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WELCOME to Issue 8 of Crafing
Ireland!
Welcome to Issue 8 of Crafing Ireland.

Spring is on our doorstep and signs of it are all around us. From
dafodils everywhere to long sunny evenings, it is lovely to see
all the green and colour emerging. What can be more inspiring
for crafing inspiraton?! Hopefully the tutorials in this issue will
give you lots of ideas and inspiraton.

We welcome two guest contributors in this issue, Geraldine
McCormick and Mandy Sheridan. If you would like the chance to
be a guest contributor make sure to get in touch with us.

Submit your work - fnd out more at
www.crafingirelandonline.ie

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Also if you organise crops or classes and would like these pub-
lished in the magazine let us know. Send the details into in-
fo@crafingirelandonline.ie.

We also have our new submissions email address which is
submissions@crafingirelandonline.ie.

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WEBSITE and FACEBOOK page.

Special Contributors
Geraldine McCormick
Felicia Thomas
Mandy Sheridan

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Edi t or s not e. . . . . . . . p2
Hat Pi n Tut or i al . . . . . . . . p6
Qui c k Bag Tut or i al . . . . . . . . p8
Handmade j our nal i ng Car ds . . . . . . . . p12
Smas hbook Revi ew. . . . . . . . p16
Al t er ed Bi r dhous e. . . . . . . . p20
Submi s s i ons . . . . . . . . p24
Text ur ed L ayout . . . . . . . . p30
CD Cas e Mi ni Al bum. . . . . . . . p34
Al t er ed Ti n. . . . . . . . p38
Aper t ur e Car ds . . . . . . . . p41

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Cl as s es and Cr ops . . . . . . . . p46
Fabr i c Mi ni Al bum. . . . . . . p48
Spot l i ght on. . . . . . . . p52
Bunny Eas t er Bunt i ng. . . . . . . . p56
Bac k t o Bas i c s Di e Cut t i ng. . . . . . . . p59
Shadowbox Hous e. . . . . . . . p62
Homemade Cuf f l i nks . . . . . . . . p65
Cr af t i ng On a Budget Cus t om St amps . . . . . . . . p66
Cr af t i ng On a Budget Pi nt Gl as s Mi ni . . . . . . . . p73
Feat ur ed webs i t e. . . . . . . . p77
Faux Pol i c y Envel ops . . . . . . . . p84
Chal l enge. . . . . . . . p88

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We have a guest writer in Issue 8
Geraldine McCormick. Geraldine
will be showing you all two fantastc
tutorials. We asked Geraldine to ex-
plain a bit about herself.

Geraldine says: I've always loved all kinds of crafing and even made person-
alised rosaries for a while. Having six children didn't leave much tme for
crafing but they're getng bigger now and about three years ago I discov-
ered card making and I love it!

You can see more of Geraldine's work at her blog www.cards-n-
chocs.blogspot.com. Now on to Geraldines Stck Pin/Hat Pin Tutorial.

What you will need:
Head Pins (Blank hat pins are harder
to fnd in Ireland so I used 50mm
head pins. These are not as rigid as
hat pins so be careful not to bend
them when adding them to your
project).
Beads (you could take apart cheap
jewellery you already have)
Glossy Accents
Earring Backs optonal.

Step 1
Start adding beads to the headpin which has a round head to stop beads go-
ing of the end. If the hole in your beads is too big and slips of the headpin
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start with smaller beads or even
a seed bead which has a smaller
diameter hole.

Step 2
Bead caps add some interest to
your design.

Step 3
When you are happy with your
design add some glossy accents
to the head pin where the last
couple of beads will sit then
slide those beads into place and
hold for a minute or two, or use
something to keep them in
place while the glue dries such
as an earring back.

If you want, dont use glue at all just leave
an earring back in place afer the last bead to
stop the beads from moving.

Step 4
Your pins are now ready to add to your pro-
ject!
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Heres how to make a quick gif bag
out of a sheet of paterned paper -
A4 or 12 x 12 - without lots of meas-
uring and cutng.

What you will need
One sheet of paterned paper
Double Sided Tape or a tape runner
Scoring Board and Scoring Tool
Hole Punch, Ribbon, Embellish-
ments

Step 1
Put double sided tape along the short
end of an A4 sheet of paterned paper
on the unprinted side and halfway
down the long end of your paper.

If you are using 12 x 12 just tape all the
way along one end and halfway down
one side).

Step 2
Fold over the paper to just underneath
the tape on the short side and stck
down.

Step 3
Place double sided tape along the
botom edge (the side opposite the
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open end of the bag). Then fold the taped secton over and stck down.
Step 4
Score about 1 in from each side and crease these folds really well.

Step 5
Turn the creased secton
at the open end of the
bag to the inside to give
a neat edge.





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Step 6
Put your hand inside the bag
to shape, forming two trian-
gles at either side of the
botom of the bag.

Step 7
Fold the two triangle sectons
under. Punch holes at the top,
add ribbon handles and deco-
rate.


We want to say a big
thank you to Geraldine
for being a guest writer
for this issue of Crafing
Ireland.

If you have any tutori-
als that you would like
to share with us make
sure to get in touch.

Email us at submissions
(at) crafingire-
landonline.ie










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I have lots of ready-made journaling cards in my
stash, but sometmes I feel that they dont match
the project that I am working on perfectly, so I
dont tend to use them. I found that if I make ones
myself then I can match the colours, shapes, paterns perfectly.
So in this short tutorial I will show you a few quick ideas on how to create
your own journaling cards.

What you will need
Cardstock
Inks
Stencil
Stamps
Packaging
Journaling card #1
Some of the companies produce
beautful packaging for their prod-
ucts.
It is worth keeping them and using
them on a project.
Here I used packaging from a Prima
Stencil.
You will need to cut a rectangle out
of the packaging and just ink the
edges and it is ready to add to your
scrapbook layout or even to a card
to write a message on.
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Journaling card #2
The shape of a hand can be a good additon to a page about children. Take a
piece of cardstock, draw around your childs hand. Ink the edges, stamp
some lines on it and cut it out. It is now ready to add to the scrapbook page.
Journaling card #3
Take a piece of cardstock, cut a rectangle out of it. Stamp a fourish on a
piece of paper to use as a mask later. Then stamp the same fourish on the
piece of cardstock.






Cut out the mask and place it right above the stamped image on the card-
stock. You can use repositonable adhesive to keep it in place.
Stamp over the mask with a large journaling stamp. This is how it should
look afer removing the mask.


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Journaling card #4
Take two pieces of cardstock; one should be smaller than the other. Put
the smaller piece on top of the bigger one. Place your stencil over the top
and using an ink blending tool ink over the stencil.







Remove the stencil and the smaller
piece of card.
You should be lef with a clear rec-
tangle in the middle.
To enhance the frame of the jour-
naling spot you can draw a line with
a fne marker.


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Journaling card #5
This one is a really easy hand
doodled one. Take a piece of
cardstock.

Doodle around the page and
leave the middle clear for your
journaling.

I hope you got some ideas on
how to make some handmade
journaling cards and will use
these litle tricks to add a bit of
interest to your pages.









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In this review Mandy Sheridan from
Diaries of a Crafaholic and Demented
Housewife is giving us a review of the
Smash Book.
A smashing tme
A long tme ago there was a girl who
was given a Smashbook, litle did she
know how much this litle book would
change her life............

Hello crafers, let me unleash and re-
veal my world of smashing. Prepare to
become addicted and to play and cre-
ate like you are a child again, without rules and without over thinking, or it
been tme consuming, do as litle or as much as you like. There are no rules,
no right or wrong way, all you do is just grab and
stck...creatng as much of a memory keepsake
as you would like it to be or just a simple daily
outlet...just smash it J

A smash book is like a prety old fashioned
scrapbook, a journal, a note book or a diary,
whatever you once knew them as. It is a kraf
coloured bound & spiral hardback book availa-
ble in diferent colour optons, loaded with
loads of good quality prety papers containing
images, quotes and sentments that are lef
blank and ready for as much or as litle input
and stcking as you would like to do. Whether it be nostalgic, daily babblings
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and fnds, a memorable
occasion, or a list of your
favourite things to do.
You can create a themed
page or just have no
theme at all....there are
no rules. Mix this up to suit you and your life. Record even the silly! It
even comes with its own one stop tool pen & glue stck, that is held onto
the side of the book, brilliantly simple idea that works (these pens/glue
stcks can be replaced too!) very cute.

Smash greetng cards, tckets,
old passport photos, receipts,
stamped images, ribbon lefo-
vers, hand writen notes and
scribbles, anything at all that
you can literally just apply the
glue to can be stuck down.

You dont have to limit yourself
either to just one Smashbook,
you can have many, whether you want to buy one or get creatve and make
your own from your scrapbooking and cardmaking papers. I love using my
crafing lefovers on my smash pages too, they give it a real edgy feel and
makes it look like I have had loads of fun without over thinking it, play with
what is at hand, on your desk,
in the car or even in your hand-
bag, this is such a portable
therapy.

Adapt these books - have them
for just one theme or a mash
up of anything and everything.
There are new ones available
soon this year too that have
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factured in line with a certain
theme, such as baby, wedding
etc., they are even releasing a
much larger size too for people
who want to smash on a grand-
er scale.

There are so many wonderful
pre made embellishments and
add ons too, packets of all
diferent sizes and paterns,
containing die cuts, tabs, pockets, stcky notes, decoratve tape and images,
so many choices and so well priced too.

But remember you dont have to have these, you can really use what you
have and what you lay your hand on....which is even beter, making a Smash-
book a perfect choice for anyone on a budget.

To me life is now complete with a smash book, everything I do now, every oc-
casion and all life events can now be smashed...you will be on a roll, I cant
imagine not having it at hand now,
ever.

Remember that you have always
been doing some sort of smashing
since you where a child, we kept our
drawings as kids, we collected prety
images, we wrote notes, remember
all that?? Why did we ever stop?.....it
is wonderful!

So if you are thinking this is not for
you, that it is not really your thing or
style, prepare to have a welcome
change, trust me with this smashing
is for anyone no mater what age or

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what your style is, it gives us that feel-
ing back that we lef behind us as kids!
So pick up that Smashbook and glue
pen and prepare to start having fun!

If you would like to know more and
get a beter feel for smashing then
check out all the wonderful inspiraton
on the Smashbook blog:
www.smashstoriesblog.com and
www.eksuccessbrands.com or
YouTube for inspiraton videos too.






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With Spring upon us I wanted to create a spring
themed centre piece for my porch. I chose to
create an altered birdhouse. They are so fun
and easy to make, you may fnd you cant stop creatng at just one!
What you will need
Wooden bird house
Gesso
Paint Crackle Medium
Embellishments of your choice
Step 1
Take a plain wooden bird house and paint it with a layer of gesso. This is to
prime it for our paint. It stops the paint from soaking into the wood and
means less coats of paint are needed.








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Step 2
When the gesso is dry paint the house with your
base colour paint.
I painted mine gold so that this will shine through
the cracks in the top coat of paint when we apply
the crackle and top coat.
Step 3
When the gold paint was dry I applied a layer of
crackle medium. I picked up a large botle of this
in a craf secton of a hardware store.
Make sure to apply the medium in brush strokes
going all one directon. This is important so that
it works. The crackle medium is clear so you just
see a slight sheen on the house when the crackle
is dry.
Step 4
When the crackle medium is completely dry you
can now apply your top coat of paint. You need
to apply the paint in the opposite directon that
you applied the crackle medium in.
Try to avoid brushing
over the medium more
than once as it will not
work very well if you repeatedly brush your paint-
brush over it.
Tip: Make sure to follow the instructons carefully
on whatever crackle medium you use.
The crackle medium gives a lovely efect. The gold
base coat of paint shines through the cracks
formed in the blue paint.


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You can see some close ups of the crackle detail below.
Step 5
Once all the paint is dry you can
now embellish your house. I chose
some paper that complemented
my paint on my bird house.
I die cut some fourishes, some
buterfies and a bird. I cut some
panels for the top of the house.

I also had some wild orchid cherry blos-
soms that were a perfect colour match to
the house.
I distressed the two top panels and ad-
hered them to the top of the house.
I then glued on the fourishes with glossy
accents. I adhered the fowers with hot
glue.



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I stufed the inside of
the house with some
straw to give a more
bird house efect.

By adding fourishes
around the sides it gives
a nice organic fowing
efect.


I added some buter-
fies and added some
gems to the centres
of them to give a bit
of extra sparkle.

Have fun creatng
your own bird house,
be creatve with your
colours and your em-
bellishments.

Enjoy!!




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Spring/Easter
Call for submissions.Calling ALL crafers we want to publish you!!

For each issue we will give you a list of themes to work with. We would love to
see what you create inspired by these themes. When you submit an image of
your project, please make sure it is clearly photographed straight-on with a
neutral background or scanned. Please make sure you only submit projects
that have never appeared online or on a blog before, and it can not have been
published previously. The themes for this issue were :
Anything but card
Spring/Easter
Geraldine Reardonlitlesnippetsblog.blogspot.com
Svjetlana Mulaomerovic - mymomentstotreasure.blogspot.com/

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Anything but a card
Svjetlana Mulaomerovic - mymomentstotreasure.blogspot.com/

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Geraldine Reardon
litlesnippetsblog.blogspot.com

27 Weenie Thomas
Dublin, Ireland

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Frances Peets Canada

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Issue 9 Submission themes
For issue 9 we have one theme for you to work with. Again you
can submit cards, layouts or altered art projects. The theme is:

Birthday CelebratonIssue 9 will be Crafing Irelands one year
birthday celebraton so show us how you celebrate birthdays in
style!

Please email your entries along with your name and blog address
to:
submission@crafingirelandonline.ie by the 2nd April

Remember your submited projects can not have been pub-
lished online or in any other publicaton before it is featured
with us. You can fnd guidelines for submitng your work on
our blog.

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This is a quick tutorial to show you how to
create a layout using scraps from your
table, but stll achieve some texture.

What you will need:

White cardstock
Scraps
Photo
Decoratve tapes
Sewing machine (or needle and thread)
Inks
Stencils

Step 1

Take a piece of white cardstock and randomly stencil some leters on it with
some black ink. When layering on a page I like to avoid elements foatng, so
try to start from the egde of the page.





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Step 2
Prepare a few scraps of paterned paper that would match your design. On
this page I wanted to stck with shades of black and white.
Arrange your pieces of scraps on the background and glue them down when
you like what you see. Dont overthink, just do it and stop when it feels
right.








Step 3
I have a lovely decoratve packaging tape that is transparent and white, so
as I wanted to use it I needed to make a dark background.
I just took a piece of black cardstock, and adhered the decoartve tape on it,
so the patern was revealed. Then I cut narrow strips of it to use on the
page.



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Step 4
Now you have diferent elements on the background. To te them all to-
gether take a litle bit of black acrylic paint, add some water and create
some splashes on the page here and there. Dont think too much about it.









Step 5
It is now tme to enhance the place of the photo. Using the sewing machine
start stching in a shape of a rectangle, you can also add some other shapes
as well, like waves. The more the beter!

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Step 6
Prepare your photo. Stck some dimensional adhesive on the back and
also you can add some decoratve tape and/or masking tape on the
front. It is fun to use the masking tape as the journaling spot on a layout.
Step 7
Add a ttle and some dimensional embellishments, like paper clips and
staples.














Enjoy creatng freely!

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I tend to take a lot of photographs and go through
phases of actually printng copies of them out. I always
have the best intentons of putng the photos into albums, but most of the
tme they will sit in a shoe box. I had a plain CD case hanging around my
ofce and no CDs to go into it. So I decided to convert it into a mini album
for some photos!
What you will need
CD Case
Paper or light cardstock of your choice
Adhesive
Gesso
Paint of your choice
Embellishments to match your project
Photosspring themed in my case
Step 1
You will need to prime the case for paintng. To do
this I used white gesso. The gesso will soak into
the case quite a lot so you may want to do two
coats of it. Make sure to allow for appropriate
drying tme between each coat.

Note: The two coats are not strictly necessary
but if you do two coats of gesso you will more
than likely only need one coat of paint on top.
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Step 2
When the gesso is fully dry you can paint over it with a colour of your choice.
I didn't try to paint over the zipper of the case as I knew as it was opened
and closed the paint would fake of. I just painted right up to the edge of the
zipper teeth. Any paint you get on them will easily wipe of while stll wet.

Step 3
Rather than try to paint the inside
of the case I simply cut some pa-
per to ft and using a strong adhe-
sive (score tape) adhered them in-
to place. If you want you could cer-
tainly paint the inside also, but to
me it seemed like a lot of work to
get into all the awkward areas!
Step 4
I then cut down some paterned
cardstock to make inserts for each
of the cd sleeves. These will act as
photo mats or journaling pages. I
placed photos on the front of these pages and journaling on the back.


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Step 5
To decorate the front cover I again adhered a panel of light cardstock that I
had cut down to be smaller than the case. I then die cut some felt and add-
ed a topper to it. I used some Laura Ashley stckers to make the ttle at the
botom of the cover. They stuck very well to the painted cover. Depending
on what you add to the cover however you may fnd that you will need to
use a strong adhesive like score tape or hot glue to keep it in place!
Step 6
I removed the existng zipper pull. I simply used a scissors to cut it of the D
ring it was atached to the zipper by. I then replaced it with a piece of co-
ordinatng ribbon. Make sure to use a robust ribbon as you will be opening
it using the ribbon so you want to make sure it stands up to wear and tear.






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Step 7
Embellish the inside covers and the pages of your album. For my inside cov-
er I chose to add a photograph. I glued it in place and then added tssue
tape to make it look like it was only taped into place.
For the frst insert page I mated a small photo onto the paper insert. I then
just added a small felt die cut bird to the outside of the cd sleeve. The pages
for inside the sleeves have to be kept fairly fat but you can add decoraton
or embellishments to the outside of the sleeves. Just don't go too wild, your
cd case has to be able to close!








For some of my other pages I lef the photos larger and mounted them to
some card so that I could journal on the back of them.

I hope you have en-
joyed this unusual way
to use a cd case, and
that you have fun trying
it out yourself!!


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When grocery shopping I came across this lovely
tn of sweets. I wanted to buy it and make
something with the tn, I wasnt really that
interested in the sweets!

What you will need:
1 sweet tn
Paterned paper (Prima Londonerry)
Embellishments (Prima Londonerry)
Mult medium

Step 1
Measure the height of the tn and cut strips of paper of the same heights to
cover the side. I used my biggest circle Nestabilites die to cut a piece of
paterned paper for the top. Use the mult medium to glue the paper to the
tn.
Step 2
When all the paper is glued onto the tn you will have to try to place the lid
back on it. If it doesnt ft, you will have to sand a litle bit of the paper, as I
did in the picture below. Ink it with some brown ink for an aged efect
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Step 3
To decorate the lid I used a 7 Gypsies knob. You simply need to make a hole
and screw the knob through it.
Step 4
Decorate with fowers and gems.
Step 5
For the inside I frst thought that I
would make some note cards.
However when I had the cards cut I
decided to atach them together
and turn them into a mini album.

To create the note cards or the mini
album you will need to use the
same size circles that you used for
the lid. I used the largest
nestabilites I had. I cut twelve
circles out from the paterned
paper and simply glued two
together, since I had single sided
paper.
I then used a piece of yarn to atach them to each other. Place a piece in be-
tween the two circles before gluing them together.

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You will end up with a chain of circle shaped pages. I decorated them with
fowers from the same collecton.
Tip: If you prefer the idea of the note cards try to choose papers without a
lot of patern so that you can actually write a message or note on it.

Below is the completed project. I can image it being used for an album
holding pictures of a birthday or a long weekend away.














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This is part two of the tutorial on aperture
cards. In part one we looked at standard win-
dow and negatve apertures. In this tutorial I
want to look at layering apertures to get an in-
terestng efect. I also will show you a fun technique for aperture windows.

Layered Aperture Card
This technique uses multple dies to create a layered efect on a card. It
works with layered dies and layers of paper on the card also

Step 1
Gather the dies you want to use. I
like to lay them all out one inside
the other to get the efect I want.
Always work from the largest die
downwards.

Step 2
Take your top layer of paper and die cut your largest die from it. In my case
it was a circus themed sheet of Graphic 45 paper.
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Step 3
Take your piece of paper you just die
cut out of and glue this down onto your
next layer of paper.

In my case the next layer of paper was
a blue spoted paper. My paper had all
been cut down to ft a white card blank.

Step 4
You now have a window from your top
layer of paper through to the under-
neath layer. Now take your second
dieI used a circle. Place this carefully
onto the blue paper and run it though
your die cutng machine.

You are now lef with a window
through the blue paper.

Step 5
Glue this set of papers down onto your
next layer. For me this is a white card
blank.

Note: My white card layer will be the
fnal layer on my card. You can howev-
er have as many layers as you wish.

Step 6
Once you have all your papers glued to
the card blank take your fnal die. I
used a keyhole die as I just wanted my
last layer to be a peek through to the
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you wanted. I positoned my
die where I wanted it in the
centre of the white circle.
Make sure your card is open
fat for this stageyou only
want to cut trough the front of
your card, not the back as
well!!

On my card this lef me with a
key hole efect peeking
through to the inside of my
card. I glued a piece of
paterned paper on the inside
for a bit more visual interest.

This is a fun technique and gives a very fun efect on a card.

Gliter window technique
This technique starts of like
a standard aperture card. I
die cut a window in a green
piece of paper and then lay-
ered this over a white script
paper.

I then glued this to a white
card and die cut a star
patern out of this last layer.
I stamped a sentment in the
middle of this star on the in-
side of the card.

Step 1
To create a gliter window
on this aperture card you will need sellotape and gliter.

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Take the sellotape and place it over
your aperture openingon the in-
side of the card.

I didn't have sellotape that was
large enough to cover the aperture
so I used three strips and made
sure to slightly over lap them so
that there was no gap between
the strips.

You will now have your window
coveredwith the stck side of the
tape on the outside of the card.

Step 2
Turn the card over so that you can see the front. You will now put your gliter
over this stcky tape. Make sure to cover it well. I used a white gliter to give a
frosted efect to my window.

Step 3
Shake of the excess gliter. Make sure to do this over a sheet of paper so that
you can save the excess. Make sure to tap the back of the tape to shake of
all the excess gliter.

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You will now be lef with a lovely shimmery frosted window over your sent-
ment.


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Scrapbook Store
More info can be found on the website htp://
www.thescrapbookstore.ie/workshops.php or contact Annamarie at
workshops@thescrapbookstore.ie

Jackies Cardmaking Workshops
htp://jackiesworkshops.blogspot.com/

Crafy Alley
www.crafyalley.com

Scrap n Yap
Check out Scrap n Yap on Facebook for more informaton.

An Siopa Bu
Check out An Siopa Buis website for all class informaton.


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Inspiring Ideas
Visit htp://www.inspiringideas.com/ for more informaton.

Archangels craf club
Archangels Craf Club - we meet in St. Gabriels Clontarf every Tues-
day 7.30 - 9.30pm and do all sorts of crafs - knitng, cross sttch,
card making, beading and scrapping etc.

We are in our 9th year - all very informal but its a place to craf with
like minded individuals. We are always on the lookout for demon-
strators and enjoy the social aspect of crafing (along with the tea
and cake!) If anyone is interested in coming along to join us, or may-
be there is another club out there who would be interested in doing
a Christmas craf day together please do contact me. Contact Chris-
tne at christnehelenokelly@gmail.com or on 0857151759

Create With Kate
Workshops in card making, scrapbooking and mixed media. We also are a
mobile craf supplies shop. Visit createwithkate.com for more informaton
or phone 087 984 1196.

Scrapbooking Limerick
Create beautful scrapbook pages & crafs at our Easter crop & class
Date: 1st April, 11am - 4pm Theme: Litle Chick
Costs: 25 includes full kit, refreshments & prizes
Bookings: 086 3817677
www.facebook.com/scrapbookinglimerick

The 3 Mad Haters
Sunday 1st April 2012, Clonegal, Co. Carlow, from 12pm to evening
Three classes/projects: cardmaking, scrapbooking and altered items, kits
supplied.
email: crafyangelmandy@gmail.com
contact: 087 2357494, 087 9917443, 087 8283793


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Timi Konya
When thinking about mini albums I tend to focus on papers and paper
collectons. This tme I wanted something diferent. I had a rectangle shaped
chipboard mini on hand from a company called Yabo - but that was the only
paper based product I wanted to use. Fabric is ofen overlooked when
scrapbooking, which is really a pity since it has lots of texture and gives an
interestng efect to the project you create with it.
What you will need:
Chipboard
Fabric
Felt
Dies to cut shapes
Sewing machine
Colour wash spray ink
Stencil
Step 1
Take a long piece of fabric. To determine the size lay all the chipboard pieces
onto it leaving a litle gap beetween each piece. Measure this length and the
take double the lenght of it. Dont forget to iron your fabric frst!







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Step 2
Prepare a fat surface where you can
stencil onto the fabric. Stencil the
whole lenght of your fabric with your
chosen inks. Let it dry thoroughly.
Step 3
Fold the fabric into half and measure
the heights of the chipboard pieces
and mark them on the fabric. This is
where you will need to sttch. You will make a shape of a pillowcase with an
opening on the side. Turn the fabric right side out.
Step 4
Place one chipboard piece inside and stch along the edge of the chipboard.
This will make a pocket to keep the chipboard in place. Repeat this with all
the pieces. When the last piece of chipboard is in the fabric cover you will
need to cut away the excess of
the fabric, leaving only a .

Fold that piece inside and stch
along the edge again to fnish the
album.

Now you can fold the album into
an accordion shape.


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Step 5
Using some acrylic paint colour the edges of each page.
Step 6
Start to decorate the inside with some die cut felt shapes and some doo-
dling.
Step 7
To decorate the front of the album with a birds nest you will need to take
some twine, Mod Podge and a glass or a litle bowl.

Cover the glass/bowl with some foil and start to place some twine around it.
When you have got a few layers cover them with some Mod Podge. Repeat
this tll you have a shape of a nest.
Let it dry over nightmake sure to let it fully dry.

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When the nest is ready place it on the front of the album and secure it with
some hot glue. Put some styrofoam eggs (or polymer clay eggs) into the
nest. Add some swirls, fowers and a ttle.





















Now you have a really diferent Fabric Covered Easter Mini Album.

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In every issue we will be spotlightng the work of an Irish based crafer. We
will look at paper crafers, scrapbookers, and altered art afcionados. If you
think you know someone who you think sound be spotlighted let us know
at info@crafingirelandonline.ie
This issues spotlight is shining on Felicia
Thomas. Here is Felicia to tell us a bit about
herself and her work....

Im originally from Kent in South East Eng-
land, I was living and working in London and
then moved to Killarney 20 years ago (is it re-
ally that long?) that was a culture shock I can
tell you! But I love Killarney; it is a beautful
place and defnitely my home. I have had
many jobs but due to recessionary cut backs I
am now a stay at home mum which means I
can concentrate on making my art and crafs into a business (thats the
dream anyway!)
When and how di d you get i nvol ved wi t h paper cr af t i ng?
I have always loved crafing, making bead-
ed jewelry in partcular. Then I went to
work in the Crafy Alley Shop, saw the
scrapbooking papers and became ob-
sessed with this whole world that I didnt
know existed! That led to mini albums, al-
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What i s your f avouri t e aspect
of paper cr af t i ng?
I think it is recycling items into some-
thing prety I keep everything be-
cause one day I might alter it!
What are t he t echni ques t hat
you use most of t he t i me?
Straight lines and I are not the best
of friends, so I think distressing the edges of everything hides that well.
What are your "can' t do wi t hout "
product s?
Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Vintage Photo
that is defnitely the colour I use most.
My ATG gun, I love it, its the best adhe-
sive Ive used but getng reflls isnt
always easy, and my paper trimmer, it
helps with my aversion to cutng
straight lines!
What i nspi res you?
Defnitely the internet there is always something on Youtube thats new;
its a great source of ideas and techniques. Colour defnitely inspires me, I
fnd Im more drawn to the colour of paper lines rather than the images.
How do you descri be your
st yl e?
Im aiming for shabby chic, but its
probably more a quirky mess! I tend
to shy away from too prety but
recently Ive been using lace and
fowers more. I like texture and lay-
ers and butons, splashes of colour
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paintngs are more quirky than my pa-
per crafs and Im usually working on
about three things at once!
Do you bl og?
Yes, when I frst discovered mini books I
came across a swap held by Marion
Smith from A Piece of Craf. One of the
rules of joining the swap was that you
had to have a blog. So I started
Scrapzville the home of artsy ran-
domness its gone from a crafing blog
to a more general life/art/craf kind of
a thing.
Where can we see your work?
Are you on any desi gn t eams?
I dont belong to any design teams; Im always amazed how they come up
with so many new ideas! My work is mostly shown on my blog or in the gal-
lery on my website www.scrapzville.com
I atend lots of local craf fairs, and I have an Etsy shop.
Have you any pl ans f or t he f ut ur e?
Id really like to get to more work-
shops this year, there is always so
much to learn and I love meetng
the people who Im friends with
online.
Id love to do a big event this year
like the Ploughing contest or the
Electric Picnic, but Im always leav-
ing things to the last minute so I
wouldnt have enough stock!


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The editors each picked one of their favourite projects from
Clares work to share with you below..

I love this canvas, I love
all the texture and detail
Felicia has goten into it.
The heart with wings is
a fantastc symbol and I
love the quote!



I love how Felicia has altered this
notebook with one of her Polly fg-
ures. The muted colours and dis-
tressed look are just fantastc.

I love the flm strip detail along the
side also. This would be so nice to
keep notes in!

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This is a nice and quick tutorial on making
some bunny rabbit buntng suitable for Easter, or for a childs bedroom or
playroom.

What you will need
Chipboard bunny buntngI got mine from Crafy Cutng
Paterned paper
Paint
Ribbon
Embellishments of your choice

Step 1
Trace one of the rabbit shapes out on-
to your paterned paper. Cut the rab-
bit shape out
so that you
have paper
to cover the
chipboard
shapes. Repeat this step for as many of the chip-
board shapes you are using.

Step 2
Take a paint that co-ordinates with your papers and
paint the edges of the rabbit. This is to make the
edges look nice as the paper will only cover the pa-
per.
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Step 3
Cover all the chipboard shapes with
the cut out papers. Use a good wet
glue to stck the paper on.

Step 4
The Crafy Cutng rabbits have holes
for eyes. When covered with the pa-
per I simply used a piercing tool to
(carefully) poke through the paper
and open up the eyes again.

Step 5
Thread ribbon through the eyes so that you can hang the rabbits as buntng.



Tip: You could use ribbon or twine to thread
the rabbits together. I had a large spool of yel-
low so that is what I used. If you don't have a
single long enough piece of ribbon you could always use lengths/scrap piec-
es. Once they are long enough to thread through the eyes and be glued to
the back of the rabbit on each side this would work. You could then use a
diferent piece of ribbon for each rabbit!

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Step 6
Embellish as you wish and hang up and enjoy!



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Back to Basics Advanced tool kit

In the frst part of this artcle we discussed punches
and die cutng machines. In this part we are going to look at the uses of die
cutng machines.
Lets just start with the basic idea: cutng paper and cardstock. So many dies
are available on the market and the beginner crafer may have trouble decid-
ing which dies to buy.
First you have to think about what shapes you will use regularly. Card makers
fnd it useful to buy simple shapes like circles and squares and their scalloped
versions.
Spellbinders Nestabilites are great since you get a number of diferent sized
shapes that you can layer on each other.






These are also very useful when creatng aperture cards as Nicole showed
you previously in Issue 7.

Flower shape dies, similar to fower shape punches, are very handy when
making handmade fowers. It is useful to have a good set of them.
There are lots of tutorials on the internet on how to make handmade fowers
from fower shapes so it is worth doing a bit of research before buying a set.
Sizzix and Spellbinders have great fower dies.
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From lef to right below: Sizzix Originals Flower Layers, Sizzix Tim Holtz
Tatered Florals, Spellbinders Peony
Other very popular shapes are hearts, birds and birdcages, buterfies,
swirls, leaves, gears, keys just to menton a few.
Alphabet die are also good to have to add ttles or sentments to your pro-
jects.
Cutng Materials other than paper
If you want to use other materials like fabric, felt, cork or metal on your pro-
ject you will need to invest in a machine that can
take thicker dies like Cutlebug or Sizzix.
Sizzix has a few ranges of 5/8 thick dies that can
cut lots of diferent material, including cardstock,
chipboard, fabric, foam, magnet, leather, metallic
foil, paper. These include Sizzix Bigz (pictured
right), Sizzix Originals, On the Edge dies and Mov-
ers and Shapers.

Some of the other brands will cut felt and very thin metal sheets too.

It is important to note that many of the dies are compatble with other
manufacturers machines, so you can easily combine brands. The only thing
that you need to know is how to layer the platorms/plate in the machine to
be able to put it through the machine. The manufacturer will usually have
this informaton on their website, or you can fnd it online.

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Embossing with die cutng machines
Most of the die cutng machines are designed not only for die cutng but
for embossing as well.

There is a huge selecton of embossing accessories on the market and
sometmes it is difcult to fnd out what the crafer
needs.
First though - what is embossing? It is a way of add-
ing raised texture to paper, metal, grungeboard/
grungepaper and so on.

To achieve this efect you need to get an embossing
folder. You place the paper or other item into it and
run it through the die cutng machine. This
pushes the patern up through the material to
give a raised (embossed) or sunken (de-bossed)
efect.
Some of the most popular embossing folders on
the market are Cutlebug Embossing Folders and
Sizzix Texture Fades. There are so many patern and
sizes out there. Tim Holtzs Texture Fades give you a
really deep raised patern into the material you
want to emboss.
Using embossing folders you can create fabulous
efects on your projects. For example if you ink the
embossing folder frst and/or stamp on it and then
emboss you get a fantastc inked/stamped detail in
behind the raised embossed area.

You can even make custom embossing folders as Nicole showed in Issue 2.
The possibilites are endless!

In the next issue we will look at electronic die cutng machines.

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When I saw this untreated house shadowbox I
immediately knew that I needed it, I wanted it and
wanted to do something nice with it.

It can be used to hold your house keys, but I just wanted to make a litle
assemblage art of it.

What you will need:
Shadow box with compartment in a shape of a house
Acrylic paints
Distress inks
Paterened paper (Echo Paper)
Litle elements to put in the box:
keys, vial botles etc...
Resin windows (Prima)
Alpha stckers
Step 1
Dilute acrylic paint in a litle bowl.
You want the paint to be watery so
that it will stain the wood rather than
paintng an even coat on the surface.
Let it dry over night.
Step 2
Ink the edges with some brown ink
(Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo
Distress Inks) to give it a distressed
look.
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Timi Konya
Step 3
Measure the dimensions of all the
compartments and cut paterned paper to
size. Glue them in the back of the
compartments.
If you want to give litle extra textureyou
could emboss some of the papers as well.

Step 4
Prepare the resin windows. Place the
smaller one on top of the bigger one.
Colour them with some permanent inks.

Step 5
Gather all the bits and pieces you
want to put into the compartments.
You could even include a photo if
you wish.






Tip: This is a good way to feature litle
trinkets you may have picked up over the
years. This way you get to display the m
instead of them being tucked away in a
drawer somewhere!


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Step 6
Decide what your ttle will be and where you want to place it. I used co-
ordinatng alpha stckers for my ttle.

When everything is prepared plug in your glue gun. When the glue is hot
start to put your pieces in the compartments.You could add some fowers,
leaves and vines as well on the edge of the compartments.

Step 8
Glue the window and the ttle onto the house. I lef one compartment fairly
empty so that I couldput a photo into it.

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This is a super quick tutorial to show you how to al-
ter cufink blanks. It is a perfect litle gif for a man!
What you will need
Cufink blanks
Alcohol inks
Paper of your choice
Tim Holtz fragments
Glue

Step 1
Colour your cufink blanks with alcohol ink. The easiest way to do this is to
put them in a small baggie with a few drops of ink.

Step 2
Choose some paper to
feature on your
cufinks. Glue the
fragments to the pa-
per. Let dry well then
cut out. Glue these to the blanks with a very strong glueI used E6000. Let
dry well then you are done!
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Welcome to our Crafing on a Budget secton.
Here we will look at some ways to make cus-
tom stamps and also a St. Patricks day project that wont break the bank!



I will be showing you a few diferent ways to make some custom
stamps, from using lino to foam.

What you will need
Lino to carve (you can get this in an art shop)
Lino carving tools (again art
shop)
Ink brayer (roller)
Ink brayer reflls
Foam
Die to cut the foam
Adhesive
Plastc packaging
Ink

Technique 1Creatng background
stamps from a ink brayer
I used the inkessentals Inky Roller
(Small) for my stamps. This roller
does come in larger sizes too but
the small one is the cheapest, natu-
rally! The roller reflls come in a
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three pack. You can pop the reflls into the brayer handle super easy. Most
importantly the rubber they are made of is super sof so this makes it nice
and easy to make custom stamps from.

STAMP 1
This one is really easysimply cover
a roller in anything you like to make
a textured background stamp. I
wrapped an elastc band around the
roller a few tmes and lef it at that.
You could also glue on some bubble
wrap, tn foil, ribbonanything that
will give a fun background texture and that will take ink.

STAMP 2
Take a lino cutng tool ( you could use a craf or other knife if you don't
have one) and cut out a series of small holes from the roller. You can plan
your patern by marking it onto the roller frst or just go with a random
patern as I did. Make the holes all over the entre roller.

You could carve any patern you wanted onto the roller. You can mark it out
by drawing it on in pencil or pen and then just follow the patern when you
carve it.

Tip: It can be a bit difcult to carve neatly on the rollers as they are round-
ed they tend to want to roll away from you. So make sure to be careful
when carving with them, watch your fngers!

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Below is the frst stamp shown rolled onto a tag. The tag was inked up with
mustard seed distress ink. I then rolled the roller in wild honey ink and then
rolled it over the tag to get the patern.

This stamp gives a very
fun efect on the back-
ground, especially
when the tag is
stamped and embel-
lished further.

Tip: You could ink this
stamp in a diferent
colour each tme you
roll it on your back-
ground for a mult col-
oured layered efect.


The second roller stamp is shown here. I inked up a tag in mustard seed ink
again and this tme used aged mahogany to ink up the roller. You need to
make sure to get plenty of ink on the roller.

When you roll it on the background it will start
to fade out as you roll around and the layer of
ink is used up. This is what gave the fun patch-
work efect on my tag.

You can see that my carved circles are not per-
fect and my patern is not regular. This gives a
nice distressed look and adds more visual inter-
est to it in my opton!

Tip: make sure to use a nice wet ink for these
techniques so that you can get plenty of ink on-
to the rollers.

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Technique 2 Lino carved stamps
This is a technique that has been around for years. My slight twist on it is to
use a die to cut out a shape and use the lino to make a co-ordinatng stamp
to the die.

Step 1
Trace your die cut shape
onto your lino.

Step 2
Carefully carve around the
shape using the lino
cuters.

Step 3
Once you have cut around your
shape and carved out and detail you
want on the shape (for example a
eye, beak or wing detail) you can
then cut the stamp out of the lino.

Step 4
The easiest way to use the stamp is
to place it on a fat surface. Ink it up
and then lay a piece of paper over the top of it. Carefully keeping the paper

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in place use a brayer to rub over the
paper. This will transfer the ink to the
paper.

Your image will not be a sharp crisp im-
age, but rather a more sof and dis-
tressed look. This is because of the tex-
ture of the lino. It also is also efected
by the type of ink you use. Distress ink
will give a diferent fnish to a pigment
ink.

If you wanted a sharp exact image you
would have to use a sheet of rubber in-
stead of lino. Rubber sheets such as
Speedy Carve are very expensive how-
ever.

Technique 3 Foam stamps
This is a fun way to get some extra use out of your dies. You can use any die
that will cut through foam. You will need to use foam that is about half a
centmetre thick to make sure you can stamp ok with it. You can glue two
sheets of foam together if you need a thicker foam.

Step 1
Take your foam and pick a die you want to make a stamp from. Die cut the
foam with this shape. I used a House on the edge die.









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Step 2
Take some plastc packaging, something like the packaging that dies come in.
You want something that is strong enough to use to mount your stamp onto.
I actually used the plastc glass part of a 20cent ikea frame. I used the frame
for another project and didn't need the glass in it. If you use the packaging
plastc make sure to round of the corners as they will be sharp.

Glue your die cut foam onto the plastc. I actually just used red line tape to
glue mine down. It seems to hold up very well.















Step 3
To ink up the foam stamp paint will actually work very well. You can apply it
with a brayer. You can also use ink pads but you will need to make sure to

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get a good coverage of ink onto the stamp. I used black foam so it can be
difcult to see if you get a good coverage. A lighter coloured foam can help
with this. Stamp and enjoy!













I created a few foam stamps from some of my favourite dies. They can make
great stamps for backgrounds, especially if you use larger dies. The selecton
below were all mounted onto plastc packaging with the excepton of the
row of houses ones. I
used gold and silver paint
on the cog stamps hence
their colour.

I hope you enjoy some of
these fun techniques to
making your own stamps
and try your hand at it.

Dont forget if you make
anything using any of our
tutorials fee free to share
it with us on our Face-
book page!


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I wanted to make a mini album for a non Irish friend that was Irish/
St.Patricks Day themed. I didn't want to buy anything for the project, I
wanted to just use what I had. I wanted it Irish themed but not too cheesy.
So I decided to make a mini accordion pint glass album inspired by the
green Guinness you get on St.Patricks Day.

Step 1
Draw out a pint glass shape. Or click on the image to down-
load the template one I made! This will be your pint tem-
plate for your entre album so it is best to make it on card-
board so it is durable.

Step 2
Use the template to cut out two pint shapes on heavy card.
These will be the front and back covers of your
album.

Also use the template to cut out a paterned
paper of your choice to cover this cardboard. I
went with a green paterned sheet of K & Co.

Step 3
Glue the paterned paper onto the fronts of
the pint shapes. You will want to make sure
that when the two covers are laid one on top
of the other they match up perfectly. The backs
should be lef uncovered.

Step 4
You will now need to make the pages for the
inside of your album. To do this I used a 12x12
sheet of the same green paper.

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To make the pages work in an accordion style you will trace the frst pint and
then move it to the right to trace it again. You will need to line up the top and
botom of the pint with the frst pint. You also need to make sure to overlap
the design slightly as in the image below.
















When you cut these out you will be lef with a series of linked pints. The pa-
per will not be long enough for the last pint to ft on fully but we will deal
with that in a moment.














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Step 5
My paper is single sided. So this made it easy for me to tell what to glue
where. I took the white side of the lef most pint and glued it onto the inside
of the front cover pint that I covered in step 3.

I then took the half pint on the right most side
of the strip and glued it onto the inside of the
back of the back cover. This will leave you with
half of the back uncovered as our strip is too
short.

To deal with this I used my template to mark of
how wide a piece of pint I needed and cut a
piece out to ft this gap and fll it in.

Step 6
Fold the pages up accordion style so that you can
close the album up.








Step 7
To make the pint look more realistc I
cut a white strip for the top to look like
the froth at the head of a pint. I put my
template down on a sheet of white
cardstock. I decided how big I wanted
the froth to be and traced the shape
down as far as I wanted.

I then cut this piece out twice, once for
the front and once for the back.

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Step 8
Glue the froth pieces onto the top of the front and back cover. I stamped a t-
tle on the front and just added a very small embellishment to the cover. I lef
the back plain except for one stamped word.



















You cant add to many embellishments to the
inside of this album but I plan to put in
some small photos of my friend and I when
we go to the St. Patricks Day parade when
she comes to visit that weekend.

The back of my pages leave lots of space for
journaling and writng notes about what we
did at the weekend. The pint will actually
stand up by itself too so its quite fun.

Have a great St.Patricks Day!


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In this issues featured website we are going to
be looking at Etsy. Felicia is going to take us
through how to set up your own Etsy store and all the ins and outs involved.
How to Start an Etsy Shop!

How many tmes have your friends and family looked at your crafing work
and said, You should sell that?? Well, they are probably right, but where
are you going to sell it? Your optons are usually in local shops or at craf fairs
these are great optons but have you heard of Etsy?

Etsy is an online market place where each artst or crafer gets their own
shop. You choose what to charge for your work and can manage it in your
own tme. It is cheap to run, Etsy sends you a bill by email at the end of each
month, which depends on the amount of items you have added or re-listed
it is only 20c (that is US cents) per item and they charge 3.5% on each sale.

Even though they are US based you have the opton to price your shop in Eu-
ro. So, here is how to do it!

Firstly you need to have photographed your items; this can be tricky, try and
get clear, well lit photos that give a true likeness to the colours you have
used.

To start with you will need an email address, a password and a username
(this is the name of your shop) and a credit card or Paypal account - any sales
that you make get paid in to it and you need it to pay your monthly fees.

Go to Etsy.com and click the REGISTER buton, follow the instructons and
they will send you a confrmaton email click the link in the email and there
you are, in your own shop!

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From here, the next step is to add items Click Your shop on the top bar
and then select add new item.
Listng items takes some
tme, especially if you
have a lot to add at
once. You need to think
about the customer, how
can you best describe
your product?
You can create diferent
sectons to your shop to
divide your work, for ex-
ample in my shop I have
ART and then NOTE-
BOOKS but I could divide it further into MAGNETS, KEYRINGS etc.

There is a secton marked TAGS. This is really important - this is how people
will fnd your shop when they search for certain words. You get 13 tags for
each item, use them all- Youll need to stretch your imaginaton a bit!
For example these are the tags I used for this paintng.

The Tags


The Paintng

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Always mark your quantty as one even if you have 10 identcal items.

It will cost you the
same to re-list 10
tmes as adding 10 in
the beginning but the
reason for listng one
item is when new
items are listed they
fash up on the
botom of the main
Etsy page, so if you
sell an item and then
re-list it will fash up
each tme you re-list. If you put your quantty as 10 it will only show it once.

When it comes to SHIPPING you need to have done a litle research. You will
need to know how much it will cost you to post a wrapped item. The best
way to do this is wrap an item that you intend to sell, take it to the post
ofce (or weigh it and check the An Post website) and ask how much it will
be to send it to Ireland, England and America. From this you can get an aver-
age price to any other country.
If all your items weigh roughly the same you can make your SHIPPING PRO-
FILE once and then add it to each item.

In the INFO & APPEARANCES secton you will fnd SHOP POLICIES this is
where you get to set the
rules of your shop. What
is your return policy? Your
shipping policy? It gives
you a chance here to be
specifc; there is a very
useful secton here called
Getng ideas on writng
shop policies.


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You dont have to go
through the whole pro-
cess to re-list an item,
when you sell you can
click SOLD ORDERS on
the lef side of the page
and under each item will
be a RENEW SOLD op-
ton.
Etsy will keep an item on
view for 4 months, if it
doesnt sell in that tme it
comes of your shop page
and goes into EXPIRED
LISTINGS.
To re-list simply click Ex-
pired listngs on the lef,
tck the boxes you want
to re-list and the RENEW
buton at the botom of
the page and its done!

You can now link your
shop to your Facebook or
Twiter accounts, this is a
great way to draw aten-
ton to your shop.
Anything you list will au-
tomatcally appear on
your Facebook or Twiter
page.

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This is your shop and your customers would like to know who they are buy-
ing from so introduce yourself on your PUBLIC PROFILE. You can add a photo
and a quick welcome message here.














Then click INFO & APPEARANCE to add a shop message and a message for
buyers. You can also add a banner to your shop here.













There are many other optons that you can use, for example if you choose
to ofer a discount you can generate a coupon code for your customers (use
Coupon codes in the PROMOTE secton of your sidebar) and you can leave a

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message to say you have gone on holiday so that potental customers dont
think they are being ignored.

That is how you set up your shop, it takes a while to get it right and get every-
thing listed. Now, how are you going to atract customers?

There are many thousands of shops of Etsy; the chances of anyone landing on
your shop by chance are slim. It is up to you to bring people to your shop,
make sure your Etsy shop is linked to your blog, and talk about it on Facebook
and Twiter.

When you do make a sale, send a personal thank you note or maybe a promo-
tonal postcard and at least two business cards. Make sure to wrap your pack-
age nicely it gives a good impression to the customer and hopefully will
bring repeat sales!

Dont be disheartened if sales are slow, check your shop regularly for messag-
es and update it monthly to keep it looking fresh.

There is a great community on Etsy,
this is where the Etsy blog, circles,
teams and forums come in .. But
more about that in the next issue!

Editors Note
You can visit Felicias Etsy shop here
to get a beter look at how it is set
up and they layout and so on. Of
course while you are there you can
check out her beautful work on
ofer!

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If you would like to advertse in Crafing Ireland email us at
info@crafingirelandonline.ie with advertsing in the subject line for
more informaton.

Below are a list of some shops that we shopaholics like to order all those es-
sental supplies from. All these stores are either located in Ireland, or else
ship to Ireland with reasonable rates.
Ireland

CardznScraps Cork Art Supplies
htp://cardznscrapz.com/

Scrapbook Store
htp://www.thescrapbookstore.ie

Crafy Alley
htps://crafyalley.com/
Crafy Angels
htp://www.crafyangels.ie/store/
Scrapbook Store
htp://www.thescrapbookstore.ie
An Siopa Bui The Yellow Shop
htp://www.ansiopabui.ie/
Create With Kate
www.createwithkate.com
LillyPad Craf Supplies
htp://www.lilypadcrafsupplies.ie/
Crafy Cutng
www.crafycutng.com
United Kingdom

Artst Trading Post
htp://www.artstradingpost.com/

Artstc Stamper
htp://www.theartstcstamper.com/

Craf Barn
htp://www.thecrafbarn.co.uk/

Craf Emporium
htp://www.craf-emporium.co.uk
WOW Embossing Powders
htp://
www.wowembossingpowder.co.uk/
Wild Orchid Crafs
www.wildorchidcrafs.com

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I frequently fnd that I see something while surfng on
the internet. I just simply cantbuy because it is too
expensive to ship to Ireland. When this happens I then try to fgure out how I
can make it myself. This was the case with this policy envelope mini album. It
is really easy to recreate policy envelopes and to make a mini using them.

What you will need:
5 sheets of A4 lightweight cardstock.
Paterned paper
Embellishments
O-wire for binding

Step 1
Take one sheet of A4 paper. Score it at 3cm and at 23 cm on the longer side.
Then turn it and score at 6cm and at 16 cm.









Timi Konya

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Timi Konya
Step 2
Cut the solid lines to have a shape like below.










Where the arrows are show that you need to cut in at an angle to be able to
fold it neatly.












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Step 3
Fold the two long faps in. One of the long faps is bigger than the other.
This will help you to glue the envelope together.









Then fold the 3cm wide fap in and glue it down. Now three sides of the
envelop are closed. You dont glue the wide fap down. This is so you can use
the envelope as a pocket for extra space in the mini.

Step 4
This is how the envelope should look. You can punch the holes for binding at
this stage.









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Create fve to six envelopes and then bind them with binding rings or o-wire.

Step 5
Decorate as you wish with paterened paper and lots of embellishements.
This envelope mini is really easy to make. The A4 paper is just the perfect
size. You dont need to cut too much of so there is not much waste.

And because of its dimensions, 10cmx20cm, the 8x8 paper packs are great
to use to decorate the project.

If you make an album using this technique share it with us on our Facebook
page!


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In every issue of Crafing Ireland we will have a crafy challenge to help you
all get your creatve juices fowing. We will pick a winner from each chal-
lenge. We will then publish the winners projects in the next issue.

The challenge this issue is the sketch below. Create a card, a layout, a al-
tered art pieceanything you want. Just make sure we can see the sketch in
it. To enter the challenge go to the challenge page on our blog and link up
your project. You can fnd it at: crafingireland.wordpress.com/challenge/

















Our challenge sponsor this week is LillyPad Craf
Supplies. The prize up for grabs is this fantastc
hamper. You have untl the 9th of April to enter.




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Congratulatons to Jessica Fitzhenry of Crafs and Cofee
who is the winner of our issue 7 challenge sponsored by
Crafy Cutng. Jessica wins a fantastc hamper of amaz-
ing chipboard goodies from Crafy Cutng. Jessicas
adorable card is pictured below.

Make sure to get in touch with us Jessica so we can or-
ganise to get your prize out to you. Email t-
mi@crafingirelandonline.ie to organise this.



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For the next issue we would love to see more of your work. Remem-
ber the submission theme is:

Birthday Celebraton


Submi ssi on deadl i ne i s 2ndApri l


Artcle submission
If you have an artcle or tutorial you would like to get published
please email us about it at submissions@crafingirelandonline.ie

Make sure to check out
www.crafingirelandonline.ie for more
informaton on future issues