Love Trust

Hallo friends, Today I want to share with you a project that is closest to my heart, Nokuphila School which is an initiative of Love Trust. Read more about them on their website http://www.lovetrust.co.za/ and watch the video below for more information. Love Trust has taken on a massive task as you will see on the video and the website. I hope that by sharing with you what they do I can help in making their course known and that you also, may in turn spread the word. If you can do more, such as donating what is needed to educate a child in any small or big way; that will be more than appreciated. All the information on how you can assist is on the website. Let’s help educate our children and change the world!

Sneaker Card Tutorial

Hi Friends

I did say that I intended to improve on my blogging this year, so here is my second blog of the year and it’s a tutorial! That makes me happy.

This tutorial was inspired by a request I received a while back to make an invitation card for a birthday party themed all star, hope you like it

Supplies:

You will need

3 x different colour card stock

Dies for shaping your design (I used  sizzix and  spellbinder dies)

Ribbon

Glue

4mm double sided tape

Crop-a-dile

How

Cut your one colour card stock at 3 ¼ x 11(I used red)
Score the card on the long side at 5 ½ and fold

Using your choice oval die, cut the one end into shape (I used my sizzix die for this). That will give you the base of your card.

Using an oval die of your choice cut out an oval shape to use for the sides of your shoe, or 'ears' as I like to call them, in the same colour as your base card.

Cut 3 half moon shapes from your two remaining coloured card stock (2 from the one colour and one from the other), I chose black and white for mine.

Glue the two contrasting half moons together.

Then glue the base of your card to the half moons ensuring that you leave a little bit sticking out as on the picture  below. 

 The next thing to do is to glue the last half moon on to the base of your base card to make the nose of your sneaker.

Now for the ‘ears’; mark with a pencil on each of the half ovals where you want your shoe wholes to be and punch the wholes using the crop-a-dile

 

Make sure that the wholes align on both halves and stick double sided tape on the edge of each half oval

Remove tape and align to the edges of the base card on each side. I didn’t make a large card so the 'ears' stick out a bit, but that's okay because we have scissors for that. So if you flip the card over you can just cut the excess off.

Tie a knot on one end of the ribbon to keep it in place and thread the ribbon through the wholes on your sneaker to your desired style

 

 

 I then went ahead and embellished my card with silver peel offs. I thought that they actually compliment the shoe. Earlier on when I thought of making this design I started with a white sneaker and as you can see it was a bit larger than the red one. I think I prefer smaller:-)

I’m sure some you crafters can improve on this design by making it easier and prettier. Feel free to do so and please share your thoughts. Happy Crafting!

First card for 2015

Hallo Again and Happy new year

A friend of mine asked me to make a card for a wedding that she had to go to. The colours are just so beautiful I thought that I should share. The wedding theme was coral and white. This was the first time I used a flowersoft globe and I thought that it worked well for this card. The calla lilies and the rest of the embellishments are from my old stash. I normally use peel offs to finish off my cards but I didn’t in this card, I was impressed with myself there. Please let me know your thoughts and please visit my website at http://intricatestudios.yolasite.com/