I do hope you have all been watching the
Create and Craft TV channel today and enjoying the 'Angelica and Friends' 4 Day Deal from
Crafters Companion
Sara Davis has very kindly decided to do a giveaway over on
her blog, check it out, you may win a sample card from her stash!!!
Here's a box card I made for the show and a tutorial on how to recreate it xx
Angelica Ballerina Box Card
You will need
4 x A4 Centura Pearl Card
Plain white, /silver mirror card, plain and patterned
yellow card
Spectrum Noirs Alcohol pens
2 x 12’’ length White ribbon
Embossing folder
Silver glitter glue
Crafters Companion Spray and Sparkle
Crafters Companion Handbag and box board
Spellbinders
floral Oval die
Template on
scrap paper 119mm x150mm
Step 1
First take an A4 piece of Centura Pearl card
and cut to the measurements 160mm x295mm and then score a line at 125mm and
145mm and then again at 272mm. You should now have a long card blank with 4
panels , The larger panels are the front and back and the skinny ones are the
sides
When this is done fold your card
it should look like a rectangle with open ends.
Step 2
Cut a rectangle, 150mm x 119mm in White Centura Pearl
(This is where your scrap template comes in) and
emboss through an embossing folder of your choice, I used a
‘Regal’ M-bossibilities on this project but
any embossing folder with
a repeating
pattern will work just fine. When this is done matt and layer this card onto
some silver mirror card giving it a 2mm border around it. When this is done, matt
this onto the 3
rd panel of your card blank, remembering to insert
your ribbon tie under it before sticking it down. This is your front panel of
your box card
Step 3
Colour your image with your Spectrum Noirs, I used CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4
for the dress, TN9. TN8, GB7, F3 for the hair and F2, F3, F6 for the skin and
LG1 for the outline.
When you have coloured your image,
cut this out using an oval template, make the size just smaller than your
spellbinders die, matt this onto a Spellbinder die-cut shape cut from yellow
patterned paper and mount onto the front panel, decorate around the oval with
your glitter glue and decorate your ‘ballerina’s tu-tu and headband with some iridescent glitter
then leave to dry completely. Add your sentiment onto a small floral Oval die
cut and add to the corner. I used to ‘waste’ stars to decorate around my
Ballerina
Step 4
Emboss 2 strips for the sides of your box in
Centura Pearl and matt onto some silver mirror card and decorate your side
panels then cut another large panel for the back 119 x 150mm (use your template) , emboss and matt onto
silver again and mount on back, again first inserting the end of your ribbon
before you stick it down. That’s the box cover completed.
Step 5
Use your template and score a rectangle in the middle of a
piece of A4 Centura Pearl card. Then Score a 3cm border around this twice, cut
out the corners to create tabs so your Card resembles the picture to the right.
When this is done crease your folds then cut an oval aperture in the centre
rectangle and fold and glue 3 out of the 4 sides. Use wet glue for this, when
making boxes it’s always better than tape as that sometimes comes unstuck and
you don’t want that!!
Leave one end open
to insert the background.
Step 6
When your box insert is dry,
using your template again, cut yourself another 119 x150mm rectangle and emboss
this with the patterned embossing folder and insert into the box. Glue the
background in, Close the end up and glue shut and leave to dry. When this was
dry, I glued it onto the inside of my box cover.
Step 7
Take your Crafters Companion
handbags and boxes board and use the ‘cloud’ shapes and dry emboss them.
Starting with the largest and emboss onto plain white card, the next largest
onto yellow card and the smallest onto Centura Pearl. Cut out the shapes and
run through the patterned embossing folder and then mount onto a spellbinders oval
die-cut and decorate the edges with silver glitter glue. When this is
completely dry, glue it inside the box insert pictured above in step 6.
Step 8
Take your image of Angelica in her Ballerina costume and
colour and decoupage 3 layers. I also sprayed Angelica’s Tutu with some
Crafters Companion Spray and sparkle to give it a subtle glittery look, and
then I mounted onto the top of the ‘clouds’.
Step 9
Finish your box inset
by cutting out some pretty corner dies using Centura Pearl white card and
gluing them on the top of the box inset, just over hanging the aperture. When
this is dry, you can tie a bow with your ribbon and the card is finished.
Created by Tracey Anne xx
