Quilt Block Tag

Another recent tag, also for the Newbie Junk Journal Makers Facebook group (NJJM) was for a challenge - the tag had to be an interpretation of a quilt block.  There were some wonderful entries, some were actually quilted in fabric, but I chose to use my favourite hexagon quilt patch in coordinating papers.  I stuck them onto a card backing and drew "stitches" with a pen, then used an embossing folder to add texture and highlighted it with a faint application of distress ink.  I then glued it to a slightly larger tag and added paper lace and a sentiment and then finished it off with an eyelet (I love my new Crop-o-dile!) and some fibres.

Hexagon Necklace

I made this nature themed neckace for the Fiskarettes UK Facebook page

 

I used a Fiskars hexagon punch to cut the shapes from white shrink plastic, coloured them with all the different blue Promarkers I could lay my hands on and stamped them with various nature themed stamps (flowers, bird, dragonfly, butterfly and feather) with Staz-On ink. I highlighted the flowers on the darkest hexagon with silver gel pen as I knew the colours would darken once I had shrunk the plastic.  

 

I used scrap card to plan out where the linking holes needed to be

 

 

I punched holes to link them together then shrunk them with a heat gun and joined them with jump rings.

They hexagons shrunk to about a third of the original size

  I cut two lengths of rattail cord, threaded one through the jump ring on each end of the hexagons and used silver wire to wrap each end of the doubled cords and attach the clasp.

 

Steampunk Pillow Box

A pillow box I made for the Fiskarettes UK Facebook page

Cut and score a pillow box shape from brown card and dab with copper ink pad to give a metallic finish. 

Emboss a strip of silver card and copper card with metal effect embossing folders, distress with diluted black paint and layer with black paper to form a band round the box.  Wrap with twine.

Use the hexagon punch and a circle die or punch to make a bolt shape from Kraft card, dab with copper ink pad, distress with dilute black paint and add texture with black glitter glue.  When dry, coat with embossing ink and clear emboss.  Add a punched tag made from silver card with twine and add a peel-off greeting to finish.

Football Card

Use a hexagon punch to cut 6 white and 4 black hexagons.  Cut three of the black hexagons in half and fill in the gaps to make the shape of a football on a piece of scrap paper, then cut into a circle.  

Emboss with a dotty embossing folder and mount on a slightly larger green circle.  Add to a square white card, hand cut a strip of grass, then cut banner shapes from paper and Kraft card and layer on the grass. 

Thread a button with bakers twine and glue on top.  Add a peel-off sentiment to finish.

TIP use the hexagon punch to shape the tails of the banner.