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Card Handbag - Free Craft instructions

September 20th 2008 09:24

This small card handbag is great for giving small presents, and can be decorated in the colours and style of your choice.

Card Handbag free craft instructions make gift bag

Finished Handbag

Materials Required

1. 2 pieces of A4 card in different colours of your choice (I used pink and purple)
2. Double sided sticky tape (DSST)
3. Craft cutter and scissors
4. Embellishments of your choice (I used punches, sticky backed rhinestones and a piece of ribbon)
5. Ruler
6. Scoring tool (use a metal tipped biro if you have nothing else)

Instructions

1. Print out the two templates below onto the BACK of the two pieces of card (one template per card)

Printing Instructions

Click on the image below to bring up the full-size image.
Choose "file", and click on "print preview"
Click on the printer symbol to start printing

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Template 1

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Template 2

2. Cut out the bag body and handle templates. Score along all the fold lines. Turn them over then put DSST on the flaps (see photo's below for help).

Hint - If you wish to stamp images on the bag, now is the best time to do this.

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3. Turn the pieces over again (so you can see the printed lines - the DSST will be on the other side) and attach the handles, as shown. Then fold the bag sides up and secure them in place.

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4. Squeeze the sides the bag gently, creasing them on the pre-scored lines.

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5. Decorate the bag

I used a punch by Carl (CP-1 Daisy), a standard stationary hole punch for the flower centres, Self adhesive rhinestones by Kaiserscrapbook, and a piece of purple-blue ribbon.

Finished Handbag

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Posted By: Jude O'Connell - Category: General Craft, Birthday Cards

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Small Gift Bag - Free craft instructions

September 7th 2008 09:12

Gift Bag Free Craft Instructions Party Favour

Finished Gift Bag

These two gift boxes are based on the tutorial for a 2-5-7-10 Box found at Split Coast Stampers, but with a few modifications, and a template to make it easy. The original tutorial can be found Here.

Materials Required:

1. Piece of A4 Light Card of your choice
2. Ribbon - matching the card
3. Ruler
4. Craft cutter and scissors
5. Hole punch
6. Double Sided Sticky Tape (DSST)
7. Embellishments - your choice, matching the card
8. Small tipped embossing tool (or a biro iwill work too f you do not have one of these)

Instructions

1. Print off the template below onto the BACK of the piece of A4 Card

Printing Instructions

Click on the image below to bring up the full-size image.
Choose "file", and click on "print preview"
Click on the printer symbol to start printing

Gift Bag Free Craft Instructions Party Favour Template

Gift Bag Template

2. Cut around the border of the template.

3. Turn the card over, and decorate it as desired. Cut out the shaded areas from the template (see below photos for guidance).

4. Turn the card over to the printed side. Score all the lines with the embossing tool. Then make cuts on the lines forming the bottom flaps and the small fold down flap (see photo below for guidance). Punch out the two holes on the top flap.

5. Fold the small flap backward, as per photo, and punch the two marked holes with the hole punch. The holes should go through both layers of card.

6. Turn the card over again, and put DSST on the side flap (as shown below), flip the card over again, and put DSST on the bottom right hand side flap as shown.

7. Stick the side flap under the side of the box, and adhere, as shown below. Then stick down the bottom flap, as shown below.

8. Pinch the sides of the box together, as shown below. They should crease along the lines you scored earlier.

9. Ribbon can be inserted from inside the box, as shown below, and the top flap will fold down and be kept in place by the bow.

10. Decorate your box as desired.

Flowers and Dragonflys

For this box, I punched out flower and dragonfly shapes in green and purple paper. I used a strip of flower paper 1.5cm wide across the bottom of the bottom flap, and then used a corner rounding punch on the two corners. I cut another square of the same paper 6cm x 6cm. Rounded it's corners as well, and adhered that to the box. Then I randomly placed the punched shapes over the box.

Finished Gift Bag

Stamped Flower

For this box I used the stampin up set "two step stampin PETAL PRINTS".
I randomly stamped the leaf pattern over the light purple card at the beginning. I stamped the two step flower onto white card, cut it out to 5.3cm x 5.3cm and rounded the corners with a corner punch. I cut out a contrasting blue square 6cm x 6cm and again rounded it's corners. I stuck the flower inage onto the blue square. Using the same colour blue paper, I adhered a strip 1.5cm wide along the bottom of the top flap, and then rounded the corners with the corner punch. Matching blue ribbon was used.

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Posted By: Jude O'Connell - Category: General Craft, Mother's Day Craft

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Cowboy / Cowgirl Hat Craft and Card- Free

July 17th 2008 07:32

Make the Cowboy Hat by layering 3 pieces of coloured paper, and then use your imagination to create a card - great for Dad's birthday or Father's Day.

Cowgirl / Cowgirl Hat Card Craft

Materials Required:

1. Three pieces of thick A4 paper - I have used light brown, dark brown and red. Use your favourite colours.
2. One piece of White A4 card
3. Paper glue

Instructions

1. Print off the template below onto each of the three pieces of light brown, dark brown and red card.
Hint - Make sure that you print onto the BACK of the paper.

Printing Instructions

Click on the image below to bring up the full-size image.
Choose "file", and click on "print preview"
Click on the printer symbol to start printing

Cowboy / Cowgirl Hat Template

2. Cut out the three pieces required to make the hat. You will need to cut a different piece out of every A4 Piece of paper. The template has the colour's I used labelled next to each of the three template pieces.

3. Paste the three pieces onto the white card, as shown in the photo's below, to create the cowboy hat. Start with dark brown, then the red, and lastly the light brown.
Hint - After you have pasted the first piece down it is helpful to ensure you have worked out how the next two pieces will go BEFORE you paste the second piece down.

If you can't see the photo's properly, double click on them to bring up a larger image.

4. Create a card using the finished cowboy hat. I have provided one example you could follow, or create your own.