Fiskars Craft

sewing - Felt heart monster pouch for boys - tutorial

Hi all
something for the boys for valentines day....
A felt heart monster pouch for their little things....

You will need:
Fiskars quilt cutting mat
Fiskars Supersized hearts
Fiskars pinking shears
Fiskars scissors
Fiskars titanium rotary cutter

other items used:
sewing machine, thread, pins, taylors chalk pencil, various felt pieces.

1. draw out your large heart with the template and taylors chalk

2. cut it out. Then using other felt pieces make up another heart the same size...

3. sew a middle strip to the bottom of the heart...

4. Cut out a handle and pin/sew it to the top of the heart.... also attaching it to the black back heart.

5. cut out pieces for the eyes and mouth...and sew them in place onto the front half heart we made at step 3

6. lay the face panel ontop of the back panel and sew around the outside.... and your heart is finished.

hang it in a spot your son can find it when he gets home from school.... with his favourite things inside it... ;)

Hope you enjoyed this simple tutorial...

Thanks for dropping by!

Debbie B
Artycrafty.wordpress.com

Sewing - Felt Heart Box with tutorial

Hi all

I had some felt lying around so decided to get onto creating with it....

This Heart Felt Box is made very quickly and for my daughters small hair accessories. But you can put anything in it....

You will need:
Fiskars supersized hearts templates
Fiskars Pinking shears
Fiskars Titanium rotary cutter
Fiskars Square quilt ruler
Fiskars Quilt cutting mat

Also used:
sewing machine, thread, taylors chalk pencil, black and red felt squares

1. get out your felt squares...

2. Cut out 2 strips 3" wide

3. mark and cut out a large heart
 

4. sew both ends of the red 3" strips but make sure one is on the inside and one on the outside to make a heart - as pictured.
 

5. Trim with pinking shears to make it look tidy.


6. Pin then sew the red heart sides to the black heart bottom




7. trim edges with your pinking shears and you are finished!
Now fill it with the things you love...



Hope you have enjoyed this tutorial....

Thanks for dropping by!

Debbie B
Artycrafty.wordpress.com

Recycle those CHRISTMAS CARDS.....here's how

ok.....so we all end up with Christmas Cards and if you are like me it's hard to just throw them out....so DON'T.......RECYCLE them...as I have done.

We received some gorgeous Handmade Cards this Christmas so I have decided to re-purpose these.....by just cutting off the top part of the card and attaching this to a new sheet of cardstock....

So I got out my trusty Fiskars Trimmer and started trimming......and here's the re-purposed card that came originally from Tamara...thanks Tam....

Here's another handmade  card that I received from Tracy

...and I turned this into a re=purposed card in readiness for Christmas 2013.

I really loved how Tracy created this Christmas Tree....so now I'm spreading the love a little further next Season.....it's a bit like the gift that keeps gifting.....................

Now with the COMMERCIAL CARDS that we received.....I have decided to make little GIFT BOXES......I just sorted through the ones we received today.....

I started with the Square Santa Card........thought this would make a cute little Gift Box.................

Firstly I got out my Fiskars Trimmer and used both the trimming blade and the scoring blade...................I also used my Fiskars Microtip Scissors and Circle Hand Punch and 3 in 1 Corner Punch on the Tag

So now I have another Christmas Gift Box suitable to hold a Voucher/Gift Card....maybe some soaps,perfume,sweets,etc....

All made from a Christmas Card......for further HOW TO instructions on creating the little box......you can view my Video here

I hope I have inspired some of you to have a go at recycling your Christmas Cards......and keep spreading that love of GIVING......don't throw your cards in the bin.....re-cycle....re-purpose....and have fun !

xoxo

Lyn Dwyer

 

 

Card a Day - Monocrome stamped card (tutorial)

Hi all I'm back!

Hope you are all finding time to make some Christmas cards.
Here is my next one... We are going a little monocrome but not fully....

Here is how I did it:

1. I cut a front panel for the card from similar colour of the card base.
2. Then I used a Fiskars Med lever circle punch to punch out 1/4 circles from the corners of it.
3. Next I used Kaisercraft twig and berry range Flourish clear stamps with the Fiskars Stamp Press and Stampin Up! ink pad - crumb cake (which was a similar but darker shade of the cardstock I was using)
4. The flourish was stamped at the top of the panel. Then I stamped "Merry" (old cloud9 clear stamp) and "Christmas" (Paperxtra clear stamp) on the bottom of the panel.
5. I tied some ribbon around the blank part of the panel and put some Kaisercraft red rhinestones on the flourish.
6. I used foam adheasive to pop up the panel on the card base front.
7. done!

Simple easy and fun... see my theme I have here... I like quick too. Especially this time of the year!

Happy crafting!

Debbie B
Artycrafty.wordpress.com

Card a Day - Baubles (tutorial)

Hi all here is another installment of the card a day feature... How are you likeing them so far?

see how the cut out parts sit above the patterned paper? lovely effect aye...

Well this is how I did it...

1. I cut a piece of plain dark green cardstock just under the size of the front of my greeting card base.
2. I used the Fiskars Ultra Shape Express (USE) and Fiskars christmas 2 shape template to cut three of the small baubles in the dark green panel.
3. I tied red and white Paper Twine from Ruby Rock-it to the card where the baubles are to mimic strings.
4. I cut from the Kaiser craft Twig and Berry collection - Advent cardstock a square of paper that will be big enough to cover the shapes.
5. The dark green panel was then turned to the back.... I put dimensional foam adheasive on the back then stuck the Advent patterned cardstock over where the holes of the shapes where.
6. I then stuck the whole panel to the front of the card and adhered the "christmas" sticker to the  front. (Kaiser craft Twig and Berry collection Numbers sticker sheet)
7. Done!

optional you can always get a plain white cardstock sheet and cut out with USE and the journaling shape template a panel to put inside the card to write on if you have no metallic pens to write with on dark cardstock.

yet another quick and simple card.

Happy crafting!

Debbie B
Artycrafty.wordpress.com

Are you using the correct Quilting Mat?

                           

Hi everyone,

Are you using the correct Quilting mat when using the FISKARS ROTARY CUTTERS?

Here's what Fiskateer Beryl from New Zealand had to say.....

Recently I read an article on the care of Rotary Cutters & Cutting Mats by Judy Hall (Nifty
Notions - Into Craft) which had me going straight up to my local quilting store to
purchase a new Fiskars Self-Healing Cutting Mat.

Beryl  explains all  this in her PDF file here.....we are going to be adding some more PDF files under the Make'n'take/ How to Section on here.....so keep checking over there.

 

xoxo

Lyn