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.

Teeny Tiny Bows.

How much do you love these teeny tiny bows!!!!!!

They are so cute and so perfect.
Each satin bow is 2cm or 1/4" wide . 

I wonder if they were made by hand or on a machine? 
I think we may need to get even more colours when the lovely Pam from Jade Wholesale comes to visit us next week.

Look at how we have used them on our cards. 
The cream bow can be put on a white card as we have done below and it looks great. The hearts on this card have been made using the Sizzix Framelits die set and the printed paper is from Best Creations. It is already pre-glazed and glittered and there are 7 different prints in the series, all in white.

Since this card went up the other day these puppy and turquoise prints from American Craft has begun walking out the door.

Stay tuned for another post very soon on this gorgeous fan card. 
One of our very lovely customers (Robyn) made me a birthday card using this fan. You can see her pink fan card in the customer gallery and on the post which features my birthday cards. Jill loved it so much that she (who loves a challenge) wanted to work out how to do it for herself so she made up this card and featured the bows and some more lovely American Craft paper. 
We have had so many people ask us about it that I think we will write out the instructions for you.
Stay tuned!!!!!