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Christmas Village

2010-12-14T19:25:00.000Z

Getting into the spirit of things with this dinky village. Templates for the base and trees are included, also full instructions and supply list.

The houses are available to buy from stockists of Tando Creative products.

Link to instructions and templates available HERE.

Christmas is coming..........

2010-08-17T20:32:00.000+01:00

Now this was one tricky design, have you ever wished you'd taken more notice of lessons in school....well maths would have come in very handy for this project.

Anyway, I stuck with it and managed to do it in the end. It has now become my latest design for Tando Creative.

Even though I have put up instructions for decorating it, my main reason for popping it on here is for inspiration...I hope it inspires you to tackle something just that little bit more taxing.

For the instructional PDF click HERE......pictures are below.

House with Concertina Mini Book

2010-05-01T06:27:00.001+01:00

I was deeply honoured again to do another class for the April 2010 UKS Cybercrop.

This time I made a chipboard house with a concertina mini book inside. The house is one of my designs for Tando Creative....well I had to didn't I! I just adapted it to add the mini book.

Piccies below and the pdf is HERE

If you want to buy the house and other chippie elements please check out our stockist list HERE

Christmas Countdown

2010-01-09T10:24:00.000Z

Here is a class that I did for a UKS Cybercrop. I was chuffed to bits to be asked as I'm not a big poster over there and there are many talented peeps on UKS so as you can imagine I was grinning from ear to ear.

Anyway, I was very nervous about it but the class seemed to be received well.

Here are some piccies and if you want to access a pdf with instructions then click HERE. This pdf is on my Tando website so you won't be taken to the file sharing site as normal.

Birthday Book

2008-09-13T05:46:00.004+01:00

Here's another that I did for Bubbly Funk

It's a birthday book with pockets to put the cards in and each month has a mini address book tucked into the top.

PDF is HERE.

Please comment here if you download.

Perpetual Calendar

2008-08-23T04:06:00.002+01:00

The November kit instructions for Bubbly Funk, this is a cute little perpetual calendar.

The instructions are HERE - please leave a comment here if you download.

Halloween Chest and Mini book

2008-08-16T15:26:00.006+01:00

I made this for another Bubbly Funk kit last year. I searched the internet for instructions to make a chest but couldn't find any so I had to have a go myself.

HERE is the PDF with the instructions.

Please post a comment if you download....thanks.

Go Wild Mini Book

2008-07-26T13:14:00.000+01:00

Another Bubbly Funk design team project. I loved making this mini book, I hope you do too. I used Velvet papers and felt...it has a gorgeous feel to it and really suited the subject.

Download the PDF HERE.

Please leave me a comment on here if you download.

Travel Keepsakes Journal

2008-07-26T06:00:00.000+01:00

This travel keepsakes journal made for Bubbly Funk uses paper bags, 1 for each day of the week.

Download the PDF HERE and please leave a comment if you do download.

Semi Circular Pop Out Mini Book

2008-07-25T16:13:00.000+01:00

Ok I'm going to try something new here.

I have pdf's of most of the things I have made as I did them all for Bubbly Funk and that is how they were supplied in the monthly kits.

I'm going to pop a link on here to the 4shared site that will hopefully enable you to download the pdf.

Here's a pic of the Mini Book for you......and HERE is the link to the pdf with full instructions.

Let me know if it works eh?? :-)

Christmas Planner

2008-07-25T05:02:00.004+01:00

PDF HERE

Instructions:

1/ Cut a piece of velvet paper 8” x 6“ (203mm x 152.5mm)

2/ Take chipboard letters spelling the word “planner”, ink the edge and cover with the felt.

3/ Cut the word “XMAS” from the vellum. The example uses Impact Bold 255pt.

4/ Decorate a chipboard embellishment.
Here a holly embellishment was painted with twinkling watercolour paints.

5/ Punch 3 holes along one edge to take the book rings.
Stick the bottom of the word XMAS with DST.

6/ Secure the top of the word XMAS with the eyelets.

7/ Cut 2 pieces of chipboard 8” x 6” (203mm x 152.5mm) and ink around the edges.

Glue the velvet decorated panel to the chipboard.

8/ Stick down the letters p, a, n and r.
Stick them along the bottom of the word XMAS so they cover the DST used previously.

9/ Stick the letters l, n and e on top to form the word planner.

10/ Add the chosen decorated embellishment.

11/ This is optional, you may want to tie you planner shut with ribbon. If so, on the inside of the front cover glue a generous piece of ribbon down the centre.

12/ Glue patterned paper to the inside of the cover and hide the ribbon.

13/ Make up a gusseted pocket with a sheet of the vellum.

14/ Attach a strip of printed cardstock to the front with a couple of brads and poke the flap behind to hold it in place.

15-16/ Cut a piece of maroon card to 8” x 6” (203mm x 152.5mm).
Decorate the page as desired.
On the example, hand vellum letters have been used, patterned paper and finished with decorated chipboard embellishments.
Punch 3 holes for the bookrings.

17/ Make up a total of 6 sheets the same way.
Words for the sections are:
WHERE, CARDS, GIFTS, MEALS, FOOD AND WHEN.

18/ Cut a further piece of velvet paper for the back cover and glue to the 2nd piece of chipboard cut earlier.
Attach the ribbon and cover the inside as before and decorate the back cover as desired.

19/ Glue the receipts folder to the inside of the front cover so when you open the cover it is facing you the right way up.

20/ Cut sheets of white paper or card to 7.7/8” x 5.7/8” (200mm x 149mm).

NOTE: TEMPLATE PROBLEM CORRECTED, I UPLOADED THEM AGAIN SO THEY SHOULD WORK NOW.

Print the desired number of pages from the TEMPLATES (found here) Please leave a comment if you download :-)
Punch 3 holes for the book rings.
Use the snowman acrylic stamp for a border on the pages.

1/. "Something About That Face" mini book

2007-04-13T18:10:00.000+01:00

First up is the mini book I made for a cyber crop class on Scrapstars This is the first ever class I'd written so I was a bit nervous about it.

Supply list:

Thick card – at least a couple of A4 pieces

7 sheets of cardstock (I’ve used Bazzill) 2 of one colour for the front and back covers and 4 of a contrasting colour for the inner pages and 1 for the tags (the same colour as the covers).

Patterned paper of your choice for decorating (I used roughly 6 sheets of 12” x 12”)

Various embellishments of your choice, I have used: chipboard letters, brads, eyelets, ric rac, ribbon, leather strips, beads, Safmat for rub-ons etc.

7 photos approx 3 ½” x 5” and the same photos again 1 ¼” x 1 ¾ ”

Paints or paper to decorate chipboard shapes

I’ve used pictures of hubby but you could easily adapt this to pictures of your children showing their different moods or a page for each member of your family etc etc.

1/. Cut 2 pieces of thick card 5” x 6” and 2 pieces 1” x 6”.

2/. Cut 2 pieces of Bazzill for the front and back covers 7 ⅝ “ x 7” and mark ¾” in all round.

3/. Glue one 1” x 6” and one 5” x 6” board onto the reverse of the Bazzill so there is an ⅛” gap between the two pieces. Fold in the corners diagonally and glue. Fold in each of the four sides and glue. Do this with both covers.

4/. Cut the pieces of contrasting Bazzill in half to make eight 12” x 6” pieces. Score and fold 7 of them 1” in from each end and then open out again. Score and fold in half to make 6” x 6” (Don’t cut them in half). Cut the final 6” x 12” piece to approx. 5 ⅞” square.

5/. Open the pieces out again and cut a piece out approx. 3” x 1” as shown on the left hand side of the Bazzill as you look at the good side.

Cut 7 tags from the Bazzill (the same as the cover) 3 ⅝ “ x 5 ⅜”.

Decorate your tags as you wish. I have used a quote or saying on one side of mine and some personal journaling on the other. You could name dates and places of where the photo was taken for example.

6/. Ink the edges of all the pieces if desired.

7/. Decorate the front and back covers. (As you have not covered the insides yet, feel free to use brads or anything else that pierces right through the cover).

The corners are really thick card and painted to look like metal.

8/. Decorate the inner pages but remember that the picture you place on the right hand side will not end up next to the text on the left hand side.

I have sanded the edges of the photos and papers to give a slightly distressed look and cut pieces of chipboard and covered with card and brads. I’ve also used lots of ric rac and eyelets.

9/. Decorate the inside front and back covers and glue them to the insides of your covers.

10/ You can now start constructing the mini book. Turn your 12” x 6” inner pages over and put some double sided tape or glue along the side and bottom edge. Fold over at the crease and stick down. Do this with all the 12” x 6” pages.

11/. Cut 7 pieces of thick card approx. ⅞”x 5 ⅞” and ink round the edges

12/. Punch 2 holes in the card strips, the 1” flap on the inner pages and the front and back covers. Insert a strip of card between the two 1” flaps on each of your inner pages and glue in. Then glue your inner pages together along the 1” flap.

13/. Cut a piece of card 6” long x approx 2 ½” wide. Measure across the width of your newly created spine and score your card to fold around it. Punch holes, wrap around your spine and glue to the inner pages.

14/. Glue your front and back covers on, insert a piece of leather through the holes, add some beads to join the leather together and decorate. Insert your decorated tags.

Pictures of the finished book

© Copyright Di Oliver for Scrapstars

Coming soon - step by step instructions.

2007-04-13T17:39:00.000+01:00

Coming soon.........."Make me"!!!!!!

I'll be sharing with you some of my creations with step by step instructions.

I'm not going to promise a new post every week but if I can inspire just a handful of you from time to time then thats good enough for me.