Issue 16 March 2013

I re land’s f i rs t onl ine craf t magazine. . . .

Inside th is issue

Mini Envelope Book

Framed L ayout

Mini Tr inket Drawers

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WELCOME to Issue 16 of Crafting Ireland!

Welcome to our 2013 Design Team!!

Welcome to Issue 13, and the announcement of our new Design

Team. We are delighted to welcome back some of our last years

team and also to welcome along a few new members too.

As always in this issue we have a fun tutorial packed issue for

you all. You will get to see the fantastic work of our new team -

and this issue is full of their fantastic work.

We also love to see what you create inspired by the magazine so

make sure you share your work with us on our Facebook page—

you never know when we may decide to give away a prize or

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find all our design teams work and blog posted tutorials up

on there, so make sure you follow us if you are on Pinterest.

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Read on to find out more about the new Design Team....

Happy Crafting!!

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E d i t o r s n o t e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 2

2 0 1 3 D e s i g n Te a m I n t r o d u c t i o n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 6

D e n i m M i n i A l b u m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 1 1

S p r i n g M i xe d M e d i a C a n v a s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 1 5

M i n i Tr i n ke t D ra w e r s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 2 1

P i n c h P r e v e n t i o n K i t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 2 4

A l t e r e d L a m p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 2 7

N a t u r e A r t J o u r n a l P a g e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 3 0

E a s t e r E g g A r t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 3 3

C l a s s e s & C r o p s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 3 6

H o m e m a d e P r o j e c t L i f e B i n d e r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 3 9

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S p o t l i g h t O n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 4 2

E n v e l o p e M i n i B o o k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 4 6

S p r i n g C a r d W i t h F l o w e r s o f t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 5 3

M o t h e r M i n i A l b u m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 5 7

S p r i n g L ay o u t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 6 1

F ra m e d L ay o u t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 6 4

Pa p e r M a c h é E a s t e r E g g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p 6 7

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We want to introduce you all to our fantastic and super talented 2013 de-sign team...

Karen Mathews

Karen grew up in Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, but now she lives in South Wicklow. She started papercrafting about 6 years ago as a way to meet new people. Karen always loved to make Christmas decoration and sell them at craft fairs. Nowadays she is more interested in altered art: can-vases, boxes, frames. She loves everything paper. Karen loves distressing and inking, these are the techniques that she would always use. Her style could be describe as grungy, her creating are never really sharp or clean. To see Karen’s work visit her blog: http://www.paperfanatic.blogspot.ie/ Andrea Ockey Parr

Andrea is a former English teacher, an eternal li-brarian and she currently works in the field of medical laboratory science But her true passion is crafting and writing and being artsy. Many of her art projects were published in vari-ous magazines and she was the featured Guest Artist for her cards in the Mar/Apr 2012 issue of “The Stampers’ Sampler.” Cards and 3D mixed media pieces are her forte and she has a whim-sical style in which she loves to layer different el-

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ements and incorporate stitching, fabric, ephemera, stamped images and anything else she can find. To see Andrea’s creations please visit her blog: http://snappingmonsters.blogspot.com/ Katya Ivanova

Katya is originally from Russia and she has been living in Ireland for 12 years. Katya had tried many hobbies before card-making and scrapbooking but nothing had caught her as much as scrapbooking. She has been craft-ing for over a year now. Katya’s style is quiet feminine, she uses a lot of flowers, pearls and lace. She also like to use stamp-ing techniques and embossing. Katya couldn’t imagine her life without her Cuttlebug and sewing machine. Recycling and using non scrapping materials is part of her every-day crafting as mush as using traditional scrap-booking materials. Over the last year and a bit she has won several challenges and has been a part of Tuesday Alchemy DT too. Visit Katya’s blog if you would like to be inspired by her beautiful cards: http://madewithlovebykatya.blogspot.ie/2012/06/blog-hop.html

Abby Henderson

Abby has been “playing with paper” for 17+ years, she started after her son was born and since then it is an ever growing passion. Abby initially began with making just 12×12 layouts and filling up tons of scrap-

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book albums and mini brag books for the grandparents, things like that. In addition to making LO’s, she also enjoys making cards, mini albums (made from various materials, paper bags, canvas etc.) tags, altered art items, paper flowers…pretty much anything you can think of : ) Abby has a very unique style, she loves to use a mix of new scrappy/craft items along with vintage & up cycled items. Abby loves being able to mix in “non-traditional” crafting items into her projects, it’s a creative way to in-corporate different textures and layers which is something she loves to do in her crafting. To see more of Abby’s creations visit her blog at: http://scrappin-abby.blogspot.com/ Andrea Kovacs

Andrea is a Hungarian paper crafter, she lives in Budapest, Hungary. She is married and has one son, who is the subject of several craft projects. Andrea started scrapbooking a few years ago, in 2008, and since she just cannot live without it.She says: Creativity is my life!

Andrea is involved in some other crafts as well, like crocheting. She enjoys making LO-s and mini albums. Andrea likes to create in mixed media and Shabby Chic styles. To see more of her crea-tions visit her blog at: http://sapimano.blogspot.hu/ Aideen Fallon

Aideen is from Co. Galway, Ireland. Being stay at home mom, who works only one day a week, al-lowing her to craft which she loves. Her favourites are mini albums, layouts and altered items. Aideen’s blog: http://www.piecesbyaideen.com/

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Mary Jo Rhoda

Mary Jo is from Missouri, USA. She has scrapbooked since 1998 and she loves that she can tell stories of her family and children through her layouts. She travelled to Ireland in 2009 and since then she has been using the pictures on her scrapbook pages. Mary Jo’s blog: http://scrapbooktreehouse.blogspot.com/

Felicia Thomas

Felicia is originally from Kent in South East England but has lived in Killarney, Co. Kerry for 20 years. She has 3 children aged 21, 18 and 15, a very patient partner and a dog named Toby. Felicia comes from an artistic fami-ly and was always working on some craft or other. Her Mum taught her to knit and use a sewing machine.

Later when discovered paper crafting a whole new craft world opened up, that lead to mixed media art. Felicia’s proudest moment so far which was having her Christmas card designs displayed with an agent at the Surtex licensing show in New York. Felicia’s blog: http://scrapzville.blogspot.com/

This year we have two guest designers who will contribute to our magazine: Timi Pek Biro and Doda Smith.

Timi Pek Biro

Timi is originally from Hungray, but she lives in the UK. She is married and has a 4 year old son. Timi has been scrapbooking for about 3 years. She enjoys reading books and experimenting with Photoshop

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for digital scrapbooking. Timi loves to create non digi too.

Her favourites are layouts and mini albums, but she makes some cards too. She enjoys creating in a variety of styles and finds that scrapbooking is a great way of keeping memories of her son, Bálint. To see Timi’s fantastic work, please visit: http://tittyscrap.blogspot.hu/

Doda Smith

Doda lives in the Highland of Scotland with her husband and two daugh-ters. Doda is involeved in many crafts such as: crocheting, sewing, upcy-cling furniture and of course paper crafts. If you want to see Doda’s pro-jects, please visit her blog: http://www.dodadidit.blogspot.com

Welcome to the team ladies!!

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I had a few pairs of old jeans that I wanted to recycle so I decided to create a mini album with them. What you will need:

Some denim fabric

Papers of your choice

Heavy card

Adhesives suitable for fabric and paper

Embellishments

Binding ring Step 1 Decide what part of the denim you are using. I took the two back pockets for my front and back covers so I cut these out with some extra fabric around them. Step 2 I then cut out a rough page template from the heavy card. I used the shape of the pocket for my template.

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Step 3 Place the cardboard onto the denim patch with the fabric on it. Step 4 Use a strong fabric adhesive fabric to line the card . I used red line tape for mine.. I peeled the cover off the tape and folded the edges of the fabric up onto the tape.

Step 5 To cover the raw fabric edges I cut some patterned paper using a cardboard template that I made slightly smaller than the original template. Adhere this over the back of the fabric.

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Step 6 I repeated this process with the other pocket from the jeans to make a back cover. Step 7 To make the inside pages I used the smaller template and adhered the fabric on one side and the paper on the other. I did not fold the edges of the fabric over as I didn’t mind if the edges of it frayed on the inside pages, I just want-ed them neat on the covers. Step 8 To bind my album I used a crop a dile to punch holes in the pages and used a large 2inch binding ring. Step 9 I then decorated the cover with some cut outs from Amy Tan papers.

Step 10 I used a mix of papers and the fabrics inside the album. For some of the pa-per pages I made pockets from the fabric, adhering it with red line tape. On other pages that were fabric lined I made mini booklets with tags and pages and then adhered them with red line tape again.

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This could be done with many different types of fabric but denim and canvas tend to hold their shapes well and are the easiest to work with. Enjoy recy-cling those old jeans!!

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What you will need:

Canvas

Patterned paper

Dry wall tape

Multi Medium Matte

Stencil

Acrylic paints

Step 1 Begin with a blank canvas, this can

be whatever size you would like your

final project to be. Mine is 8x11

inches. I then chose the papers I wanted to use . I cut them down to the siz-

es I wanted for the canvas.

Step 2 Next I applied some Multi-Matte Medium to the canvas. This creates a base

coat of adhesive for your papers. I then began applying a coat of the Matte

Medium to each piece of paper and layering them onto the canvas.

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After all of the papers have been applied to the canvas, I used my heat tool

to speed up the drying process, you can of course let this air dry if you pre-

fer.

Step 3 In the next few steps I’ll be sharing

with you how I created texture for

the canvas. You can use stamps to

create all different types of tex-

tures for your projects.

For this canvas I simply used some

houndstooth and text stamps

stamped randomly throughout the

top and sides of the canvas.

Step 4 This next texture technique is us-

ing something that typically isn’t

found in the crafting section, dry-

wall tape.

This stuff is amazing to use on so

many projects and adds such won-

derful texture.

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After applying this to the corner of my canvas, I selected some craft paints in

Spring colors . Then I simply painted over the drywall tape. Just look at how

great the tape looks covered in paint, it adds so much texture to this piece.

Step 5 Another form of texture I used on this project is spackling (this is normally

used to fill holes in walls etc.). My local craft store was out of modeling

paste so this is what I chose to use and it worked! I placed my butterfly sten-

cil on the canvas and began spreading the spackle.

I carefully lifted my stencil and this beautiful raised and textured image was

left behind. I wanted to make the butterfly image pop a bit from the canvas

so I used more of the craft paints over parts of the textured butterfly once it

was dry and then outlined it in some yellow for that final burst of color.

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Step 6 I knew I wanted to alter my chipboard letters I selected for the canvas so I

used more of the green craft paint and covered them up. Once I applied

them to the canvas I used some white craft paint to give them a white-

washed affect.

Step 7 I sort of collect old vintage books and

use them in my crafting so I wanted

to include them somehow in this can-

vas. I tore up some strips and rolled

them up and put a tiny glue dot at

the end to hold them together.

I made several rolls in different lengths and adhered them to the canvas us-

ing more of the Matte Medium.

I stamped a butterfly image on top of

the rolled book strips and then used

more craft paint to accent the papers

This is such a fun way to use old

books and ephemera in your projects.

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Step 8 I have to share with you the inspiration for this Spring inspired canvas, some

beautiful pink latex flowers. I wanted them to feel as if they were a part of

this canvas so I used more of the craft paint on the outer petals of the flow-

ers.

I used some Glossy Accents to adhere the flowers to the canvas. I love how

these flowers turned out and you can see the small butterfly peeking out

from behind them.

For the rest of the canvas I just simply had fun adding embellishments like a

quote sticker, seed packet and some doodling. You can really let the creativi-

ty flow with a mixed media project which is just so much fun. Below I have

some additional photos of the completed canvas.

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What you will need:

Kaisercraft mini drawers (I got mine from cre-atewithkate.com)

Acrylic paints and crackle medium or crackle paint

A sealer-type glue - I used Claudine Hellmuth Matte multi medium (carznscrapz.com or createwithkate.com) but you could also use mod Podge or Rangers glue'n'seal )

Quick drying strong glue like glossy accents

Hot glue for the embellishments

Brads or something else suitable for the drawer pulls (I used DoCrafts Chronology brads from cardznscrapz.com)

Design papers

Matching embellishments

Step 1 Paint all the pieces in the pack-

et. I painted mine blue to

match the papers I am using.

Step 2 Apply the crackle medium and

let it dry. I applied crackle medi-

um to the sections I wanted to

use the crackle effect on (the

top and sides of the drawers).

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Step 3 Seal all the pieces using the matte multi medium.

Step 4 Using a scrap piece of white card make a template of the drawer fronts and

cut out pieces of patterned papers using the template (I like to cut just in-

side the lines of the template to keep in from the edges of the drawers).

Step 5 Assemble the drawers by gluing them using a strong quick-drying glue like

glossy accent.

Step 6 Put the drawers together and embellish as you wish.

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I did these in blue and cream for my cousin Deirdre’s bedroom. They make a

lovely present and are great little jewellery or trinket boxes!

Here are a few others I made:

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We all have those friends in our lives who need a little…help. You know who they are! They’re the friends who come to the party two hours late with mismatched socks or who lose their keys five times a day or who sometimes don’t know what day it is at all. Late, lost and often deemed clueless, these friends might not be punctual or organized, but they are usually the most fun, creative and spon-taneous people you’ll ever meet! Some of my best memories involve these somewhat flighty friends. It was with these friends in mind that I created the “Pinch Prevention Kit.”

It is the perfect gift for anyone in your life who may be in peril of being

pinched because they perpetually forget when St. Patrick’s Day is. Armed

with green nail polish and a green ring, they will be able to green-i-fy them-

selves in no time when the special day comes and pinching fingers are fly-

ing! Because hey, even if these friends aren’t perfect, we love them and

don’t want them getting pinched!

Here are the materials I used to construct my Pinch Prevention Kit:

Tin hinged box

Fabric

Ink

Tulle

Flower

Rubber stamps

Glue (whichever kind you prefer that adheres to metal and fabric)

Green nail polish

Green costume jewelry / ring

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Step 1 To start your kit, assemble a selection of fabric. I chose to use lighter greens,

aqua’s and pastel blue’s.

Step 2 Once your fabric is assembled, trace your tin onto your fabric and cut the fab-

ric out so that it will cover the lid of your tin.

Step 3 Continue to build a “fabric collage” background for the top of your tin. I like

to distress the edges of the fabric with ink pads (in this case browns, blues

and greens) to give the fabric a little more depth.

You can also stamp

shapes onto your fabric.

The shamrock stamp I

used is from Stampin’

Up! and the “Pinch Pre-

vention Kit” was spelled

out with an alphabet

stamp set from Studio G.

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Step 4 You can also incorporate embellishments such

as the flower I included from Prima.

Once your fabric collage is to your liking, glue

the layers together and glue it to the lid of your

tin.

Step 5 Do the same technique for the inside of your

tin. Once all surfaces are covered, cut some

tulle to serve as a cushion for your green treas-

ures inside.

Place the nail polish and the ring in-

side.

Step 6 Close up your tin and you’re done!

You have now created an adorable

St. Patrick’s Day gift as well as saved

your friend from countless pinches for

not wearing green!

Don’t just stop with St. Patrick’s Day!

This same mini kit concept can hold all

sorts of treasures for every occasion.

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This poor lamp had definitely seen better days, the shade was discoloured and the base was chipped so I decided to revamp it rather then throw it away. I coated it with gesso and painted it with acrylic paint. I mixed the colour myself with cobalt blue and white – if you mix your own colour make sure you make enough of it because it’s hard to try and match it! The first coat was quite rough over the gesso, gently sand it with a light grade sanding block and apply a second coat.

The acrylic paint had a very mat finish, so I added a coat of pearlizing medi-um. Applied in circular movements with a foam brush it gives a lovely sheen.

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The old shade was beyond saving, it was cracked and torn. I had another old shade that I considered painting, but I wasn’t sure if that would be safe with the heat of a bulb, so I cleaned it up with a soapy sponge, let it dry thor-oughly and then spent ages wondering how to decorate it. I was cleaning my desk when I came across one of the very few ATC’s that I’ve made. I never quite know what to do with them, I don’t have enough to make a nice display but I decided it could be “displayed” by adding it to the shade. I added some lace and tied a charm onto it.

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I temporarily taped it into place and then used a piercing tool to make holes through the ATC and the shade so that I could sew it on. I used embroidery thread because it’s stronger and thicker then cotton. Here is my revamped lamp!!

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What you will need:

Cosmic Shimmer mists - Golden mint, blue lime, lava red and mango blaze

Distress stains – Broken china

Distress inks – Black soot, Forest Moss

Ranger paint dabbers- Citrus and lemonade

Derwent Inktense pencil

Signo white pen

Water mister

Dylusions stencils – Numbers, Creative Expressions masks – Large Polka, Balzer Designs Template: Mini Punchinella

Dylusions stamps – The Right Words & Tim Holtz stamps – Spring Sprung Step 1 Spritz water liberally with the mister. This allows the mists and stains to spread and flow more easily. Step 2 Apply distress stain in Broken China for the sky and spray the two green mists onto the bottom half of the page. Step 3 Close the book at this point to transfer some of the ink to the opposite page. (You can use this as the base for another jour-nal page later).

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Step 4 Spritz the blue area again and allow it to flow down the page. Dry it with a heat tool. Then spritz the yellow and red mists on different areas of the page, overlapping the ink runs. Step 5 Use the numbers stencil to create a bor-der using Black soot ink. The numbers were added with the same stencil, but using lemonade paint dabber. Step 6 Extra texture is added with various sten-cils to the lower part of the page, using citrus paint dabber. Step 7 Stamp the plant image from Spring Sprung along the end of the page with Forest Moss Distress Ink. Step 8 Highlight the edge border using the white pen. Step 9 Draw flower shapes onto the spritzed red and yellow areas as guides and add-ed leaves to the stems. Draw over all edges with Inktense pencil to define them.

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Step 10 Stamp the words out and cut into sections gluing them in place. Step 11 Outline the flowers, stems, leaves, sun and words with white pen.

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I love my slowly growing collection of washi tape and kept picturing a striped Easter egg in my head when I thought about strips of tape. So I decided to try creating a decoration that I could hang on my wall or place on our fireplace mantel for the holiday. What You Will Need:

A picture or shadowbox frame

White cardstock

Several rolls of washi tape or strips of patterned paper

Enamel dots or rhinestones

A thin piece of cardboard or chipboard

Small letter stickers

Pencil and scissors

Step 1 Here is a picture of the shadowbox frame I

found at a local store called Target.

Step 2 I removed the photo mat and placed it aside

to use on a future project.

I then measured the paper that came with

the frame so I would know what size to cut

the white cardstock for my base.

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Step 3 I then used adhesive to adhere the white cardstock to a piece of cardboard

the same size to make it a little sturdier.

Step 4 On an additional piece of the cardboard, I sketched an egg shape that would

fit within the base. It is not perfect because I wanted a bit of a whimsical feel

to the egg.

Step 5

Once I had cut out my cardboard

egg, I gathered my rolls of washi

and the enamel dots.

Step 6 I then started laying strips of washi

tape on my egg. As you can see

from the photo, I placed each piece

of tape across the egg and then

folded the edges around to the

back.

If you don’t have washi tape available to you, thin patterned paper strips

would work as well. I think the more heavy weight paper would be a little bit

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more difficult to fold back behind the egg. But you could always trim it with

scissors or an exacto knife.

Step 7 Once the egg was coved in tape, I attached it with adhesive to the white

cardstock base.

Step 8 I then added small letter stickers to spell out Happy Easter as well as a few

enamel dots for some dimension as well. Now your egg is ready to be dis-

played for the Easter holidays!

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We would love to publish your classes and crops here. Whether you are a shop running crops and classes or just a group of crafty people looking for like minded people let us know. Simply email your details to submis-sions@craftingirelandonline.ie

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Scrapbook Store More info can be found on the website http://www.thescrapbookstore.ie/workshops.php or contact Annama-rie at workshops@thescrapbookstore.ie

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Inspiring Ideas Visit http://www.inspiringideas.com/ for more information.

Archangels craft club Archangels Craft Club - we meet in St. Gabriels Clontarf every Tuesday 7.30 - 9.30pm and do all sorts of crafts - knitting, cross stitch, card making, beading and scrapping etc. We are in our 9th year - all very informal but it’s a place to craft with like minded individuals. We are always on the look-out for demonstrators and enjoy the social aspect of crafting (along with the tea and cake!) If anyone is interested in com-ing along to join us, or maybe there is another club out there who would be interested in doing a Christmas craft day to-gether please do contact me. Contact Christine at christine-helenokelly@gmail.com or on 0857151759

Create With Kate Workshops in card making, scrapbooking and mixed media. We also are a mobile craft supplies shop. Visit createwithkate.com for more information or phone 087 984 1196.

Scrapbooking Limerick Create beautiful scrapbook pages & crafts at our crops & classes Bookings: 086 3817677 www.facebook.com/scrapbookinglimerick

The Polka Dot Craft Club Cardmaking and scrapbooking workshop Killarney

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Crop Tarts ‘Crop Tarts’ are a group of scrapbookers/card makers who have a regular crop on the 2nd Saturday of each month from 10.00 a.m. until 4.00 p.m. at “Le Cheile”, Donnycarney Community & Youth Centre, Collins Avenue East, Donnycarney, Dublin 5. We are a friendly bunch who like to share our ideas/stash/equipment etc., so each month we usually have a short demo by one of our members e.g. recent demos have included crochet flowers and colouring with Promarkers or it might just be a LO that we are especially pleased with or a new card making technique.

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I really like the idea of Project Life. Not only the memory keeping aspect of it, but also that it makes me pay more attention to things happening around me, even little things. I wanted to take part in Project Life this year, but I find that a smaller version

suits me better. Since I had some of the Studio Calico page protectors, I

decided to create a binder for it and make my own mini Project Life.

What you will need:

Page protectors

Chipboard sheets

Patterned paper

Glue

Binding rings

Step 1 Take measurements of the page protectors that you have. Make sure that you are using the samepage protector through the whole book, because sizes can be different. Cut the chipboard. You will need two bigger pieces for the cover and back and one smaller for the spine. Step 2 Measure the distance of the holes

on the page protector and mark it

on the spine piece.

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Step 3 Punch holes with a hole punch such

as a Cropodile.

If you have a Big Bite or other hole

punching tool that can punch hole

anywhere then you can skip this step.

If you only have the Cropodile, you

have to punch the hole before

assembling the binder.

Step 4 Start covering the chipboard pieces

with the patterned paper.

After covering the outside of the album, go back to the spine and add some

glossy accents or quick drying glue to the holes that you punched on the

spine piece.

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Step 6 Using a pencil or pen, punch the hole on the spine from the outside. The

Glossy Accents that you just added with glue on the punched through paper

pieces onto the edge of the holes. It will give a nice finished look. You could

also inserts eyelets if you want.

Step 7 Cover the inside of the album. Repeat the hole punching procedure from the inside too. Step 8 Add the binding rings from the

inside. Some parts of the ring

should be visible on the spine from

outside. You can decorate that with

ribbons if you want.

Step 9 Decorate the front and add the

page protector. Now you can start

collecting photos and bit and bobs

for the Project life.

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Aghna Fallon In every issue we will be spotlighting the work of an Irish based crafter. We will look at paper crafters, scrapbookers, and altered art aficionados. If you think you know someone who you think sound be spotlighted let us know at info@craftingirelandonline.ie

This issues spotlight is shining on Aghna Fallon! Here is Aghna to tell us a bit about herself and her work.... My name is Aghna Fallon, I’m 19 and from Galway. I’m studying Geography & English in NUIG (with Geography being the current favourite!) At the moment my money all comes from babysitting which I spend on either the cinema, clothes shopping or crafting!

When and how did you get involved

wi th paper craf t ing?

I got involved with papercrafting thanks to my talented and lovely sister/bestie Aideen, when she started giving me any extra supplies, bringing me

to the GBCE’s and classes and getting me involved in her swaps.

What is your favour i te aspect

of paper craf t ing?

My favourite part of papercrafting is making cards in my own time and mini albums at the classes. I don’t

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Aghna Fallon have all the equipment and cool new stuff so going to the classes is a great way of learning the techniques and picking up new hints and tips.

What are the techniques that you

use most of the t ime?

The techniques I use most of the time would probably be inking, especially with Tea Dye, and playing with my Derwent Inktense blocks I won at a recent crafting event! I like using lots of colour and detail, my favourite part of album making has to be decorating.

What are your "can ' t do wi thout"

products?

My “can’t do without products” are definitely new paper pads and prima flowers which I just LOVE, also whenever we go to the GBCE I always always always buy the Prima Shabby Chic Treasures windows from the Cre-ateWithKate stall because they are just too cute!

What inspires you?

I’m not really sure what I can call my inspiration; I just love colours and seeing how they’re put to-gether. I think summer is my in-spiration because flowers and the beach are two of my favourite things.

How do you descr ibe your

s ty le?

My style has to be hippy-vintage-

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girly-shabby inspired. I love lace, peace-signs and lots of flowers.

Do you blog? Where

can we see your

work?

I blogged a little bit for a while but I wasn’t the best at keeping up with it! Things can be quite hectic with college, but I do occa-sionally post pictures of things I make on my Insta-gram account (www.instagram.com/aghna_fallon) .

Have you any plans for the future?

For the future I want to do more altering for a few rea-sons; my sister is crazy about it and has made some beauti-ful things for her home (and for me!). I won a Tim Holtz configura-tions box from Cre-ateWithKate and it was one of the most fun projects ever!

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I had a A5 envelope on my craft desk and rather than tidy it away decided to make something with it. What you will need:

A5 envelope

Strong adhesive

Inks

Papers

Embellishments Step 1 Cut the fold down flap off the envelope. Step 2 Fold the envelop in half along the length. Then fold this in half again.

Step 3 Use an adhesive of your choice glue the bottom edges together to seal it closed. Usually I would use wet glue for this so that it dries completely non sticky. But I wanted this to be very strong so I used red line tape.

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Sealing the bottom and then folding it down the middle again gives you two large pockets. Step 4 Ink up the edges of the envelope. I used Broken China Distress ink on mine. I used ink on mine as I didn’t have the pa-tience to fully cover the envelope with pa-per. You could however cover the enve-lope fully before folding and adhering it down. I just chose to ink it instead! Step 5 Once inked cut some paper to mat onto

the pages. My pieces were 7.5 cmx

10.8cm. I used papers from Amy Tange-

rine.

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Step 6

When you fold the album you will have two large pockets and also a 3rd smaller pocket formed by the open inside of the envelope. If you didn’t want this you could seal the envelope closed in-stead of cutting the flap off. I liked the extra pock-et though.

Step 7

Cut some tags/shapes for inside the pockets. I used a spellbinders die for mine. I then put these inside my album.

Step 8

For the inside pages I made some photo corners so I could add some pictures in at a later stage.

Step 9

Embellish the cover and enjoy!

You could put a few of these together to make a bigger album too of course.

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Tags are not just for gift bags anymore; you

can use these on layouts, mixed media pro-

jects or just give them as gift themselves.

I love making tags and today I’ll be sharing how I made the Spring tag I de-

signed in this tutorial.

What you will need:

Websters Pages card stock

Maya Road People Chipboard Accordion Boy/Girl (I only used one girl for this project)

Maya Road Chicago Alphas Uppercase

Maya Road Wood Bingo Motiffs

Maya Road Micro felt bird

Maya Road Small Organza Roses

Maya Road Blue Ribbon clear stamp set

3 Girl Jam Crinkle Ribbon-Holiday Candy

Scor-tape

Label reinforcements

Colorbox Cateye chalk ink-Hot Pink

Step 1 I cut my card stock to 6” x 4”.

Step 2 Next I took the chipboard boy/girl pieces apart so I just had the one girl.

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Step 3

I selected the card stock I wanted to use on the girl figure, covered the back-

side with Scor-tape and placed the figure face down and used my craft knife

to cut around the shape.

Now you have your girl figure covered in card

stock.

Step 4

I wanted to give my girl figure a “skirt” so I select-

ed the crinkle ribbon I wanted to use and began

adhering Scor-tape. After you peel the backing off

your Scor-tape start laying your crinkle ribbon.

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Step 5

Cover your chipboard letter with

some craft paint and set aside to dry.

Step 6

I spritzed a smaller piece of card stock

with some water and crumple it

up.Use your heat tool to dry and then ink the edges.

Step 7

Next I stamped a small ribbon image on some card stock. I cut this out and

wrote ring since this will be attached to the backside of the blue S that I

painted in Step 3, so it spells Spring.

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Step 8

To create a coordinating tag reinforcement, I dressed up some plain white cir-

cles with some Rouge ink.

Step 9

Now the creative play takes over, start layering your papers, trims and embel-

lishments on the tag.

Now you have a Spring themed tag

that you can proudly display in your

craft room, give to a friend or attach

to a gift.

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What you will need:

cardstock

co-ordinating papers- 2 patterns

distress tool

sponge and distress ink

wheelbarrow stamp & archival ink

round corner punch & leaf punch

sewing machine

variety of flowers

foam tape & glossy accents

flower soft

Step 1 Gather all the materials, some of them won't be used in the end but it helps

to have them all in one place.

Step 2 Cut out the base of a card and 2 patterned papers, the first one measuring

5mm less than base and the second 1cm less, so it shows of the pattern

more.

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Step 3 Go over the edges of patterned papers with a distress tool or scissor blade

works just as well.

Step 4 Distress the edges with Distress Ink, I've used Antique Linen.

Step 5 Using black archival ink stamp the wheelbarrow image onto a piece of card-

stock.

Step 6 (optional) You can round off the edges with round corner punch.

Step 7 (optional) Glue the doily die cut onto the card and put it though the sewing machine.

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Step 8 + 9 Place the wheelbarrow image where you want it and start "filling" it, start off

with branches/leaves, then follow with small rose buds and finish with

different sized roses or any flowers you like.

Step 10 I put a small nail-shaped brad into the

wheel to give it a more real look. Then I

apply some glossy accents onto "grassy

bits".

Step 11 Sprinkle a generous amount of flower

soft on, pat it down and leave to dry.

Repeat if necessary.

Enjoy your

card!

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I created this album for all my memories of becoming a mother, it is full of pictures of us together and I included my feelings about motherhood. I wanted a colourful and chherful album, so I used Echo Park Papers Victoria Gardens paper collection. What you will need:

Mother Letter Album

Patterned paper

Embelishments (flowers, flair buttons)

Vellum

Eyelets

Baker’s twine Step 1 Cut out all the pattern papers you want to use. You can make a frame on all the letters with baker’s twine, it gives a nice finish to the album.

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Step 2 Select all the photos that you want to use in the album. Straight after the letter A, I placed a business card on which I added the name of the mother and child and the date of birth. Step 3 Decorate the pages as you wish with flowers, buttons and chipboard pieces. I also used some stamps to add more interst to the pages.

Step 4 You can add an extra envelope insert for personal messages. I have collected all my feelings about being a mother, folded into an accordion and put it into the envelope. I have also written a message to my son.

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Step 5 Print a quote on vellum, place it in front of a piece of patterned paper and secure it with some eyelets. It is another insert in the album. Check out my other pages:

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Spring Layout What you will need:

1 sheet of white cardstock

1 sheet patterned paper

Coffee

Embellishments

Doily paper

Washi tape

Step 1 Choose two sheets of scrapbooking

paper: a base (white cardstock) and

a pattern scrapbook paper (Bracket

from Webster’s pages)

Step 2 Outline a bracket shape from the

patterned paper on the base paper

with pencil.

Step 3 Wet the edges of the patterned

paper and then crumple them. Let

it dry.

When it is dry, flatten the paper a

little bit.

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Step 4 Prepare some coffee. Let it cool. Add some splashes of coffee on the white

card stock. Let it dry.

Step 5 Using a background stamp add some texture to the background.

Step 6 Glue the crumpled paper on the cardstock. Try to glue it only in the middle,

so the edges of the patterned paper are still loose. You can also stich it

around.

Step 7 Place layers of doily paper and chipborad pieces and your photo according

to your composition.

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Step 8 Add embelishments: flowers, flourishes, banners, pearls. The more the

better. If you want you can add title and journalling too. I don’t always add

title or journalling.

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I found this deep Ribba frame in IKEA and decided that it is a great one for framing a layout. It is a large frame, 50 x50 cm and the mounting in it is 29x29 cm, just perfect for a 12x12 layout. What you will need:

Ribba Frame from IKEA

Water colour effect Patterned paper (mine was from Makowe Pole)

Punched butterflies in diffrent sizes

Distress inks

Mini Mister Step 1 Cut out or punch the butterflies from white cardstock. Spread some distress

ink on a craft sheet, spray it with some water and pull the butterflies over

the watered inks. You want to achieve a watercolour effect on the

butterflies.

Step 2 Use black and white photos for this project and mat them onto white

cardstock.

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Timi Konya

Step 3 If you have an electronic cutting machine cut out the title or you can just use

alpha stickers.

Step 4 Take the mounting out of the frame and add some watercolour effect to it

with distress inks.

Step 5 When everything is dry use some

masking tape to attach the 12x12

patterned paper to the back of the

mounting.

Step 6 Adhere all the photos and title to the background using foam adhesive. I like to add texture to my pages and since the frame is deep, it allows lots of texture and dimension. I used a diagonal grid composition for the photos. Add white butterflies to the corner where the mounting is coloured and

coloured butterflies where the mounting is white.

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Step 7 Place it into the frame and enjoy this pretty piece of art.

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What you will need:

Wall paper paste

Tissue or newspaper

1 small balloon

Patterned paper

Glue

Step 1 Blow the balloon up into a small

size, about the size of a big egg.

Knot the end of it. Tear or cut

(preferably tear) the tissue or news-

paper into squares.

Step 2 Cover the balloon with wallpaper glue. Add three layers of paper squares to

it. Also cover the knot, as this will form a nice pointy end just like an egg has.

Let the egg balloon dry.

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Step 3 After it is dry, remove the balloon. Hold the knot and use a pin to make a

small hole. Now wait until the balloon slowly deflates. Pull the deflated bal-

loon out of the shell and cut it in half.

Step 4 Cut the patterned paper into 2 cm wide stripes. Use them to cover the inside

of the egg. Cut the overhanging pieces off.

Step 5 Cut or tear another patterned paper into squares. Soak the pieces into the

water until the pieces soften.

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Glue these soft paper pieces onto the egg. Let it dry.

Step 6 Cover the inside and outside with matte white acrylic paint. Let it dry.

Step 6

Cover the inside and outside with matte white acrylic paint. Let it dry.

Step 7 Sand the whole outer surface of the egg to make it smooth.

Step 8 Insert a mini hinge on the side of the egg.

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Step 9 Glue ribbon or trim along the edges of the egg.

Step 10 Cut a strip of paper, make it into a circle and glue it to the bottom of the egg

as a stand, so the egg will not tip over.

Step 11 Decorate it with handmade or shop bought flowers and leaves. If you are using Graphic 45 paper you will find lots of details that you can cut

out and decorate the egg with.

And now you have a beautiful Easter decor piece. You can put mini Easter

chocolate eggs or other little treats in it.

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