RELEASE TWO
MARIANNE CREATABLES
‘ENGLISH COTTAGE’
6” x 6” Easel Card – Thatch
Roof Cottage
DIES * STAMPS * EMBOSSERS USED:
MARIANNE CREATABLES
#CR-1219 ENGLISH COTTAGE
MARIANNE DESIGNABLES #TC-0823 ‘RELAXING
GIRL’ CLEAR STAMP
CHEERY LYNN DIES #B-123 VICTORIAN
PICKET FENCE
#B-130 COLONIAL
LAMP POSTS
COTTAGE CUTZ DIES
#CC4x6-039 RUSTIC SIGN &
TREES
SPELLBINDERS
DIES #S4-132 CLASSIC RECTANGLES (Large) *For
Window Trim
MEMORY BOX DIES #822 IVY TENDRILS
JUST RITE CUSTOM
DIES #JB-03730 VINTAGE LABEL & BANNER DIES
FISKARS
TEXTURE PLATES NO # ‘HONEYCOMB’ for Cobblestone Walk
CORNER PUNCH NO # NAME
UNKNOWN
OTHER
MATERIALS:
BROWN
CARDSTOCK
PRINTED, TEXTURED CARDSTOCK (For
the House)
WHITE CRICUT CARDSTOCK
BLACK CARDSTOCK
CREAM CARDSTOCK
YELLOW CARDSTOCK (For Light in
Lamp Post)
BLACK INK
OIL PENCILS
COPPER FOIL
FLOWER SOFT
FLOWER SOFT CARD TOPPERS (Flower
Pots)
REAL TWIGS FROM MY YARD (For
Tree Trunks)
RUST RAFFIA
WHITE EYELET LACE (For Window
Curtains)
GLASS TILES FROM MY STASH (For
Walkway Border)
*SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS / ALTERATIONS:
1. The soaring bird was the punched out piece
from the corner punch I used. I’m sorry I don’t
know the name of it.
It’s probably an EK success or Fiskars one.
2. For roof I tied small bundles of the Raffia together,
layered them and then trimmed them.
3. Everything else is pretty much
self-explanatory.
***
RELEASE TWO
MARIANNE CREATABLES
‘SCANDANAVIAN HOUSE’
6” x 6” Easel Card – Thanksgiving
DIES USED:
MARIANNE CREATABLES #CR-1217 SCANDANAVIAN
HOUSE
MARTHA STEWART BORDER PUNCH #42-70001 GARDEN
TRELLIS (Deep Edge)
EK SUCCESS BORDER PUNCH #54-40075 FALLING
LEAVES
OTHER
MATERIALS:
BROWN COLOR
CORE TEXTURED CARDSTOCK
PEACHY-ORANGE CARDSTOCK
KRAFT PAPER CARDSTOCK
CREAM CARDSTOCK
RUST COLORED PAPER RAFFIA
TAN RAFFIA
ORANGE PIPECLEANER FOR THE
WREATH
3-D EMBELLISHMENTS FROM MY STASH
COPPER COLORED ALPHABET CHARMS
FROM MY STASH
REAL TWIGS FROM MY YARD
VINTAGE THANKSGIVING CARDSTOCK
FOR THE BACK OF THE CARD
3-D DOTS
*SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS / ALTERATIONS:
1. I
hand tore the brown Kraft paper cardstock for the background for my letters.
2. I took a plain sheet of printed fall leaves
and cut it into different sizes of rectangles , allowing space between each one,
in order to form the background into panes of fall colors.
3. I threaded tan raffia around my little twigs
and through the hole in the charms.
4. I used the punched out leaves from the
border punch to sprinkle around on the card.
5.
I cut 2 3/8” strips of the brown cardstock to form the wings on
the house. Then used the “Garden Trellis” Deep Edge border punch to make my wings look like a
fence. Attached little strips of wood to
the back of the outer edge of each fence for posts.
6. Everything else is pretty much
self-explanatory.
***
RELEASE TWO
MARIANNE CREATABLES
‘VICTORIAN HOUSE’
6” x 6” Easel Card – Friendship
DIES & STAMPS USED:
MARIANNE CREATABLES #CR-1218 VICTORIAN
HOUSE
CHEERY LYNN DIES #B-123 VICTORIAN PICKET FENCE
#B-124 VICTORIAN GARDEN GATE
#B-126 GRASS BORDER
#B-130 COLONIAL
LAMP POSTS
DIE VERSIONS DIES #DVW-4x4-130 Flowers, Flower Pot & Butterfly from
“Garden
Gazebo Whispers Collection”
MEMORY BOX
DIES #98344 MARSHMALLOW CLOUDS
COTTAGE CUTZ DIES
#CC4x4-505 GARDEN
BRIDGE
SIZZIX DIES #657854 VICTORIAN LADIES
w/Hats and Coordinating
Stamps
#656929TH BRANCH
TREE – Tim Holtz Alterations
#656064 BRANCH
w/LEAVES (SIZZLIT)
#654374 SUN
#3 (SIZZLIT)
SPELLBINDERS DIES #S5-014 MEGA
DECKLED RECTANGLES (Small)
CUTTLEBUG DIES #37-1166 FRIENDS
FOREVER CUT N’ EMBOSS SET
“missing you”
STAMPABILITIES #DR1076 “FRIENDSHIP
WARMS THE HEART
OTHER
MATERIALS:
BLUE BAZZILL CARDSTOCK
BROWN CARDSTOCK
WHITE GP (Georgia Pacific 110
lb) CARDSTOCK
YELLOW CARDSTOCK
BROWN INK
OIL PENCILS
FRUIT PUNCH STICKLES
PEACH VELLUM
BABY BLUE LIQUID PEARLS
BROWN SATIN RIBBON
VICTORIAN PRINT PAPER
POOL BLUE INK
FLOWER SOFT
1. I cut several of the ‘Leafy Branches’ from
the same Brown cardstock I used for the ‘Branch Tree’ and randomly attached
them to the tree to form the canopy of leaves. Then I cut the same number of
‘Leafy Branches’ from Green cardstock, clipped off the leaves and put them over
the brown leaves to create the tree’s green leafy foliage.
2. The only other alterations I made were to
shorten my little Victorian Lady and the Lamp Post. She was a bit too tall to look proportionate
to the house so I cut off her feet, hemmed her dress and put her feet back on. The
Lamp Post only needed a small amount taken off the bottom of it because the
front fold of the card raised it too high.
3. Everything else is pretty much
self-explanatory.
***
This next project is an electrically lit Christmas House that was inspired by one of my Dutch Paper Craft's design team sisters, Petra Manenschijn, from Holland. Her Tea Light Christmas Candle was truly inspirational and she graciously allowed me to expand upon her idea and this is the result. Thank you, Petra! Oma Pat
RELEASE TWO
MARIANNE CREATABLES
SCANDANAVIAN HOUSE *
CHRISTMAS TREE
5 “ SQUARE FOIL
CHRISTMAS HOUSE – “CHRISTMAS NIGHT LIGHT”
DIES * PUNCHES
USED:
MARIANNE CREATABLES
#CR-1217 SCANDANAVIAN HOUSE
#LR-0142 MINI POINSETTIA DIE SET (Used for
Leaves)
#LR-0235 PETRA’S SMALL OVALS (For Pet Rug)
MARIANNE CRAFTABLES #CR-1224 CHRISTMAS TREE
NELLIE SNELLEN PUNCHES #FLP-013 MEDIUM POINSETTIA
#FLP-022 SMALL (MINI) POINSETTIA
OTHER
MATERIALS:
RED SATIN RIBBON – 1/16”
RED & GREEN RIBBON – 1/2”
RED & GOLD CROCHET THREAD
FROM MY STASH
GOLD FOIL CARDSTOCK (Only one
side is foiled. The other side is white)
GREEN FOIL CARDSTOCK (Only one
side is foil. The other side is white)
WHITE VELLUM
WOOD PLAQUES
ELECTRICAL CORD
CHRISTMAS LIGHT BULB
EMBELLISHMENTS FROM MY STASH
RED FELT
OAK STAIN
GREEN FOILED PIPE CLEANERS
CHRISTMAS RED STICKLES
YELLOW LIQUID PEARLS (For center
of Poinsettias)
GREEN RHINESTONES (For center of
the Poinsettias on the inside corners)
*SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS / ALTERATIONS:
1. I cut a 5 1/8” x 5/8” thick, square of
wood. Mounted it in the center of a wooden plaque with screws in each corner.
Drilled a 1” hole through the two layers of wood and secured the light socket
in place so that the rim of the socket was flush with the wood surface. Then
screwed in light bulb. This way you can change out the bulbs with ease or
simply use a votive candle instead of the electric light.
2. I cut eight (8) of the houses. (Four from
the foil side and four from the white side.) I glued white vellum to the back
side of four of the houses and then glued the white sides together, giving me
four (4) doubled sided gold houses with vellum windows. (One house for each
side of the 5 1/8” square block of wood, thus forming the walls of my square
Christmas House. I repeated this
process (with the exception of the Vellum) with the Green Foil to make the background
trees. Only I used ten (10) trees, five green and five in the gold to net me
five (5) double sided Foil Christmas Trees. Green on one side and gold on the
other.
3. I punched holes in each corner of the
roofs, threaded red ribbon through them and then tied a knot, binding them
together for added stiffness and stability. Wrapped the roof top with the
sparkly red and gold crochet thread and then placed a poinsettia at each
corner.
4. I hot glued my animals and embellishments
to suit. My kitten was glued to the rug I made with the Petra’s Small Oval Die
Set and I took some Christmas Red Foil Embroidery Thread and tangled it around
his wee little back paws. Stickled his play toy with Christmas Red Stickles to
make it look like a ball of yarn. And boy is he having a good time! J
5. If you have any questions, please email me
for further directions and I will be glad to expand on any aspect of this
project.
***
RELEASE TWO
MARIANNE CRAFTABLES
CHRISTMAS TREE
6” x 6” – Easel Christmas
Card ( White on White )
DIES * PUNCHES
USED:
MARIANNE CRAFTABLES #CR-1224 CHRISTMAS TREE
NELLIE SNELLEN PUNCHES #FLP-013 MEDIUM POINSETTIA
#FLP-014 JUMBO POINSETTIA
MARTHA STEWART BORDER #42-40005 PINE
NEEDLES
BOSSKUTS #0810 “MERRY CHRISTMAS” Phrase
SPELLBINDERS #LF-246 GRAND LABELS 11
OTHER
MATERIALS:
1 ½” WHITE ORGANZA WIRED RIBBON
PEARLS
SILVER FOIL CARDSTOCK
THE PAPER STUDIO PEARL FINISH “Blanc
Boutique” Paper Pad (12x12)
*SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS / ALTERATIONS:
1. I used three different prints in the Pearl
Cardstock
2. Cut out my labels and tree.
3. Tied a ribbon on the card
4. Made my Poinsettia out of matching paper
and foil, dotted the tree with 5 pearls.
5. And it was done. Very simple, quick and elegant.
DESIGN PROJECT THREE
‘LIFESTYLE CRAFTS
SKELETON’
DIES USED:
LIFESTYLE CRAFTS #DT-0367 Skeleton
OTHER
MATERIALS:
ORANGE & BLACK SPIDERWEB RIBBON
WHITE SPIDERWEB DECORATION from HOBBY LOBBY
SPIDERS, CROWS, WITCH on Broom,
PUMPKIN SCARECROW from MY STASH
CORNCOB PIPE I MADE with MY
POLYMER CLAY and A TWIG
BROWN TWIG WREATH
*SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS / ALTERATIONS:
1.
I ATTACHED THE SKELETON PARTS TOGETHER BY PIERCING HOLES AT EACH JOINT AND
SEWING THEM TOGETHER LOOSELY. THIS WAY THE SKELETON HAS MOVEABLE PARTS SO THAT
YOU CAN POSITION HIM HOWEVER YOU LIKE. REALLY “KOOL” DIE. LOTS OF FUN!
2. ARRANGE EVERYTHING TO YOUR
TASTE AND YOU HAVE A VERY SPOOKY AND PRETTY HALLOWEEN WREATH.
***
DESIGN PROJECT THREE
‘LIFESTYLE CRAFTS COFFIN
BOX’
DIES USED:
LIFESTYLE CRAFTS #DC-0372 Coffin Box
QUICKUTZ REVOLUTION 4x4 #SK-0007 Halloween
Phrases ( Trick-or-Treat )
BOSSKUT #0847, #0847-1 Skeleton
Tombstone
OTHER
MATERIALS:
BLACK POLYMER CLAY
ORANGE POLYMER CLAY
WHITE SPIDERWEB DECORATION from
HOBBY LOBBY
ORANGE SATIN MATERIAL
ORANGE SATIN RIBBON w/Black Cats
BLACK SPIDERS
SKELETON
POLYFILL PILLOW STUFFING for the BED LINING
BLACK LACE WPIDERWEB MATERIAL
CELLO CANDY BAG
ORANGE 1/8” RIBBON
BLACK ROPE RIBBON
CHOCOLATE COVERED SUNFLOWER SEEDS CANDY
GOOGLY –MOVEABLE EYES ( BOTH ON THE SKELETON IN THE COFFIN AND THE
TOMBSTONE)
*SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS / ALTERATIONS:
1.
COVERED THE PILLOW POLYFILL WITH THE
ORANGE SATIN MATERIAL AND HOT-GLUED IT IN THE BOTTOM OF COFFIN.
2. COVERED THE COFFIN LID WITH
THE BLACK LACE SPIDERWEB MATERIAL AND LINED THE INSIDE WITH THE ORANGE SATIN
AND RAN A BEAD OF BLACK ROPE RIBBON AROUND THE INSIDE EDGES.
3. THIS LITTLE COFFIN WAS
ABSOLUTELY TOOOOOO MUCH FUN! I COULD MAKE THESE ALL DAY LONG.
Well, that's it for these two releases. I hope you found something inspirational. Please visit Dutchpapercrafts.blogspot.com to purchase the dies used in the making of these projects. Happy crafting everyone... Patricia Gayle
