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Make your own unique scene and create a paper crafted snowglobe that is a freestanding Christmas decoration or a special card that folds flat for postage. A 6 minute tutorial to help you on your way . I hope it inspires you to look at your own stash of dies and use them to create your own designs and give old dies a new lease of life! Craft dies used: Santa snowglobe cutting dies : still availa...

This is the second part of The Christmas Tunnel book project where I share how to make a keepsake that is not just an illlustrated poem but an LED lit Christmas decoration. This video takes you through simple bookbinding and assembly of the completed tunnel book scene and complements Part 1 showing how you can make a 3D tunnel book scene using die cutting and tips to make the most creative use ...

Make a keepsake Christmas Tunnel book using die cutting to create your scenes . Hints and tips on how to maximise use of your dies using partial die cutting with card stacks and how to build your tunnel scene in a modular manner. The tunnel book is LED lit and illustrates a famous christmas poem, which I hope inspires you to create your own illustrated scenes for peoms of your choice and die st...

With Valentine's day fast approaching , now is the time to make that special card. In this tutorial I demonstrate how to create a unique 3D card using dies that I already have.I hope this simple but I hope beautiful card conveys the sentiment intended and inspires you to dive into your own collection of dies and make something equally unique and special. Dies used X-cut nested hearts Cut and Ma...

My last video of 2020 and still unashamedly festive. We need angels with us at the moment and so I stayed with a Christmas theme, but of course the principles can be used for any occasion you like. I used 250gsm white card stock and I give the measurements in both centimetres and inches in the video. Dies used: Tonic studios Christmas Angel Tattered lace Holly border Unbranded large Christmas b...

A special way to count down the days to Christmas. This project is a keepsake , reusable Advent Calendar which where moving figures gradually move into position to build a scene that completes on Christmas eve. It uses the concept of paper theatres , shadow boxes and slider cards to make something utterly unique. It uses white cardstock and corrugated card. I have used dies from my personal sta...

This project is a unique take on an Advent Calendar. Step by step guide to making a paper theatre /shadow box where each day the players bring Christmas closer until on the 24th December a complete Nativity is revealed. Fun for young and old , reusable and a very lovely decoration. The tutorial is divided into modules, with measurements in both centimetres and inches are given after each sectio...

This simple slider card is easy to do but makes something beautiful as well as fun and interactive. Perfect to create Christmas cheer and enjoyable to make. Dies used Dixi Crafts Santa on a Roof Build a Scene Christmas Village Sizzix Tim Holtz Treeline Materials White card A4 250gsm Christmas background paper A4 Kanban Krafts double sided tape All purpose & PVA glues Gemini cutting machine

This card is basically a back to front bridge card with 3D scene and slider. Fun, beautiful and combines a real sense of a moving diorama and folds for posting. Step by step instructions for a 24cm(9 1/2 in) x 18cm (7in) card. i used the 12in Gemini cutting machine but you can just reduce the height of 18cm to 15cm if using a 15.5cm (6in) cutting machine Dies used were all unbranded Build a sce...

A fun project to make your Christmas card special. Easy backlighting gives a beautiful effect and uses an easy cheat to make it bendy and fold flat for postage. Use any of your dies to create a scene but for my nativity scene I used: Unbranded nativity Build a scene dies Unbranded angels Sue Wilson grass die from Finishing Touches Collection -wooden gate and fence Sizzix Big Shot 250gsm white c...

This little 3D card is fun to make and also uses an easy hack to backlight your scene without needing an LED. ( Nothing to stop you using a little LED tealight as well if you wish) The card is based on a simple Tent Fold , but adds in a hanging panel and an accordion- fold base so you can press it flat for posting. You could use the template for any scene you like - so I hope this inspires you ...

Tunnels books are lovely but getting the folded sides to work well and keep your panels straight can be challenging. Here I describe a modular method of working which makes life easy as well as giving scope to build your tunnel book in stages , adding or removing parts of the scene as you choose. Tunnel books are very special and make lovely mementos of or for special occasions. Happy crafting!...

Many people are daunted about making their own scenes for tunnel books as they feel they don’t have the necessary skills to cut elaborate scenes using drawing and scalpels. Whilst there are many die kits to make tunnel books/shadow box cards, they are often expensive and restrictive and the idea of using your own dies to make unique scenes can seem challenging. This tutorial shows how you can u...

Maximising the use of your dies is creative , economical and fun. Using card stacks is the most versatile way to partially die cut and allows creation of unique scenes. This video shows how you can use the Gemini machine to partially die cut using card stacks and I also demonstrate using the plates for simple partial die cutting as well. The Gemini shows its flexibility without compromising on ...

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