Fiskars Craft

Sketch of the Month @ Fiskarscraft

Designer: Lisa Truesdell

This page is the perfect showcase for 2 of your favorite 4x6 photos (if you have vertical photos instead of horizontal, just rotate the sketch 90degrees!).  Putting the layout together and adding your own punched embellishments will be the easy part – but with Father’s Day and lots of fun summer photo ops in June, you might have trouble picking which photographs to us. I chose to make my page a tribute to my husband, who is the best daddy that I know.  

Difficulty rating

Beginner

Instructions (Print version)

1. Start with a 12x12 piece of white cardstock as your base. Use the Twist N Flip corner punch on all four corners.
2. Use Upper Crest border punch on two strips of aqua ledger paper.  Attach on either side of your page, with the wider strip on the right.  Journal on the wider strip of aqua ledger paper.
3. Attach 2 4x6 photos to the middle of the page.
4. Spell out title using letter stickers under your photos.

5. Use Round N Round squeeze punches in M, L & XL on various patterned papers.  Stack your circles and embellish with stitching and buttons.  I also added some foam adhesive between the layers to add dimension.
6. Use Twinkle Twinkle squeeze punch on various patterned papers and attach around the circles.
7. Add buttons around the circles and stars.
8. Use Tag You’re It squeeze punch on yellow patterned paper. Date each photo and add to your page with buttons.

Supply List:
Fiskars :12-99027097 Desktop Rotary Trimmer
http://fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_desktop-rotary-trimmer.aspx
Fiskars : 01-001448  Twist N Flip 2 in 1Corner Punch
http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_twistnflippunch.aspx
Fiskars : 12-74257097 Squeeze Punches Tag, You’re It L
http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_lltagyoureitttl.aspx
Fiskars : 12-7436 7097  Squeeze Punches Round ‘N Round M
http://fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_round-n-round-m.aspx
Fiskars : 12-74247097 Squeeze Punches Round ‘N Round L
http://fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_roundnnroundl.aspx
Fiskars : 12-74147097 Squeeze Punches Round ‘N Round XL
http://fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_round-n-round.aspx
Fiskars : 12-74417097 Squeeze Punches Twinkle Twinkle M
http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_twinkle-twinkle-m.aspx
Fiskars : 01-004595 Upper Crest Border Punch
http://www.fiskarscrafts.com/tools/t_borderpunch-uppercrest.aspx

Heidi Grace Designs: We Are Family patterned paper
SassafrasLass Bungle Jungle (hippos) & Anthem (blue ledger) patterned paper

other: American Crafts chipboard alphabet, 12x12 white cardstock, Vintage text paper, Red and yellow buttons, string

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When you are joining a few people have found it a little confusing adding in your postcode etc as it's set up for the USA. Just add some addtional zero's etc If you have any problems just email us on the contact us button on the left hand side of the blog. One you are a member you will receive a pair of fantastic orange and green handled scissors with your Fiskateer number engraved on the side. Pretty cool.   It's a cold and damp day here in Victoria today. It's great to be getting a little rain in our tanks though and the grass is getting greener by the day. Happy crafting, Dawn

Sharing some published layouts

Hi, I thought I would share a couple of layouts which appeared in Issue 1 of the new NZ magazine Innovation last month.  These 2 layouts used some Fiskars product and one in particular ties in well with our theme of "Shapes" for June:

The layout : Favourite TV was part of an article about using lists of things as inspiration for layouts and projects.  I interviewed each of the family and used a filter in my photo program to alter the photos.  By using simple rectangular shapes, and then simply decorating using a circle scallop punch and circle punches, the actual journaling takes on better focus.

The second layout "My Girl" uses Cloud 9 papers.  I used the Circle Border punch "Antique Elegance" for the top right corner and added a variety of flowers - some of them are Cloud 9 Vellum and others are stickers.  There are some other manufacturers products on this one too.

TF Donna:)

Project Orange Thumb- Scarborough Village, Toronto

Clowning Around

I love being able to catch my family doing silly things. I love even more being able to record these things when I scrap. I am not one to scrap for an occasion but more so to scrap for the moment, if you know what I mean. I like to capture the special times we share and the funny things that make us happy.

This particular photo shows the fun that my kids have with their Dad. I cherish the fact that he has taught them to laugh at themselves and be themselves no matter what. I think that is a very special thing.

So here it is:

Products used:

Cloud 9 paper range and mixed clear stamps.

Cheers Michelle  x

Making a Fabric Album - The Appliqued Pages

Welcome back to the Fabric Album Tutorial.
In the past we:

• Part3: Doing the inner pages
• Part2: Printed out the photos onto fabric
• part1: Made and decorated the cover

Today is the last lesson. We will be Appliqueing some pages with the Ultra Shape Express and some templates.

1.

Circling a Flower

 "Me and You Card" by Michelle Wallace

Download Project worksheet- Me & You card

Fiskars Garage Sale- South Australia

Punching Shapes

 

Punching shapes is made easy with a Fiskars Squeeze Punch. I love that they are portable ... perfect to pack in my crop bag to take out scrapping with friends. I love that they are so easy to use and I love that one simple punched shape can be used in many different ways.

Lately I've been having lots of fun with this scalloped square punch.

I had a need for a couple of baby cards over the weekend. So I pulled out some Heidi Grace Sweetest Bug papers and got punching. I actually wanted to make a line of bunting on my cards so needed a triangle shape ... easily done by cutting punched squares in half ... but even easier to line up the paper only half way into the punch and get perfect triangles.

I've used some dimensional stickers from the Sweetest Bug range to add dimension to the flower scene at the bottom of the card and foam tape helps separate the layers of bunting.

Of course it's nice to add a little colour to the inside of the card too ... and a good way to use up a few more triangles which I got carried away with punching out!

Here's a similar card which I made for my little nephew who turned one this week.

Rectangle Fever

Tried something different with this layout. Have been playing with 8.5 x 11" layouts lately and wanted to be able to include multiple photos on this size. It can be a bit challenging as I didn't really want to make the photos too small. So all I did was crop the main picture into a rectangle and used this as the base. I then cut my remaining photos to fit the space left. Using patterned paper I filled in the cardstock spaces with rectangle to "fill" in the rest. If that makes sense...lol... The papers I was using worked so well for the subject and colours of the layout. I am happy with the end result and I managed to get 3 decent size photos onto an 8.5x 11" layout. YEAH !!

Products used:

Cloud 9 paper range and vellum flower

Kimberly Poloson Clear flourish stamp

Heidi Grace Alpha Stickers

Why now try a different shape on a layout today !

Michelle x