haven't got any christmas paper here I had to use what I have got.  I started by making 24 matchboxes.............

I stuck them together is stacks of 6 and arranged them in a square..................

I stuck them to a chipboard base and then put a lid on to stabilise them and I made some tabs to glue the sides of the matchboxes to the inside of the drawer.  That gave it strength and the I covered the insides of the drawers and put little ribbon pulls on the drawer fronts so that the drawers were easy to open.............

Completed box................

These are a couple of side views.........

And finally the lid......................

I made my matchboxes to measure 2"x3"x1" so I cut my drawer paper to 4"x5" and scored 1" in on all sides.  My outer matchboxes that made the recepticle for the drawer were cut at 3"x9" and scored at 1/2", 1 5/8, 4 6/8 and 5 7/8.  That gives you 1/2" overlap to glue down and complete the recepticle for the drawer.  I glued the recepticles together in stacks of 6.

I hope this helps.  With some of the offcuts from the bigger size 24 drawer stack I made a smaller 24 drawer stack and will post photos when I am done.
pop over to Vikki's blog

 kelsieskrafts.blogspot.co.uk