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Bottle Card + Template – First Posted: Saturday, January 23, 2010

I needed to make a 50th birthday card for a man and was a bit stuck for what to do so I had a look on Splitcoast Stampers and found this card which I thought was great and have used as my inspiration.

I made my own Template, I sized it to 8″ tall and 4″ wide in Word to ensure it would fit into a DL sized envelope then printed it out onto printer paper. I cut round the shape then placed it onto my Card with the dotted line along the score line in the card, drew around it with a pencil and cut along my pencil line.

I decorated the front of my card with different gold card pieces cut from various Spellbinders dies, I added his date of birth in the lower panel which I followed up with ‘A rather good vintage’ on the inside and printed ‘Oldus Manus’ on the top oval to inject some humour.

bottle card inside

Here is your template:

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Bottle template

Project Ideas, Video Tutorial

Impressabilities with Glitter + Video – First Posted: Thursday, January 21, 2010

Yesterdays video showed how I created a 2 colour glitter pattern with my brass stencils, todays video shows how I do the same with my Impressabilities. I like to use my crafting stash in as many ways as possible and was so pleased to find that this technique worked with my Impressabilities, although they are quite delicate it works fine if you take a little care. Impressabilities have such an intricate design so they leave a strikingly detailed effect and are large enough to cover an entire card or create many shapes from as I have in this video.

I used the Butterfly design in the Thank you card below and the Snowflake design in the bauble card.

Impressability glitter thankyou

Snowflake Impressability Bauble

Project Ideas, Video Tutorial

Glitter with Brass Stencils + Video – First Posted: Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Todays video shows how I made the glitter panel on my card. I’m always on the look out for new ways to use my supplies, this is another way to use your brass stencils that you may already have in your stash for dry embossing.

My video camera has given up the ghost so I’m going to have to return it and had to use my stills camera but you should be able to get the general idea, also I actually speak on this one! I was so nervous I was shaking like a leaf.

glitter bags and shoes