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Craft Tutorial#10- Card Making using Clear Acetate
Craft Tutorial #10- Clear Acetate -You can stamp any image onto acetate to create a 3 dimensional look. Follow the instuctions below to create this wonderful Wedding Card.
What you need- All items available from Fern Gully Stamps
Sheet of clear Acetate
staz on ink Black Cherry
Stamp-Champagne Glass
plain cream paper
Black Card folded in half -21cm x17cm
Mat one - Red textured Card 9×14.5cm
Mat two -Patterned paper -gold hearts on cream
Tube glitter glue gold
2 charms or beads -6mm cream
6 small 4mm jump rings
2 head pins
card to match mat one-9cmx1.5cm
Message in gold approx 4cmx1cm
double sided tape
double sided foam
Step 1- Using Staz On ink stamp 2 champagne glass images onto the clear acetate- careful it can slip
Step 2-
After the ink is dry, Cu
t around the outside of both stamped images
Step 3- Using Staz On ink stamp 2 more images -Champagne glass onto plain cream paper
Step 3- Cut out part of the image on the cream paper- half the glass see photo
Step 4- Apply a dab of glue to the front of the cut out image on the cream paper. Place it behind the acetate stamped image and line it up. carefully press it in place so it sticks. do this to both champagne glass images
Step 5- Using glitter glue, dot a few drops on the top of the glass image
Step 6- Attach a charm or bead (each bead needs a head pin and a loop on each side) to 3 small connected jump rings
Step 7-Open the last jump ring and place it around the bottom of the acetate champagne glass image, repeat for the other
Step 8-Place double sided tape on the back of Mat two (patterned paper) and center it on top of mat one (red card)
Step 9-Put a message in the center of the 9cm x 1.5cm red card
Step 10-Place the red card with the message across the bottom of the card- about 1.5cm up from the bottom edge of the mat one (red card) make sure you can see a bit of the patterned paper at the bottom as well
Step 11- Cut a small piece of double side foam and place it on the back of the acetate stamped image, where the cream cut out image is so that you can will not see the tape from the front
Step 12-Position your 2 champagne glasses on top of Mat two (patterned paper) put them on a slight angle
Step 13-Put double side tape on the back of the Mat two (red card) and center onto your folded black card
Craft Tutorial #9- 3-D Picture
Craft Tutorials #9- 3-D Picture Card
What you need-All items available at Fern Gully Stamps
3-D Pictures - In this tutorial we have used-little Angle guiding a Unicorn
Pale pink card folded in half- 17cm long x 15cm heigh
Mat 1- light purple card-12.5×12.5cm
Mat 2 - white card -11×11cm
scraps of card same size as gift cards
Scissors
Double sided tape
Thick double sided foam
hole Punch
eyelet
Ribbon or silk cord
hammer and eyelet tool
Use the Steps Below to create a beautiful 3 dimentional card or use it a picture to frame- Fern Gully has a large variety of images and styles to choose from
Step 1- Carefully cut around each of the pictures 
Step 2- Put double sided tape (thin) on the back of your main picture (largest picture)
Step 3- Remove backing from tape and centre your main picture onto Mat 1
Step 4- Put a piece of thick double sided foam/tape on the back of each picture in the centre
Step 5- Each picture is designed to sit on an angle however the image lines up. when I refer to the pictures- 1 is the main picture, 2 is the 2nd largest and so on
The main (largest) picture that is mounted onto mat 1 is set aside- we will build the remaining picture and attach it to picture 1 last
Place the 2nd picture on a surface and hold the 3rd picture up to it to see where it lines up- take note of the complete picture
when you are happy remove the backing tape on the 3rd picture and stick in place on top of the 2nd picture
Step 6- Align the 4th picture on top of the 3rd
Then Align the rest of the pictures from largest to smallest
Step 7- Align the stacked pictues to picture 1 (the main picture that is mounted to mat 1)
Step 8- Centre mat 1 on top of mat 2
Place Mat 2 (with the stacked pictures on it) at the top of the folded card leaving 1cm at the top and 4cm at the bottom with approximately 1.5cm at each side.
Step 9- Stick one of the messages at the bottom of the card
Step 10- Gift Cards- This example has 2 gift cards
Gift Card 1 - Attach the main gift card to a piece of card and trim around the edges
Step 11-Cut the 3 pictures out
Step 12- Place thick double sided tape on the back of each picture
Step 13-Using the same technique as the main card- mount the 3 pictures from largest to smallest on top of each other aligning the picture as you go.
Step 14- Punch a hole at the top of the gift card
Step 15- Select a small metal eyelet
Step 16- Place the eyelet into the hole from the front
Step 17- Turn the card face down with the eyelet in place and put an eyelet tool into the eyelet
Hammer it into place
Step 18- Gift card 2- Double sided - You could also have 2 single sided as an option
Cut out the 2 gift card pictures, attach one to a piece of card and trim the card leaving a 1mm border
attach the other picture to other side of the card
Punch a hole at the top and add an eyelet using the same technique as before
Insert silk cord or ribbon to both gift tags
