Tatty Teddy Easter

We got on with our filming yesterday, having prepared all week with waterfall, stepper cards, and digital cards from Spring Chic CD-rom. Now to film the introduction and ending...
Guess what? I forgot to check the battery for the remote control! However, that only required one of us to get off our seat and manually start/stop the video camera. Giggling together as usual, afterwards my brain suddenly kicked into gear and remembered I had a spare battery, where? In the camera case, of course. So we just filmed a little extra bit for the end of the video. We hope you enjoy Tatty Teddy Easter and look forward to your comments. What will we film next?

Here are some of the cards we made:

Tatty Teddy Easter sample card for Hospice

Tatty Teddy Easter card packs for assembling at Hospice

Tatty Teddy Baby Dedication card

Tatty Teddy Easter Waterfall cards

Tatty Teddy Spring Chic Digital cards

Tatty Teddy Easter mini Gatefold card

Tatty Teddy Engagement card

Tatty Teddy Ruby 40th Anniversary Stepper card

Tatty Teddy Birthday card for a crafter

Getting Shirty at the Craft Group

I have had had more help from Dave of Memory Box and he sent this useful link to his video.  This gave me more ideas about how to get the tree to cut out all over, not just in the centre, by using a metal plate - but this didn't work either.

Adding the centre patch just took away the pressure from the outer leaves, so that's been removed. At the craft group Jane tried it on Ann's Cuttlebug with no success.  She's taken the die home to try in the Big Shot. So... back to the craft night. I had bought a set of three rubber stamps for male cards. Ann suggested I size down this shirt and tie to fit the 2" square punch used for the Waterfall card and do it for my project.  I sized and centred it in MS Publisher and printed out lots of little squares for the girls.

These were coloured with alcohol pens and distress-inked at the edges, then attached to the mechanism. A background was made by using a Versamark ink pad then chalking over that, or brushing with mica powders, or heat embossing.

I coloured four more shirts for future use but the finished product of my sample is blue of course!

Dave's video:

Woodware

CraftyWhippet was delighted that Woodware have replaced the faulty punch which caused such chaos and hilarity in Waterfall Card from Scratch and Outtake: CraftyWhippet Keeps her Cool - full marks to that company. I have annotated the videos accordingly. 

Ruth will be adding her own thanks in our Waterfall Squares & Pop-out Card video, so keep watching...

Meanwhile:

waterfall template

CraftyAlice

Crafts or Crufts?

Hi!

The latest videos are now on YouTube.

Outtake #4 happened after Ruth's lovely big craft punch jammed...not once, not twice, but three times in the course of filming Making a Waterfall card from scratch. After hysterical laughter from us, Video 16 was finally completed. The idea was that it would link up with Val's Video 3 of putting the Waterfall card together - only we got muxed-ip and said it was video 2 - not. Professionals we aren't, but what a lot of fun it is to make so many mistakes and enjoy ourselves - we hope you do too when you watch the videos.

Our next video will have a Scottish treat involved - keep watching this space.

As some more light relief, there is my video of puppies playing with Ann on Bute; they really liked her earrings and bare toes.

Hope you're all having a great summer, it's absolutely roasting here in Scotland. Who says it's all rain?

CraftyAlice

Welcome to Genius Hands on the Web

Hi!

Welcome to the new Genius Hands Blog.

We are card-crafters, making them for friends/charities and to sell. Our latest project is making YouTube instructional videos. As we are not experts, you will learn much better from our videos - we show how, complete with non-deliberate mistakes.

We used to have our own Reports on our old GeniusHands.com website which Reporter Ruth happily wrote up on our crazy gatherings of fun, but it's much quicker just to use Blogspot and YouTube! Subscribe to our Videos.

Happy crafting!

CraftyAlice