My Craft and Garden Tales

søndag 22. mai 2016

Frozen birthday party

Hobbykunst has papers with Minions and the Frozen figures. These figures are always popular among the kids

Here I have created some Frozen birthday inspiration for Hobbykunst.

Hobbykunst has got two paper pads with the Frozen figures. I have used one paper from this paper pad:

Frozen paper pad.

I chose two papers from the Frozen paper pad, One paper for a girl's birthday party and one paper for a boy's birthday party.

IIn this blogpost. I am showing products created with the Anna and Elsa paper.

Castle gift wrap

This git wrap has been created with an old Pringles box. The paper has been glued onto the box with double sided tape. I have also created a lid that looks like the roof on a castle tower. This type o box can also be created for boys, decorating it as a rocket or a masculine castle.

The box can be filled with whatever you want. For a 5-6 year old, craft things are always popular. I have added some examples of gift fillings from Hobbykunst: Colouring pencils, markers, colouring pad, paint, glue, scissors, clay, beads, glitter, hand dolls, clear acrylic hearts, some sheets from the Frozen paper pad, or something to create Frozen cupcakes.

The papers are really cute as they are, and you don't really need a lot of extra decoration. Here, I have used some white flowers, and white leaves, dies out from Kaisercraft's glitter cardstock.

The number 5, is a Kaisercraft dies. I have used white foam board and Kaisercraft's glitter cardstock to create the number..

"De beste gratulasjoner" is a dies from Papirdesign, it had been created with glitter card stock..

The top of the box has been created as a cone. The bottom of the cone, has been created 2 cm larger in diameter, than the box. This makes the cone hang one cm out of the edge of the Pringles box. To create the lid and the cone, the easiest thing is to create the circle at the base of the cone. Then create a cone from paper, and cut it to fit the circle you created. Glue the cone to the circle with a glue gun. Then, cover the cone with the glitter card stock.

The inside of the lid, has been created in the same way as I created the lid for these boxes.. Take measurements of the Pringles box inside, and create the circle in the lid about 4mm smaller in diameter, than the inside of the pringles box. I decorated the inside of the lid with silver cardstock to make fit the inside of the Pringles box. The roof / lid has been decorated with a snowflake, created with a Rayher snowflake dies and some white flowers.

Place cards

Here, I have created a place card. The paper is left overs from the paper on the box, but I have used the back side of the paper. The snow flake has been created with Rayher snowflake dies. The base for the card, has been created with a styrofoam ball. It has been divided in two, and created a slot for the tag in the top of the ball. The snowman and the small snowballs has been created with tiny styrofoam beads. The name has been made with Sticy letters.

Gift bags with home made glitter play dough

A lot of kids get a small treat bag, to bring home after birthdays. I often think, the kids get enough sugar during the birthday party, and a treat bag with home made glitter clay, can be more then welcome as a treat. It is not dangerous to eat a little bit of the clay, but it contains a lot of salt and will not taste good.

Glitter clay recipe

3 dl flour

1 dl salt

1,5 dl water

1 table spoon cooking oil

Mix the ingredients, heat it in a pot, until it has the consistency of clay.

Cool and mix in the food colouring and glitter

Dark blue food colouring

Light blue food colouring

White food colouring

Glitter

The clear plastic bag has been a bag I have got for cardmaking. The topper has been created with the last bit of the Frozen paper. The branch has been cut from brown cardstock. The pine branches and the cones has been cut with pine branch and cone dies from Rayher. The snow flake has been cut with a Snow flake dies Rayher. The snow on branches and cones has been made with a snowpen from Rayher with white glitter sprinkles over it, before it has dried. This is a fantastic simple way o creating detailed snow effect, easier than using snowpaint and a paint brush.

Do you need more Frozen inspiration?

Hobbykunst has a lot of Frozen things for parties.

Have a good birthday celebration

I am entering these challenges:

Card and scrap - Blomster
Hjerteboden - Bruk blomster
Kreativ scrapping - blomster
Kaboks - Finn barnet i deg
Scrappelyst - Favorittfarger (blå)

torsdag 19. mai 2016

Fairytale Dreams layout

I have created another layered wedding layout for Kaisercraft. This time, I have used the fantastic blue colours of Mermaid Tails and the clear white gloss specialty paper. I have also used Kaisercraft’s horse shoe dies together with the new Glitter card stock. I do love using this glitter card stock. The paper is thick, which is important when you are using dies together with the card stock. Also, the glitter doesn’t sprinkle everywhere, but it is stuck to the paper, and that is also a big bonus.

I have sprayed with Kaisermist and water on the background, to create some colour on the specialty paper. The mist will colour the background, but not the embossed pattern.

lørdag 14. mai 2016

"The little things" layout

This layout has been created for my May post for Kaisercraft.

I often go for walks with my camera, just in case I see the “perfect” photo scene. This photo, of a little bird family, was taken on a walk through a safari park in England. The layout has been created, using the paper P2096 Devotion. I used two pages of the same paper. I cut of the lace at the edge of the page, used that as a layered decoration behind the photo. The rest of the page has been used as a base for the layout.

I used a background stamp, CS257 Background Script clear stamps and gesso on the background. I have also used flowers and leaves from the collectables, as decoration.

The text ” little moments” is a created with a die and a foam sheet.

There is also diecuts with a lace boarder in between the paper lace. Some of the left overs from the diecut has been used to the left of the page. I have also added pink Rhinestone to the page at the end.

torsdag 12. mai 2016

Mixed Media Canvas with tutorial

Today, I am showing a mixed media canvas created for Hobbykunst. This is a Prima based project, with some small elements from Kaisercraft and Wild Orchid craft.

I have used cheese cloth, zippers, lace and fabric hardener. Everything has then been painted white with acrylic paint. Then I used different mists and sprays to colour the canvas. You can find the video tutorial at the end of the blog post.

Materials:

Basic materials: Canvas, cheese cloth, laze, old zippers, beads, metal embellishments and flowers.

Fabric hardener from Hobby Line.

Mixed media glue, from Liquitex - Super heavy gel. This glue comes in different sizes, I try to get a liter of glue at the time (but then I do a lot of mixed media and I give classes).

I have used Prima's blooms spray, Finnabair's Opal Magic and Mica Powder, as well as Stewart Gill's Meta Mica.

I often save old paint brushes. They are brilliant to use in projects like this.

Most of the flowers here, are from Prima. Hobbykunst has a lot of different flowers, a lot of brand new ones, and a few on sale.

Tutorial

I hope you liked it.

I am entering these challenges:

Prima PPP - May

Prima Build a Page - May

More than words - May - clocks and Moment

Mixed media place - Creative gym 18

Kreativ scrapping - Blomster

Always & Forever layout

I just love Kaisercraft’s wooden papers, and get drawn to them in each paper collection. This brown wooden paper is no exception. I have tried to make a romantic wedding layout with this rustic paper for Kaisercraft Design Team's wedding post today.

I have painted the paper with gesso, under the photo, and stampted with a background stamp and gesso. The papers and embellishments are added in layers with 3D foam in between, to create some dimension. I have also added some cheese cloth in between the layers, lots of flowers and golden embellishments from an old jewelry

Other: Cheese cloth, cotton string, old jewelry and gesso.

søndag 8. mai 2016

Creating paper dresses

For some reason, I really love creating paper dresses. I guess it challenges me in some way. Designing dresses is an art form that I truly admire. I have sew quite a lot of dresses for myself and for my daughter. This was often due to often not finding "the right dress" for myself, and it was easier to to make one.

Creating a lot with paper, combining crafting with paper and dressmaking, is a fantastic mix. Although creating paper dresses, often involves skills in dressmaking and knowing the difference in the material you are working with. Paper has a completely different way of folding and "behaving" when you work with it. This also depends on the paper brand, as the quality of the paper is completely different.

My first two dresses were sewn out of coffee filters. I guess coffee filters are a versatile material to work with, and a good material to choose if you want to start to create paper miniature dresses. These dresses were made without creating a paper pattern first. The dresses created from paper, were made with a crinoline and paper ruffles. One of the dresses also has a bustle. These dresses had to be designed, creating a paper pattern first (remade the patterns about 5 times before I was satisfied). The last dress has been made with cheese cloth and a fabric hardener medium. This is also a fantastic way to start to create a dress (full tutorial in my blog)

For now, I have made 5 paper dresses, but I still have a few dresses ready in my head.

Miniature wedding dress

This miniature wedding dress in a box, was created as a wedding card for the magazine Ett trykk. The box itself is 18cm tall. The dress has been sewn with a sewing machine with coffee filters. The box has been created with acetate and papers from Pion design. The flowers for the dress has been hand made.

Miniature wedding dress; blog post

Steampunk dress

This dress was also sewn out of coffee filters and lace. The dress itself, is sewn as a dress. It has a zip at the back, and can be taken of the dress form. Papers here are from Prima. The dress form is also hand sewn, from a pattern I found online. You can find the pattern here.

Steampunk dress; blog post.

Prima Bella Rouge dress

This dress was created for Prima's design team call last year. I applied for Prima and Kaisercraft. I did not make it to the Prima design team, but I was so pleased to make it onto Kaisercraft's design team.

The dress form is hand made. You can find the dress form tutorial in my blog. The dress itself is made with an underskirt, with the long ruffles over it. Then I created a crinoline and added the ruffles. The ruffles had to be gently created to fold in just the right place. The pattern for the dress, was made about 5 times. I used about 100 hours to create the dress. All the flowers for the dress has been hand made.

Prima Bella Rouge dress; original blog post

The 1870s dress

This dress was created for Kaisercraft, and was shown at CHA - spring 2016. The dress has been created with the Cottage Rose collection, and it is based on historical information of how they were sewing dresses in the 1970s. The dress has been created around an underskirt. Then I created a crinoline, and fixed the ruffles to the crinoline. I also added a bustle at the back. The flowers are hand made.

Creating thing for CHA, is often difficult. This is because you have very short time to create the items and get them sent back. My papers was stuck in Melbourne, so I totally had 3 evening after work to design for CHA. I used two days to create the pattern for the dress and an evening to create the dress itself.

The 1870s dress; original blog post.

Prima Wedding dress

This dress was created with Fabric hardener and cheese cloth. Then I added an underskirt created with papers from the Tales of you and me from Prima.

There are also tutorials on how to decorate the dress in the blog.

Prima wedding dress; original blogpost.

Where Do I start to create paper dresses?

If you are thinking about creating paper dresses. The first thing you need is a dress form. If you don't manage to get hold of one, you may chose to create one yourself.

Creating a dress form:

I have found a good pattern for a sewn dress form over at the DIY dish

You can also create a dress form with an old bottle, news paper and wood glue:

How to create a paper dress:

Creating dresses can be an advanced task. Creating my Prima Bella Rouge dress or the Kaisercraft 1870s dress involves skills in dress design and pattern making, that you would learn while you take your specialist tailor education, and can therefore not be explained in a blog post.

Material: Coffee filter:

Creating dresses with coffee filter is often a good start, since that paper is easier to work with.

Material: Fabric hardener:

Fabric hardener and cheese cloth or lace is a good and easy way of creating dresses. I have created a tutorial on how to use fabric hardener to create a dress.

Material: Paper:

When you make a paper dress, try to first make it in copy paper. It is normal to create a pattern before the dress is being made. This is also where you make adjustments to the pattern. When you are satisfied, you use the copy paper dress as a pattern on your patterned paper. Then you create your dress out of patterned paper.

Remember that the quality of paper is very different. Some papers thick papers, and sometimes you would have to soften the paper with water to make it curve if you make large ruffles. Take care when you add water to paper, as it might dissolve if you are not careful, so take care. Some papers are very thin paper, it folds easily, but it is not very strong for 3D creations. Therefore, you might want to use card stock for support in some places (making sure the support card stock doesn't show).

I hope you enjoyed,

best of luck in creating your own paper dress.

fredag 6. mai 2016

Little moments - hexagonal treat box

Today, It is my turn fot my montly blogpost in Kaisercraft's blog.This time, I heav featured a lot of Kaisercraft's dies in the blogpost. One of the items I have created is a a small gift box created with the always and forever collection.

This is s small mothers day gift box created with the always and forever collection. The hearts has been made with a flower die (DD707) and golden glitter cardstock.