Tutorial for paper bowl

ere's a loooong overdue tutorial!

I totally meant to post this BEFORE Halloween,but that's OK. It's always the right season for chocolate and giving away sweets.Right?

I just made a bunch of these paper bowls for a crop tomorrow. Scrapping and chocolate is like peanut butter and jelly;)

What you will need:

• cardstock or double sided patterned paper
• ribbon
• hole puncher
• trimmer

Optional:

• ink
• border punch

You can make these bowls any size you want.It's up to you how much candy you want them to fit.

I like 9" x 9". It's not too big or too small.

So start with you 9" x 9" square.

Use a border punch all around if you want to be fancy.

 Then you need to score or draw lines. If your paper is 9 x 9, score by 3" and 6" both horizontal and vertical.

(Note:if you used a borderpunch,you will need to measure your paper and divide by three, to know where to score. A good idea is to use a calculator. I didn't in this example and the whole thing turned out crooked!)

I learned a tip from my dear friend on how to score easy.Use a stulys and slide it through your trimmer.

You will have 9 squares. Score the four corner squares diagonally.

Fold the horizontal and vertical lines in a valley fold and the diagonal lines in a mountain fold.

Punch a hole in the four corners and thread a ribbon trough them.

Make a bow,ink the edges, add a tag or whatever and you're done!

These a perfect little gifts. Can be used for birthday parties, baby or wedding showers. You name it!
And they are also very easy to make so they are great for kids crafts.

Good luck and happy crafting!

Tutorial for Father's Day card with origami

You will need:

 thin patterned paper

 bone folder

Cut a piece of 4" x 6" paper for the shirt.

Fold it in half or even better- draw a line with a pen, because you just need the center line for measuring.

Fold the two sides in so that they meet in the middle.

Turn over (so that the opening is facing down) and fold down about 1/2 inch.

Fold over again and make the collar by folding in the two upper corners so that they meet in the middle.

 

Fold the shirt in half and tuck the bottom in under the collar.

Unfold.

Fold the bottom corners out. Use the middle fold as guideline.

 

Fold the bottom of the shirt back up again and voila you shirt is done!

One last thing you can do is to cut out a tiny triangle under the arms so it looks more like sleeves.

 

Time for the tie.

Again- use thin patterned paper.

Cut a 2" square.

Draw a diagonal line in the middle.

 

Fold in the two sides so that they meet in the middle.

 

Turn over and fold down the top about 1/3.

 

Then fold that top up about 2/3. Not all the way up.

 

Then fold that remaining part as picture shows. This will make the knot of the tie.

 

Turn over and repeat the first step; fold the two sides so that they meet in the middle.

 

Turn over and your tie is done!!

Glue your tie to the shirt.

If your guy is not a "tie guy" you can use brads for buttons instead.

I made a super simple card with this.

I just covered a card in paper, cut out some strips, added brads in the corners, glued down the shirt and used my new Cricut cartridge ( Jubilee) to cut out the words.

Perfect for Father's Day June 20!

Use quotes for journaling

I have been so busy scrapbooking lately that my blog doesn't get much attention:(
On Friday I had some ladies over at my house and we made a few layouts. We meet once a month and work with Basic Grey's page kits. It's awesome! Everything is precut and marked with numbers. It's foolproof and turns out gorgeous. What else with BG!
Saturday I went to a 10-hour crop. I didn't get a whole lot of scrapping done, but I ate a bunch and watched a few chick flicks;)

Yesterday, I taught scrapbooking to a Spouse Group and today I'm going to a Close To My Heart club.

Fun stuff every day!


Do you ever feel that you run out of things to say... or write...when you create?
If you do, quotes come in real handy. They can be used for titles or journaling.

The other day I bought this downloadable e-book from scrapbook.com.

It has hundreds of quotes for every occasion and it only cost $ 9.95 and you get it instantly.
I put mine in a binder with sheet protectors and I will keep adding on new quotes as I find them. Like my favorite Dr. Suess quotes.Here's a few of my favorite quotes from the book;

"Dogs have owners. Cats have staff."

"A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man."

" I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage.They've experienced pain and bought jewelry"

"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being, hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint" Erma Bombeck

And then one a bit more serious;

"Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world,but the Marines don't have that problem" Ronald Reagan.

Click here if you wanna download it. If you rather not spend the money, Scrapbook.com has a huge library with thousands of quotes.

Click here to check them out.



Here's the class I taught yesterday; a Fathers day card with some simple origami. I will post a tutorial on how to do this tomorrow.

 

Origami flower tutorial

Just when I thought I could not come up with any more flowers, of any kind, I surprised myself. I came across an interesting-looking Japanese pillow and immediately wondered if I could turn it into paper flowers.
Here's the result- I call them origami-flowers, just because I can't think of anything better...



You'll need scraps paper, a bone folder and a glue stick. That's it!

As always the measurements are not very important.


Here I used:
4 papers 1 1/2" x 3"
4 papers 1 1/2" x 2 1/2"


You can use single or double sided paper and it's up to you if you want them all the same color or mix it up. Try to avoid heavy card stock paper. It's very hard to make nice folds with it.

 
Fold all the papers in half just to get a guideline.
Fold all the corners in towards the middle. Try to get them to slightly overlap, so that there will be no gaps.

 

Use glue or tape and put on the sides before you fold those in, meeting in the middle.

Now you will have this:

Glue them on top of each other 4 and 4.

And then glue the two layers on top of each other.Add something to the center and then bend all the "pedals"up.

This example turned out a bit crazy looking, but you'll get the idea!

Here is one where I used 16 strips rather than 8. I like that look, but I'm afraid it will look a bit bulky on a layout. I will try it on a card (someday)

I promise, I promise that next tutorial will not be any kind of flower. I'm gonna move on to some card tutorials.