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Christmas Card - the Joy of Christmas

November 26th 2008 05:13

Christmas Card Free making instructions ideas stars wire beads the joy of christmas

Christmas Card - the JOY of CHRISTMAS

Materials Required:

1. Card: White piece plain A5 Card (150mm x 210mm) (scored and folded in half to make a base card); Bazzill Blackberry
2. Ink: White
3. Embellishments: Kaiser Rub-ons - christmas words of your choice; 3 metal stars; Kaiser self-adhesive clear rhinestones; thin silver wire, beads - clear stars and ring shapes.
4. Adhesives: Tape, Double-sided sticky tape (DSST), Double sided foam mounting tape.
5. Cutting instruments: Paper trimmer
6. Other: drawing pin; ruler

Instructions

1. Swipe the edges of 3 pieces of Blackberry card 10mm x 150 mm; 10mm x 150mm and 60mm x 150mm with white ink.

2. Make a hole (using the drawing pin) in the 60mm x 150mm piece of card near the left upper corner. Push the end of a piece of silver wire through the hole a short distance, and secure it on the back of the card with tape. Cut the wire at about 80mm long from the hole. Thread on a star bead, secure it by wrapping the wire around it, and then make another hole near the base of the card(approx 45 mm in from the edge), push the end of the wire through and secure it on the back with tape. Use the photograph to help with placement of your holes. Repeat this process with another three pieces of wire and beads, to create the zig-zag effect as shown.

3. Adhere this and the two thin strips of Blackberry card onto the base card. Positioning them as shown in the photograph.

4. Adhere the metal stars in position using the foam mounting tape.

5. Embellish the card further with the self-adhesive rhinestones.

6. Adhere the rub on words "the JOY of CHRISTMAS" or other words of your own choice.

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Advent Calendar - Using Matchboxes

November 26th 2008 03:34

Christmas advent calendar free craft matchbox kids easy

Christmas Advent Calendar - Using Matchboxes

Create this Christmas Advent calendar with your kids.
We used matchboxes of a couple of different sizes to hold our lollies and chocolate coins. We used the biggest matchboxes for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

HINT: If you don't have enough matchboxes try opening out one, tracing the design onto light card, cutting them out and creating your own matchboxes. Using this method you can make the matchboxes in card coloured to match your design and you will not have to cover them with paper as we did.

Materials Required:

1. 24 or 25 Matchboxes (depending if you would like to open a matchbox on Christmas day or not)
2. Piece of sturday backing card. Size according to your needs. Ours was 37cm x 48cm. We used the side of an old cardboard box.
3. Piece of paper to cover the front of your advent calendar. We used white.
4. Christmas paper scraps - to cover the matchboxes.
5. Decorations - we used gold card for a border; glitter glue, stickers; gold and silver Christmas stars; punched tags and gold dot stickers to put the day numbers on; gold thread.
Other suggestions: Images cut from Christmas wrapping paper or old christmas cards, christmas stamps, gold, silver, green or red wool, colouring, pictures drawn by your children onto the calendar.... the list is endless.
6. Black permanent marker - to write on the number 1 to 24 or 25
7. Lollies for the boxes. We have two children so we put two lollies in each box - one each. Make sure when buying the lollies that they will fit into the matchboxes and that they are covered so that they won't go off while waiting to be opened.
8. Adhesives: Glue, Double-sided sticky tape (DSST), sticky tape.

HINTS:
-Try sticking to a colour theme (eg Gold and reds) to create a striking impact with your advent calendar.
-Let your children use their imagination when decorating the calendar and try not to direct them too much- then they will be proud of their efforts and their creation. You can always brighten it up at the end by adding a few star stickers and glitter glue to fill up empty spaces.

Instructions

1. Cover the matchbox covers with colourful Christmas paper.
Hint: Dont cover the ends. You will need to be able to open and colse the matchboxes to get the lollies out.
Hint: Make sure that the sticky tape ends up on the back side of your matchboxes, where it will not be seen once they are attached to the base board.

2. Cover the backing cardboard with the paper, using glue or DSST.

3. Arrange the matchboxes onto the backing card, and stick them down using DSST.

4. Number the matchboxes 1 to 25 for each of the days in December leading up to christmas.

5. Decorate the advent calendar.

6. Fill the boxes with chocolates, lollies or other goodies.

ENJOY!!

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Christmas Cards - Using Rub Ons

November 10th 2008 11:30

Here are some more Christmas Cards ideas. - These cards are decorated using Christmas Rub-ons by kaiser Craft.
Rub-ons are a really easy and simple way to make a plain card look great.

Kaiser Rub-On Christmas Card Free making instructions Kaisercraft

Tag Card 1

I recently brought some new jeans and loved the labels that came with them. I trimmed them to size, sanded them (with sandpaper) for a worn look, and decorated them with Rub-ons. Then I used them to make Christmas Cards.

This card has the edges sponged with black ink.

Tag Card 2

For this card I used black card with a white core. I sanded it, allowing some of the inner white to show through, matching it to the look of the sanded tag. I also sponged the edges with dark brown ink to match the brown colours in the tag.

Tag Card 3

This card is similar to the first, but here I again used some of the black card with the white core so that when sanded the centre colour shows through.

Tag Card 4

This card uses dark black card, and I have sponged the edges of the cream piece of card with black ink to help it blend to the base card. I also used a black brad to tie the tag's string around for extra decoration.

Tag Card 5

This card uses torn pieces of brown card as the backing for the tag. The black base card is sponged with white and brown ink. The cream rectangle the tag is layered onto has been sponged with brown ink

Joy and Laughter Card

This card uses three pre-made present embellishments, Rub-ons and some white ink sponged around the edges of the card.

Jolly and Fun Christmas Card

This card was decorated using pieces of torn card, a Christmas Rub-on and 3 kaiser self-adhesive rhinestones.

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Embossed Bead Cards

November 5th 2008 03:35

Card Making Beads UTEE embossing enamel craft

Card displaying a tile that has a bead pattern in embossing enamel

The tile that is central in this card was made by covering the tile with double-sided sticking paper, and then adhering a bead pattern to the tile. (Note - glass heat resistant beads are required). Silver embossing powder was then sprinkled over the tile, adhering to the areas of the sticky paper that were not covered with beads. The excess was shaken off and the embossing powder was heat set. While it was still hot and melted, Clear UTEE (Ultra thick embossing enamel - equivalent is Opals "Franklin" embossing enamel) was poured over the tile. The excess shaken off and then this was again heat set. The process of adding the UTEE to the hot, melted embossing enamel was repeated a furthur two times. This firmly set the beads onto the tile in a clear enamel surface

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