Fold Card Tutorial

Fold Card by Natascha Banning

Hello!
Today is my turn to inspire you and my decision fall on a Fold Card with lots of space to embellish.
This is how my finished card looks like:

Hallo!
Heute bin ich an der Reihe euch zu inspirieren. Dafür habe ich mich für eine einfache Faltkarte entschieden, die viel Platz zum Gestalten bietet.
So sieht meine fertige Karte aus:

Front:
Vorderseite:

Inside:
Innengestaltung:

After opening the bow inside:
Nach dem Öffnen der Schleife im Innenteil:

Here comes the instruction how you can do this Fold Card yourself.
You will need 4 pieces of cardstock to cut the card pieces:
Red lines are to fold

Hier ist eine Beschreibung wie ihr so eine Faltkarte selbst machen könnt.
Ihr braucht insgesamt 4 Papierzuschnitte aus Karton:
Die roten Linien sind zum Falten

After cutting all pieces you need, you can start to cut your designer papers and matting papers. My matting papers are all pink and 0,5 cm minor than the card templates.

Nach dem Zuschneiden aller Teile könnt ihr mit dem Zuschnitt von Papieren zum Matten anfangen. Meine sind alle rosa und 0,5 cm kleiner als die Angaben für die Kartenformen.

My designer papers are from the Spring Awakening Paper Pad and self-stamped papers with the Whiff of Joy “Essential Backgrounds Lovely Vintage, text style”. All designer papers shapes are cut 0,4 cm minor than the matting pieces.

Ich habe Design Papier aus dem Frühlings Erwachen Paper Pad verwendet und selbst gestempelte Papiere mit dem Whiff of Joy “Hintergrundstempel Lovely Vintage, Text“. Alle Design Paper Zuschnitte sind 0,4 cm kleiner als die Papiere zum Matten.

After finishing all the cutting glue all the shapes together. If you like, you can add some texture to your edge by using a sewing machine and white paint like I did.

Nach dem ganzen Zuschneiden klebt alle Teile zusammen. Wenn ihr mögt, könnt ihr noch mehr Textur an den Papierkanten erzeugen indem ihr sie mit einer Nähmaschine vernäht und mit weißer Farbe bepinseln.

The main work is done, now we can start to glue the papers to the card.

Die meiste Arbeit ist getan, jetzt kann man die Papierschichten auf die Karte kleben.

After covering all pages of the main card we can add the folding part inside our card. Add some double-sides adhesive tape and tape a ribbon to the background. This will help you to close the folding.

Nachdem unsere Karte mit Papieren umkleidet ist, können wir den faltbaren Teil in die Karte kleben. Verwendet zum Aufkleben doppelseitiges Klebeband und vergesst das Schleifenband nicht aufzukleben. Dieses hilft euch später die Faltung zu verschließen.

Stick the folding with ribbon to the card.
Klebt die Faltung mit dem Schleifenband in die Karte.

Add some papers to make it pretty.
Verkleidet alle Seiten mit Papier um alles schön zu machen.

This is how I used the little envelop and the tag.
Hier könnt ihr gut sehen, wie ich den kleinen Umschlag und den Tag verwendet habe.

Now your basic card form is finished. You can start to decorate and embellish it the way you like. I have used some Henry the mouse Vintage Images, sentiments, vintage style stamps, ribbon, lace, rhinestones in vintage brown, flowers, Lovely Doily die and some more stash.

Jetzt ist die Basis Karte fertig. Ihr könnt sie noch nach Lust und Laune dekorieren und bekleben. Ich habe auf meiner Karte einige Henry Motive aus der Vintage Kollektion verwendet, Sprüche, Vintage Stempel, Schleifenband, Spitze, Schmucksteine in vintage braun, Blümchen, Lovely Doily Stanze und noch einiges mehr.

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Thanks for reading and have fun to use my inspiration.
Hugs, Natascha

Vielen Dank fürs Lesen und viel Spaß beim Nachbasteln.
LG, Natascha

Guest Designer for April & May

Happy Thursday Everyone! As you may remember, after we had our Design Team call, we had a really hard time choosing the team. There were so many amazing entries but we couldn’t take everyone. That is when we decided that we would ask some of our fabulous entrants to be our Guest Designers!

For February and March, we had the amazing Linda Kläringe from Pysselbus. She did a phenomenal job! Thanks sweetie!

For April & May, we are delighted to have:

Natascha Banning from Natascha’s Blog

We fell in love with Natascha’s sense of light and movement in her creations and how she is able to add texture with her embellishments!

We asked Natascha to tell us a little about herself. This is what she wrote:

“Hello! My name is Natascha Banning and I am 28 years old now. I have three adorable kids in the age between 6 and 9 years and my husband who I love very much. We are 9 years married now and live with our two cats in a lively apartment. I started crafting after my youngest sons birth in the summer 2007. One year later I fall for stamping and crafting cards. Since a while I have a craft room for myself and I can take my breaks there from my full-time job as mother, housewife and my payed part time job which I do from home as well. I am pleased to work with so many amazing crafters around the world. You are all so great and inspiring. I am looking forward to get creative with the cute and lovely Whiff of Joy products and show them to you. Hugs and kisses, Natascha :)”

Thanks so much for accepting to be our Guest Designer for the next two months! We can’t wait to see all that you create :)

Have a great day everyone :)

Hugs Jeanette xxo

Altered Easter Eggs

Happy Friday! Today we have a wonderful tutorial for you from our amazing Guest Designer.

Linda Kläringe from Pysselbus

Hi peeps!

This is me, Linda, here with you today to share my tutorial for my GDT term. As Easter is fast approaching I thought I'd make something related to that and what I'd like to show you is how I alter Easter eggs.

This is what you need:

An Easter egg, new or old anything will do, papers, decorations, maybe an image if you'd like (and your egg is big enough) and of course decoupage glue.

I start by tearing up the patterned paper in small pieces and quickly dip them into water to make them somewhat soft and easy to work with.

Then i just add glue to a small part of the egg and add the paper pieces on to the glue. Be sure to let the pieces overlap a little bit so that it doesn't dry apart. Add another coat of glue over the paper pieces. I have used different colors for the top and bottom of the egg.

When the egg is all covered in paper - let it dry before decorating.

I used a punch and punched out leaves to decorate the egg. I place the leaves on the egg quite spread out and then add more leaves and more decorations.

This is what the egg turned out like in the end.

I have used the following Whiff of Joy products:
Pad Frülingserwackem
Brads
Charm Keys
Yellow ribbon

Thank you for stopping by today! If you'd like to see more of my GDT projects for Whiff of Joy you can find them here

Have a great day!

Whiff of Joy Guest Designer for February & March

Happy Saturday Everyone! As you may remember, after we had our Design Team call, we had a really hard time choosing the team. There were so many amazing entries but we couldn’t take everyone. That is when we decided that we would ask some of our fabulous entrants to be our Guest Designers!

For February and March, I am delighted to announce that our Guest Designer will be:

Linda Kläringe from Pysselbus

We are in love with Linda’s fantastic coloration skills and her sense of composition in all her creations!

We asked Linda to tell us a little bit about herself. Here is what she wrote:

“My name is Linda and I'm a 34 year old mother of two darling little boys (three if you count my husband *lol*). We live in a small town in Sweden. I've been a member of the Whiff of Joy Challenge DT for about 6 months and was sooo excited when Jeanette asked if I wanted to join the Whiff of Joy team as a guest for two months! No need to think twice about that!

I have been crafting for little over 3 years. I started out wanting to make a card for my sister's wedding in 2009 and since then I've been totally bitten by the crafting bug. I mostly make cards, but on occasion I can also alter things or make layouts. For my cards I often use loads of flowers and different decorations and I'm not really happy with a card unless I can use a hand-colored image on it. I love to color and I use distress refills, distress markers and Copics for my images. I fell in love with the gorgeous images from Whiff of Joy the first time I saw them and my first ever images was Willow with baby and Willow with toddler. Since then it's a growing collection and I really love how they have developed over the years. So I'm really honored to be asked to guest-DT for a company that sell the images I have admired and loved since the beginning of my crafting days.

I hope that I will be able to inspire you all a bit - you can find my weekly postings on my blog http://pysselbus.blogspot.com”

Thanks so much for accepting to be our Guest Designer for the next two months! We can’t wait to see all that you create :)

Have a great week-end everyone :)

Hugs Jeanette xxo