Bag Instructions

I have been asked for instructions on making the little bag that I posted in the earlier Blog so here goes.


I have scanned a bag with the fold lines drawn in and posted it below:

I used an A4 sheet of heavy paper for this bag. Light weight paper will not do, neither will card.

Draw the lines lightly in pencil on to your chosen sheet and score along these lines.

Fold along the score lines and glue the 1cm fold to the inside of the 3cm fold on the opposite side of the bag. This will form a tube. Let it dry. The time that it takes to dry will vary with the type of glue that you use.

Now fold the top of the bag over towards the inside of the tube. There is no real need to glue this.

Holes can be punched to thread the handles through. I used a single round hole punch. I marked the place for the holes first. Punch both the front and the back at the same time so that the holes are level.

Fold the lines along the base of the bag as if you were making up a parcel. Glue together. To provide extra strength you can glue a piece of lightweight card to the inside of the base of the bag.

Let me know if you can follow these instructions and, if not, I can amend them

Made a Bag Today

Well I've stayed with the Take Out the Stash box and I saw a striped paper by AMM. I thought that it would look good with this bag and natural ribbon, so I set to work.

First I made the bag from some heavyweight paper that I had, then I cut a strip of paper from the box and stuck it to the base of the bag. I made a bow in some natural grosgrain ribbon and used it to cover the join. I punched out holes and threaded through the raffia to make handles. Having first put a message tag on.

Rather a butch bag, don't you think?

Not everyone wants pretty.

Solid Stripes

The last card I made was for the ladies but now I've made another for men. At least I think that it is even though it has a bow attached. The strong clean lines if the stripes and the muted colours suggest masculine rahter than feminine to me. Enough analysis!

I can't believe that I can make so many cards. I haven't even looked at the scrapbook pages as yet. They keep on staring at me every time that I open the box. I'll get around to them soon I know.

Have a look at the card and see if you agree.

To make this card I used:

Paper from the Take Out The Stash Box.

Light Blue Grosgrain ribbon.

Savvy Stamps 'Best Wishes' rubber stamp.

A5 white card

Small pieces of blue and brown card

Brilliance Ink: Tiramisu

Clear embossing powder

Bowshaper

3d foam pads

Method

Fold the A5 card in half to make the base card

Cover the bottom two thirds of the card with the paper and glue to the card. Trim to give a neat finish.

Stamp the message on to a piece of white card, making sude that you pick up one colour on one word and an alternative colour on the other. Emboss with clear embossing powder and heat to fix. Edge with the ink pad.

Mount with blue and brown card leaving a margin.

Stick to the base card as shown.

Tie a bow from the blue ribbon and attach to the base card with 3d foam pads.

What do you think?

Built for Speed

The other day I started thread on a craft forum to find out how many cards that crafters made were actually sent. Unsurprisingly, after a lot of effort to make them, many people kept them in their draws and sent out bought cards. So this card is a quick and easy card to make. It is also very reasonable as one 70p sheet has 12 images on it. So that's 12 cards for 70p, give or take a few bows and base cards.

Could anything be simpler. However, be it my opinion only, it does not look as if it took no time at all. I think that anyone would be pleased to receive this.

To Make this card I used 1 cut out glitter flower picture from the glitter flower sheet 1.
I A5 card folded in half
1 piece of pink card
1 piece of hot pink sheer ribbon.
3d foam pads
Peel off message

I cut out and trimmed the glitter flower picture. I used 3d foam pads to mount it onto the pink card trimming to leave a border around the glitter picture.
I made a bow using the bowshaper and stuck it to the corner of the picture with 3d foam pads.
I stuck a peel off message of my choice to the card as shown.

Can anything be quicker?

Possibly this?

Since I had a lot of compliments about the triangle fold card I decided to incorporate the method with this glitter flower panel. I've chosen to accentuate the lilac in the panel with lilac ribbon. The card was made using the method set out in an earler blog, 'At last some inspiration'. I'll keep on going.

Back to the Box

Today I decided that I just had to try out the new MoBe letter stamps that I have managed to get at discount prices so this is the first of, I hope, many cards. The advantage of this is that it uses more of the fab papers from the Take Out the Stash box as well as the blue paper raffia that I sell on the site.

I got my inspiration from a card that I had seen in the MSE catalogue so I can't claim it as my own. I adopted it to the paper and colours that I had though.

This card is larger that the ones that I usually make as it is a folded A4 card. I thought that as the pattern was so large it needed a bigger card.

I used the Scrapbook Walls Jr. Varsity Argyle for the patterned paper and blue raffia to thread through and make the bow. The paper came from the Take Out the Stash box and still left more than enough to make more cards.

The words were stmaped with the new MoBe Penguine Attack unmounted rubber stamps.

I punched a hole either side of the card near the top and I then threaded the raffia through the holes. I ties a knot in the raffia and then I opened the raffia out. This is versitile stuff and it sits neatly where you want it to, and can be opened in other places for a very pleasing finish.

I stamped the letters for the word 'DAY' onto separate pieces of card and stuck them to the base card using foam pads. if you do this it does not matter if you make a mistake as you can stamp another square. Much better than ruining a card.