Washi Techniques - Slice n Dice a Background!

Have you realised that you can cut your washi tape lengthways?  I had a "derrrr" moment not so long ago when I realised I could not only cut or tear my washi tape off at different lengths - but cut it so I had different widths!!!

I am hopeless at making decisions regarding co-ordinating products for my projects; so I love that the Sawyer's Place Washi Tapes are not only sold in single rolls, but in co-ordinating packs - grouped together so I don't have to think!!

The following cards were made using wash tapes from the packs available at Sawyer's Place:

To make these Washi Backgrounds:
Place strips of washi on your cutting mat.  Using a ruler and craft knife - slice until you have the desired thickness/s - use the grid lines on the craft mat to keep the edges straight!

When laying your washi on your background - pick an angle and use the grid lines on the craft mat to keep everything uniform - Or not if that's how you want it!  Do break up the 'tyre tread' pattern I used the 'caution' co-ordinating washi from the  pack.

Peel your panel from the craft mat and tuck your edges over.  Attach to the front of your card and attach your embellishments - I LOVE this flair "look out"!  It was perfect for the theme of this card; celebrating success for passing a learner's driving test!

Here's the customary close-up :-)

Ingredients:
"Learner"
Sawyer's Place Washi Tapes - Sampson Collection
Sawyer's Place Rourke's Rounds, Flair - Sampson Collection
Stix2Anything Silicone Adhesive (I prefer this to foam tape for adding dimension)
Twiddleybitz C6 Card and Envelope - Black
Twiddleybitz Square Alphabet Letter - "L"
White Cardstock
Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Squeezed Lemonade
Stazon Ink - Black
Miscellaneous Black Ribbon


"Wishing You A Happy Day"
Sawyer's Place Washi Tape -Titus Collection (Steel Blue Robots)
Sawyer's Place Rourke's Rounds, Flair - Titus Collection
Stix2Anything Silicone Adhesive (I prefer this to foam tape for adding dimension)
Twiddleybitz C6 Card and Envelope - White
Stazon Ink - Black; Midnight Blue
Washi Tape - blue from ???
My Favourite Things - Die-namics name plate

I hope I've inspired you to get even more from your washi tape!  I'd love to see a comment with a link if you've been using yours!  Please stay tuned for more Washi ideas and tips and tricks :-)

Thanks for stopping by
Jen
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Tip 1: Washi Tape Positioning and your Projects...

I love creating, and like so many people I agonise over the arrangement of my papers, card stock, photos, and embellishments on my layouts, cards, and other projects.  I have a few little tips and tricks up my sleeve for using different elements and techniques in my crafting and thought I might start sharing a few with you!!

Tip 1:  Using Washi Tape
This tip works especially well for lettered or patterned washi tape, although you could use it for any type.
A fantastic way to determine the arrangement of words from the Sawyer's Place Cromwell Tape is to stick it to clear plastic;  you can then move it around on your project.  You can also re-position the words on the plastic in different patterns, and then try it around your project again.  When you are happy you can stick the words onto your project once - avoiding any problems trying to peel it back off again to re-position!
(although Sawyer’s place Washi Tapes are “low-tac” so rarely rip your paper or cardstock anyway!)

I used this tip on the following layout - as you can see from the photos:

Finally satisfied with the placement of my tape I finished my layout - with no tears!!

I hope this tip is useful for you - stay tuned for tonight's technique tutorial on wash tape - something so simple but you may have never thought to do!
Jen
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Cromwell Tape - Love is Awesome

I thought black Cromwell Tape was a rather exciting addition to the washi tapes at Sawyer's Place, but the addition of Teal Cromwell tape is even more awesome!!

I made this lovely card tonight - it was rather easy :-)  Three words sliced from the tape for the greeting - combined with some Bo Bunny Flower Child papers and a Flourish from Flourish With A Bling.  

I wanted to add the matte red washi to the card - but as it's slightly transparent, I used two strips of white matte washi tape under the matte red tape (only one white shown in photo - I added another after the photo as I wasn't happy :-).

 Then I added the Puffy Jasmine Flourish and trimmed the ends from the washi tape:

 I used Stix2Anything Silicone Adhesive to create dimension as an alternative to foam tape.  Just remember to let it dry for a few moments before attaching the greeting block to the card front and don't push down too hard!

 I stuck the Teal Cromwell tape on the Bo Bunny Flower Child Cut out for the greeting block...

 And wallah!  A quick and simple card all finished!! 

Ingredients:

Bo Bunny 12" Flower Child Patterned Paper - Groovy and Cut-outs

Sawyer's Place Washi Paper - White Matte

Sawyer's Place Washi Paper - Red Matte

Sawyer's Place Washi Paper - Teal Cromwell

Flourish With A Bling - Jasmine Puffy Flourish - Teal

Stix2Anything - Silicone Adhesive

Thanks for stopping by!!

Jen

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Beautiful Sugar Beads Card

This card was quite a simple one to put together.  I grabbed my stamp set with the dress and matching quote, some ink, card stock, glue and sugar beads!!

• I used a black pre cut and scored card from Twiddleybitz, and used purple card stock with a white matt for my front.  
• I stamped the dress onto some white card stock, and the verse onto the small white doily.
• I attached the doily to the card stock and before attaching the stamped panel, I inked the edges.
• I then added a layer of Glossy Accents to the dress and poured my sugar beads on!!  I left this for half an hour while I had a culpa tea and came back and tapped of the excess beads
• I then added a bunch of rose buds and a white and silver prettied bow using a little hot glue

Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz black C6 card and envelope

Cardstock - white and purple

My2Angels - Sugar beads - Purple Passion

My2Angels - White Rose buds

My2Angels - White and silver bow

Glossy Accents bought from My2Angels

Stix2 Anything Double sided tape

Black Stazon Ink

Miscellaneous stamps

Hot glue gun

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen

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Sugar Beads

One of the fabulous new additions to the product range at My2Angels is Sugar Beads!  These mixtures of beads are available in great colour combinations and I couldn't resist the mint crush, and of course Purple Passion.  Despite my mojo drought, ideas were popping in my head all the time and I just had to find the time to put some of them to use.

I have seen the beads used to cover chipboard and I wanted to use both the colours of the sugar beads on the one project, so I originally thought purple flowers and green stems or grass.... that developed into a white butterfly with purple wings and a bunch of flowers and the stems of the bunch hmmm...

After painting the butterfly white, letting it dry and attaching it to my card, I filled the wings one at a time with hot glue (from my glue gun) and poured the beads all over it - pressing them in, tapping off the excess and putting them back in the little pot.  I repeated this for all three wings.

The bunch of purple flowers, I added the three rose buds to and wrapped the stems around each other.  I then laid hot glue along the stems and again poured and pressed the beads into it, tapping off the excess.  I use a little more hot glue to attach the bunch to the card - and the bow to the bunch.

I slid the love charm under the edge of the bunch and added some 'movement' to the butterfly with a piece of FWAB chloe purple pearl flourish.

Ingredients:
Twiddleybitz - White C6 card
Twiddleybitz - Butterflies Assorted (BUT003)
Black Cardstock
Kaiser Patterned Paper - Konstrukt Collection
My2Angels - Purple Orchids
My2Angels - Purple Rose Buds
My2Angels - Mauve and Silver Love Charming Word
My2Angels - Sugar Beads - Mint Crush
My2Angels - Sugar Beads - Purple Passion
Flourish With A Bling - Chloe Pearl Flourish - Purple
Ranger - Liquid Pearls - Orchid
Adirondack - Acrylic Paint Dabber - Snowcap
White Paper Doily

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to visit My2Angels and grab some Sugar Beads!

Jen
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Erin's Bling Door Hanger Tutorial

Well I awoke to a lovely surprise a little while ago.  Erin had been in the Studio and created a door hanger for herself!  She did a lovely job and what was even better was that she had also cleaned up after herself!!

When I commented on how lovely it was and told her I would blog about it - she decided to write a tutorial straight away!

1. I painted the E and the door hanger first in Distress Crackle Paint - worn lipstick
2. When it was dry, I sprayed on 3 colours - lippy luscious, cherry luscious, and brick.
3. I then dabbed it softly with a tissue.
4. I added Flourish With A Bling Pearls and they were pink
5. I stuck the E to the hanger with PVA from Stix2Anything
6. I added Flourish With A Bling flowers - 2 light pink and 1 dark pink

Ingredients:
Kaiser Door Hanger
Kaiser Letter "E"
Stix2Anything - PVA glue
Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Crackle Paint - Worn Lipstick
Colourful Thoughts Colorsprays - Lippy Luscious, Cherry Luscious
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Brick
Flourish With A Bling Adhesive Pearls - Copper
Flourish With A Bling Elis Flourish Silver - Dusty Pink and Rose Pink Flowers

Thank you for joining myself and Erin for this post :-)

TFL - Mwah! XXX
Jen, and Erin!

Happy Birthday...

I made this card recently for a friend whose favourite colour is blue :-)

1. I die cut the tag shape from a piece of card so I could use the negative as a stencil and graduated the three distress ink colours using the sponging method.  
2. I then sprayed the Manorhouse flowers with blue colour spray to deepen the colour
3. I stamped the happy birthday greeting in midnight blue stazon
4. While the flowers dried, I stamped the envelope, sponged it, and dragged the stazon inkpad around the edges of the envelope and card for definition.  
5. I stamped inside the card with another birthday greeting
6. Then attached the flowers with hot glue.

Ingredients:
Twiddleybitz - White C6 Card
Manorhouse Creations - blue flowers
Tim Holtz Distress ink -
Stazon Ink - Midnight
Die Cut Shape -
Miscellaneous happy Birthday Greeting
Stamp It greeting - Happy Birthday (inside the card)

TFL - Mwah! XXX
Jen

Dec 25th - Faux Washi

Hello Everyone, I'm here today with my first official post for Stix2Anything!

Being on a tight budget, versatility is a very important thing for me, so today I wanted to show you how versatile the Stix2 products can be!

I have stencil tape, it's a low tac tape designed to adhere, be removed, and re-adhere a number of times for using in stencilling (holding the stencil in place while using different medium for effect)
I'm sure you've seen the popularity explosion of Washi tape - well I have so many stamps - and over 80 ink pads that also I'm compulsive and purchase Washi tape - I also make my own using stencil tape!

First you design your card and decide on the colour and style you need.
Then you adhere a length of the stencil tape to your non-stick crafting sheet and colour with your ink and sponger - experiment with different types of ink and application techniques as water-based inks will have a different effect to alcohol based inks etc... and also taking into account the tape is cream in colour, not white - to begin with.

Then use a permanent ink to stamp your design on the tape - I've used stazon and made sure to stamp off my tape as well so that it's less rigid and 'ribbon-looking' if you know what I mean!
(and don't worry, the permanent ink does come straight off with a bit of stazon stamp cleaner :-))

so now we have made our washi tape we adhere it to our card/project (remember it may still be slightly transparent)

and here's a closeup -

To make the card I have used a pre-scored and folded card - inked the edges of the card and the patterned paper panels with the same colour ink I used for the tape.
I used Stix2 double sided tape to attach the paper panels to the front of the card.
I stamped my 'Dec 25' greeting in the stazon ink for longevity and again used the inks around the edges of the diecut.
This was then attached to the front of the card using the Stix2 adhesive foam tape.

This was a very simple card but the focal point is the eye-catching home-made faux washi tape :-)

I hope you like my first card and enjoy making your own washi tape!
Be sure to visit the Stix2Anything website to grab some stencil tape and get creating!
Jen
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Ingredients:
Adhesives - Stix2Anything double sided tape, adhesive foam tape, stencil tape
Stix2Anything non-stick crafting sheet
Twiddleybits pre-scored and folded white card 13x13 cms
Patterned paper by Alison Ellis Design
Joy stamp by Sparkle n Sprinkle - available through Alison Ellis Design
Tsukineko Stazon innk - Olive Green
Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Picket Fence
Kaiser Stamp Set CS727 - Dear Santa Collection
Mpress nesting scallop die

TWBZ Wreath Card

I had so much fun making this card and it all started with a few branches!!

Intructions:

First I sprayed the leaves both sides with green sparkly spray:

 Then I cut a wreath using two circle cutters through my bigshot:

 I cut the leaves so they were separate parts and gave them another spray to really sparkle:

Once dry, I laid the leaves out and began attaching them to the wreath:

 I had a few spare:

 Then I added some bling for berries:

 And a bow at the top (that I later changed to white):

Ingredients:
Cardstock - red
Cardstsock - white embossed
Red Green and White striped Ribbon
Green Tara - White pre-tied bow
Twiddleybitz - Alpha Square (ALP004)
Twiddleybitz - Fern Leaves Set of 4 (FER001)
Flourish With A Bling - Adhesive Pearls - Red
Lindy's Starburst Stain - Green Goblin
Adhesives by Stix2Anything

Thanks for stopping by - I hope to see you creating wreaths of your own - let me know when you do!!
Jen
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Santa's Mailbox

When I saw these new mailboxes from Twiddleybitz I just had to have one right away!  I started on it the second night I had it and colour-sprayed it first thing! Unfortunately I had to put it (and creating in general) aside for a while but I finally managed to finish it the other night.  I am quite please with how it turned out.. I got to use some of my favourite products and I love that I stuck to traditional red and green for Christmas.

I followed the instructions sheet that was included to assemble and started gathering flowers and embellishments to decorate the top.  I started with the gorgeous Elise Flourish:

I made the small Twiddleybitz sleigh - added Santa and made Rudolph a bit fancy with my liquid pearls. I sprayed the Manorhouse Creations flower with the green colour spray from the halloween Lindy's Starburst pack:

I covered the "Santa" with White Opals embossing enamels and completely covered in kindy glitz, it took a while to dry - then attached it with the embellishments from My2Angels.

Then I tied some matching ribbon around the stand and added a leftover flower.

Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz - Mail box Kit

Twiddleybitz - Chippy Sleigh Kit small (XMAS035)

Twiddleybitz - Santa word

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist - Red nosed Reindeer

Lindy's Starburst - Freaky franken-lime

Manorhouse Creations - Winter Song - Log Cabin (lrg green flower)

Manorhouse Creations - small silver flowers

Flourish With a Bling - Elise Clear Rhinestone Flourish

Flourish With a Bling - Clear Rhinestones

Crochet By Kim - beaded pins - (Christmas set of 3)

My2Angels - all charms

My2Angels - all bows

My2Angels - all ribbon

My2Angels - all mini bells

My2Angels - Rudolf

Ranger - liquid pearls, ruby red and mint green

Pipe DreamINK - opals, snowgum

Matisse Derivan - Kindy Glitz, christalina

Green Tara - Santa die cut

I also used PVA by Stix2Anything to assemble the sleigh and mailbox.

I hope you like our new mailbox for our Letters to Santa!

Thanks for stopping by -

Jen

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Santa's Chair!!

I think these chairs from Twiddleybitz are super cute and have loved all the soft feminine chairs that people have created with them but I wanted to do something a bit different!  Christmas gave me the perfect opportunity to make Santa's Chair!!

I started by painting the poppy colourspray onto the MDF - spraying doesn't work so well as it beads on the wood.

Then I glued all the pieces together with pva - this was super easy as they slot together perfectly!

Embellishing the chair was again extremely easy as I used a Christmas embellishment pack from my2angels.net!  I didn't have to make any pins, rosettes, tags or do any embossing!!

Here's the gorgeous rosette on the front of the backrest and the two 'star cushions'!

I did however sew the pincushion!!! yay me!  dusted off the sewing machine - it's been a while BUT I cheated with the Santa Sack and put cushion stuffing in a pre-made organza bag :-P.  I added the green sparkly ribbon from the pack and the gorgeous charming chain too.

And a side view too :-)

Ingredients:
Twiddleybitz - MDF Chairs, 2pk (MDF02)
My2Angels - Christmas Embellishment Kit (Brisbane Show Purchase)
My2Angels - Merry Christmas Charming Chain with Glass Abacus
My2Angels - Charming Pins 
My2Angels - Felt Shapes
My2Angels - Green Glitter Ribbon
Colorful Thoughts Sprays - Poppy
Tattered Angels - Glimmer Mist, Scarlet
Red Material
Red Organza Bag
Cushion stuffing
PVA Glue

Stay tuned for my next Christmas Twiddleybitz Off the Page Project!  It's so exciting!!
Jen
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