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ISSUE 288 JANUARY 2016

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Ready, Set, most Make this your Craft! creative year ever

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Pep Up Your Papercrafts!

Craft Star

Love colouring?

STEPH WEIGHTMAN

FUN WAYS WITH MARKER PENS

SHARES HER NEW YEAR PICKS

Stitch it!

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WAYS WITH DIE-CUTS

Felt pincushions

USE OUR EASY COPY TEMPLATES

CUTE CROCHET DACHS Pattern inside!

Plus...STAMPING SPECIAL H CRACKLE EMBOSSING

H PAPER PIECING MADE SIMPLE H PATCHWORK QUILT

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JANUARY EVERY ISSUE 12 OVER TO YOU 14 YOUR REALLY USEFUL

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CRAFT TIPS 26 INSPIRATION FOR JANUARY 28 CORINNE’S CRAFT SPACE 32 AT HOME WITH JULIE & WENDY 34 TAKE ONE DIE 56 NET SAVVY 70 ASK THE EXPERTS 73 HANDMADE HOME 108 COMING NEXT MONTH 122 BEHIND THE CAMERA

CARDS & PAPER 17 5 WAYS WITH... FOLK FLORAL Make jaw-droppingly pretty designs

21 WINGED THINGS

Reach for the sky with stamped avian cards

43 LUNCHTIME MAKE

Create a set of romantic garden greetings

47 PEOPLE & PLACES

Say hello to the Women’s Institute!

60 ON THE SPOT

Lia Griffith is on a mission to inspire and create

CROCHET & STITCH

44 HELLO SUNSHINE

62 CRAYON CADDY

51 HUMBLE ABODE

64 CACTUS COUTURE

54 VERY VINTAGE

78 PUPPY LOVE

Enjoy a fresh burst of colour

There’s no place like home with these designs Stamp bicycle-themed cards

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23 HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE WI

Store crayons in these containers Add felt pincushions to your sewing box Crochet a pair of dachshund puppies

85 HAPPY QUILT

Sew up a beautiful diamond quilt

103 BRIGHT START

Begin the year with these makes

106 BUTTON IT!

This patchwork pincushion is a stitcher’s dream

MAKE & SELL 80 PRETTY KITTIES

Rustle up a family of playful cats

LEARN & MAKE 24 ELIZABETH MOAD QUILLS

Fashion flowers from teardrop shapes

30 COLETTE SMITH’S MASTERCLASS

Make cards pop with cheery daisies

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Give cracked glass embossing a try

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47 YOUR TOP 10 GADGETS

Get ready for 2016 with crafty gizmos

MIXED MEDIA 46 MADE TO DISPLAY

Craft a shabby chic wall art piece

57 SAVE THAT DATE!

Keep your memory up to scratch with a diary

7 JEWELLERY

66 STEP INTO SPRING

Katy Leitch stamps and paints garden gifts

89 BEAD BOUTIQUE

100 LOVELY LACE

Florals are the way to go

90 PRESSED LEAVES

Upcycle unwanted crochet mats into bowls

Turn pressed leaves into accessories

BAKING

93 PARTY TIME!

82 DOGGY BISCUITS

99 JEWELLERY SCHOOL

Bake a batch of Dalmatian cookies

Create a Swarovski necklace Susan Whittaker is here to guide you

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Hello sunshine Enter the new year with a fresh burst of colour from Keren Baker’s cheery collection

Die CUTTING

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Cards & Paper

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Crafts Tip

b Cardstock: white, pink b Papers: Avery Elle, The Brights Collection; Lawn Fawn, Hello Sunshine b Dies: Waltzingmouse, Pretty Circles; Hello Happy Thanks; Hero Arts, Geometric Shapes; Wplus9, Trio of Happy b Stamps, Clearly Besotted, Giving Thanks b Ink-pad, Memento, London Fog b Pen, gel, white b Sequins: pink, white b Adhesives

Use the die-cut negatives for bases and embellishing

See our shopping list below

Happy Birthday

1 a pink blank, 12.5cm x

Mount white card onto

15.5cm. Die-cut five circles from white and patterned papers. Separate the whole circles from their thin outlines. Using the picture as a guide, adhere the circles to the front.

Next, arrange the four outline circles around

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the edges so they breach the white layer. Die-cut ‘happy’ from pink and secure it onto a white circle, then mount onto the blank using foam

How to make... A HEXAGON CARD 1 2

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pads. Stamp ‘birthday’ in grey onto the card, then trim into a strip and stick it below the first sentiment. Add sequins to finish.

Hello

1 yellow paper, position and Using a smaller section of

hold hexagon dies in place using washi tape, then run it through your machine. Repeat until you have the pattern in the picture, then adhere the panel to a blank, 11.5cm x 16cm. Die-cut shapes from various patterned papers, then put the hexagons into their corresponding holes.

Make three white hexagons in different sizes.

Create two ‘hello’ sentiments from white and pink. Offset the white behind the pink, then stick together before mounting onto the largest hexagon. Add an orange strip of paper below the wording, then mount to the card using foam pads. Fix the other white hexagons below the largest, add an orange strip, then glue another to a background shape. CB

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“To stop tape ripping your card when diecutting, stick strips onto fabric first to lift off some stickiness” Keren Baker, Designer

Go Shopping Waltzingmouse dies, waltzingmousestamps.com Avery Elle papers, Make The Day Special, makethedayspecial.co.uk CRAFTS-BEAUTIFUL.COM 45

Corinne’s Craft Space “I dressed up for my ‘80s high school reunion in a shocking ensemble” Corinne Bradd talks dressing up and shares a masquerade mask of her making

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ressing up is something we should never tire of. And by dressing up I don’t mean wearing something smart for dinner – I mean real, proper dressing up.

Who cares if you look silly? As long as you’ve got a smile on your face, you can be as ridiculous as you like.

As a child I had a dressing up box.

Stored in the Wendy house, the box was always a bit damp. Whenever I smell that autumnal mustiness I’m taken back to a time of enormous lace petticoats, gypsy skirts and battered hats, usually worn in the tiny white pup tent that was always erected somewhere in the garden.

Throw in a miniature tea set, two teddies and that really scary doll that used to be Auntie Sylvia’s and I’m back in 1978 like some kind of armchair time traveller.

Once my daughter was toddling we established a dressing up box too.

She’s working on her GCSEs now but there are still random pieces in her bedroom. There’s the fake fur Dalmatian outfit, Mary Poppins’ carpet bag now used for hair products, and the Tin Man’s hat which sits jauntily on an oval mirror.

Corinne x

There’s more where that came from...

I’ve recently made embroidered butterfly clips for Make it Today magazine. If you’re into dressmaking or creating accessories, I recommend you pick up the latest copy pronto! Visit makeittoday.co.uk to find out more.

Masquerade Mask I love making costume accessories like this mask – I only wish I could wear it all the time! I dressed up for my ‘80s high school reunion in a shocking ensemble – leg warmers included – but that was a one-off.

If I had the figure, I’d be parading around in big hats and funky skirts all the time. But I’d look more Widow Twanky less Sienna Miller.

Using the template from our pattern pages, cut one complete mask shape from felt and set aside.

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Trim one top and one bottom mask from fusible interfacing and iron onto the reverse of two contrasting fabrics, trimming to leave at least 1cm excess all round. Do not cut the fabric covering the eye holes. Clip on the outer curves and fold the excess over the edge of the interfacing, tacking in place.

Place a rectangle, 4cm x 6cm, of spare fabric face down over the front of each eye hole and backstitch in place, following the line of the interfacing. Cut out the centre of the eye, clip the fabric to the line of stitching and turn the rectangle through the hole to the back.

Flatten and tack down.

Stitch the top and bottom halves of the mask together. Decorate with ricrac braid and sequins. Cut two ear inners from coloured felt and stitch in place. Add a length of ribbon to each side of the mask before slip stitching the felt shape to the back to cover all raw edges. Remove the tacking stitches. CB

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Cards & Paper

Humble abode

There’s no place like home with Cathie Shuttleworth’s faux embroidery designs

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“Choose two or three shades only when colouring the illustrations, as fewer hues make for a better composition” Cathie Shuttleworth, Designer

Sta rt wi t h ... b Paper: purple, cream, orange, blue, pink b Pens: fine liner felt tips; acrylic, white; pink; orange b Decorative frames, small b Punches: flower, circle b Embossing tool b Gems, self-adhesive b Adhesives See the templates on our pattern pages

3-D House Frame

1 our pattern pages onto a Copy the template from

mix of coloured papers. Score the dotted lines with a straight edge and embossing tool. Cut out along the solid lines, then fold the scored lines.

Remove the glass from a small decorative frame and cut coloured paper to fit inside. Trim windows from a different coloured paper and

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glue them to the face of the house. Repeat with the roof.

Turn the roof over if you want to compose your own pattern.

Use fine-tipped colouring pens to draw details over the roof and house. Glue the three tabs on the base and sides of the house and attach it to the contrasting backing paper through the frame.

Once dry, glue the tab on the roof and place it in position.

With an acrylic pen, lightly brush pigment randomly onto the frame – before it has a chance to dry, wipe the colour off with a piece of tissue so the colour remains on the raised areas.

Punch out paper flowers and circles, join them together and attach to the frame with glue. With a fine acrylic pen, dot white spots around the house and flowers as highlights. Add self-adhesive gems to finish.

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Paper Embroidery Houses

1 white house

Copy the black and

illustration from the pattern pages onto cream paper.

With fine-tipped pens, infill the image with colour, mixing spots, stripes and checks. Cut out around the outside edge, then glue and mount onto co-ordinating coloured paper and trim.

Make a tall side-opening cream card and attach a strip of purple paper down the centre. Glue the house to the card. Attach a message below, made using matching felt-tipped colours. Add gems to finish.

Attach the house to different shaped cards and add paper flowers, clouds, chimneys and

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Crafts Tip Use crayons as well as felt-tipped pens to achieve softer edges

different messages for various occasions. To make the house free standing, copy our triangle shape and glue the tab to the back of the house. Position the triangle at a right angle. CB

Go Shopping Stabilo point 88 pens, stabilo.com Frames, Asda, asda.com

Make it your own Pick out key features from your home to make your very own mini replica. You can still go to town with the doodles, but think about copying the colour of the front door or any plantlife. And once you’re done? We’d love to hear from you! Email us at social.cb@ aceville.co.uk for a chance to be featured in our next issue.

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Cactus couture Pep up your sewing box with Amanda Walker’s fun felt pincushions

“If you don’t want to use the cacti as pincushions, they’d make a quirky decoration to sit along a windowsill” Amanda Walker, Designer

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Stitching

Crafts Tip Use a large knitting needle to help push the stuffing into all the shapes

Sta rt wi t h ... b Felt: green; scraps, pink, yellow, orange; flowers b Needle, embroidery b Thread, embroidery: pink, yellow, orange b Stuffing, polyester b Pins, glass-headed b Mini buckets b Hot glue gun b Scissors b Sewing machine See the templates on our pattern pages

Pumpkin Cactus

1 diameter, from bright Cut a circle, 20cm in

green felt. Mould the felt into a dome shape using steam; place a small ball (polystyrene will do) in the centre of the circle, pulling the felt up over it. Using the steam from an iron, stretch the felt and set the shape – take care not to burn yourself.

Work running stitch all the way around the edge of the circle. Place a ball of stuffing into the domed area, then pull up the stitching to close the felt disc around it.

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3 darker green embroidery Thread the needle with

thread, secure with a knot and pass it through the centre of the dome to the top. Next, take the thread around to the base again, up through the same centre point, pulling it taught to create a dent in the felt. Repeat this process to create segments in the dome.

Tie off the thread securely.

Stitch tiny tufts of pink thread along each segment to resemble spines. Using a pink-glass headed pin, secure a felt flower to the centre of the dome. Stick a disc of pink felt over the inside of each heart shape in a bucket. Using a hot glue gun, secure the cactus to the rim.

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Desert Cactus

Finned Cactus

1 provided, cut out six Using the template

shapes in a dark green felt.

Press the shapes in half lengthways with an iron.

Machine stitch two of the shapes together through the fold lines, making sure that the outer edges of the folds are matched together.

Repeat the process on the four remaining pieces.

Take two of these connected pieces and match together the outer edges from the point at the top to the base. Edge stitch together to create one of the six fins of the cactus.

Repeat this process around the edge of the remaining pieces.

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will need stitching together through the centre of the pieces, but this will have to be achieved by stitching through all the layers to seal the fin. This will become much more apparent once you have stitched all the pieces together. CB

Go Shopping Felt and vintage white heart buckets, The Range, 0345 026 7598, therange.co.uk

1 provided, cut out a pair Using the template

of shapes in pale green felt.

Machine stitch together, sewing near to the edge. Stuff the cactus shape until it’s firm.

Stitch tiny orange tufts around the ridges of the cactus to resemble the spines.

Secure a felt flower to the tip of each stem with a glassheaded bead. Trim a felt disc slightly smaller than the top of the bucket. Make a hole in the centre and thread the stem of the cactus through it.

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