Christmas Envelope Photo Folder

 To complete a trio of Graphic 45 Twelve days of christmas projects here is photo folder to store 

some christmas memories.

I think this collection from graphic 45 is my favourite christmas collection.

Here are a few techniques in this project that may be with trying out.

Firstly try making you folder from chipboard then you can make it any size you want 

Use Core'dinations graphic 45 signature series card stock colours as they match perfectly to 

any of the graphic 45 collections.

Try using a buckle closure for your folder in conjunction with inked grunge paper.  

The stickers and chipboard packs matching the graphic 45 collections make the ideal way to have perfectly coordinated embellishments for your project. 

and finally try using different coloured envelopes to create a different look

I hope these ideas will help I've inspiration to your next project

Cheer Andrew 

Holiday Candy Tin Mini Album

Christmas is a upon us and I made this mini album candy tin tin using graphic 45 twelve 

days of christmas collection. 

If you liked my christmas crackers set using the same collection, I hope you like 

this projects as well. If you have not seen my crackers then please have a look at the previous post.

This was a project I made for the Graphic 45 Design Team. It was featured on there blog.

Please go over and have a look at the wonderful plethora of projects that will inspire .

The tin I used for this project was the graphic 45 film canister

I used fussy cut images and diemond dies coupled with paper flowers to 

embellish the front.

There is a simple mini album on the front to hold christmas snap shots or journalling.

Thanks for stopping by

Andrew

12 Days of Christmas Crackers

Graphic 45 twelve days of christmas paper collection is one of my top

favorites from the graphic 45 range. I love the colours and could not resist using it with my latest twinery design team project.

I decided that christmas crackers would be fun project to make.

As you can see there are great papers that coordinate so well and the green twine 

I have used is almost a perfect match.

I used the twine to create a cross hatched effect for some back ground texture.

The colour I used on the box was

This photo is a front view of the cracker box. I made some rosettes from the paper and incorporated petaloo poinsettias and mulberry roses. the two birds are fussy cut 

from the paper collection. 

The box I altered is graphic 45 8 x 8 match book box. It has a slide drawer which 

holds the crackers. 

The crackers were made using the we r memory keepers candy box punch board. Then paper mats were made to decorate the outside. 

The cracker labels are coordinated stickers mounted on card stock. 

The ends of the crackers were fastened using more twinery bakers twine 

in the following colours

This was a fun project to create. Making your own crackers adds a personal touch to

 christmas. They could be used as a gift or an addition to any christmas table. 

Thanks for stopping by and please leave a comment if you would like.

Happy crafting 

Andrew

Graphic 45 Scrap Frame Trio

It has been a little while since I have posted and its catch up time. I am 

about to move interstate so it has been a busy time plus there have been a few personal things, but now to share what I have made lately.

My scrap frames were an idea I had to decorate my craft room with a splash of graphic 45.

I had three blank frames in my stash and painted them up to match these 

great graphic 45 collections 

Raining cats and dogs

Time to celebrate 

Twas the night before christmas

I love the colours of this first frame and it has a lot applications. 

There are fabulous images and I have another project that I will be sharing using this 

collection : raining cats and dogs.

Time to celebrate is the 45th collection from graphic 45 and it has a wonderful colour 

palette and theme. The large section of this frame gave me a great 

opportunity to fussy lots of images from the collection.

The final frame is a christmas theme and uses Graphic 45 twas the night before

christmas collection. 

Please check out my projects on pinterest as well the link to my board is

my graphic 45 pinterest board

Please leave a comment if you can, I love to here your thoughts.

Cheers Andrew 

Colour Wheel Tags

Graphic 45 and Core'dinations card stock have had a blog hop over the last five days and 

I thought I would share my project in case you missed it . 

There have been some great creations and I encourage you to go over to the graphic 45 blog and look at the different days. Here are the links each of the days :

Day one

Day two

Day three

Day four

Day five

My project was a set of tags made from six different collections

Raining Cats and Dogs

Mother Goose

Sweet Sentiments

By the Sea

Botanical Tea

Good Ol Sport.

The supplies that were used to create each tag are listed beneath 

each picture.

Good Ol Sport Tag

Good Ol Sport Alphabet Stickers

Good Ol Sport Chipboard 2

Good Ol Sport Cardstock stickers

Good Ol Sport Tags and Pockets

Good Ol Sport 12 x 12 Patterned Papers

: Big score

: Game Day

: Cheer On

Good Ol Sport 8 x 8 Patterned paper pad

Core’dinations Graphic 45 Signature series

: Triumphant Red

: Venetian Lace

Walnut Stain distress ink

Mother Goose Tag

Mother Goose Cardstock Stickers

Mother Goose Chipboard 1

Mother Goose Alphabet Stickers

Mother Goose 12 x 12 Patterned Papers

: Spot On

: Nursery Rhymes

Mother Goose 8 x 8 Patterned Paper pad

Mother Goose 6 x 6 Patterns and Solids

Core’dinations Graphic 45 Signature Series

: Robins Egg

: Gala Gold

Distress ink Gathered Twigs

Botanical Tea Tag

Botanical Tea Alphabet stickers

Botanical Tea Cardstock Stickers

Botanical Tea Chipboard 1

Botanical Tea Chipboard 2

Botanical Tea 12 x 12 Patterned Papers

: Birds of a feather

: Robins egg

Botanical Tea 8 x 8 Patterned Paper Pad

Core’dinations Graphic 45 Signature Series

: Precious Pink

: Spring Green

Distress ink pumice stone

Pink gingham ribbon

Sweet Sentiments Tag

Sweet Sentiments Tags And Pockets

Sweet Sentiments Chipboard 1

Sweet Sentiments 12 x 12 Patterned Papers

: Perfect Petals

: Heart Song

Sweet Sentiments 8 x 8 Patterned Paper Pad

Botanical Tea Alphabet Stickers

Core’dinations Graphic 45 Signature Series

: French Lilac

: Lemon Chiffon

Distress Ink Peeled Paint

Blue satin ribbon

By the Sea Tag

By the Sea Cardstock Stickers

By the Sea Chipboard1

By the Sea 12 x 12 Patterned papers

: Pier 45

: Set Sail

By the Sea 8x8 Patterned Paper Pad

Core’dinations Graphic 45 Signature Series

: Tuscan Sunset

: Blue Lagoon

Distress ink Frayed Burlap

Raining Cats And Dogs Tag

Raining Cats and Dogs Alphabet Stickers

Raining Cats and Dogs Chipboard 1

Raining Cats and Dogs Chipboard 2

Raining Cats and Dogs Flowers

Raining Cats and Dogs 12 x 12 Patterned Papers

: Puppy Love

: Cats Meow

Raining Cats and Dogs 6 x 6 Patterns and Solids

Raining Cats and Dogs 8 x 8 Patterned paper pad

Core’dinations Graphic 45 Signature Series

: Triumphant Red

: Bon Voyage

Lace ribbon

Distress ink Walnut Stain

These are the backs of each tag.I kept them simple to allow the photo 

to shine. I still incorporated components from each collection and the core'dinations 

card stock colours.

 Thanks for dropping by and make sure you visit the graphic 45 blog post for each day 

using the list at the top of this post. I would love for you to leave a comment 

I enjoy reading them

Happy crafting

Andrew

Cardmaker blog hop

Thanks for stopping by of this blog hop

Here is my card for the cardmamker blog hop

The twine I used was

Please follow along with the other great projects

CardMaker - http://www.cardmakermagazine.com/blog/

The Twinery - http://thetwinery.com/blog

Monika Wright - http://www.iloveitallwithmonikawright.com/

Jeanne Jachna - http://akeptlife.blogspot.com/

Amy Crockett - http://www.scrappingmommy.com/

Jaclyn Miller - http://designsbyjax.blogspot.com/

Mae Nazareth - http://www.inkdpaperbymae.blogspot.com/

Rebecca VanDeMark - http://www.caravansonnet.com/

Tifany DeGough - http://www.inkblotsbytrd.blogspot.com/

Noelle McAdams - http://noelle-paperandice.blogspot.com/

Stacey Schafer - http://stampinwithstacey.blogspot.com/

Melyssa Connolly - http://www.fantastink.blogspot.com/

Penny Ward - http://www.pennywardink.com/

Katarina Damm-Blomberg - http://krumeluran.wordpress.com/

Tobi Crawford - http://tobicrawford.blogspot.ca/

Piali Biswas - http://touchofcreation.blogspot.com/

Suzanna Lee - http://www.lifestrivialities.typepad.com/

Denise Hahn - http://www.inmyblueroom.blogspot.com/

DoBea Alberts - http://www.plumpoppystudio.com/blog/

Theresa Momber - http://craftingtheweb.blogspot.com/

Jennifer Cuthbertson - http://www.jencuthbertson.blogspot.com/

Anita Mulcahey - http://happypapercrafthappenings.blogspot.com

Andrew Roberts - http://downundercrafter.blogspot.com.au/

Link to The Twinery Shop:

http://shop.thetwinery.com/

Link to the CardMaker Magazine website:

http://www.cardmakermagazine.com/

​Prize:

The Twinery will be giving away 4 spools of twine - Solid Mandarin, Gold Shimmer, Copper Shimmer, and Solid Maraschino ($60 retail value).

Visit the Twinery blog to ​find out how to enter to win the spools of twine.

hope you had a great hop

Andrew

Christmas Greetings with Scrapmatts

Sending christmas greetings to friends and family is part of the festive season 

celebrations for many people.

Handmade cards have a special feel to them and you can make unique cards for each 

person or create designs that are easy to replicate. What ever your design choices are, scrapmatts chip board designs are a wonderful addition to your cards each year.

This time round my blog post features four hand made cards using ten different 

scrapmatts chipboard packs.

I have given each one a postage stamp edge and lots of layering.

All the chipboard has been heat embossed ( my favourite technique ).

This first card features the following chip board packs :

Ornate Frames 19 CB6091

Assorted Words 19 CB6097

The second card uses these scrapmatts packs :

Scrap Words 15 CB1213

Stars 03 CB 1223

Leaf Spray 01 CB1146

Christmas Ornaments 12 CB5104

Card number three incorporates :

Scrap Words 15 CB1213

Holy 03 CB1224

And finally the fourth card has the following chip board packs :

Scrap Words 15 CB1213

Pine Sprig 01 CB1225

Floral Spray 01 CB1097

Ornate Frame 20 CB6092

As the christmas season fast approaches I hope you are busy creating your handmade 

cards. I hope you can find inspiration from my card designs. 

Cheers Andrew

Graphic 45 Gift Giving

Giving is a perfect way to show some body you care. Gifts comes in all shapes and sizes.

As part of our graphic 45 design team assignments we were asked to make a gift

bag and coordinating card.

I took my love of boxes and created to versions of my gift box bag.

The first was made with the come away with me collection and the second I

used time to celebrate.

  

There is also a video tutorial so you learn how to make them.

I hope you will give them a try using your favourite collection

Happy paper crafting 

Andrew

Graphic 45 meets VHS

I have few catch up posts to do so stay tuned.

The first is my Graphic 45 Steam punk spells Video box mini album.

I loved making this project.

Every one out there must have videos lying around that you may have replaced with DVDs 

or digital movies. I thought what a great way to make a mini album.

There are a multitude of ways you could alter these boxes. But I have to say the 

range of graphic 45 collections make this project fun and easy to embellish.

  The front I decided to add a chip board window box style extension 

to create more depth and layering.

The inside was covered with paper and the pages were created using the graphic 45 

large tag staples in black. 

The next few photos are to show other aspects of the album.

I love the images in steampunk spells and the cover was the perfect way to use them.

The pages them selves have plenty of tags and photo mounts to display images 

or special journalling. 

I hope to do a tutorial for these video box albums soon using a different 

collection and binding style

 Thanks for stopping by and I would love to hear your feed back.

Happy paper crafting 

Andrew