Our designer for the day… Shelagh Metselaar
This month, our designer for the day Shelagh Metselaar had a fantastic time crafting with the issue 77 kit, and created a gorgeous greeting for you to try yourself.
PaperCrafter kit, Downloadable patterned papers, Scissors Foam pads
“I really enjoyed starting with a blank canvas and coming up with an array of ideas”
Thank you Shelagh for your lovely design!
Apply to be our next Designer for the Day by sending your name and address to samantha.lewis@aceville.co.uk
“It was very thought-provoking to use the girlie elements”
“The gems are good to use for the centres of flowers and rosettes”
“The chipboard hearts were one of my favourite elements!”
I was delighted and thrilled but also a little apprehensive by the prospect of being chosen to be a Designer for the Day. I sat down with a notebook and pencil, set out the kit and came up with a myriad of ideas”
• Take the maroon card blank from your kit and hold landscape-view
• Measure and mark vertically along the card, at 2.5cm from the left and right edge
• Open the card out flat and cut from these marks to overlap the spine of the card by 2.5cm
• Score the aperture section at 2.5cm and 5cm from the front of the card, to create a mountain and valley fold
• Manipulate the folds to create a stepper card. Mount the front panels of the card with zigzag patterned paper
• Carefully snip a selection of dress-up motifs from the sheet, mounting bows and butterflies with foam pads
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YOU WILL NEED:
Craft essentials
Patterned papers, LemonCraft Forget Me Not
Dies: lace, butterfly
Ink pad, Tim Holtz Distress Broken China
Ranger Stickles, Diamond
METHOD:
1 Create a 13cm x 16cm top-folding white blank.…
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YOU WILL NEED:
Craft essentials
Stamps: Clearly Besotted My Mother, Brushed Sentiments, Pretty Pansies, On Your Day, Thanks A Bunch
Nuvo expanding mousse, Old Linen
Nuvo shimmer powder, Green Parade
Ink pad, black
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YOU WILL NEED:
Craft essentials
Template from papercraftermagazine.co.uk
Paper collection, Pink Paislee Whimsical
Embellishments: Pink Paislee Whimsical rub-ons, stickers, puffy stickers; American Crafts Epiphany chipboard letters, Happy Life foam letters
Punch, corner rounder
METHOD:
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YOU WILL NEED:
Craft essentials
FREE PaperCrafter patterned papers
Die, star
Sequins, silver stars
Acetate
METHOD:
1 Cut white card to 18cm square, then score down one side at 6cm. Fold inwards to create…
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