I love a long weekend !!!!!!!

Happy Birthday to Jill.  It is her birthday today and she gets to celebrate it with a long weekend .

One of our customers (Lynn) made Jill this lovely card below using the Poppy stamp from Stamp It and a labels die from Spellbinders. Lynn made a gate fold card which has the opening in the centre of the card. The Poppy stamp has been stamped onto red card and then cut out. It has been stamped a second time onto white and the red flower heads glued into place. The red, black and white looks stunning together. Great job Lynn!!!!!!!!

Here are some more box cards that our customers made recently.

Joy has used a red (card) base for her box along with green (printed paper) flowers (with rhinestones in the centre of each), a butterfly and the layers on the front flaps. I love the way she has combined red, green and ivory together - the box looks fabulous!!!!

Angie loves to hand make her embellishments that she features on her cards by quilling. Quilling is rolling up very thin (2,3,5mm) pieces of paper and cutting/gluing them into shape. You might remember her lovely little quilled flowers she featured on my birthday card.  She loved the kite paper that she purchased from us so much that she decided to turn it into a box and quilled (can you even imagine how much time it took to quill each kite and the tail) the kites that are featured on the inside of the box and glued them to acetate to give them the appearance that they are floating in the sky. She inserted a row of grass across the centre of the box as a feature. The grass and the picket fence was made using the Fiskars Border Punches. Your box looks amazing Angie!!!!!!

Little Monsters!!!

Here is a cute card for the little monsters in your life.

To create this card we have used a very cute Doodlebug printed paper, a cute little mini bow, Fiskars Cupcake Border Punch and a Stamp It rubber stamp.

All stock used on this card is currently available at Crafty Capers

Robyn and Jill's Fabulous Fans

Hi all - Jill here. For those of you that don't know me, I design and teach at Crafty Capers and work behind the counter 2 days a week.
Robyn (one of our very clever customers) made the gorgeous pink fan card for Nat's birthday, and I loved it. I had to reproduce it as the design intrigued me!  The other two cards were the result.


As promised here are instructions for the fan featured on the cards pictured below.
Start with a paper strip measuring 8.0" x 2 1/4". Working with a long edge facing you, make score lines every 1/4" along the strip.
Use a suitable Fiskars border punch along the top edge then fold at all score lines. The first fold is a mountain fold then alternate valley and mountain folds along strip. Last fold should also be a mountain fold. All folds must be very crisp.
On the front of your fan, adhere a strip of double-sided tape over the first and last 1/4" panels. Fold these panels back behind the fan and adhere to base layer leaving a gap of about 1/4"-3/8" between the two panels. It may help to lay a ruler on the base beside where you want the fan to line up your panels. Apply a generous layer of white PVA glue such as Tombow Mono Multi where the rest of the fan will attatch; push fan down and adhere. Adhere a bow over the centre of the fan or a rhinestone into the gap.
Note - If you prefer to work in centimetres, the base strip would be 20cm x 6cm and the folds every 0.5cm. 

The card below has been made using Kaiser printed paper, a Fiskars Lace border punch and Kaiser Lippy Red rhinestones. All these products are currently in stock at Crafty Capers.

The card below has been made with American Craft printed paper, a Fiskars Lacy Days of Summer border punch, Bazzill cardstock, a mini bow, and Kaiser Pearl Flourishes. 

All of these products are currently in stock at Crafty Capers.

Beautiful organza flowers

Recently we got these gorgeous organza flowers into the shop. 

We have heaps of colours to choose from and they have a beautiful little pearls in the center of each flower.

See how easy they are to use on your cards. Products used on these cards are available at Crafty Capers.