Quick Butterfly Card

Hi,

I just made a quick and easy butterfly card and thought I'd share.

I used 2 sheets of black and white patterned paper, foamtape, scissors, tape runner, butterflies printed onto glossy cardstock, white cardstock
not in the picture are my ink (Memento Dew Drop - Bamboo Leaves), stamp (Dankeschön [Thank you]), aquapainter, watercolor, glue dots and a small piece of green cardstock.

Hi,

I just made a quick and easy butterfly card and thought I'd share.

I used 2 sheets of black and white patterned paper, foamtape, scissors, tape runner, butterflies printed onto glossy cardstock, white cardstock
not in the picture are my ink (Memento Dew Drop - Bamboo Leaves), stamp (Dankeschön [Thank you]), aquapainter, watercolor, glue dots and a small piece of green cardstock.

Book love

 ----------Decorating and crafting with old books----------

Hello everybody,
recently I was looking through the classified ads and found somebody, who gave old books away. I am now proud owner of 10 new old books.

I love books. I decorate with them, scan them, take them apart (only if they're not valuable), craft with them and collect them. Sometimes I even read them ;-)

I also love sites like the graphicsfairy, where you'll find scanned images of old books.  This compass is from her site, printed out and used to make this quick card.

To make this book pillar, all you'll need is an inexpensive old book .  I took a cheap romance novel, folded all pages to the middle and ripped off the backing.

Use it to hold your notes, or wrap a ribbon around it for a decorative pillar. If you put a glass circle or something else fire proof on top, you could also use it as a candle holder.

This 2-5-7-10 box was decorated with pages from an old dictionary. 
Except for the thickness of the paper you can use bookpages in the place of patterned paper on most papercrafts you do.











If you're using old books, make sure it's not a favorite of a family member. My mom wasn't very happy a few years ago, when I took "The little prince" and made an earring holder out of it.
Since then I came to regret using that book myself, so pay attention to which books will get taken apart and which are better used for something, that doesn't harm them. Like decorating a tablescape, leaving them in your bookshelf, scanning them, or even selling / giving them to somebody who will appreciate your old books.




With love

Celstina

 ----------Decorating and crafting with old books----------

Hello everybody,
recently I was looking through the classified ads and found somebody, who gave old books away. I am now proud owner of 10 new old books.

I love books. I decorate with them, scan them, take them apart (only if they're not valuable), craft with them and collect them. Sometimes I even read them ;-)

I also love sites like the graphicsfairy, where you'll find scanned images of old books.  This compass is from her site, printed out and used to make this quick card.

To make this book pillar, all you'll need is an inexpensive old book .  I took a cheap romance novel, folded all pages to the middle and ripped off the backing.

Use it to hold your notes, or wrap a ribbon around it for a decorative pillar. If you put a glass circle or something else fire proof on top, you could also use it as a candle holder.

This 2-5-7-10 box was decorated with pages from an old dictionary. 
Except for the thickness of the paper you can use bookpages in the place of patterned paper on most papercrafts you do.











If you're using old books, make sure it's not a favorite of a family member. My mom wasn't very happy a few years ago, when I took "The little prince" and made an earring holder out of it.
Since then I came to regret using that book myself, so pay attention to which books will get taken apart and which are better used for something, that doesn't harm them. Like decorating a tablescape, leaving them in your bookshelf, scanning them, or even selling / giving them to somebody who will appreciate your old books.




With love

Celstina

Tea bag dispenser - my first tutorial

Tea bag dispenser

welcome to my first tutorial, here's what we're going to make: 

and that's what the instructiuons look like:

;-) not really

it's my first sketch after I found the idea here.


Now onto the real instructions:
You will have to change those measurements depending on the size of your teabag. Mine is 2 5/16" x 2 1/2"


Cut your cardstock to 11" x 8" if you're using lettersize or 11 1/2" x 8,2 (it's the width of a normal  Din A4 sheet) if you're using A4 cardstock. (It only affects the size of the gluetab, which will be only half an inch, when you're using lettersize)

 
Score as shown in the template, then turn and score at 2 1/2"
Cut along the scorelines to make flaps and cut off the piece under the sideflap.

Time to cut your opening.

turn your paper around, so the beckside is facing you and take a ruler and pencil.

Lightly mark a square where indicated in the diagram. The size is up to you. I made mine approx. 1/2 inch high and almost to the scorelines. Cut with your x-acto knife.
I took my circlecutter to make the halfcircle. Use yours if you have one, or trace a gluecap and cut by hand.

Now you can decorate it. Stamp it, paint it, or add panels like I did. Don't add panels after glueing it if you want a panel, where your cutout is. It's almost impossible to cut that curve then. (Don't ask me how I know that :-))


Ok let's glue it together.

Turn it face-up, add glue to all your flaps, except the one under your cutout and put it together in the order shown above. (1 onto 2 onto 3 onto 4) Pay attention to the side. I used scor-tape and left the backing on it until the bottom was glued down. Then bend your sideflap inwards, remove the tape and carefully align it.


Now onto the top.
Cut your cardstock to 4 5/8" x 4 7/8" 

Score all around at 1" and cut slits for the flaps.
Glue them to the sides and you're done.


And here are a few more pics of the finished tea bag holder:

If anything's unclear or my english wasn't up to the task, ask away. I'll be happy to help.

With love

Celestina

P.S. I just posted this tutorial in german. If you're interested, here's the link

Tea bag dispenser

welcome to my first tutorial, here's what we're going to make: 

and that's what the instructiuons look like:

;-) not really

it's my first sketch after I found the idea here.


Now onto the real instructions:
You will have to change those measurements depending on the size of your teabag. Mine is 2 5/16" x 2 1/2"


Cut your cardstock to 11" x 8" if you're using lettersize or 11 1/2" x 8,2 (it's the width of a normal  Din A4 sheet) if you're using A4 cardstock. (It only affects the size of the gluetab, which will be only half an inch, when you're using lettersize)

 
Score as shown in the template, then turn and score at 2 1/2"
Cut along the scorelines to make flaps and cut off the piece under the sideflap.

Time to cut your opening.

turn your paper around, so the beckside is facing you and take a ruler and pencil.

Lightly mark a square where indicated in the diagram. The size is up to you. I made mine approx. 1/2 inch high and almost to the scorelines. Cut with your x-acto knife.
I took my circlecutter to make the halfcircle. Use yours if you have one, or trace a gluecap and cut by hand.

Now you can decorate it. Stamp it, paint it, or add panels like I did. Don't add panels after glueing it if you want a panel, where your cutout is. It's almost impossible to cut that curve then. (Don't ask me how I know that :-))


Ok let's glue it together.

Turn it face-up, add glue to all your flaps, except the one under your cutout and put it together in the order shown above. (1 onto 2 onto 3 onto 4) Pay attention to the side. I used scor-tape and left the backing on it until the bottom was glued down. Then bend your sideflap inwards, remove the tape and carefully align it.


Now onto the top.
Cut your cardstock to 4 5/8" x 4 7/8" 

Score all around at 1" and cut slits for the flaps.
Glue them to the sides and you're done.


And here are a few more pics of the finished tea bag holder:

If anything's unclear or my english wasn't up to the task, ask away. I'll be happy to help.

With love

Celestina

P.S. I just posted this tutorial in german. If you're interested, here's the link

Hello to you, my first readers

I spent a long time trying to decide, wether to write this blog in english or german.
In the end I have decided to do both. Since I don't like alternating paragraphs, I'll do alternating posts instead. I'll label by language, so you should be easily able to choose yours by clicking that label.

Now onto the first post ;-)

All you need is love - by CK

This Blog will mainly deal with papercrafting especially cardmaking.
I've been crafting since I was a little child with breaks inbetween when something else took my fancy. I still think of myself as a beginner.
There's so much content out there on the web, so many talented artists and crafters. It's quite humbling to see some of their beautiful creations.

On  Pinterest I share my inspiration, tutorials, templates, SVG's, and many more things I found and liked.


Tomorrow I'll write my first tutorial. Now I'm going to bed.

That's it for my first post. I hope you enjoyed it and will come back.

With love

Celestina

I spent a long time trying to decide, wether to write this blog in english or german.
In the end I have decided to do both. Since I don't like alternating paragraphs, I'll do alternating posts instead. I'll label by language, so you should be easily able to choose yours by clicking that label.

Now onto the first post ;-)

All you need is love - by CK

This Blog will mainly deal with papercrafting especially cardmaking.
I've been crafting since I was a little child with breaks inbetween when something else took my fancy. I still think of myself as a beginner.
There's so much content out there on the web, so many talented artists and crafters. It's quite humbling to see some of their beautiful creations.

On  Pinterest I share my inspiration, tutorials, templates, SVG's, and many more things I found and liked.


Tomorrow I'll write my first tutorial. Now I'm going to bed.

That's it for my first post. I hope you enjoyed it and will come back.

With love

Celestina