We couldn’t let Halloween pass without a Pinterest find!
While I’ll be trying to enjoy the summer whether that Daylight Savings brings tonight, I can definitely think of a few kids who might enjoy the origami DIY tonight.
For the full tutorial of the black cat origami, check out the original blogpost on Pink Stripey Socks (image above used from their site).
Hi everyone! It’s Tarrah here with you today. I wanted to get a start on some handmade Christmas gifts so I went to my number one place for some ideas and inspiration: Pinterest!
These cute magnets caught my eye straight away!
Photo Credits: Sei Lifestyle
Supply List:
Scraps of patterned paper
Word Stickers
Rhinestones
Paper Doily
Embellishments
Mod Podge
Circle Chipboard Pieces
Magnets
Sandpaper
Hot Glue Gun
Sewing Machine
Step 1: Gather some of your patterned paper scraps and a little bit of paper doily and lightly adhere a few pieces together into a square shape (making sure that your round chipboard piece will fit) then adhere with some glue or Mod Podge to your chipboard.
These are the ones I made:
Step 2: Cut off the excess paper and then sand right around the edges to give a nice finish to your circle. Machine stitch around a few of the papers edges and around the perimeter of the circle.
Step 3: Add some word stickers, rhinestones and embellishments like butterflies or hearts.
Step 4: Apply a light layer of Mod Podge over the whole circle to seal everything and then once the Mod Podge is dry, adhere the magnet to the back of the chipboard with a hot glue gun.
These cute magnets will be gifted to a couple of my girlfriends for Christmas who always love receiving a handmade gift from me!
I hope I have inspired you to get creating too, thank you so much for stopping by the Papercut Labs blog today!
Happy creating!
— Tarrah x
The final card from the Natalie Appreciation Card-making Challenge is from Amanda Hartmann, who was also inspired by Twirl!
Amanda says: So much beautiful inspiration in every post on Natalie’s blog, which made it hard to choose just ONE layout to be inspired by! However I chose this layout, primarily for its soft pretty colours and for the GOLD. One MUST use gold right now! To create my card, I replicated some of the the colours, with the white background, pink and pale blue papers and finished with gold and wood embellishments. I also loved the way Natalie layered tulle and vellum with machine stitching, so I also used that technique on my card. Even the cloud and scattered hearts are inspired from elements on Natalie’s layout. I hope that my Mum will love the card for her upcoming 60th birthday!
Today, we welcome Linda Trace to the blog and the Natalie Appreciation Card-making Challenge! She was heavily inspired by the style of title in Natalie’s She layout (on the left).
I don’t know about you, but we love them both!
Blogging team member Tarrah has not only created a beautiful card based on Natalie’s Twirl, she also filmed her process!
Tarrah took Natalie’s layout and used it as an inspirational sketch, while maintaining some of the beautiful qualities found in the layout.
We’ve sped up the video so you can see this amazing under-ten minute card in just one. Want to make cards quickly too? Flashy Cards Fast is still discounted!
Did you know that Natalie’s card class FLASHY CARDS FAST is only on sale until Wednesday? Get on that now.
Today we’re featuring Amanda Reddicliffe who created a card inspired by Natalie’s ‘Adventure’ layout (on the left and a few more pictures via this link).
Amanda says: I was inspired overall by Natalie’s beautifully balanced and bright layout. The photo itself is darling, but to create a card that is inspired by this layout I pinched my fave parts of the layout – the dark border, bold papers, the touches of vellum, the love hearts peeking out from behind the photo, sewing and of course the square alpha’s she used.
Have we mentioned that in Flashy Cards Fast! that you’ll be guided through how to make cards in one minute and five minutes? And how to make cards from your scrap stash? No?
We really should have done that.
We’re making flashy cards FAST in November.
Welcome to post two of the “Natalie Appreciation Card-making Challenge”. (Yes, I literally just made that title up then.) Today, Raquel Bowman, all-round amazing person and founder of A Piece of Cake Designs, is taking on the challenge.
She was inspired by Natalie’s Society 52 layout.
Raquel says: The tags were what drew me into creating a card using this layout as inspiration. I thought it was such a neat idea. I cut the tags with a tag die I had and also used a layering style at the top of the card to mimic the top of the layout.
