Jubilee Weekend Table Projects

Fabulous projects for your celebratory tables from Katrina;



Cutlery Envelope



For this cutlery envelope you will need -

* A sheet of the Ruby Rock it Vintedge paper

* Alterations Die Mini Paper Rosettes

* Alterations Die Mini Crown & Fleur

* IndigoBlu Flitter Glu

* IndigoBlu MegaFlakes Brighton Pier

* Exquisite Pigment Ink - Lapis

* Craftime Britannia Laser Mesh Sheets

* Craftime Britannia Mini Crystals

How I made it -

1. Make a template for an elongated envelope that will fit your cutlery. If you would like me to send you my template then just ask and I would be happy to send you mine. Cut it out of your paper and glue together.

2. Cut a crown from the mini crown die from a strong card. Follow the directions for the flutter glu and add the Mega flakes to gild your crown.

3. Use a scrap of the Vintedge paper to make a small Rosette from the Mini paper rosette die. Stick your gilded crown in the middle.

4. Ink around the edges of your envelope with the Lapis ink and then using one of the laser sheets gently sponge some of the ink through to decorate your envelope. Add your gilded crown rosette to the corner of your cutlery envelope and adorn with a few of the little gems and you are ready for your party!!

 



Napkin Rings


Another idea I had are these sweet napkin rings. These are sooo easy and fun to make.



You will need -


* I used one of the Ruby Rocket boarders but I think they are out of stock so you could use a strip of the paper.


* Alterations Die Mini Paper Rosettes


* Alterations Die Mini Crown & Fleur


* IndigoBlu Flitter Glu


* IndigoBlu MegaFlakes Brighton Pier


* Craftime Britannia Mini Crystals


To make your napkin rings -


1. Cut your paper strip or boarder to the size you need to fit your napkin. Stick together so it forms a ring.


2. Cut the number of crowns you need out of stiff card using the Mini crown die and following the instructions on the Flitter Glu gild your crowns. I just picked out the silver flakes for one and gold colours for the others but Brighton Pie comes as a mix.


3. Make up the number if mini rosettes you need using the mini rosette die and stick a crown in the centre of each and decorate with little gems.


4. Glue your decorated rosette to your napkin ring, add your napkin and add to your table!



Cupcake Decoration



Cupcake Flag



Next I thought about cup cake decoration, after all whats a party without cake??? Why I used the same colour background to photograph I is beyond me , sorry about that, but I think you can still see it. I would of photographed it again but ummm.... well we ate the cakes!! :D

You will need -

* Scraps of the Ruby Rocket vintedge paper

* Exquisite Pigment Ink - Lapis

* Alterations Die Mini Crown & Fleur

* IndigoBlu Flitter Glu

* IndigoBlu MegaFlakes Brighton Pier

*Craftime Britannia Mini Crystals

* Craft punches or cutting dies in 2 size circles

* Cocktail stick

To make -

1. Punch or cut 2 different circle sizes out of the Ruby Rocket Vintedge paper. Ink around the edges.

2. Cut a crown with the mini crown die out of stiff card and follow the instructions on the Flitter Glu to gild the crown with the Mega flakes. Decorate your crown with the crystals

3. Stick your cut circles on to of each other and stick the gilded crown in the centre. Stick a cocktail stick to the back and when dry poke into your cupcakes to decorate!!.

There are also some perfect size Union Jacks on the topper sheet in the Ruby Rocket Collection pack that are perfect for this.

Britannia Bracelet

I have been busy in my craft room again, playing with the wonderful Button Assortment Britannia. For just £1.00 you receive a load of buttons. I... then just added a spool of the bakers twine and made this cute bracelet. I thought this would be something older children could make as it is very simple. Here is how I did it.
 

 You will need -
* Button Assortment Britannia
* Creative Expressions Bakers Twine Black & White
* Imagination Crafts Magi Bond

Here is how I did it -
1. Cut off about 100cm of the bakers twine ( for an adult bracelet) and cut in half. This will give you plenty to play with. Put some of the PVA glue on the ends and leave to dry. This will make it a lot easier to work with.
2. While the glue is drying choose the buttons you want to use. I used a large white button with a red one to fit inside it for the middle piece, you will need buttons with 4 holes for the middle piece. I also used 2 blues and 2 whites, you will also need a tiny button for the clasp. Lay them out on your table top in the order you want then to be in the bracelet.
3. Fold both pieces of bakers twine in half. Take a piece of your folded twine and with the 2 buttons on top of each other with the holes lined up thread one of the cut ends through the bottom hole and the other end through the top on one side. Pull the twine through until you have a small loop that you can thread the cut ends through, like you would putting ribbon through a tag, and pull tight. Do the same with the other piece of folded twine through the two holes of the same button. Your middle buttons should be secure.
4. Take the next button in your design and thread onto your twine. If it has 4 holes then thread in straight lines or you can even make a cross. For buttons with 2 holes the twine is thin enough for both pieces to go through the holes, just do them one at a time. The glue hardened ends really help with this.
5. Continue to add your buttons.
6. The rest of the bracelet is made up with knots. This is how you can make the bracelet the right size for you. The twine knots beautifully so it is very easy to do. I used square knots, or reef if you were a girl guide. There are lots of videos on You tube that will show you how to do them, rather then me try and explain how they are done. Do have a look they are very very easy. I then used a loop clasp knot to make the loop at the end and your bracelet is done.

Queen for a Day

I just can't stop playing with the Ruby Rock it Vintedge paper pack. Its amazing how far it is going! This time I decided to do an 8x8 canvas but it could easily become a scrapbook page. I have used one of my many images but it could be a photo of a member of your family if you wanted to.

 You will need -
* Canvas, mine is 8x8
* Vintedge Collection Pack ( this includes all the chipboard pieces needed too)
* Eco... Green Acrylic Paint Aged Silver
* Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad Tea Dye
* That Special Touch Mica Mask - crown
* Alterations Die Mini Paper Rosettes
* Alterations Die Typeset Alphabet
* Button Assortment Britannia
* Craftime Britannia Mini Crystals
* IndigoBlu Rubber Stamp Harlequin
* Exquisite Pigment Ink - Walnut
* Vintedge Paper Twine 15yds
* Silver giltter pen
* Silver watercolour pencil
* Koi Water Brush Small
* Larger alphabet die or template or stickers for the Queen word
* Die cutting machine

Here's how I did it -
1. Cut a piece of the ledger paper with the bunting along the top to fit your canvas leaving a thin border and glue down.
2. Using the wonderful silver paint, paint the sides of your canvas and paint in your paper so it blurs into the background. All you need to do is paint over the edges of the paper slightly so you don't get that hard edge. Go around the edge with the tea dye distress ink and a blender tool.
3. Lay the mask down onto the canvas in the bottom right hand corner at a slight angle and draw around it. Use a watercolour pencil to roughly colour the outline in and then use your water brush to paint it out.
4. In with the paper pack you get a big bag of wonderful chipboard pieces. Choose 3 bunting pieces you like, 3 of the photo corners, a couple of images for around the picture and the bird on the clock. One of the bunting pieces might need trimming, depending on your photo, place the photo on the canvas with the bunting pieces in position over 3 of the printed bunting pieces. Then if need be draw a line along the edge of the photo on the bunting then just trim off with scissors.
5. Glue down the bunting chipboard pieces and the photo. Add the 3 photo corners to the photo and a crown from the sticker sheet from the pack onto the child's head
6. Make 3 small rosettes with the Union Jack paper as per the instructions on the die. Cut pieces of the Vintedge paper twine and thread then through 3 of the buttons from the button pack. Tie knots and stick the buttons to the centre of the rosettes. Stick the rosette to the bottom left corner overlapping the photo in a slight pile. Poke the 2 chipboard pieces you chose into the edges of the rosette pile.
7. Glue the bird on the clock to the right hand corner and stick a few of the crystals to the crown.
8. Cut the letters for A, for, the, day from the typeset alphabet die from the dark blue paper. Cut out the word Queen from the red background ( I used some templates I had but any die or template you have is fine ) I then stamped over then with the Harliquin stamp and the walnut ink then went around the edge with my silver pen.
9. Stick down all your words and you are done. Hope you enjoyed making your canvas.

Britannia Card

Katrina here, I have been playing with some of the new Colour Connection products.

Glitter card is not what I usually use in my work but always up for a challenge I gave it a go and came up with this card.

  I used - Craftime Britannia Glit...ter Sheets
Craftime Britannia Handcrafted Roses
Craftime Britannia Pearlised Cards
Craftime Britannia Tags & Ribbons
Craftime Britannia Trinket Box
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylics - London night

  To make the card -
1. Cut the glitter card up into strips to make up the Union flag, glue the first layer to one of the blue pearlised cards then build them up using silicone glue, leave to dry.
2. Using sand paper rub the glitter card back as much as you like and then apply the acrylic paint, I used my finger, to antique it.
3. Take one of the tags and using PVA glue and a tooth pick build up little flowers using the beads and sequins in the trinket box, draw a border around the tag with a red glitter pen. Leave to dry.
4. Once everything is dry stick, again using silicone, one of the roses to the middle of the card and poke the top of the tag underneath to secure and your card is done! Have fun!!

Celebration Bunting

Hi there, Katrina here. I have been working on a colourful banner that would be great for any celebration but especially the Jubilee coming up this summer. There are a couple more photos in the photo album. Here is how I did it.

I used -
*... Craft UK Bunting Pack Jubilee Scallop. Also available in straight edge.
* Vintedge Collection Pack
* Craftime Britannia Glitter Chipboard Alphabets
* Craftime Britannia Glitter Sheets
* Craftime Britannia Laser Mesh Sheets
* Craftime Britannia Mini Crystals
* Imagination Crafts Magi Glitz Gel - Arctic Frost

How its all put together -
1. Make a template for the size of paper you want on your banners and cut out from the Vintedge papers. The problem being which ones to choose!! Stick them to the banners

2. Cut out circles from the glitter sheets and a smaller circle from the mesh sheets. You can use a punch or die cutting system.

3. I then found it easier to lay the banner out as you wish it to hand and place the glitter pieces and mesh pieces on top then the letters ( there are 3 e's in one pack of alphabets) Once you are happy with the way it looks use a wet glue, I use glue gel, on the back of the letter and stick it on top of the mesh and glitter circles. That way you glue it all down together. Then stick the glitter circle to the flag.

4. I then used a die cut to cut a decorative edge from the scraps of paper and decorated it with the mini crystals and dabs of the Magi Glitz gel. You can add any little gems you have or more of the mini crystals to the letters. Let it all dry and you can thread the flags onto the string that comes with the bunting pack and you are ready to hang it up.