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WELCOME to Issue 3 of Crafting

Ireland!

Hi everyone and welcome to issue 3. How time fliesissue 3 already!

We just want to say a huge THANK YOU to every one of you that has left

kind words for us over the last few issues and wished us well. We really ap-

preciate your support and are delighted you are all loving the magazine.

Remember though, the magazine would be nothing without all of you.

Make sure you keep sending in submissions, enter the challenge and

reader giveaways or even just send us feedback letting us know what you

would like to see more of in the magazine. We want to make sure we are

creating a magazine you all want to read!!

All feedback is appreciated and you can contact us here.

All feedback we have received so far has been taken on board and we are

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working towards incorporating it all into the magazine.

We have lots of reader giveaways in this issue, make sure

you enter them all as there are some fantastic prizes up

on offer.

A big thank you to all those who submitted or contributed to this issue and

Nico le T i m i

This has been a fantastic experience

to date, and I cant believe it is issue

3 already!

It has been fantastic getting to know

all you crafters and to see the craft-

ing community coming together in

our little magazine. I am really look-

ing forward to working along side

you all in future issues!

Personal Note from the Editors

I am so pleased and amazed by all

the fantastic feedback we are get-

ting. I love that people say that the

tutorials we provide are interestingand really useful.

I am really looking forward to many

more issues to come. I hope that we

meet some of you in the events tak-

ing place in Ireland.


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E d i t o r s n o t e . . . . . . . . p 2

C l a u d i n e H e l l m u t h Wa l l h a n g i n g . . . . . . . . p 6

F a b r i c p u r s e . . . . . . . . p1 2

P r o d u c t r e v i e w S p e c t r u m N o i r. . . . . . . . p 1 6

S u b m i s s i o n s . . . . . . . . p 2 0

C l a s s e s a n d c r o p s . . . . . . . . p 2 8

H a r d c o ve r m i n i a l b u m t u t o r i a l . . . . . . . . p 3 0

C h i l d h o o d t r e a s u r e b ox . . . . . . . . p 3 4

Yo y o f l o w e r t u t o r i a l . . . . . . . . p 3 8


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S p o t l i g h t o n . . . . . . . . p 4 0

H o m e m a d e f l o w e r s . . . . . . . . p 4 4

C r a f t i n g o n a b u d ge t . . . . . . . . p 5 0

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P a tt e r n e d p a p e r f r o m s c r a p s . . . . . . . . p 5 2

C l a y e m b e l l i s h m e n t s . . . . . . . . p 5 4

F e a t u r e d w e b s i te . . . . . . . . p 6 0

W h e r e t o s h o p . . . . . . . . p 6 3

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This is a fun little project that com-

bines a Sticky Back Canvas transfer

with a quick and easy photo tinting

technique. Imagine a whole wall of

these with all your family photos!

You will need:

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Sticky Back

Canvas

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Acrylic Paints

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Extra Time

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Multi Medium

Claudine Hellmuth Studio paint brushes

Scrapbook paper

Embroidery hoop

Step 1

Youll need a piece of Claudine Hellmuth

Studio Sticky Back Canvas and also an em-

broidery hoop. I am using a 7 wooden

one. Look around at the craft store and

find the cheapest ones possible. This one

was about $1.50

Claudine Hellmuth


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Step 2

Im going to transfer this piece of music scrapbook paper to

the back of the Sticky Back Canvas.

Step 4

Burnish the paper

down well.

Step 3

Stick the music side of the scrap-

book paper face down into to the

sticky side of the canvas.


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Step 5

Wet the back of the paper

and then rub off the pulp,

this will reveal a transferred

image!

Step 7

Here I printed out an image of

my grandma onto photo inkjet

gloss paper. Using Claudine

Hellmuth Studio Acrylic paints

and Claudine Hellmuth Studio

Extra Time, Place a dab of each

Step 6

When you have finished the

transfer wrap it around the

hoop and then trim off the ex-

cess.

TIP: do this while the stickyback canvas is still damp and

then it will stretch tightly as it

dries.


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onto a craft sheet and mix together with a brush. Then

paint onto your photo give a photo tined look.

Heres a close-up of the color tinting in process:

Step 8

Cut out the image when

you have finished photo

tinting.


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Step 9

Glue your photo to the Embroidery hoop using Multi Medium, hang on a

wall and youre done!

Claudine Hellmuth is a internationally recognised collage artist, author and il-

ustrator. She combines photos, paint, paper and pen into quirky, whimsical-

retro collages. Her artworks have been featured on The Martha Stewart Show,

n Mary Engelbreit's Home Companion magazine, The New York Times, on

HGTV's "I Want That!" and on the DIY Network's program, "Craft Lab."

n addition to creating her artwork full-time, Claudine has developed a prod-

uct line with Ranger Inc. under the brand name of "Claudine Hellmuth Stu

dio", she licenses her illustrations to the gift and craft

markets. Claudine also teaches collage workshops in the

US & Canada, and she has written 3 books and 3 DVDs

about her techniques.
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Step 1

Open an A4 canvas in the image editing software and

select a 21x22cm area. This will be the base where youwill make your own design. When making your design try

to place your more important elements towards the

I have always loved computers and

printers ever since I was a child. Iremember when we first bought a

printer I labelled and decorated

everything in my room with

printed images and drawings. That is probably why I fell in love with hybrid

techniques immediately after I learnt about scrapbooking.

I figured if I have a printer and iron on tranfer sheet I can make anything with

my own designs. So that is how I made my first pencil case and here I will

show you how you can easily make one for yourself!

Szabina Korss

You will need:

Image editing software

Digi scrapbook kit

2 21x22cm piece of fabric

(muslin or similar)

1 Iron on transfer paper (for

light colours)

Scissors, pins, thread

20cm zip

Sewing machine (you could

easily hand stich it too)


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Step 2

When you are ready with the design, it istime to print it. You have to make sure that

the image direction is right. If you have a

setting on your printer for iron-on transfer,

you will need to turn on.

If you dont then you need to mirror your image vertically. This will print the

image backwards so when printed and ironed on the fabric, your text and

image will be in the right direction. Try to print it in matte photo setting.

Top Tip: Make sure you put the transfer paper right side up into the printer.

Follow the transfer papers instructions on this.

centre, so if you cut into it

when assembling you will

still see them. I used my

new kit: Believe in Yourself.

Step 3

After printing the image on the

transfer paper, its time to iron it onto

the fabric. Read the instructions on

the packaging of your paper.

If you dont have the instructions for

your paper then do it this way: set

your iron onto medium heat. Iron the

transfer sheet for 10 minutes. Try to


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Step 5

Pin the fabric onto the zip from

the inside, and stich the fabricstogether at the bottom and at

the zip as well.

peel the transfer paper backing paper off at the corners. If its not ready

yet then iron for another few minutes. Then peel the backing off.

Step 4

Now you have nice patternedfabric that you need to cut into

half.


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We say:

Thank you to Szabina for

sharing this fantastic tuto-

rial with us! We have listedall the places you can see

more of Szabinas fantastic

work and digital kits be-

low....

Blog: http://sabee24.blogspot.com/

Shop: http://www.catscrap.com/shoppe/manufacturers.php?

manufacturerid=64

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Step 6

Turn it inside out, the patterned side should be inside. Pin

everything down the pieces cant move. And now stitch it

all around.

Step 7

Turn it right side out andyoure ready. It was very

easy wasnt it?
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Spectrum Noir is the new alcohol

ink based marker pen developed

and brought to you by Crafters

Companion. Unlike other alcoholink pens that are currently avail-

able on the market that have been

designed for graphic artists. Spec-

trum Noir, or Speccies, as they have been affectionately named, have been

developed specifically for the needs of paper crafters. Each pen is double

ended, with a broad chisel nib for covering large areas, and a fine bullet tipto get into all those nooks and crannies.

There are 168 colours in total, with 12 colour-themed packs of 6 (each con-

taining 3 warm and 3 cool tones), and 4 box sets of 24, which complete your

collection with a selection of Lights, Darks, Pastels and Brights. There is zero

duplication in the packs which makes these markers great value for money.

To be completely honest, before I used Spectrum Noir, I was completely new

to using alcohol-based

markers, so I am writing

this from the perspec-

tive of a beginner. I had

tried a different brand acouple of times before,

Katie BrettA review on the new alcohol pen brought

to you by Crafters Companion from the

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Whether you are a beginner or an advanced crafter, the way that these sets

have been put together make it so easy. The 12 main packs have been tonally

selected to work together, so all the thinking has been done for you and you

dont have to sit there for hours trying to figure out which colours blend to-

gether perfectly. Once you have mastered colouring with the basic sets, there

are then the large box sets to complete your col-

our palette and enable you to create every effect

under the sun!

The recommended card to use with the Spec-

trum Noirs is the Neenah Classic Crescent Card,

and when using this card I experienced no ink

bleeding whatsoever. The ink flows very

smoothly out of the nibs and you need just a fewlight strokes to achieve great coverage and

blending. The pens are also refillable, and you

can also buy new nibs making this colouring

system even better value for money and also

more green we all like to do our little bit for

the environment! Being the messiest crafter in the world, another great plusfor me was that the pens are square, meaning they dont roll off the table!

but could never really get my head around it,

and always found myself reaching back to my

trusty old Daler Rowney watercolours. I was

totally unwilling to step out of my comfort

zone! I have to say though, that I am com-

pletely converted! It took me a while to realisethat it wasnt going to look like a watercolour

painting, but once I had got past that hurdle, it

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The colours and numbers are also printed on

both ends of the pen, making it easy to locate

the colour you are looking for. They also have

a grey line going around one end of the pen,

making it easy to identify which end is the

chisel, and which end is the bullet tip, as there

is nothing more frustrating that constantly

opening up the wrong end! They also seem to

dry very quickly and to a very smooth finish.

Overall I find the system easy to use

and very effectiveit only took meabout an hour of playing and I had

got the hang of it!

Reader giveaway

To celebrate the launch of this awesome system Craf-

ters Companion has given us FIVE sets of the Essentials

pens to give away to five lucky readers!!

If you would like to win a set then all you need to do is

go to the Crafters Companion Facebook page and like

them and tell them that Crafting Ireland sent you

how simple is that!

So simply head on over to http://www.facebook.com/

CraftersCompanion and tell them we sent you to be inwith the chance to win!!
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Summer Fun

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Call for submissions.CallingALLcrafterswe want to publish you!!

For each issue we will give you a list of themes to work with. We would love tosee what you create inspired by these themes. When you submit an image of

your project, please make sure it is clearly photographed straight-on with a

neutral background or scanned.

Please make sure you only submit projects that have never appeared online or

on a blog before, and it can not have been published previously.

Thank you to every one who submitted for issue two. The themes for this is-

sue were :

Summer Fun

Colour challengeblue, yellow and green

Helen van der Gaag

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Kim Dylewicz

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Natasha Beasley

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Colour Challenge

Stacy Morgan

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Pam Blood

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pam.blogspot.com

Celina Anthony - Shepherd,

MT
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Wendy Rudd-Colledge - www.Wendymade.blogspot.com

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Issue 4 Submission themesFor issue 4 we have two themes for you to work with. Again you can submit

cards, layouts or altered art projects. The themes are:

Inspired by Halloween - Show us your work inspired by thisspooky time of year!

Autumn Days - We want to see your work inspired by autumn,

use the colours and common themes of autumn, such as leaves

to create a project that reflects autumn days.

Please email your entries along with your name and blog address [email protected]

Aideen Fallon - www.piecesbyaideen.com
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We would love to publish your classes and crops here. Whether you are a

shop running crops and classes or just a group of crafty people looking for like

minded people let us know. Simply email your details to [email protected]

Card Art Kilcoole

Next Full day Workshop is Saturday the 13th of August

At the Bridge Centre, Loughboy, Kilkenny

Time 10.00 to 6.00

The theme will be Monochrome with a hint of Elegance. Beautiful Black and

white cards, with a touch of colour and a romantic twist. This time we will

make 4 cards, on the day, but you will receive 2 extra kits to make at home

with full instructions, which I will demonstrate at the end of the class.

Full details can be found at http://cardarteventskilcoole.blogspot.com/

Crafty AngelsWe have a kids card making class in store, on the 10th August from 11-1pm.

Kits included, and cost of class is 15.00.

The adult class is on the 20th August in the Osprey Hotel, Naas from 12-4pm.

Kits and free tea/coffee inc, cost of class is 25.00. A

We are having a weekly "crop", starting on the 23rd August from 7-10pm,

cost is 5, which includes free tea/coffee. It is a general girls get -together, do-

ng your own thing, and getting hints, tips, getting your own projects/cardsfinished etc.

All places must be booked in advance. Crafty Angels, Cutlery Rd, Newbridge,

Co. Kildare. Ph : 045-446678.
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Scrapbook Store

Our next crop is on 25th August at Whitehall Parish Centre starting 7 oclock.

ts a fun night with scrapbooking and card making challenges .

We also have our next workshop on the 29th September.

More info can be found on the website http://www.thescrapbookstore.ie/

workshops.php or contact Annamarie at [email protected]

Jackies Cardmaking Workshops - 21st Augusthttp://

ackiesworkshops.blogspot.com/

Crafty Alley

17th SeptemberTop Down Seamless Knitting with Carol Feller. Learn to knit

a garment from the top down in one piece.

24th SeptemberCard making with Claire Buswell.

Weaving workshop with Carol Feller

Oil Painting with Tina Reed

www.craftyalley.com

Scrap n Yap

21st AugustCheck out Scrap n Yap on Facebook for more information.

An Siopa Bu

20th AugustFelting & Jewellery making with Kin ODonoghue

27th AugustWedding Class

10th SeptemberFree Christmas card demo

Crops11th August, 30th August and 13th September

Great Big Craft Extravaganza: 30th September

2nd October, Athlone Springs Hotel, Athlone.

The 3rd annual Great Big Craft Extravaganza will be taking

place in Athlone again this year. It is a fantastic event for

all crafters full of classes, crops, demos, tutorials, shops,

competitions and challenges. The event is free in and youonly pay for the classes you attend. You can book onto the

show through www.ansiopabui.ie
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What you will need:

(2) 12x12 Cardstock

(2) 4.5 x 7 chipboard (1) 2 x 7 chipboard

(1) 12x8 Pattern Paper (This will be your Cover)

(1) 6 x 9.5 Pattern Paper (This will be for the inside of your cover)

(16) 5 x 3 Pattern paper (This is for matting your mini album, if you

want to build your mini with pattern paper and not card stock you will

not need this)Creating your Cover

Step 1

Place your 12x8 pattern paper face down and stick your

chipboard pieces down.

There will be a border of pattern paper around your chip-

board that is perfect as you will be folding that over.

Eve Louw

This is a Mini album with a

ton of space for photographs

and embellishments.


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Make sure to placeenough adhesive as you

do not want your project

to fall apart in a weeks

time.

NOTE: leave enough

space in between the pieces as your book needs to fold. I would leave aspace double the thickness of the chipboard that you are using.

Step 2

Fold your pages and make sure it folds properly.

Step 3

Place double sided tape onall the edges of the chip-

board, Fold over the cor-

ners. This will create a nice

and clean cover, once you

have done all 4 corners

you can fold over the rest

of the pattern paper, this

will cover the chipboard

completely and will not

leave a raw edge.

Step 4

Place more tape to stick your inner page down.

NOTE: I placed my adhesive on the pattern paper and not in the chipboard,

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Again Fold your Cover to make sure it

folds properly. That is the cover done.

The Mini Album

Step 5

Cut all your Card Stock to 6x12, soyou will have 4 strips. Score and fold

them all at 4 and 8. Fold your pages

so they create a Z shape.

Step 6Attach A to E. Remember only glue in a U shape, as that will create your

pocket. Do this to all 4 of your pages.

Step 7

Attach your mini pages to your cover. Place adhesive

on your last page and stick down to the back of your

cover.

This will create a lot of space to embellish the inside.


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That is your mini done and dusted all you need is some

photos to put inside!

This tutorial was presented by Eve Louw from the Crafty Queens.

www.craftyqueens.ie

The Crafty Queens are giving this album away to a lucky Craft-ing Ireland reader. All you need to do is go to The Crafty

Queens on Facebook and like us and leave a comment saying

what is your favorite paper line.

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n issue 2 we looked at altering a paper mach box in

order to house a mini album and some treasured

childhood memories. In this part of the tutorial I will

show you how to finish off altering the box.

What you will need:

Woodgrain patterned paper Multi-medium in matte

Walnut stain Distress Ink

Chipboard

Patterned paper

Game pieces

Other random pieces (bus ticket, bow, bottle cap)

Embellishments

Step 1

Cover the inside of the box withpatterned paper, use multi me-

dium to adhere the paper. Ink itwell to give an aged look.

Step 2

Gather all your game pieces and

et your hot glue gun heat up.

We will use the inside of the lid

as a shadow box.

Adhere all the game and random pieces to the inside of the lid. Try not to flat-

ten the piece to keep the 3D look. For example: only put hot glue on two op-


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posite corners of the ticket, so it is not

completely adhered to the lid. Try to use

the edges of the box to adhere things to

it.

The Mini AlbumStep 1

Cut the chipboard into pages that will fit into

the box. Cover them with patterned paper.

nk the edges to give an aged look.

Step 2

Arrange them into order as you like and

punch holes on the left hand side. You can

measure the holes on the first page and

use this one as a template when punching

the holes on the other pages.


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Step 3

used rings to bind the pages.

Decorate the front and other

pages as you like.

When ready place the mini al-

bum into the box and youre

ready!!

The paper used in this project isthe Crate Paper Restoration

ine.

You can find this line in a few

online Irish craft storesCardz

n Scrapz, and The Scrapbook

Store.


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Yoyo Flowers using Clover Templates

came across these yoyo flower tem-

plates on the internet and found very

useful. For somebody who doesn't know how to sew properly like

myself it is a great help.

Timi Konya

n this project I also tried the Citrasolv

technique from Issue 1. This time I usedt with coloured prints. I have to say it

worked well. The colours do not come

out as bright, but if you are going for an

aged distressed look you would be

pleased with the result.

Place your fabric

into the template.

Trim the excess

fabric from

around the tem-plate.

Stitch around the holes with thread and needle. Then

take the fabric out of the template and gather it with

pulling the thread.


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Now you need to tuck in the edges, I

usually use the end of my tweezers or

small brush. Flatten your flower and

stitch a button on the centre if you

like. It's great because the folds are

even, so the flower looks much better

than when you free hand stitch.

This little template is very easy to use once you get the idea. I got my

templates from Ebay, simply do a search for YoYo flower templates.


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Elisa NishimuraIn every issue we will be spotlighting the work of an Irish based crafter. We

will look at paper crafters, scrapbookers, and altered art aficionados. If you

think you know someone who you think sound be spotlighted let us know

at [email protected].

Our third issue spotlight is shining on Elisa Nishimura. Here is Elisa to tellus a bit about herself and her work....

When and how did you get

involved wi th paper craf t ing?

I always liked paper crafting but I got

into scrapbooking about 6 years ago, as a way to

document my daughters life and also to stop me get-ting stressed waiting to adopt our second child.

I am Elisa Nishimura, a Brazilian living

in Dublin. I met my husband in Eng-

land. He is Irish and after we got

married we moved to Ireland, where

I have been for the last 16 years. Wehave two children, a 9 year old girl

and a 6 year old boy. I am a stay at

home mum but used to work in IT in

a former life.


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What is your favour i te aspect of paper craf t ing?

It is definitely the creative aspect. Paper crafting is a way to unwind and get

my imagination going.

What are the techniques that

you use most of the t ime?

I had to think about this question. I

dont think I have techniques as such

but some things appear often in what I

do, I guess it is part of my style. Like

the title just above the photo, straight

lines (I dont do slanted often) and hav-

ing a border around the layout. In cards

I often use ribbons or a thin strip of pa-

per going over the whole length of the

card.

What are your "can ' t do wi thout" products?

White and Kraft cardstock, punches and most of all my laptop and printer!

What inspires you?

My favourite subjects for scrapbooking are definitely my children. As for thedesign, I often get inspiration from other crafters, interior design magazines

and recently Pinterest.

Later, since I am unable to throw away the tiniest bit of

scrap paper, I decided to start card making as a way to use

up the scraps. However, I still have a pile of paper scraps

and often my nearest and dearest get a shop bought card.

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Have you any plans for the

future?

I came to the conclusion that I am not

DT materialI am way too slow.

I would like to improve my photo-

graphic skills and redecorate my home.

At the moment theres hardly any evi-

dence around the house that shows

how much I care about arts and crafts. I

want to change that.

I also would like to participate in card-

making challenges.

Do you blog?

Yes, I have a blog where I dis-

play my scrapbook layout and

other projects http://hybrid-

alien.blogspot.com , and one

where I showcase my digital

i m a g e s h t t p : / /

mamidoodles.blogspot.com

How do you descr ibe your s ty le?

Clean and simple.

Where can we see your work? Are you on any design teams?

I dont belong to to any DT at the moment. Besides my blogs, the only gal-

lery I update regularly is Studio Calicos one (http://www.studiocalico.com)
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Edi t o r s p icks The editors each picked one of their favourite projects

from Elisas work to share with you below..

T i m i saysI love the white space on this bold

and bright layout. The circles andthe stitching are just fantastic. I

adore the typed journaling, this is

my favourite way to journal on lay-

outs and it works fantastically on

this page!

Nico le saysI love the layout of thispage. I love how simple cardstock has been used and

how fun it has been made

by stencilling on the paper

and the fun stitching andembellishments all around

the photos.


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There are tons of paper flower making tutorials in the

web and here is my own twist.

am taking the lazy approach and making flowers out of existing ones! If you

are card making or scrapbooking as long as I am, you must have gone through

a Prima daisies shopping frenzy. Do you remember the pretty flowers that

came in pretty glass jars? Like these

By Elisa Nishimura

used plenty of them, but still have lots

eft and hardly use them anymore be-cause while I still love them, they look

a bit... let's say... out of fashion. So I

tried a flower makeover and here are

some of my results...


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Pink chrysanthemum:

To make the pink chrysanthemum, I used 2 dark daisies, 3

pink ones and a smaller yellow one.

glued one dark one on top of

t h e o t h e r o n e .

Then I folded the pink ones in

the middle,back to back. I put

a dot of glue so that they'd stay

that way.

Then folded them again, and glued

to keep in place.

Now put glue in the centre of the

dark one.


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Now cover the dark daisies

with the folded pink ones.

Now scrunch the yellow daisy like in the image below. You need to fold back

to back, so that the petal tips go inwards.

For a variation on thisflower I took 5 yellow

flowers and coloured

the centres with a

Promarker. I then as-

sembled the flower as

in the previous steps

Glue the yellow daisy into the

middle of the larger flower

and you get this beautiful

chrysanthemum...


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Coloured petals with Promark-

ers.

Completed flower.

The blue one has a fuller centre - I

simply used two yellow daisies toachieve this fuller centre.

Red Rose:

This is very similar to the chrysan-

themum but produces a lovely rose.This is what I started with..

Put a bit of wet glue on the

back of two of dark flowers.

Make sure it is on the backs of

the flowers!!


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A some glue on the third largerflower.

Put a bit of glue on the back of thepetals of the remaining two.

On the left is the glue on the

back of two of the red flowers.

Below shows the two flowers

then folded in half, back to back.

Place one of the folded ones over it.

Then the other one, on the other half.


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Scrunch the small one up, petals against petals.

Glue it in the centre of the other

ones and you're done!

Then wrap the second flower

with glue on it around the

scrunched up flower.

We sayThis is a fantastic way to jazz up those plain flowers that may be feeling

slightly neglected in the bottom of a drawer in your craft room. It is a super

way to create lovely new flowers without spending much money!!


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Welcome to our Crafting on a Budget section. Here we will be looking at a

previous technique, the Citrasolv transfer, as well as a few other budget

crafts!

Citrasolv tutorial part twoColour image transfer

n Issue 2I showed you a transfer technique us-ng Citrasolv. Using this techniques I showed

you how to transfer printed images onto fabric

and other mediums.

just wanted to show you a bit more on what

Citrasolv can do. What is that you ask? Colour

transfer !! tried the Citrasolv out on coloured print outs

and got some fantastic results. The technique

was the same as laid out in issue 2but with

one difference....a lot more elbow grease was

required at the braying stage!!

But the results are worththe effort....

I took a plain white pillow

case and a peacock image from the Graphics Fairy. I re-

duced the image and printed it of as needed for the

transfer technique. I then chose my placement for it on

the pillow case and got working on it!! In the image

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here I have placed the original image on the left of the pillow

case and the image on the

right is the pillowcase fin-

ished. The resulting image is

not as bright and vibrant as

the original image but it does

give a lovely vintage image ef-

fect.

The image below is of the

same image transferred onto

a plain cushion cover. Again

the image is not as strikinglyvibrant as on the print out,

however it does look lovely

when finished.

The colour citra solv technique

was also used on the fabric inthe YoYo flowers tutorial on

page 38 of this issue....

I am delighted with how the col-

our transfer worked out, it cer-

tainly makes a striking impact on

a plain pillowcase or cushion!


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This is a quick and easy tutorial to help you to get some of those peskyscraps we all seem to end up with off our craft desks! I always tend to have

a huge scrap pile and never seem to manage to decrease the size of it, no

matter how much I work on using them up.

I find that this simple technique works wonders on those small scraps that

fall into the too big to throw out and yet too small to use properly cate-

gory!

Step 1

Select a bunch of scraps that complement

each other colour wise. I chose a selection

of pinks and purples. One of my scraps was

even embossed and stamped on already!

Step 2

Take a piece

of white card. I used a A5 sized piece. I then

cut all my scrap strips down into straight

edged strips. Some were 2inches, some were

1 inch and some were 3 inch. The important

thing is that they all have straight edges so

that they all line up next to one another

neatly.

I laid the strips out on the A5 card into a pat-tern that I liked.


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Step 3

When you have the papers all laid out as you like

them then glue them down to the A5 card. Now

you have a A5 sheet of custom design paper!

Step 4

I then mounted this A5 custom paper onto a card

blank.

Step 5

I repeated the process of laying out scraps and gluing them down. These

scraps were smaller however. But they were just big enough for me to die

cut butterflies out of....

Step 6

I then embellished the butterflies and

mounted them to the front of the card. I

also use the pre embossed and stamped

scrap that I

had and used that for my card sentiment.

The resulting card looks great and more im-

portantly uses up lots of scraps, and that isalways a great thing in my book, crafty and

good for the environment!!

Top Tip

You can create large sheets of this scrap pa-

per and die cut lots of shapes from them to

give unique finishes to your cards andscrapbook layouts with unique paper that

no one else will have!!


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love embellishments. Who doesn't? What I don't love about embellishments

s the price of them. So I had a look around and decided to try using clay tomake my own. I purchased some clay and some moulds and started playing

round with ways to create embellishments. And guess whatits is so easy!

ou need very little equipment and very little skill level to make some pretty

arn cute embellies!! I will take you through the various ways I created mine.

What you will need

Clay

Pencil & wooden slips

Embossing folder

Cookie cutter

Stamp

Moulds

riming your clay

used some Fimo oven bake clay that I got in my local art shop. My clay only

ost 2.10 and I found it goes quite a long way. The first thing you will need to

o is break off a block of the clay. Some of my clay came in handy pre scored

ieces which made breaking them off easier. For others that were a solid block

I simply used a butter knife to cut some off.

The clay will be very hard so needs to be primed

this means softening it to be more malleable so that

you can work with it. To do this take your small piece

of clay between the palm of your hands.

Roll the clay between your palms to soften the clay

out. It will turn into a sausage shape when it is rolled.


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Roll this into a ball shape as this is the easiest way to

start with the clay. Your clay is now primed and ready

to use.

Cookie cutter embellishments

Step 1

Place your ball of clay on a non stick craft mat andflatten it out roughly with the palm of your hand.

Step 2

Take two small slips of wood and place on either side of

the clay. These must both be the same heightthese will

help you roll your clay out to be level. Use a pencil to roll

the clay out thinly. You can use whatever you wantto roll the clay out but I find a pencil works and is

cheap :)

Step 3

Take a cookie cutter of your choice and press it into

the clay. Lift the cookie cutter off and remove the

cut out shape, in my case a heart shape.

Step 4

To embellish your shape you can use things like

embossing folders or stamps. For the embossing

folder simply open the embossing folder of your

choice and press it into your clay shape. You willneed to get the pressure righttoo hard and the clay will stick into the em-

bossing folder. Too lightly wont give a good impression. You will end up with a

lovely embossed/debossed

shape.

Be careful handling it at this

stage though as the clay will besoft until you bake it and you

don't want to ruin the lovely

piece you have just created.


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You can also

use stamps to

emboss your

clay shapes.

You simply

place a stamp

of your choice

on a block and

press the stamp into the clay.

You can take this technique a step further by

nking up the stamp before pressing it into theclay. Make sure to use a ink that contrasts with

your clay colour. In my case I used black ink on

white clay.

Mould made embellishments

So lets step up our embellishments. We can only

do so much with cookie cutters. Using mouldsallows us to create some stunning embellish-

ments with very little effort. More importantly for very little money. All the

moulds I used were bought on eBay for 4-6 euro each. And considering

you can use them over and over this is not a bad price at all! All the moulds I

used are silicone moulds.

Using silicone moulds

Step 1

Get a small ball of clay ready. The piece of

clay should be slightly smaller than the

shape of the mould you are using. This

mould creates four different size roses. This

mould was 7 so great value. Place your ball

of clay into the section of the mould you want to use.


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Step 2

Press the clay into the mould. Make sure

to press down firmly so that the clay gets

nto every crevasse of the mould.

Step 3

Make sure to have the clay pressed right

up to the edges.

Step 4

To make sure the back of the clay roseis totally flat you can take a pencil and

roll it over the back. You want as

smooth a finish as possible on the

back so that if you are gluing the flower

onto anything it will stick well.

Step 5

Once you are happy that your clay in in

the mould fully it is then time to remove

the clay flower. Because the silicone

mould is so flexible this is actually quite

easy. You simply need to bend the mould back

and you will see it pull away from the clay. Iusually turn the mould upside down over a

craft mat and then

pop the clay flower

out.

Again be very careful

with the resulting

flower at this stage as it will still be

soft until baked.


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Creating two toned clay

Clay comes in many different colours. However sometimes you may want to

mix the clay to get a two toned effect on an embellish-

ment. This is quite an easy process.

Step 1

Take two different colour clays and roll a roughly even

amount of each out into a sausage shaped strip.

Step 2

Take these two strips and pinch

them together at one end.

Step 3

Twist the strips around one another. Until they are

both fully entwined.

Step 3

Fold the two ends together for form a circle. Then

roll this circle into a roundedball of clay. Roll this ball out

into a sausage shape. You

will end up with a lovely

marbled clay. This will give

you a lovely effect on the

embellishments you make!


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Layering Embellishments

A very effective way of creating more detailed embellishments is to layer up

different embellishments. A nice simple way to do this is to cut a shape out

with a cookie cutter and layer a clay moulded item on top.

You can take this embellishment even one step further. Take an awl or paper

punch and make a hole in the cookie cutter

shape. You will need to make the hold from the

front and the back to make sure it is big enough

to get a ribbon or jump ring through. You canthen use it as a charm or even a necklace.

Baking your EmbellishmentsYour clay needs to be baked as per the manu-

factures instructions in order to cure (set) it.

Once it has been baked it will be solid and

ready to use. You can get air drying clay but

you have to work a bit faster with it as it

starts to cure as soon as it is exposed to air.

Decorating your Embellishments

The thing I love most about this clay is that after it is baked you


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can further decorate it if you want. For my embellishments I painted

ome with acrylic paint and others with perfect pearls.

So let your imagination run wild. Remember if you make a mistake you can

imply roll the clay back up and start all over again. It is a very forgiving proc-

ess so don't be afraid to try things out and most importantly have fun!!

This is a small selection of some of

he things I made with my clay. Thelowers and wings are from a

mould, the heart are cookie cutter

cut and embossed with a stamp and

an embossing folder. The top shape

was a small excess piece of clay that

just flattened and stamped my ini-

ial into with a inked up stamp toget a seal effect.

Make sure to check back in issue 4

where I will look at some more

things we can do

with the clay

and moulds.

Perfect Pearls Acrylic paint


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In every issue of Crafting Ireland we will have a crafty challenge to help you

all get your creative juices flowing. We will select two winners from each

challenge. We will then publish the two winners projects in the next issue.

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The Crafty Alley Shop is Co. Kerry's largest art and craft supplies shop al-

though through our wide network of customers and through online market-

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products in our Killarney shop which we hope to add to our online shop inthe coming months.

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Challenge THEMEPhoto Inspiration!!Our challenge for you this issue to create a project that

Is inspired by the photo below. You can let the colours,

textures or composition and shapes of the picture inspire

your work. Just let us know what inspired you and how you

reflected it in your work!

Challenge Prize!!We will be picking two winners from all the entries to

win the prize donated by The Crafty Alley, two sets of

abulous papersone set of 7 Gyspies Conservatory

nd one set of My Minds Eye Lost and found!!

o submit your entries please email a photo of it to

[email protected] the 12th September.

lease use Issue 2 Challenge submission in the subject

ne. Make sure to include your name, project and blog

ddress in your email to us.

Photo by Timi

Konya. A tradi-

tional Irish cottagelocated in the

beautiful county

of Kerry, Ireland.
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Thank you to everyone who entered our Issue 2 challenge. There were all

fantastic entries and it was very difficult choosing our two winners. A big

congratulations goes to the winners;

Patricia OHaganElke Eckel

We would like to say a big thank you to Gail from Teddy Bo and Co for spon-

oring our Issue 2 challenge. Both of the winners will each get a 25 voucher

o spend in the Teddy Bo store!


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Our issue 2 reader give away was sponsored by Cork Art Supplies, also known

as Cards and Scrapz. The prize is a fantastic collection pack of the Hello Lus-

cious Basic Grey papers.

We gave each entry a number and used random.org to select a winner from

all the entries. The lucky winner was number 19Weenie Thomas. Enjoy the

prize Weenie!!

Thank you to everyone who entered, and make sure to flip on over to page

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For the next issue we would love to see more of your work. Remem-

ber the submission themes are:

Inspired by Halloween - Show us your work inspired by this

spooky time of year!

Autumn Days - We want to see your work inspired by autumn,

use the colours and common themes of autumn, such as leaves

to create a project that reflects autumn days.

Submission deadl ine is 12th September

out on 19th September

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