Basket Flower

These are the instructions for the flower we did on the basket.

This works best with 2 sided paper. We sponged the back side of our single sided paper to create a 2 sided paper look! (Remember?) However in this tutorial - the paper is indeed 2 sided.

Using a scallop circle, (this one was cut with a Spellbinders die) fold in half as shown in diagram.



Count 4 scallops from the left and fold in with creased sides touching.

Count 2 scallops up from baseline and fold backwards from baseline to left side fold.

Now - your front should look like this.



Flip to back. It should look like this.


Fold right to left 3 scallops from the right. This picture is a little misleading. (It's a camera thing!!) You see a mountain fold (outward) - you will be doing a valley fold. (inward)

And now from the front - it should look like......THIS!!!!!!

Unfold to full circle and cut in half on center crease.


You now have 2 pieces that look like this...


Now - refold the pieces up to make them look like this....


Repeat with all 8 pieces. LOOK how BEAUTIFUL these are!!! FUN!!! EH?

Now you will begin to assemble the flower by placing the different sections next to each other as in this photo.

Keep Going........


Continue adding sections until it is all done!!! WOW - isn't this AWESOME!!!

If you so choose - you can then add some sort of embellishment to the center of your flower. A button, bead, small flower, jewel - whatever looks great!

Thanks to Christi Lee for all of the WORK behind this tutorial! I LOVE CHRISTI!!! :)

Mini Maze Album

This Mini Maze Album creates a great little 3 x 3 mini album.

Materials:
1 sheet of 12 x 12 scrapbook paper (any square size paper would work - your album would just turn out a different size!!)
1 piece of 6-1/2 x 3" stock for cover.
Approx. 1 yard or fiber for closure.
Various small pieces of scrapbook papers, ribbons and embellishments

Instructions:
Fold the 12 X 12 sheet of paper in half and open. Fold the edge that you just opened and fold into the middle. Do that on the other side. Turn your paper 90 degrees and do the same in the other direction. Your page should now be divided into 16 portions.

Cut paper as indicated in picture to the Cut to Here arrows.

You are now going to begin to accordion fold the paper. Start with one of the back side of the paper on the outside of the accordion fold.




Add ribbon or fiber closure.

Glue down one side of the accordion folded paper.

Then glue down the other side...

And...TA-DAAAA!!! Here is what you little album looks like!



Here are some samples of this album completed...

Samples of Baskets!

Binder Clip Photo Holder Tutorial

Photo Clip Instructions
The Bunny!

Supplies:
Clipart Sheet (contact Deanna at bbaranowsky@cox.net for info)

2” binder clip
Flattened Bottle Cap
Ribbon – approx 12 “
2” X 3 1/4” piece of paper or card stock to wrap around bottom of clip.
Piece of coordinating paper to mat saying.
2 ½ “ Circle of pink Paper
(I used Spellbinders scallop dies to cut the circle in the sample picture. You could use any sizes or colors that suite you or you could cut the circle by hand.
2” X 3 ¼” paper to wrap bottom of binder clip with.
½ inch pom pom for tail

Use a 1” punch to punch out the bunny face.

Color the ears and the face. (I just colored the outside rim of the ears and the nose on the face. I got GREAT results with a pink Hi-Liter! Any marker would work.) Smudge a bit of pink on the cheeks for blush (I used a q-tip) and then lightly sponge some pink ink over the face, ears, and saying to turn them a bit pink. (Of course - if you want a blue bunny...use BLUE!) Cut out the ears and the saying.

Mat Saying

Glue the bunny face inside the bottle cap.

Glue the bunny ears to the back of the bottlecap.

If desired, emboss the circle and the paper. I used my Cuttlebug and embossed the circle and the pink cardstock with the Swiss Dots embossing folder.

Sponge Circle with pink ink.

These are all of the parts that you should have now.
Some of them are already somewhat assembled.

Glue the 2” X 3 ¼” piece of paper around the bottom part of the binder clip.

Glue the bottle cap bunny on top of the circle.

I attached the finished bunny to the binder clip with a double thickness of foam tape. See picture for placement.

Tie ribbon to the top of the binder clip around the outside of both pieces of the metal part of the clip. This makes the clip hold together tight enough to hold your photo nicely.

Add the saying.

Don't forget to give your bunny it's tail!!! Glue the pom pom to the back side of the photo clip.
(This also shows the back side of the clip and how the ribbon is tied completely around it.)

The Cat's Meow and the Birdie

Supplies:
Clipart Sheet (contact Deanna at bbaranowsky@cox.net for info)

2” binder clip
Flattened Bottle Cap
Ribbon – approx 12 “
2 ½ “ Circle of black paper
2 3/4" Circle of white paper
(I used Spellbinders scallop dies to cut the circles in the sample pictures. You could use any sizes or colors that suite you or you could cut the circles by hand.)

There are just a few differences when making the Cat and the Birdie binder clip.

1. The clip art page provides the decorated paper to wrap around the binder clip.
2. The saying does not need to be matted. The "mat" is printed as part of the saying on the clip art sheet.
3. There are 2 circles behind the bottle cap - and of course...no ears to glue on. :)
4. I embossed the Cat circles with the Cuttlebug Tiny Mosaic folder and the Birdie circle with the Cuttlebug Swirls folder.