Kanban 8" x 8" Jasmine Topper Scrapbook Page

To make this scrapbook page you will need;
Kanban Pink Cherry Card
Kanban Black Cherry Card
Jasmine Toppers
Ribbon
Pink Stick On Gems

Method
1) When you have chosen your photo cut out any unwanted background.
2) Cut the Pink Cherry Card to 8"x8".
3) Place your photo on the background and cut around the outline of the flowers around the top right corner and around the bottom left hand corner. Your photo will slip underneath these flower.
4) Cut two rectangles from Black Cherry card and stick these to the back of the photo so a border shows around the top left and bottom right corner.
Stick the photo to the background placing the remaining corners under your cut flowers.
4) Cut around the image of Jasmine and stick to the left hand side of your photo.
5) Decorate with ribbon, stick on gems, and flowers cut from Back Cherry card.
6) Add a title and journaling.

Designed & created by Nikki

Red & Green Kanban Deco Lady Topper Project

You Will Need:

Kanban A4 Green Glamour Ladies Topper Sheet
Kanban A4 Vintage Floral Swirls Background Sheet
Kanban Adhesive Foiled Ribbons
Kanban Bling Stick on Gems
Gold Pearlescent Card
Black Card
A4 White Card
Green Ink
Craft Knife & Cutting Mat/Scissors
Double Sided Tape and Foam Pads
Wording Peel Offs (if desired)

How To Make It:

1. Select a Glamour Lady topper from the topper sheet, and cut a piece each of pearlescent gold, and black card to the same size as the topper.
2. Fold the A4 white card in half to make a card blank.
3. Cover the front of the card blank with a piece of the floral swirls backing sheet, cut to fit. Ink the edges with green
4. Mount the two rectangles of card (gold and black) using double sided tape, and your topper using foam pads, on to the top of the card, fanned out as shown.
5. Cut two lengths of adhesive ribbon, trimming the ends diagonally. Attach these at the bottom left of the card, a small distance appart. Place a black gem on the end of each.
6. If desired, use peel offs to spell a greeting between the two strips of ribbon

Designed & created by Maggie

NEW Crafters Companion Cute Companions

We have some great new stamps and CD's in, just released and as seen on TV. These have been designed by Jane Nestorenko and there are loads of different cute images perfect for card making and scrapbooking. We will have some inspiration on here soon and prices start from £12.99 but with our online discount scheme you can save ££££'s.

In the Garden

Sun & Fun

Playtime

Friends

Dress up

Celebrations

Shelley xx

Preety in Purple

PRETTY IN PURPLE

For This Project, You Will Need:

Equipment:

Scissors

12” Rule

Craft Knife

Materials:

Purple Flower Elements from Sheet of Prestigious Pearl 3D Decoupage – Line 527

1 x A5 Sheet Cream Hammered Card

1 Piece Gold Card – 5.7cm x 9.8 cm and 1 Piece Cream Card – 4.9 cm x 9cm
OR
Rectangular Pop-Out taken from Aperture Card in Kanban Fishing Bear Decoupage Kit

Piece 10mm Gold Organza Ribbon – approximately 17cm in length

Stix 2 – 1mm Double-Sided Foam Pads

Double-Sided Tape

Gold Peel-off Greeting and Corners

Method:

1.
Fold the cream card in half.

2.
Stick the piece of gold card to the front of the card, using double-sided tape and leaving a gap of 2.3cm from the top and 2.4cm from the left hand side. Stick the cream card on top of this, using double-sided tape and leaving an even margin all around.
(NOTE: I used the rectangular pop-out from the aperture card, which is included in the Kanban “Fishing Bear” Decoupage Kit, as I had this left over from that project).

3.
Measure 1cm from the bottom of the card and mark lightly with pencil at both left and right hand edges of the front of the card. Measure 1cm up from these marks and mark again.

4.
On the left hand side of the card, where it folds, take a sharp craft knife and cut between the two pencil marks you made in Step 3.

5.
Thread one end of the gold organza ribbon through the slit you have made and secure it inside the card using a small piece of double-sided tape. Using the pencil marks you made on the right hand side of the card as a guide, take the ribbon across the card and secure inside with double-sided tape.

6.
Pop out the “B” layers (the purple flower) from the decoupage sheet. Shape gently with a bone folder and then apply double-sided foam pads to the reverse of all layers.

7.
Place the first layer onto the centre of the card, as shown, and position the remaining layers on top.

8.
Apply a peel-off greeting to the ribbon and peel-off corners, as shown.

Designed and Created by Eleanor

One Stop Craft Challenge 26

This weeks One Stop Craft challenge has been set by Maggie from our design team and she has chosen the theme....

'Something New'

What a great challenge, crafters love to try out a new technique or use some new crafting goodies, so now is a great excuse to do just that. One Stop Card Crafts has donated a great prize, so go over to the challenge blog for some great inspiration from the design team and details of how to enter.

I have done a 12 x 12 scrapbook page, which is a first for me and I loved doing it and will certainly be doing more. I have left this one quite plain but i am going to more and embellish them more.

Also we have something new in our online store..... Kanban Toppers Music & Dance, these were seen on TV and have been a real success. There are loads of different toppers from Rock & Roll to ballet. We will have some examples on the blog next week to give you some inspiration.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend

Shelley xx

Creative Card Crew Challenge

This week over at the Creative Card Crew Challenge blog the theme is Monochrome Madness. The design team have made some great sample cards and i love a black & white combo so have done a card for this weeks challenge.

Shelley xx

Jasimne Topper Card

To make this card you will need;
A5 White Card
Black Card
Kanban Jasmine Toppers
Kanban Black Cherry Card
Ribbon
Pearlescent Pink Paper
Black Stick On Gems
Double Sided Tape
Double Sided Foam Pads

Tools;
Ruler
Craft Knife

1)Cut the following
A rectangle 14.5cm x 20.5cm from Black Card
A rectangle 12cm x 12cm from Pink Pearlececent Paper
A rectangle 12cm x 16cm from Black Cherry Card
2) Using double sided tape stick the pink paper to the top and black cherry card under it, to the plain black card. There should be a 1cm border around the edges and just under a 1cm between the two.
3) Place the ribbon in gap between them and stick the ends to the reverse side of the plain black card. The whole front is then ready to stick to the A5 card. The black card is slightly smaller then the card front itself so a small white border will show.
4) Cut a piece of the flowered design from the Black Cherry Card and carefully cut around the outline of the flowers along one edge. The size is up to you but it needs to fit in the top right corner of the Pink Pearlecent Paper, where it is stuck with double sided tape.
5) Choose your topper and add it to your card with double sided foam pads.
6) Use the flowered circle from the middle of card and choose a greeting. Stick the flowered circle direct to the card and using the foam pads add the greeting.
7) Decorate with Black Stick-on Gems.

Designed & created by Nikki

GONE FISHIN’ APERTURE DECOUPAGE CARD

For This Project, You Will Need:

Equipment:

Craft Knife

Cutting Mat

Pencil

12” Rule

Materials:

1 Kanban Invertage Kit – Fishing Bear

Small Piece 7mm Honey Gold Metallic Edged Ribbon

Stix 2 – 1mm Double-Sided Foam Pads

Double Sided Tape

Small amount of Glue (optional)

Method:

1.
Take the greetings card blank from the Kanban Aperture Decoupage Kit. Pop out the rectangle from the centre of the card and fold the card in half, with the aperture at the front.

2.
Separate the toppers and the frames from the decoupage sheet, using a sharp craft knife to release the pips.

3.
Open the card out and, on the inside right-hand half of the card, lightly draw a rectangle the same size as the largest topper. To position it correctly, measure down 3.3cm from the top of the card, leaving 3.7cm at the bottom and 2.4cm on either side.

4.
Take the largest of the toppers and attach within the rectangle you have just drawn, using double-sided tape.

5.
Attach the remaining 3 toppers on top of the largest image, with the smallest image on top, using double-sided foam pads.

6.
Close the card over, so that the front is facing you and the topper layers from the inside of the card are poking through the aperture. Take the aperture frame with the smallest aperture. Line this up with the uppermost topper and stick to the front of the card, using double-sided tape.

7.
Attach the frame with the next smallest aperture on top of this, using double-sided foam pads and repeat for the last frame.

8.
Make a small bow, using the gold ribbon, and attach to the top of the card using double-sided tape or glue.

Designed and Created by Eleanor

One Stop Craft Challenge 25 ' Decorative Cuts'

This week over at the challenge it is Donna's turn to set the challenge. She has set the challenge of 'decorative cuts'. There are some great DT cards on the blog to give you inspiration and this weeks prize is a selection of ribbon worth £10.00!

The card I have made this week has 2 different types of decorative edge. One I cut using some pinking scissors and the other I used a scalloped oval die. The butterfly was done by using Cosmic Shimmer film. I did 2 layers one with 3 sheets fused together and the other with 2. I layered these to create a 3D effect. It is only the second time I have used heat bondable film and I love it.

So why not join in with this weeks great challenge.

Shelley xx

Torn Challenge

My mother in law, Val has done this cute little card for the torn challenge. She hasn't got a blog set up yet so i'm posting it on here for her. It is a really cute and dinky little card and she has torn the cat and dog shapes from designer paper.

Thanks Val x

Blog Candy Winner

First a big, big thank you to everyone who entered for the chance to win the stamps. I have now got the winner using random number generator and the number that came out was........

33 - Debs - Especially For You

Congratulations Debs, please could you email me your address and I will get the stamps in the post for you :) (sales@onestopcardcrafts.co.uk)

Shelley xx

Blog Candy!!! Now Closed

*This post will stay at the top until the 17th April, please scroll down for other posts*

Hi all, many thanks for taking the time to visit my craft blog. I am really pleased to say I have reached 5000 hits so I have some lovely blog candy on offer to celebrate, 7 brand new rubber stamps, including 2 Hampton Art stamps, a cute tigger stamp and a Triple D butterfly stamp set.

A winner will be picked at random and announced here. The candy is open till 17th April Midday. So please spread the word. All you need to do for your chance to win is.....

1. Leave a comment on this post

2. Link from your blog to mine so the word gets around, please feel free to use the picture

If you don't have your own blog please still feel free to leave a comment for your chance to win. If you don't already follow my blog then why not sign up to follow. I keep the blog up to date with new craft goodies, we have a great design team who do craft projects each month and product reviews plus loads of inspiration, monthly competitions and more....

Good luck everyone

Shelley xx

Oriental Beauty Project

Items required
Charcoal Black Card – 1 piece of A4 and 1 piece 7.5cm x 18.5cm
14cm x 20cm piece of Red Oriental Bloom (Negative) Card
7cm x 18cm piece of Raspberry paper
Kanban Kimono Ladies - Set Two
10mm Black Organza Ribbon
Jewelry Seal Gold Gems
Stix 2 Foam Pads
Double sided tape

Equipment
Guillotine, Scissors or Craft Knife

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Score the A4 Charcoal Black card in half to make a card blank.

2. Stick one end of the black organza ribbon on the back of the Red Oriental bloom card approx 1cm in from the top left corner. Twist the ribbon 10 times and stick the free end to the back of the card, approx 1 cm in from the bottom left corner. Mount the Oriental Bloom card with the twisted ribbon centrally onto the card blank.

3. Mount the topper of your choice from the topper sheet onto the raspberry paper, and then mount this onto the smaller piece of black charcoal card. Attach 3D foam pads to the rear and stick the mounted topper onto the card blank at a diagonal angle as shown in the photograph.

4. Tie a small bow of Black organza ribbon and stick this to the bottom right corner using a 3D foam pad. Attach a gold gem to the centre of the bow. Stick 3 gold gems in the top right hand corner of the oriental bloom card.

Designed & created by Sharon

Oriental Elegance Project

Items required
A4 Cream Card
12.5cm x 21 cm piece of Gold Oriental Bloom (Positive) card
15 cm x 21 cm piece of Gold Paper
Kanban Kimono Ladies - Set Two
10mm Gold Satin Edged Organza Ribbon
Stix 2 Foam Pads
Double sided tape

Equipment
Guillotine, Paper Trimmer, Scissors or Craft Knife

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Score the A4 cream card in half. Mount the Oriental bloom card centrally on the gold paper. Cut a piece of ribbon 22cm long and mount this diagonally over the gold paper and oriental bloom card. Stick the gold paper to the front of the card blank.

2. Using the two patterned sections at the sides of the topper sheet, trim them to be 15cm long and attach to the card at the top and bottom.

3. Remove your chosen topper from the topper sheet, add 3D foam pads to the back of it and stick it centrally on the card.

4. Using 2 small pieces of the gold ribbon (approx 7-8cm in length each) tie in a knot around the diagonal ribbon on each side of the topper.

Designed & created by Sharon

Oriental Reflections Project

Items required
A4 Cream Card
Kanban A4 Black Glossy Card
Kanban A4 Gold Mirror Card
Kanban Gold Oriental Bloom (Positive)foiled card
Cream paper
Kanban Kimono Ladies - Set Two
Jewelry Seal Gold Gems
Stix 2 Foam Pads
Double sided tape

Equipment
Ctafter's Companion Top Score Multiboard
Guillotine, Paper Trimmer, Scissors or Craft Knife
Pencil

INSTRUCTIONS
Card Front:
1. Score the A4 cream card on the 5” square line of the mulitboard. Fold along the score line. Take 1 piece of black glossy card 6.5cm by 21cm and one piece of gold mirror card 6cm by 21cm. Using double sided tape, attach these card pieces to the front (smaller piece) of the card.

2. Remove the toppers from the sheet and then remove the patterned panels at the top and bottom of the topper sheet. Take one of the patterned panels and trim to 21cm length and stick to the card front by the fold.

3. Add 3D foam pads to your chosen topper and attach this to the front of the card. Finish with 3 Jewelry seal gems running from the top right hand corner of the topper to the top right hand corner of the card front.

Card Inside:
4. Cut one piece of the gold oriental bloom (positive) card to 16.7cm by 21cm, one piece of black glossy card to 10.5 cm by 13 cm and a piece of cream paper to 8.5cm by 11 cm. Stick the oriental bloom card to the largest piece of the inside of the card, then mat the black glossy card and cream paper onto it so that these do not show when the card is closed.

5. Cut another piece of gold oriental bloom card to 8.5cm by 11cm, and a piece of black glossy card to 9.5cm by 12cm. Mat the bloom paper onto the black glossy card and stick these onto the smaller side of the inside.

6. Add the sentiment of your choice to the cream paper.

Designed & created by Sharon

Dress Up Ruby Topper Project

To Make This Card You Will Need ~

Card Blank ~ 125x125

Kanban Self Adhesive Pearls

Kanban Die Cut Embellishments~Dress Up (Ruby)

Kanban Foiled Perfume Scroll Brown Card

Kanban Pearlescent Mink Card

Pearlescent Craft Paper~Raspberry

Craft Foam Pads

Double Sided Tape

#Optional~

Cuttlebug and Cuttlebug Swiss Dots Embossing Folder.

Decorative Cut Blade or Scissors.

*Cut Raspberry paper to size 120x120 #You can choose to use a decorative cutting tool throughout this project if you wish. Cut Kanban perfume scroll card 115x115 then using double sided tape stick the foiled card onto the raspberry paper and then onto the card blank.

*Cut the Mink pearl card to 60x70, then the raspberry pearl paper to 55x65, now stick the raspberry paper ontop of the Mink card using double sided tape. #This can now be embossed using the swiss dots folder if you so wish. Now take the Kanban bodice from the die cut set and place this ontop of these pieces using foam pads.

*Using foam pads place one of the kanban die cut sentiments to the bottom of your card and using double sided tape place the bodice segment above it. To finish off place a kanban black pearl on each corner of your card.

To Make The Tag You Will Need~

White Card

Kanban Pearlescent Mink Card

Kanban Die Cut Embellishments ~ Dress Up (Ruby)

Raspberry pearlescent paper

Eyelets

Ribbon

Double sided tape

Foam pads

#Optional~

Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder

Decorative cut blade

*Cut a piece of white card to 70x105 #You can choose to use the decorative cut throughout this project if you wish. Cut a piece of the raspberry paper to 65x100 and then cut the mink card to 60x80. Stick the mink card to the raspberry paper using double sided tape. #You can now emboss these pieces using the swiss dots folder if you wish. Now stick these to the white card using double sided tape.

* Take the 'hatbox with shoe' diecut and stick this onto the tag using foam pads. Punch a hole at the top of the tag and place the eyelet. To finish this project thread the ribbon through the eyelet and tie.

Designed & created by Donna

One Stop Craft Challenge 24

First I want to wish everyone a Happy Easter. This week it has been my turn to set the One Stop Craft Challenge and I have chosen the theme..........

'Torn'

So all that is required is some torn paper or card on your craft piece. So be sure to visit the challenge blog for loads of inspiration from our talented design team, details of how to enter and what great prize we have to give away this week.

I used some gold rose vellum which I have torn for the required element of the challenge. I used a Kanban Topper which I had left over from a Kanban Diamonds and Pearls Concept Card. I stamped the word Congratulations then covered this with a small piece of torn vellum which I had left over.

Shelley xx

A couple of birthday cards

It was my mums birthday on Sunday and I made a card from myself and my little brother philip asked me to do one for him. My mum is cat mad so Philip wanted a cat on the card. I used a Jolly Nation cat decoupage sheet, but when I put it together i thought it looked a bit plain so I added a diamante collar :) I'm pleased to say she loved them both and Philip was sooo pleased with it. Here they are....

Shelley xx

Creative Card Crew Challenge 5

This week I have managed to do a card for the creative card crew challenge :) The theme is Easter, and with a load of Easter cards still to do I thought it would be good to pull my finger out and make a start, lol.
Shelley xx

Challenge 23 'All Sewn Up'

This week at the One Stop Craft Challenge Sharon has set the great theme of 'All Stitched up'. All you need to do is some stitching on your items this week. It doesn't matter whether it is faux, doodled, stamped, machine or hand stitched.

So take a look at the challenge and have a go, there is some great inspiration from our design team as always and a great prize.

This is my card sample for this weeks challenge.

I haven't done faux stitching before but really enjoyed it. I pierced the holes and then drew the stitches with an embossing pen. The image is from a Craft UK prestigious pearl die cut decoupage sheet and the backing papers from my stash. I used glossy accents to create some more texture on the flowers.

Shelley xx

Rainbow Lady's Challenge 54

This week over at Rainbow Ladys challenge blog the theme is hands. I wasn't too sure about this at first but then came across a Kanban concept card with a couple holding hands so thought that would be perfect. I also used pearlescent black card as a backing for the topper. The card is cut and creased from A4 gold rose card sheet. The stamp I found in my stash and I finished it off with some organza ribbon. black stick on pearls and a couple of peel off stickers.

Thanks for looking.

Shelley xx

Easter Bonnet Parade

Well I just wanted to share with you what a lovely morning I had at my sons school. Ethan (4) was taking part in an Easter Bonnet parade. We had to make the bonnet at the weekend which was great fun. Ethan really enjoyed getting sticky with my silicone glue, lol. We used craft flowers around the rim, yellow ribbon and satin ribbon flowers dotted all over it. We found some great chickens and Ethan wanted them to look like they had just hatched so I carefully cracked an egg and placed the chicks in them.

Shelley xx

One Stop Card Craft Competition

For your chance to win one of two Kanban goodie packs worth at least £15.00 all you need to do is email a picture of your handmade card, atc, tag or scrapbook page to:

onestopcardcraft@btinternet.com
Please remember to leave your contact details, and that the attatched photo is in jpeg form. Each entrant can enter 2 cards for 2 chances to win. This competition is open till March 31st midday. The winner's will be picked at random, then be announced here.

Good luck everyone

The winners of this months card making comp are.....
Sarah Lake and Elizabeth Redhead
Congratulations, details of the next competition will be announced soon.

Lazy Dayz Decoupage

REVIEW OF LAZY DAYZ GARDEN "CHORES, CHORES: WHAT CHORES?" DIE-CUT DECOUPAGE SHEET
This is a really cheerful sheet of die-cut decoupage images, with enough to make at least two very amusing cards. The images on this sheet are suitable for many occasions, such as birthday, get well, retirement or even just thinking of you, and there is a whole range of these die-cut sheets to suit every taste. Most of us can readily identify with the images too!

Simply pop out the die-cut images, which are conveniently numbered for you so that you know which layer to put on next. This is particularly handy if you are new to decoupage, but is also a good reminder even for the more experienced crafter. You may find it helpful to place the decoupage sheet face down onto the back of a mouse mat and use the rounded handle of a pair of scissors to gently rub around the edges to ease the images free. This should make it easier to pop all the pips. However, if you find any of them a little tenacious, gently use a craft knife to ease the pieces free. You may also need to use your craft knife to gently go around some of the smaller areas, where the die-cutting process hasn’t quite gone through the card.

The image sheet is actually very thick – like good card stock, so the images are robust enough to be shaped with a bone folder before layering and the narrower sections, such as the stool legs or the lady’s feet, aren’t going to fall off whilst you are handling them.
Once you have popped out all of the die-cut images, gently shape them and layer them up using double-sided foam pads or silicone glue and apply to your card. There are several amusing captions to add, which will suit every occasion.
You really can’t go wrong with this die-cut decoupage. Your friends and family will be delighted to receive the finished product.

I decided to make one card (it is double-sided), which I think emphasises the "chores, what chores?" message and at only £1.00 per sheet, you can certainly afford to go a little over-the-top with your cards too!

Eleanor