Bags of Flowers

We've just had a consignment of beautiful flowers and, as usual, I couldn't wait to use them. This time I've decided to make a bag rather than a card and this is what I've come up with.




This is a very easy bag to make and I used the template that I have used in the past to make the bag. Here it is again for all those who haven't seen it before.

1. I used an A4 sheet of heavy paper for this bag. Light weight paper will not do, neither will card.
2. Draw the lines lightly in pencil on to your chosen sheet and score along these lines.
3. Fold along the score lines and glue the 1cm fold to the inside of the 3cm fold on the opposite side of the bag. This will form a tube. Let it dry. The time that it takes to dry will vary with the type of glue that you use.
4. Now fold the top of the bag over towards the inside of the tube. There is no real need to glue this.
5. Holes can be punched to thread the handles through. I used a single round hole punch. I marked the place for the holes first. Punch both the front and the back at the same time so that the holes are level.
6. Fold the lines along the base of the bag as if you were making up a parcel. Glue together. To provide extra strength you can glue a piece of lightweight card to the inside of the base of the bag.
7. To decorate the front of the bag use flowers from the romance selection of Mulberry paper flowers and some lilac ribbon. The sentiment is from the Inspirational sayings sheet that has so many wonderful sayings to add to your work.

However, I couldn't resist a card too so here's one that I made with some of the flowers from the same pack. I made it for my sister in law's birthday as she is a good friend as well as a sister in law.
As you can no doubt see, I've kept the same large flower but varied the center flowers and added some leaves to give a very different result. I did my usual dot and dash border which is brighter in the flesh but which came out a bit pale in the photograph.

I've decided to use the Oriental Splendour ATC sheet of stamps from The Merry Stamper today as it's been used by Cath Wilson in a Craft Stamper feature for the February edition. This card uses the same sheets that Cath used so you can do other things with your stamps.

I have made my card up as a 'Thank You' card as I also wanted to submit it in the Daring Cardmakers 'Give Thanks' challenge.
If you want to make this card, you will need.
Oriental Splendour ATC sheet of stamps
Oriental Half Plate

Base card in white linen finish
'Thank you' stamp from the Inspirational Sayings from I Brake for Stamps
Pink paper flower
Pink grosgrain ribbon with spots
3 buttons
Stazon in Stone Grey
Art and Graphic pens to colour the image.
Pink card to mount the image and the the background strip.

I've used Sketch 96 from the wonderful CPS as a basis for my design. You can look there for more interpretation of the same sketch.


To make this card you will need to use the fuschia stamp from the flower power stamp sheet from I Brake for Stamps which you can get by clicking here For all those who want to see all of the stamps on this £10 sheet here it is:
I also used a sentiment from the Inspirational Sayings plate for the words on the card.
The ribbons are:
16mm Pink Organza
9mm azelia organza

To make this card

Stamp the image with Stazon in Stone Grey.
Colour it with the Art and Graphic pens 202, 200 and 56.
Stamp the saying and mount both the saying and the image onto pink card. Use 3D foam pads to attach both to the base card.
Tie a length of pink and azelia ribbon to the card and embellish the knot with a flower.
Happy crafting
Yvonne

Spots it is.

When I saw this challenge on the Papertake Weekly Blog I knew that I just had to join in with it as I really do love cards with spots. I've made this card with my Dottariffic pens from Kuretake. The two colours that I've used are:

Light Pink
English Lavender

1. You will need a base card. I used an A5 card scored and folded in half.


2. A piece of thin lavender card and another thin piece of white card to layer over the lavender card.


3. Use the fat end of the Dottariffic pens to make random dots over top two thirds of the piece of white card. I made them different sizes. You can do this easily by pressing heavier of lighter with the pen.


4. I then used the thick and thin end of both colours to draw lines over the bottom third of the card as seen. I didn't use a ruler, I just drew them freehand. I think that the lines look a bit like an old fashion set of pyjamas.


5. Use a bow shaper to tie a bow in a piece of 7cm lilac grosgrain ribbon, and don't cut the bow off the ribbon. Stick it to the card to cover the join between the spots and the lines.


6. Now stemp your chosen sentiment on a piece of white card and stick it behind the white frame. I used ed foam pads from Stix2 to do this. I also coloured the edges of the frame with the lavender dottariffic.


7. Mount the decotated card onto lilac card and then trim it and stick it to the base card and you're finished.

You can make this card yourself with the pens and the sentiment from the fantastic set of sentiment stamps below.

Happy crafting