Craftwell Blog: create

February 20, 2017

You make my heart sing cards by Home Kool Kitty Group

Our homeschool group are loving their Craftwell Cut N Boss and also their eBrush! Today they create cute cards sharing their love for crafting!

Supplies:

Craftwell cut n boss

eBrush

Cardstock

Sharpies

Back of heart shaped candy box

Pipe cleaners

Wiggly eyes

Cutting dies – heart shape

Glue stick or Liquid glue

Hot glue gun

Scissors

***Adult supervised required***

How excited we are to share this craft with you. I love getting to spend time with my kids and doing something fun, that they love as well. Plus, this also helps with their eye to hand coordination and simulates their imagination.

Let us get started:

First we cut the back of the candy box in half. Next, you are going to draw the outline of the bird on one half. The head is a medium circle, the body is an oval then a straight line for the tail. Cut the bird out.

Now for some color, feel free to color your bird any color you want. I let my kids have fun with it and do whatever colors they want. You can do multi-color, single colors, draw on wings, hearts, polka dots…below is a picture of the eBrush with a gold metallic sharpie. We used SP-01 adapter for our sharpie.

We are going to emboss our cards. Matty chose the multi-stripe patterned embossing folder Reilee the diamond pattern. They used the cut n boss to make emboss the cardstock.

Folded the card in half. Next the bird was placed on the front, they used a glue stick.

We used the glue gun to glue on the eyes. Matty asked mommy to help him.

They used the heart shape cutting die for the bird’s wing, you only need to cut one.

Once cut, glue to your bird to make a wing.

Next we are going to shape the feet, by making small bunny ears with the pipe cleaner. You will nee to make two. The cutting about a 2 inch piece of pipe cleaner and folding in half twice to make the beak. Use the glue gun to glue down the feet and beak.

We used special scissors to cut the edge of our cardstock it was then used inside the card to write the sentiment. Once cut , paste inside the card.

Then we wrote, “ You Make my Heart Sing…Love, …” inside the card.

We practice recycling, so all of our scrapes and extra pieces are placed in our recycle bins,

February 18, 2016

Valentines's Chocolate Treat Box

Cut 'n' Boss Design Team: Alexia Misso Cycle 12

Hi all! I'm back today with another Valentine's project - heart shape treat box! I fill it up with chocolates but you can actually put anything you like in these cute boxes!

What you will need to create this project:

- Craftwell Cut 'n' Boss Machine

- Teresa Collins' Lifestyle Collection Dies

- Craftwell Teresa Collins A4 Embossing Folder - So In Love

- Craftwell Teresa Collins A4 Embossing Folder - Love

- Acetate Sheets

- Red, Pink, Hot Pink Card Stocks

Direction:

Step 1: Download cut file and cut the shape out in different sizes and colors (as shown in second picture below).

Step 2: Cut a strip of card stock that is 1 1/4" x 11" long and place on a scoring board, score at 1/4". Fold along scored line and using a scissor, cut in 1/4" intervals as shown in second image below. (Prepare two to make a box)

Step 3: Prepare embossed acetate and other embellishments.

Step 4: Place one of the cut out heart shape on the embossed acetate and trace the shape using a marker. Cut out the shape.

Step 5: Using the card stock strip prepared in Step 3, adhere the strip to a heart shape cut-out to form the base for the box. Result as shown in picture 2. In picture 3, glue the pink heart frame on top of the red one. Take the second card stock strip from Step 3 and glue around the result frame in picture 3 below (to form the cover for the box).

Lastly, using double-sided tape adhere the embossed acetate prepared in Step 4 to the inside of the finished cover. As shown in picture 4.