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Craft Tutorial #6 - Dragonfly Card
Craft Tutorial #6- Dragonfly Punch Card
Make this beautiful Dragonfly card using the steps below. This technique can also be achieved using a Butterfly punch.
What You Need:
All items available at Fern Gully Stamps
Purple Card- 28cm x 14cm folded in half
Mat 1 -White Card-12.5cm x12.5cm
Mat 2- Purple Card (lighter shade) -10.5cm x10.5cm
Mat 3- Mauve Textured Paper- Stitched Swirls
Card for Dragonflies- Purple card(same shade as folded card)
Rhinestones- clear
Karl Medium Dragonfly Punch
Double sided tape
craft glue
Tweezers
Silver Greeting Sticker- optional
Step 1- Put double sided tape along the edges of the back of Mat 1 (white card). Remove the backing and center it on front of the folded purple card
Step 2- Place double sided tape along the edges of the back of Mat 2 (Purple Card.) Remove the backing of the tape
Step 3-Center Mat 2 on top of the white card.
Step 4 - Place double sided tape on the back of Mat 3 (textured paper). Remove the backing of the tape
Step 5- Center it on top of the purple card
Step 6-Punch out 12 Dragonflies using your Punch
Step 7- With the top of Dragonfly facing up apply glue to the Middle only. Not the wings
Step 8- Using tweezers Grasp one Dragonfly with the top facing upward.
Step 9- Carefully place it on top of the other Dragonfly so middle section of the two are attached.
Make another 4-5 double Dragonflies. Remember only glue the middle not the wings.
Step 10- Using tweezers, remove the smallest sized Rhinestone from the pack
Step 11-Carefully place the Rhinestones along the spine of the top, double Dragonfly.
Step 12- Put at lease 5 Rhinestones on each double Dragonfly
Step 13- You should have 4-5 Double Dragonflies with Rhinestones as well as 4-5 single plain Dragonflies.
Arrange your Dragonflies on top of the textured paper so you can plan where you will attach them. If you need to make more do so now. If you would like to add a greeting sticker, save a place for this as well.
Step 14-Using tweezers, pick up one of the Dragonfles and apply glue to the back of it , including the wings. Carefully place it in position on your card.
Step 15- Repeat for all other Dragonflies. Allow to dry.
Step 16-Sepearte the wings on each of the double Dragonflies by lifting them upwards.
Alternatively you could have all your dragonflies double if you wish. You could add glitter to the wings as well as the textured paper. You can achieve a similar effect using a butterfly punch.
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Craft Tutorial#5- Transparent Stickers
Craft Tutorial #5- Transparent Stickers with Japanese papers-
Make Oriental style cards using the steps below
What You Need: All Items available
at Fern Gully Stamps.
A5 Card pink
Mat 1- Burgundy Card 11×7.5cm
Mat 2- green Card 10x 6.5cm
Paper with colourful, Japanese Patterns
Silver or Gold outlined transparent Stickers -Japanese Vases
Silve or Gold border stickers
Double sided tape
Step 1-Peel a Japanese Vase sticker off
Step 2-Place it onto the printed side of your patterned paper
Step 3- Carefully Cut around the outline of the sticker
Step 5- Fold your A5 pink card in half
Step 6-Place double sided tape around the edges of the back of Mat 1 , remove the backing on the tape
Step 7- Place Mat 1 onto the the front of your A5 folded card, centered
Step 8- Place double side tape around the edges of the back of Mat 2 and place it on top of Mat 1, Centered
Step 9-Put double sided tape onto the back of your cut out vase & remove the backing of the tape
Step 10- Place the Vase in the middle of Mat 2
Step 11- Carefully apply a silver or gold border sticker to the outside edges of Mat 2
Step 12- To finish place small silver or gold stickers to the top, bottom and sides of the A5 pink card.
Here is another card using the same technique-
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Craft Tutorial #4 - Wire Swirls
Craft Tutorial #4 - DazzlingWire Swirls
Make your own wire embelishments to make this stunning Wire Swirl Card
What You Need:
Adhesive rhinestones
Tri Fold card- each panel 11.5×11.5 with cut out square 5cmx5cm in middle panel
or use a square border with 5cmx5cm cut out square with any card
Black card 6.5×6.5
Double sided tape
Pliers- round nose, flat or chain nose and wire cutters
The swirls will be attached to the card by the 2 ends of the swirl being bent backwards so that they can be inserted into holes in the card
Step 1-Cut 12cm wire
Bend 2cm from the end (this is your first bent piece that will insert into the top of the black card)
Step 2-Place the short bent wire parallel with your round nose pliers so that the wire is running along the jaw of the plies, the tip of your round nose pliers is level with the where the bend is
Step 3-Using your fingers bring the long wire around the tip of the pliers making a complete loop
Step4-Grasp this loop with flat nose pliers and do a loose coil
Approx 2-3 times around
Step 5 -Put a curve in the tail of the swirl- see example for the direction of the curves
Step6-Bend the last 1-2cm of the stem back ( this will go into the hole at the bottom of your black card)
Make sure the swirls are no longer than 4.5cm not including the bent back wire
Do 4 more swirls, they can vary in length and size-see example as a guide
Step7-Arrange the swirls to see where the swirls will sit on the black card. Make sure the bottom wires are aligned with each other. And are at least 1cm from the edge
Make sure you leave at least 8mm to 1cm border around the swirls
If you need to make any of the swirls shorter just cut the end and make a new bend at the bottom
Put a pen mark where the holes should go for each of the bent back wires (2 for each swirl)
Step8-Using a pin pierce each pen mark making a hole for the wires. Put the swirls on one at a time
Step9-Push down each of the wires sticking out the back of the black card
Step10- On the back of the white card place double sided tape around the inside edges of the cut out square
Turn the white card over and position it on top of your black card with the swirls and press down to stick
Step11-With the inside of card facing you, using double sided tape around the edges of middle panel and fold down the left side of the card over the middle panel of the card and stick so you cover the back of the black card. You now have a bi fold card
Step12-Place adhesive rhinestones along the back of each swirl near the top. In the example there is a large one at the top then a medium then small . For the smaller swirls there is only 2 used a medium and small
Step13-You can use put short message on one of the corners by using a stamp or writing with an embossing pen or using a sticker . You can add a small rhinestone for extra touch.
Copyright © 2009 Fern Gully Stamps. All Rights Reserved. Thank you for understanding that the designs,images and content contained in this Journal/website are not to be duplicated and/or reproduced in any way with out the owners authorisation.
