Our first attempt at Decopatch

 After seeing completed projects whilst on holiday, I decided to have a go at a new craft Decopatch.

  

All you need to do to start Decopatch, is the object you’re going to cover (and it works on anything), some glue, water and a selection of decopatch papers.

 

I initially choose a pencil box to cover and because I love Giraffes - the paper was easy to choose too.

I cut some paper in to small pieces, approximately large stamp size.  The cut pieces will give a patchwork affect, torn pieces are more fluid.

 

I created a mix of PVA glue and water (a 50/50mix). Using a small brush I painted some glue onto my box, making sure I covered an area bigger than the paper pieces. 

Using the glue left on my brush, I then painted a thin coat over the paper, making sure all the edges were stuck down.

I continued to do this overlapping pieces until the box was completely covered.

 

Once dried  I then re painted again with the same mix of solution and allowed to dry, this created a glazed effect .

 

It was really fun creating this and my youngest son wanted to decorate a box too, so we purchased some book boxes for the boys and I choose a hexagonal box to decorate.

 

 

We choose denim, camouflage and stamps decopatch papers to decorate, the boys were delighted with their boxes.  

 

 

Nails Nails Nails Birthday Card

A card this time for Karen who celebrates her Birthday this month.

Karen runs a a Beauty Company and does my nails every month, so the theme of the card was quite easy too choose.

Using an Original Sizzix die 'Purse and Accesories', I cut out 15 nail varnish bottles. The lids were all cut in silver mirror card. the bottles were cut 15 times from clear acetate, and finally cut again in 15 different colours. The three sections were attached together using double sided tape. White squares were cut and placed over each bottle to act as a label and also to hide the tape.

The 'Happy Birthday' Message were cut using Sizzix sizzlets decorative strip die - Wingo Zingo Alphabet. the letters were attached to each bottle using PVA glue.

Two strips were printed and cut to create the effect of a shelf , these were glued to plain white card to add dimension.

A cream backing card was chosen and matted onto a dark pink card, this was fixed to an a5 sized card.

The shelves were positioned and fixed using 1mm 3d foam pads. The bottles were then positioned and fixed with both double sided tape and 1mm 3d foam pads.

Finally to decorate the top two corners, a set of false nails were purchased and fixed using silicon glue to finish.

The remaining two bottles were fixed at an angle to the back of the card.

A Card for Roger

 

A card for Roger required this week - so my chance to try to create the new Watford Football shirt Card.

 

I made this using my Cricut Create machine and the Cricut Gypsy. Cartridges used were Soccer and Disney - Mickey Font.

 

I used my Gypsy Device and selected the football shirt (from the Soccer Cartridge) and hid all the detail cut so I had a basic shirt shape, I then welded the shirt, boot (shadow feature) and ball (shadow). I positioned the name and numbers within the shirt, the font taken from Disney - Mickey Font. The shirt was cut at size 5inches high, the ball 1.35 inches and boot 1 inch high. This was cut out using the main football shirt colour.

 

I also cut in a contrast colour the name and number again to insert in the main shirt once main cut completed. The name font was approx 1 inch high and the number 1.5 inches high.

I cut the shirt again in the black bazzill card stock to add the sleeve and collar detail.

I cut 2 further boot shadows and a ball shadow in white Bazzill card stock.

 

I cut the ball (detailed cut) and two boot (detailed cut) in bazzill black card stock. I attached the boots and football detail cuts over the relevant shadows.

 

The 2nd Boot was fixed on main shirt using 3d foam.

The banner was created using a Sizzix banner die, the greeting printed out on computer first and then cut from the die, two further banners were cut to create a shadow effect. Corner sections were cut using Dianamics corner dies , there were cut from both yellow and black card and matted and added to each corner to finish.

 

Time for a Birthday Scrum Card

A card required this week for Paul, I know he enjoys Rugby, so this year I choose a La Pashe comical scene for his card.

The image was printed out from 'The Best of Lapashe' cd. The parts were cut out and layered up onto the main topper section using 1mm 3d foam pads.

The image was matted onto black card and matted onto a red card using 1mm 3d foam pads. This red section was matted onto black card and fixed to the 6" x 6" card base.

A personalised message was printed and matted onto black card, this was fixed to the base of the card.

Scouting Birthday Card

A card required this week for Nick, I normally go on a football theme but this year I decided to go on a different theme. As Nick has been involved in the scouting movement I decided on a La Pashe comical scene.

The image was printed out from 'The Best of Lapashe' cd. The parts were cut out and layered up onto the main topper section.

The image was matted onto black card and matted onto  a green card using 1mm 3d foam pads. This green section was matted onto black card and fixed to the 6" x 6" card base.

A personalised message was printed and matted onto black card, this was fixed to the base of the card.  

Good Luck card for Chloe

A good luck card required this week as our god daughter starts Secondary school.

Using my serif software, I created the following card. I am new to serif crafting but did find creating this fun and relatively easy to change colours of embellishments and to add and remove items.

I printed the main image off and matted it onto both brown craft card and black card, this was fixed to 6" x 6" card base. Black photo corners were cut and added to each corner to add detail.

Lets hope Chloe has a great first day and secondary school and hasn't got too much homework.

A Card for a Knitter

A birthday card required this week for my sister in law's birthday.

As she is a keen knitter I decided on a design from Joanna Sheen's House Mouse Triple CD collection.

The main decoupage image was printed onto smooth white card and the separate pieces cut  out and assembled using 1mm 3d foam pads, PVA glue was used to secure the mices tails in place. This image was matted onto purple card stock, and metal coated brads fixed to each corner.

Using my smallest knitting needles, I knitted several rows using DMC embroidery thread, and slid these onto a cocktail stick. The points of the cocktail sticks were snipped to make blunt ends for saftey. At one end of each cocktail stick a narrow strip of paper was wound round and secured with PVA glue. Once dry the ends were coloured in using Promarker pen -sandstone, to match the cocktail stick.

A Happy Birthday message was printed and the knitting fixed using silicon glue, once dried this was matted onto purple cards stock.

The background paper was printed off The House Mouse Project Book CD , this was matted onto purple card and fixed tot the 6" x  6" base card.
The topper section's were fixed at a slanted angle using 3d foam pads to finish.

Jade is 30 - fly fly away.....

This time card requests for a Virgin Air stewardess who's reaching the BIG 30th Birthday this weekend.

I was asked to create two cards, both with a air stewardess theme using the Cricut Paperdolls Cartridges.

After investigating the current Virgin cabin crew uniform, I selected clothing from both Cricut Paperdoll  and Everyday Paperdolls cartridges.

For the larger a5 sized card, the doll was cut at 3.75 ". The face was created using Sizzix face stamps and then the eye sections were stamped onto white paper and cut out and glued to the main stamped image. The blue colour of the eyes was added using a Promarker pen with a fine nib attached.

The ticket messages were printed onto Bazzill white card stock, and cut using Whimsy Stamps Ticket Die, these were then cut again from both red and purple card stock. The coloured cut tickets were cut in half to create a border effect at each end. The suitcases were cut from Cricut Paperdolls Cartridge, there were cut from 3 different colours of brown card stock and sections cut out from each to create different coloured suitcases with contrasting detail.

White Bazzill card was matted onto red and purple card stock and fixed to the base card. Four photo corners were cut using  Die namic Photo corner dies set, from purple card stock and fixed to each corner using double sided tape.

The main doll image was fixed in the centre of the card and the two suitcases slanted outwards at the  bottom of the card.

The four tickets were attached overlapping each other using both double sided tape and 1mm 3d foam pads.

 

 

This others smaller card was created, cutting the Cricut doll at size 3" , the plane was cut from Paperdolls for Everyday cartridge, this was cut from both white and red card and sections cut out and joined to added detail and hopefully look similar to the Virgin planes currently in use.

 

The clouds were cut from Paperdolls Everyday cartridge and stretch and altered in height using the Cricut Gypsy Device.

 

The suitcase was created as above from Cricut Paperdolls Cartridge and the handle part was taken from the same cartridge but was originally the toddlers brick trolley, the handle and first wheel was used only, the remaining part was cut away. 

 

Light blue card was matted onto purple card stock and fixed to the 6" x 6" base card. A small green section was cut and fixed tot the bottom of the card. Two photo corners were cut and fixed to the lower corners only.

 

The clouds were fixed using both double sided tape and 1mm 3d foam pads, the aeroplane was fixed using 1m foam pads to add dimension.

 

The main doll image was fixed to the side of the card pulling the suitcase trolley, both were fixed using double sided tape. 

 

A personalised message was printed and cut using Sizzix Banner die, it was cut again in red card stock which was cut in half and fixed to create a border around the message.