Fiskars Craft

Chinese Lantern Festival

Hi all

on Saturday 2nd and 3rd the Chinese Lantern Festival was on in Christchurch, Hagley park. It was simply amaizing!

Here is the link to my online photo album of the event:
Click here.

and of course I've been making some lanterns just to celebrate in our own tiny way here at home.....

I used the Journalling shape template for these lamps.

This is  the oval type shape cut three times- i attached a brad at the bottom and weaved the ribbon through the top holes which I made with the 1/8" circle hand punch:

This one was cut out twice using the "top note" type journalling and bent in the middle and glued at the sides.

This one is the Rectangle type shape. Glued at the sides and hole punched at the top.


so now we have our own little string of small lanterns for decorating our home for Chinese new year.
No fancy hand painting needed just Fiskars tools and scrapbook paper. ;)

Fiskars tools used in this post:

Thanks for dropping by

:)
Debbie B
Artycrafty.wordpress.com

 

 

 

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 - Lace Heart Potpourri hangers - short turorial

Hi all

You know how I've been making scripture and quote card holders for the ladies at my church group? Well this week I have taken on a different angle....

Decided to make the older ones some home made Potpourri wardrobe hangers.

Here's how I did it...
I already had dried various flowers/orange skins/rosemary etc
I used black felt for the backing
for the front I cut up an old lace top from the second hand store
The ribbon is from my stash - really old stuff from Maya Road.

First:

Trace around the outside of a supersized heart template with a dressmakers chalk pencil and cut out both lace and black felt.

second:

Pin the ribbon inside both lace and black felt (black felt and lace have good sides facing each other). make sure the ribbon if, one sided like mine, is facing up.

Third:


Pin around the outside leaving a gap for stuffing.

Fourth:

sew around the outside - turn in the right way - stuff with your home made potpourri.

Sew closed and you are done!

My daughter got hold of some scraps and decided to design her dolls some dresses so I quickly hand sewed them together....


Looks like I will have a little fashion designer on my hands!

I'm so proud of her.

The Fiskars tools I used in the above projects:

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

Lots of hearts layout

Hi all

Well my kiddos are back at school! yipee!!!

Here's a layout of my son.... yes he is as cheeky as his dad and as cheeky as he looks!!!

I had fun with those photos on my layout. LOL
A cool little dude that is adorable until 3:30pm! Tiredness kicks in etc.... hmmmm yea the mums will know what I'm talking about.... to the non-mums..... Be warned! Hell hour lasts from 3:30pm ish till bedtime!

if you haven't got any red cardstock - do like I did and colour white cardstock with an ink pad roughly.
But hearts don't have to be red these days. ;)

Fiskars tools used on this project:

Thanks for dropping by!

Debbie B
Artycrafty.wordpress.com

Shadow heart card

Hi all
decided to do another heart card... not sure which to give my hubby yet but he has seen both. This one and the previous one I posted..... No I haven't got a bit on the side to give the other one too! LOL

I used a plain red cardstock for the front of this card and used the heart template for a cut out and a stick on heart effect.

Oh the red cardstock is sponged using my hand made stencil I made with my Fiskars fingertip craft knife and some plastic packaging.

The orginal posts to making plastic packaging stencils are on my personal blog...
here - turning plastic packaging into stencils/masks

and here - show and tell thurs stencils

 

fiskars tools used in this post....

Thanks for dropping by!

Debbie B
Artycrafty.wordpress.com

 

 

 

Layered Heart Card with tutorial

Hi all

Gosh its hot here in Christchurch, New Zealand!
And yes the ground is still shaking here but only small 3 pointers and under and is hardly noticable. Last weekend we had a 4.6 though and the only thought I had was that it could have waited till I had the DVD on that I was going to watch.... a shake during a battle scene has an awesome 4D effect!

No its not scarey to me here anymore. The kids also shrug it all off. But we are the lucky ones. There are still people having massive problems with EQC and Insurance companies. Not to mention the center of the city is still closed and broken. Buildings are being demolished still and cleared. Orientation is hard especially when we had relyed on buildings as land marks that are no longer there.

Putting that aside everything is right and dandy.... Hot weather for summer. My kids will be going to school next week so I really can't wait till that happens. LOL

But here is a card I decided to put together (i had a spare few minutes).

The layered heart card was put together as follows:
1. take out three sheets of red paper (thin paper) and trim the paper just under the size of the front of the card

2. Then cut a heart using the fiskars Ultra shape express and heart template with the self healing mat to protect your work surface in the middle of each.

3. Take one of these pieces, from the wrong side use your fiskars Shapeboss and sample template - and emboss using the stylus.

4. lightly sand all the embossed hearts etc with a sanding block

5. stick together all red layers

6. stick down all red layers to black cardstock

7. use black paper twine or twine to make a bow in front

8. you are done!

 

Oh look! Canterbury colours! (Red and Black)
How cool!

Fiskars tools used on this project:
 

Thanks for dropping by!

Debbie B
Artycrafty.wordpress.com

mmmmmm which heart should I use?

Hi everyone,

At the moment I'm sorting through my Fiskars Tools to try and find a heart shape or two that I can use for Valentine's Day....which is coming around soooooooooo quickly this year........FISKARS make some fabulous heart tools.......here's a few of mine

Fiskars Heart templates are so easy to use with a Fiskars Craft Mat and the Fiskars Shapecutter.....I even spotted a little heart on my Fiskars Envelope Template.

......and there is also a little heart shape on the Fiskars Tree 12" x 12" template.....

These 12" x 12" Fiskars Templates are still available in Lincraft Stores.....I've seen them recently in Knox Lincraft Store in Victoria.

Maybe I should try some embossing with this Fiskars heart embossing texture plate and Texturing Tool or Stylus.......mmmmm....now there's a thought....I haven't even looked in my Scrapboss System yet......I'm sure I have a few hearts on some embossing templates that are in that.

Now this little Heart Corner Lever Punch would be great for the corners of a card...or perhaps I could use my Fiskars 3 in 1 Corner Squeeze Punch.

See the tiny little hearts...aren't they cute! I do have a couple of favourite heart squeeze punches.......I must admit these get used quite often in my projects.

I kept sorting through my tools and also came across my Fiskars Heart Hand Punch

                        mmmmmmmmm...what to do with this?

       Maybe I'll use one of the older Fiskars Heart Border Punches......

I haven't even looked through my Fiskars Stamps yet.....but I know I have plenty of heart stamps to choose from.....might save those for my next post....see you back here soon.............................

Do you make any Valentine's Gifts/Projects? Do you have a favourite heart tool?

xoxo

Lyn Dwyer

 

 

 

another way to RECYCLE those Christmas Cards

I found this great video whilst surfing the net and thought it was fabulous for recycling those Cards ......

I love that she uses the Fiskars Ultra Shape Cutter and template to make her circles............if you have a 2" Fiskars Lever or Squeeze Circle Punch you could do the same thing..................

xoxo

Lyn

 

Card a Day - Using a Fiskars Template by Tamara

A great way to make a fun card is to use one of the many Fiskars Templates as Tamara has done here.

Here's what she had to say:

This card takes advantage of a beautiful pattern paper by Teresa Collins as well as my USE and Christmas 1 Template for the Christmas tree centrepiece. I cut a vertical fold card 4 inches wide and 11 in long (this means you can get three cards out of a 12x12 sheet of scrapbook paper) with my Fiskars Rotary Trimmer and then folded it in half. The tree is cut out with my USE and template from a piece ofcream card stock. I rounded the corners on both the card base and cream card stock using my 1/4in corner rounder to add some interest and match the rounded shape of the tree branches. I stamped a sentiment from Penny Black and coloured the leaves of the mistletoe, used a black pen to draw fake stitching around the tree and border and secured it to the card base. To finish it off I added a bit of sparkle with self adhesive rhinestones (it is a Christmas card after all!) and a star at the top if the tree. This design is would be easy and cost effective to mass produce just make sure you use a heavyweight (card stock weight) patterned paper for the base or it will be too flimsy.