Some Bunny Loves You

I have a quick Some Bunny Love You treat bag project today. I have lots of these treat bags handy for candy,  cookies and other goodies should the need arise. They just need a quick tag and they make an easy gift for a friend or loved one.

You need three #8 Distress Mixed Media Heavystock tags and the Flowery background die.

Begin by coloring the tags with Distress Ink. I colored on with browns, and two with similar dry/blues, but make one darker than the other.

Put some of the Sizzix Permanent Adhesive on the back of the lighter grey/blue tag.

I took these of my prototype and forgot to get photos of the real deal, so just know that you will want to draw a 1/4" frame around the outside of the tag. you want a good 3/4" piece at the top.

They are going to be layered like this. You will cut the Flowery background die out of the light blue/grey tag, then peel off the adhesive cover and adhere it to the darker blue/grey tag. You will inadvertently cut the top of the tag off when you cut the background. Save that top piece for later.

Using Tim's Retractable Craft Knife and Ruler, I carefully trimmed around the brown tag so I would be left with a frame.

The brown frame should fit something like this.

Here is where the extra tag top comes in handy. I don't like gaps when I am layering, so before you put the frame on the tag, you need to fill in the gap at the top. I gently peeled odd the reinforcer off the tag before adhering the ltop ayer.

Here is the completed project with Jelliebellies.

I added on of the heart from the Lucky Love 3D embossing thinly. It was colored with Crackling Campfire

To finish it I added  Carrot Bunny and some lettering for a sentiment from the Alpohanumeric Bold letters.

To make these lines on the carrots, I ran s little scoring blade through some Ground Espresso Archivel Ink then roll the line out onto the carrot.

I aways have a supply of various wood grain papers around and for this tag a chose one to use for the sentiment.

I hope that was easy enough to follow for a quick layered Easter Treat Bag.

Tami

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Never-ending Card Tutorial

Oh my the new Backdrops papers and Worn Wallpaper from Tim Holtz Idea-ology are all so beautiful!  I wanted to make a project that really let them shine and appreciated them for their beauty, so I went old school and made a card type that I haven't made in years and years called a Never-ending card.

For the tutorial on the Never-ending Card, I thought it would be best to try and explain it through video, so I have reignited my Youtube channel and posted a video tutorial there. You can find it by clicking this link: https://youtu.be/N6ywzVN-qrQ

With the Never-ending card, you open it to reveal a second page, seen here, 

then a third page seen here,

and finally a fourth page seen here, 

before finally ending back at the very first page. That is why it is called a Never-ending card or also an Infinity card.

You begin with four 3" x 6" pieces of cardstock that is the same color on both sides.

Along the 6" side, score each piece at 1.5 and 4.5.

Then rotate the paper to the 3" side and score each end at 1.5 up to the 1.5" score line to make two 1.5 x 1.5 " squares on each end.

You will end up with 4 scored pieces. Two need to go vertically and two will go horizontally to make this card work.

Adhere glue only to the outer most 1.5 x 1.5 squares on the vertical pieces. 

Then adhere the same on the horizontal pieces, but you need to carefully align the horizontal pieces over the vertical pieces and only the corners should be glued together leaving the centers free.

Cut patterned papers as follows:

2 -  2.75 x 5.75" patterned paper that can go horizontally 

2 -  2.75 x 5.75" patterned paper that can go vertically

8 - 1.25 x 1.25” squares

8 - 1.25 x 2.75” rectangles (4 horizontal and 4 vertical)

Cardstock mats should be cut 1/8" larger than the patterned paper pieces.

**Thank you to reader Michele for these mat sizes. These are especially helpful if you are cutting them on an electronic machine.**

1.375"  x 1.375" for the eight squares

2.875" x 5.875" for the four large rectangles

1.375" x 2.875" for the eight small rectangles

Here is the front of the card I worked on in the video. A reminder that all of the paper pieces go on the various pages once they are matted, but the long horizontal and vertical pieces need to be cut in half before adhering them to the card so you can open the pages.

Add whatever flat embellishments you want to the card, metallic stickers, Engraved Layers, Paper Dolls, tags, tickets, so many wonderful, flat, paper options for you to include in your finished piece.

I hope this tutorial and the video tutorial were helpful. If you haven't had a chance to watch the YouTube video yet, I hope you will get a chance to check it out soon.

As always I am thankful for you stopped by and for your support. I never take it for granted.

Tami

I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose.  If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Remember Who you Are - Sizzix Colorize

I’m bringing you a project today that I made for the Sizzix Making Journal Blog featuring Harrison, one of the new colorize dies from Tim Holtz. I had a chance to visit Walt Disney World in October for the very first time ever and as expected, I fell in love with Disney Animal Kingdom park. With that inspiration in mind, I decided to do something that would represent that park in my make with Harrison.

To begin, I wanted to make some paper that looked like African Mud Cloth or Kitenge cloth. You do not need to do this step if you have some patterned paper you would rather use. For me, it’s all in the details, and I really enjoy making things like this to give my projects a unique, personalized feel.

First you need to stamp a pattern onto some Distress Mixed Media Heavystock. I used small, linear stamps from a set called Media Marks 1 and 2 from Stampers Anonymous, and stamped them two at a time in clear embossing ink. 

I moved the paper 1/2 “ and stamped again, moved, stamped again, until I had a whole side stamped.

Then quickly put embossing powder over it, heat emboss, ink the piece with Distress Ink, spray with water, and let the piece dry naturally.

Then using a hot, dry iron, put a clean piece of printer paper over the embossing and heat it with the iron until the embossing powder remelts and soaks into the printer paper. It’s a great look and perfect for this piece.

You can use the paper that soaked up the Embossing Powder, as it will still resist, so cover it with Distress Inks or Distress Stains in the same manner you did the first few pieces. You will end up with a nice array of papers that you can choose from.

When you have several pieces of paper, you need to cut them into triangles. I used the smallest two triangles from the Stacked Triangles dies. Cut several of each triangle from different paper colors. I cut green and yellow triangles and then orange and dark brown of the smallest triangles.

Arrange the green triangles so they point up along the bottom, and down across the top. Then cut a different color to face the opposite direction. In these triangles, I added a smaller one in the middle of them for interest.

Across the bottom cut a strip to fit across the tag, but just wide enough to place some of the small triangles on their sides. I cut this from the dark brown paper. The triangles on this piece (I used orange ones) should have the points facing the side and the bottoms butted against each other.

One other bit of prep work is to paint the Etcetera Tag with Speckled Egg Distress Paint, and then when it is completely dry, sand it off in areas, allowing the tag to show through. 

You want to be sure before you adhere the Stacked Triangle pieces that you make sure you have room for Harrison and your sentiment.

Once the patterns on the top and bottom were started I added some strips of black paper across the tag, between the vertical and horizontal patterns. I made this the same way as the papers above, I just used the pine from the Flurry & Pine CMS312 stamp. I cut 1.8" strips to go across several places to separate the borders.

I cut Harrison from Distress Watercolor Cardstock on the rough side that I had colored with Distress Inks, making the pattern look a little like ruffled fur. I found it easier to watercolor the pieces before I cut them on the large parts. Then it just took a second to color the tiny pieces with a watercolor brush before cutting. 

I assembled Harrison according to the photo on the package, but Sizzix has a great video here for putting him together that might help.

Next I cut and assembled the Funky Trees and I adhered Harrison and the trees onto the tag leaving enough space for the sentiment.

As you can see I put Harrison and the Funky Trees on the bottom of the brown border to leave room for the sentiment.

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I cut the title from the Bold Alphanumeric several times. I cut each letter three times from black cardstock, and once from the orange paper. I glued the black cardstock letters to one another and then attached the orange one on top. This makes the sentiment really stand out.

The finished tag can be a decor piece that is a good reminder that as Mufasa told Simba, “Remember Who You Are.”

Thanks you so much for following along with this make. I hope you are inspired to make something with the new Harrison Colorize die.

TamiB

I am an affiliate with Simon Says Stamp and Scrapbook.com so the links below send you to one of those stores depending on which logo you choose.  If you wish to purchase something from either store and use one of my links below, I get a small percentage of your order, at no additional cost to you. This helps me to defray the costs of this blog, the time, the ideas and tutorials I post here. Your help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!