Lots of fun stuff today…

Dec 1, 2010

First I will end the sus­pense of who the win­ner of my book “Delight In The Details” and Free Access Pass to my “All Things Win­ter” workshop.

The win­ner is … Judi Lind­gren with her Com­ment: OMGYGTBK! This is a BFD — I’ve def­i­nitely got my FC! I had to research all those text words…I don’t even own one of those fancy phones or thing-a-ma-gings you text with! Got a really cute grand­son that does tho(to young for a 16 year old I fear). I really want this– really, really! I would be SETE. Your Mom’s site is OTT!

Con­grat­u­la­tions, Judi. Email me your address and I will get your book in the mail. I will have you set up and ready to cre­ate in the work­shop, today.

And since many of you who com­mented already have my book I decided to give away an addi­tional Free Access Pass to one of you as well.

So Con­grat­u­la­tions to… San­dra Doherty Com­ment: I just bought Delight in The Details. My friend have it and its LEGIT!! so I had to get one for myself. I would love to win the give­away, I know I could find some­one who would love the book as much as I do, and attend­ing the work­shop would be the best..

San­dra, I will have you set up and ready to cre­ate in the work­shop, today as well. Enjoy!

Now on to the tuto­r­ial for the gift card holder/ornament I cre­ated using the Decem­ber Cocoa Daisy “Win­ter Mag­pie” and “Pat­terned Paper Add On Kits. The kits go on sale today.

Kit Sup­plies Used: From “Win­ter Mag­pie” Cocoa Daisy Decem­ber Kit: 1 — page from the My Mind’s Eye Chip­board Album, Seam Bind­ing from Album, Albums tag used as the name tag tem­plate — From “Pat­terned Paper Add On”: Pink Paislee Parisian Ele­ments Pat­terned Paper

Addi­tional Sup­plies: White Crepe Paper Streamer, Maya Road Chip­board Snowflake Set, Maya Road Dan­gling Chan­de­lier Bead, Maya Road Pure White Pig­ment Inkpad, Plat­inum Stick­les, Cream Self Adhe­sive Pearls — 5mm, Cream Embroi­dery Floss #543, Glossy Accents, Liq­uid Adhe­sive (Aleene’s Quick Dry is awe­some), Fabri-Tac, 2 — 1/8″ Sil­ver Eye­let, 3 — Sil­ver Jump Rings, Brown & White Baker’s Twine, Creamy Brown Ink

Tools Needed: Pen­cil, Scis­sors — Straight Edge, Pink­ing (Zigzag), Scal­lop, Paper Trim­mer, Crop-a-Dile, Sewing Nee­dle, Pli­ers, Sewing Machine (optional)

Instruc­tions:

• Using a pen­cil trace one chip­board album page onto pat­terned paper.
• Using scal­lop scis­sors cut out the tri­an­gle shape drawn onto the pat­terned paper, mak­ing sure the scal­lop scis­sors stay just above the pen­cil line. This way you will have a slight scal­lop edge hang­ing off of the edge of the chip­board page.
• Ink the edges of the cut out tri­an­gle using Creamy Brown ink.
• Using a sewing machine (optional) and cream thread, stitch a straight stitch all along the very inside edge of the tri­an­gle shape. Stitch a zigzag stitch where the dif­fer­ent pat­tern designs meet on the pat­terned paper.
• Using a paper trim­mer cut the top of the tri­an­gle piece so when attached to the chip­board album page it is 1.25″ shorter than the chip­board album page.
• Using Plat­inum Stick­les accent the scal­lop edges on the pat­terned paper and the scal­lops and 1.25″ upper side edges of the chip­board album page, let dry.
• Cut a piece of White Crepe Paper Streamer to 12″ in length. Thread a sewing nee­dle with 3 strands of cream embroi­dery floss. Start­ing at one end stitch a gath­ered stitch up the mid­dle of the Crepe Paper piece all the way to the oppo­site end.

• Using Scal­lop scis­sors trim length wise the top edge of the gath­ered Crepe Paper. Space gath­ers so the Crepe Paper will go all the way across the top of your pat­terned paper piece.
• Using a strong liq­uid adhe­sive attach the gath­ered Crepe Paper piece to the top of the tri­an­gle pat­terned paper piece.
• Attach a strip of 5mm self adhe­sive pearls along the gath­ered stitching.
• Using Plat­inum Stick­les Accent the top and bot­tom edge of the gath­ered Crepe Paper, let dry.
• Cut 2 pieces of White Crepe Paper to 12″ in length. Thread a sewing nee­dle with 3 strands of cream embroi­dery floss, at one end begin stitch­ing a gath­ered stitch on the right edge of the Crepe Paper strip, con­tinue gath­er­ing until you get to the oppo­site end. Tightly tie the two thread ends together to cre­ate your Crepe Paper rosette. Using Pink­ing (Zigzag) scis­sors trim the edge of the Crepe Paper rosette so it mea­sures 3″ in diam­e­ter. Accent the edges of the rosette with Plat­inum Stick­les, let dry.
• Repeat the same step as above but this time trim the Crepe Paper rosette to 2.5″ in diam­e­ter. Accent the edges of the rosette with Plat­inum Stick­les, let dry.
• Ink two Maya Road Snowflakes (1 small and 1 large) using Pure White Ink, apply Glossy Accents to the top of each snowflake and apply Mica. Using Tweez­ers move the Mica around so that it is not hang­ing off the edges of the snowflakes, let dry. Once dry accent the edges of each snowflake with Plat­inum Stick­les, let dry.

• Cut a piece of the blue seam bind­ing that comes with the chip­board album to approx­i­mately 8″ in length, tie a bow and attach a 5mm self adhe­sive pearl to the bows center.
• Glue the smaller Crepe Paper rosette on top of the larger rosette, glue the larger snowflake on top of the smaller Crepe Paper rosette, glue the smaller snowflake on top of the larger snowflake, now attach the seam bind­ing bow to the cen­ter of the smaller snowflake, let dry.
• Cut two pieces of the blue seam bind­ing to approx­i­mately 3″. Cut the ends that will show at an angle. Attach the rib­bons to the pat­terned paper tri­an­gle so that the tips of the rib­bons are approx­i­mately 1″ from the bot­tom of the tri­an­gle pat­terned paper piece. Now attach your Crepe Paper rosette to the cen­ter of the tri­an­gle pat­terned paper piece, let dry.
• Using a strong liq­uid adhe­sive attach the altered pat­terned paper piece to the chip­board album page mak­ing sure to leave just enough space for the gift card to stick out.

Note: I applied glue to the left and right sides then placed a strip of liq­uid adhe­sive approx­i­mately 1.5″ from the top of the pat­terned paper piece. This way the card will not go down below the paper line and get stuck. After mak­ing this holder/ornament you don’t want them to have to tear up your project try­ing to get their gift card.

• Cut a piece of seam bind­ing to approx­i­mately 13″ in length and attach through the chip­board album holes. I placed the ends of the seam bind­ing through each hole, slightly pulled them through each hole, folded the cut end up then using Fabri-Tac attached the cut ends to the backs of each seam bind­ing strip.
• Using the tag from the chip­board album as a tem­plate trace the tag onto pat­terned paper, cut out, ink edges with Creamy Brown ink, attach a sil­ver eye­let then accent the edges using Plat­inum Stick­les, let dry.
• Attach the tag to the seam bind­ing hanger with Brown & White Baker’s Twine.
• Using a Crop-a-Dile punch a 1/8″ hole at the bot­tom point of the tri­an­gle, attach sil­ver eyelet.
• Using pli­ers attach 3 jump rings to each other, attach one end through the eye­let then attach a Chan­de­lier Bead to the other end.

There ya go… you just cre­ated a gor­geous gift card holder and it’s lucky recip­i­ent has two gifts in one… their fun gift card and an orna­ment to dis­play year after year! If you hung in here this long as this has got to be one of the LONGEST blog posts I have ever posted leave a com­ment and you will have a chance to win your very own Cocoa Daisy “Win­ter Mag­pie” kit.

I love hav­ing give­aways! So so so much fun!!! Good luck.