Hello Everyone!
My name is Leslie and this is my first post for Just Imagine Crafts. I was really lucky to be able to attend the stamping convention last weekend on Mesa, Arizona and meet Roberta. She is the nicest person and was so kind to give me a little tutorial on all the punches and tools that Just Imagine Crafts has. I’m impress with all the versatility one punch can make and of course I am now going to have to buy more punches.
In this post I am going to show you the steps for the parts of the Joy Is Where You Find It card where I used the the Kreaxions tools. I hope you will enjoy making it as much as I did. If you want to know more about the parts of the card not discussed in this post feel free to ask in the comments and I will be more than happy help.
- Kreaxions 307 Punch
- Kreaxions Punch 603 Lotus
- Kreaxions Punch 604 Butterfly
- Kreaxions 4 in 1 Punch – 901 Butterfly
- Kreaxions Circle Cutter to 10 inch
- Kreaxions Plastic Stencils for Circle Punching
How To Make The Butterflies
- Use the Kreaxions Punch 604 Butterfly to punch two butterflies from blue card stock
- Use a finger from under each wing to roll a curve into each wing
Optional Steps
- Add a little shadow to the wings using a stamp pad to darken
- Apply a little Inkssentials black Enamel Accents to the body and head of each butterfly
- Set them assign to dry (takes about 2 hours)
- Once they have dried you can apply them to the card
Kreaxions Tools Used
Accenting Tip
When applying accents like Enamel or Glitter remember they need time to dry. If possible do them ahead of time on pieces that can be done separate and let them dry before apply to the final product, or if you need or want to apply directly to the project itself wait until everything else is done and do them last. Then allow time to dry before you handling the project. This will help avoid accidental touching the wet accents while working on the project.
How to make the Doily
- Use the 6.8 cm circle on Stencil ‘A’ from the Kreaxions Plastic Stencils for Circle Punching to set the size of the Circle Cutter
- Using the Kreaxions Circle Cutter to cut a 6.8 cm circle on a piece of pastel yellow card stock
- Choose which side to make visible and then flip it over to the back side
- Align Stencil ‘A’ guides with the circle
- Using the guides draw 8 pencil lines around the circle by using every other line
- Turn Kreaxions 307 Punch upside down
- Slide the circle all the way into the punch make sure the lines are visible
- Very carefully align one of the lines using the center of the flower as a guide and the point of the large diamond to keep it straight
- Slowly push down on the punch until it is holding the paper but not punching the hole this will help keep it aligned and gives one last chance to make corrections
- Once it is aligned complete the punch
- Rotate to the next line and repeat steps 8 and 9 until you have five flowers punched in sequence on the circle. Leaving the last three lines unpunched
- Remove the circle and flip it back over to the front side and you now have the visible portions of the doily.
Optional Steps
- Add a little shadow using a stamp pad to darken the edge of the doily
- Glue a small half pearl to the stem under each flower
Kreaxions Tools Used
- Kreaxions 307 Punch
- Kreaxions Plastic Stencils for Circle Punching (Stencil 'A')
- Kreaxions Circle Cutter to 10 inch
Doily Tip
You can use these steps to create many different doilies by adjusting the size of the circle and the using another Kreaxions punch.
How to make the Lotus Flowers
- Use the Kreaxions Punch 603 Lotus to punch four flowers from red card stock
- On two of the flowers roll the flowers inward
- Take one of the rolled flowers and glue the bottom of its center to the top of the center of one of the unrolled flowers making sure to rotate the flower to show alternating petals
Optional Steps
- Add a little shadow to only the tips of the pedals using a stamp pad to darken the edges
- Glue some small yellow beads to the center to make the anthers
Kreaxions Tools Used
How to make the Lace Border
- Cut a 4 ¼ by 1 ½ strip from a pink checkered pattern paper
- Line up the Kreaxions 4 in 1 Punch – 901 Butterfly with the the right short edge of the strip and only bring strip far enough into the punch so that the small tip of the lace under the butter fly is just above the bottom of the strip.
- Once aligned make the first punch
- Slide the strip to the right and align the pattern so only half of the pattern is visible, using the butterfly middle as you guide to help keep it straight
- Punch and repeat step 4 until you have a total of four punches
- The four punches should fill the strip
Optional Steps
- Glue a small half pearl to the middle of each point on the bottom of the lace
- Add a lace ribbon to the top of the board
Kreaxions Tools Used
Well that's it for my first blog post for Just Imagine. I hope you enjoyed making this card and I hope you will make your own embellishments and unique tweaks to make it your own. If you have any questions feel free to post them in the comments.
Have a great day!
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Bev Code
this is stunning and so beautiful.. amazing colour, texture, depth.. and fabulous instructions.. thanks Leslie
Deb Michelle
Beautiful card Leslie!! Great use of the punches!
Lisa Moen
Gorgeous card Leslie and wonderful instructions!
Jess
Gorgeous card! It’s so awesome that you offer detailed instructions to help us recreate some of the effects.
Jasmine
Amazing! …I agree with all of the other comments as well, wonderful!
Jasmine
GinniG
WOWSERS LESLIE!!! You’ve sure started off with a huge bang! LOVE LOVE LOVE the card and the tutorials!!! Welcome to the team! I’ll definitely be trying these out!
Lisa
Thanks for the doily pointers! such a pretty card!
Linda Beeson
This is simply spectacular! LOVE every single detail and your explanations.
Lucy Chesna
YOU ROCK ON THE TUTORIALS!!! I love it all and love your card