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The daffodils are Turn to p36 for your nodding in the breez breeze e FREE Tattered Lace outside CB HQ and spring stamp and die set! is definitely on its way way!! The project cupboards are also overflowing with all the brilliant makes our makes our designers have been busy producing for this issue. On the following pages, Day, cardmaking, stencilling and you’ll find ideas for Valentine’s Day, the latest die collections to add to your stash. The masterclasses will guide you gently along the way, and there’s a quilled masterpiece from Elizabeth Moad, as well as the latest colouring techniques to try out. Our crafty WI, Clare Spender shows you how to get creative for a good cause, cause, plus we chat with three designers who have turned their passion for paper into successful careers. Turn to page 70 where our experts, Sara Davis, Camilla Westergaard and Samantha Claridge solve your creativ creative e dilemmas dilemmas.. This bumper issue is issue is bursting at the seams with goodies, from the butterfly dies to a book full of card projects and beautiful papers from papers from top brand Tattered Lace. As for me, I’m going to stock up on petal cutters to make Ellen Kharade’s flower wreath on page 82. From everyone here at CB HQ, enjoy! Happy crafting,
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YOUR REALLY USEFUL CRAFT TIPS
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INSPIRATION FOR FEBRUARY
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QUICK TRICKS WITH DIES
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5 WAYS WITH… TULIPS Enhance your beautiful greetings with vibrant ribbon details
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TWO-TONE TULIPS Add shade to simple stamps for a beautiful spring greeting
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PUGS AND KISSES Create squishy faced greetings using pretty papers
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HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WI Get the latest from the Women’s Institute
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SPELL IT OUT Cut, stick and paint to make botanic birthday offerings
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PAPER PROFESSIONALS We caught up with the artists turning paper into works of art
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LEARN & MAKE 24
ELIZABETH MOAD QUILLS Embed an outlined message in a quilled floral design
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COLETTE SMITH’S MASTERCLASS Die-cut to create something unique for your sweetheart
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SARA NAUMANN’S MASTERCLASS Transform plain white texture paste with a few simple steps!
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TREAT YOURSELF You’ll be smitten with these crafty buys in no time!
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OUR SPRING DIES HOT LIST Step into the season with our top 20 die shapes!
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DUCK TAPE Love is in the air with Corinne Bradd’s designs
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PAINTED FRAMES Peel-off outlines and glass paints transform old frames
RING A RING O’ ROSES Celebrate spring with a cheerful floral wreath
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PRETTY PACKAGING Spruce up wooden storage boxes for a craft room revamp
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BEAD BOUTIQUE Insects are this season’s hot jewellery trend!
90 TEATIME TWIST Combine mini silver clay cutlery with polymer motifs 93
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USE THESE TWO QUALITY DIES FROM DOVECRAFT TO MAKE PERFECT ALL YEAR ROUND GREETINGS!
Love Circle Fix mint card to a blank, �.�cm x ��.�cm. Matt butterfly paper, �cm x ��cm, on top. Attach ribbons near the base of the card and trim the ends. Secure a sentiment to a die-cut circle and attach to the front with foam pads. Add embellishments.
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Pyramid Box Make a pyramid treat box using the template on our pattern pages. Fill with sweets before sealing the box shut with glue. Diecut a yellow butterfly and attach to one side of the box.
With Love Attach two decorative fishtail strips, �.�cm x ��.�cm, to the sides of a blank, ��cm x ��cm. Fix another, ��cm long, to the middle. Secure a mounted patterned paper panel across the blank, then add a sentiment panel and pearls.
Trim a top-fold A� blank to measure �cm wide and cover with slightly smaller aqua card. Die-cut 'With Love' in three shades of pink and stick down the front. Add gems to finish.
Three Butterflies Die-cut three butterflies from decorative paper, ��.�cm square, then attach to white card. Matt onto pink, ��cm square, and glue to the front of a slightly larger blank. Make three pink butterflies and glue in place over the cutouts.
Love Banners Add yellow card, �cm x ��cm, to the top of an A� blank. Cut five fishtail strips, �.�cm wide, from yellow chevron and leaf papers. Attach to the front, making sure each strip is a different length. Add a sentiment and embellishments.
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Hello Cover the front of a blank, ��cm x ��cm, with coral card. Attach leaf paper, ��cm square, then fix a mint strip to hide the joins. Die-cut a light pink butterfly and glue in place. Add a sentiment and pearls.
Fix floral paper, ��.�cm square, to coral card. Matt onto burgundy, ��.�cm square, and attach to a blank. Mount white, �cm x ��.�cm, onto burgundy and stick across the front. Diecut two mint butterflies, glue along the middle and fix to the card using foam pads. Add a sentiment and gems.
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Lovely Day Mount floral circles paper, ��.�cm square, onto card and secure to a scallop blank. Cut out a decorative card strip and fix white ribbon around it, then glue to the centre of the blank. Make and fix a yellow butterfly to the front.
Butterfly Tag Matt a smaller yellow circle to an �.�cm white one. Die-cut ‘With Love’ and a butterfly in aqua. Stick the butterfly onto white card and carefully cut it out. Secure all the elements to the tag, as shown.
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Star Letter Dear CB, I thought I’d send you some cards I made using the free Christmas foil, emboss & die kit from issue 299. I usually stick to sewing and sell bears, bunnies and memory cushions at Bearfaced Keepsakes on Facebook, though I had to have a play around with the November gift!
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SLOTH SWEATER I knitted a Christmas jumper for my youngest nephew, who wanted a sloth. Helen Tebb, via Facebook This jumper is brilliant, well done!
LOVE STITCH Hello CB. I recently finished this cross-stitch project filling out the word ‘LOVE’ with flowers. Amanda Peters, via Facebook It’s so intricate and beautiful, Emma! Very impressive
Karen Ann Scoobie, 53 I enjoy colouring in, having a laugh, animals and cinema. I would like to hear from anyone with similar interests. 130 Whittern Way, Hereford, Herefordshire, HR1 1PF Lorna Damm, 54 My hobbies include knitting, machine embroidery, crochet and painting furniture. It would be nice to hear from anyone my age in the UK. 18 Mayfair Crescent, Waltham, Ne Lincs, DN37 0EE. Jean Hancox, 69 I like pen pals and crafts, especially cross-stitch. I’m looking for people to write to with the same hobbies as me. F2 Station Mews, Lion Street, Oakengates, Telford, Shropshire, TF2 6AF Please be aware that entrants to the pen pals section submit personal details at their own discretion
CROCHET PALS I made a few Christmas crochet characters for my friends. Debbie Harper, via Facebook These are too adorable! Can we be your friend too?
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Glue a pom pom to the top of a dry erase marker for an easy way to draw, erase and repeat. Mark Newhall, via Email
QUILT QUEEN To get your quilting off on the right foot, use the largest cutting mat you can get and a rotary cutter. Angela Smith, via Facebook
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Needle Notes Change your machine needle after eight hours of sewing to keep your makes and machine in good condition. Lucy Perry, via Facebook
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RAINY DAY FUN Crafting with kids? Carve fun shapes from potatoes, then dip in to paint for DIY stamps. Chelsea Edwards, via Twitter
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ticking with the ‘I am not going to purchase any new materials’ theme this year I have been sorting through all my boxes and cases filled with buttons and beads that I had forgotten about. For some reason I am drawn to any shade of green. Often there are several different green cotton reels lying around, with a green button or piece of green material and I have a grand collection of green bulldog clips that hold everything together from my receipts to planned projects on my desk. What better use for all these these green bits and pieces, than than to create heart brooches for the the ‘Show the the Love’ Climate Coalition Campaign. Campaign. You can be sure sure that people people will ask why you are wearing wearing a green green heart instead instead of standard standard red one, one, and you you can tell them of the very worthy cause that you are supporting supporting!! Now I wonder how how many green beads I have, or should I buy new ones?
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Quilled lettering is very much on-trend at the moment, moment, so I wanted to share a take ta ke that's a little different. Rather than filling in the lettering, they're outlined in white and the background is completed with a floral design using traditional techniques of quilling, coiling and pinching. I printed my words in ���pt Times New Roman, or a sans serif font such as Helvetica would be le less ss tric tricky ky.. It can be a time time-co -consu nsuming ming project, but the dense mass of quilled flowers is striking.
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Make It Personal Add quilled quilled flowers flowers and coils coils around around a friend's name and frame it to create a unique and thoughtful gift. To make this, follow the same techniques as for the greeting card, creating a few flowers using only three teardrop petals for variation and adding some dark pink leaves made from ��cm strips to help fill the space. We used a ��cm x ��cm piece of white card for this five-letter name.
Hanging Flowers For a door hanger, draw the outline
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Two-tone tulips Add shade to simple stamps for a beautiful spring greeting
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Pugs and kisses Create squishy faced greetings for a friend using pretty papers
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this part, then cover it with decorative paper. Trim any excess, then buff edges with ink. Cover the dog’s head and all the components in contrasting paper, but leave the ears; only cover them
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pattern page. Photocopy it once onto ���gsm paper, cut it out with scissors and use this as your template. Draw around it with a pencil onto your choice of decorative papers as many times as needed. Buff all the edges with stamping ink. With craft foam mounts, layer up the head and facial features onto the body, folding the ears over. Use white acrylic paint to add highlights to the nose, mouth and eyes. Decorate some miniature wooden clothes pegs with co-ordinating papers, trim off the excess. Hang the pug pennants from thread, fed through the curl of the tail and hold in place with a wooden peg.
chosen papers. Trim all parts, then buff the edges with ink. Layer up the pieces using foam pads. Glue the dog’s head to a paper circle, then attach a cocktail stick to the back sandwiched between two pieces of paper. Add highlights using white acrylic paint. CB
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COLETTE SMITH’S MASTERCLASS
DIY stencils made easy MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR DIES TO CREATE SOMETHING UNIQUE FOR YOUR SWEETHEART
There is an extensive range of stencils on the market at the moment, but for times when you have something really specific in mind, the quickest and easiest way is to make your own. Heart outlines are easy to come by, but I already had nesting dies in the perfect shape, which made it really easy to match the background and ombré heart motif to create a romantic card. The beauty of this is that you can make any stencil you want from scraps of basic card and simple dies, and when it wears out you can replace it at almost no cost, make the most our of your dies and get creative!
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“Create a long-lasting, wipe-clean stencil by purchasing some polyester film, such as mylar. Choose a thickness and size to suit your needs, then simply die-cut your chosen shape and use the same as a card stencil” Colette Smith, Designer
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Bunting a triangular template measuring 1 Using 9.5cm along two sides and 7cm across the top, cut out shapes in blue spotted, coral and green. Emboss all the green triangles. Arrange all the shapes in a pattern, then add to turquoise ribbon. a striped die from white 2 Die-cut cardstock, then add to the centre coral triangle. Fix a semicircular frame made from acetate to the coral piece. Stamp and cut
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