How to make an 8 x 8 frame as a gift
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Posted on 23rd May 2015 by Craig Laird
Filed under All Papercraft Tutorials
In this post I will be working with pearlised paper. You can use paper for your cardmaking and crafts in many of the same ways you would use card stock. There are some projects it cannot be used for such as box making, but it can be used for matting and layering, die cutting, paper folder, colouring and even stamping. Talking of stamping, that is exactly what my papermilldirect project revolves around this week. I have made an 8x8 frame using one of my favourite stamps.
The rose stamp is a clear cling stamp by Kanban and this stamp gives you several options, from standard stamping and colouring to what I love doing with this stamp, creating decoupage layers - and plenty of them, up to 4 to be exact.
With the paper being a lovely pearlised paper, once your image is stamped in what ever your chosen colour is, you get a stunning shimmering glistening look from the ink. I chose to use a Rich Cocoa Memento ink pad and the effect the ink takes on from the pearlised paper is stunning.
This angle shows the dimention of the whole frame from not just the roses but the butterflies and the 8x8 roses head background.
Although I have chosen not to colour any of my images, if you were to colour yours with anything from artist pens or pencils or water ink and brushes, you instantly get a sort of cosmic shimmer effect without having to do any additional work or buy any special products.
What I love about pearlised paper more specifically is when cutting it out by hand, your scissors just glide round. All of my cutting out by hand is done using Fiskars small embroidery scissors (the best scissors you can get in my opionion) and cutting out the pearlised paper a dream.
Once complete, you will have a gorgeous looking frame that will look stunning in your home or make a great gift it for a loved one or a very special friend. Its a gift that you havent just gone out, seen and bought. You have spent your own free time loving and creating this frame to give to someone special. Can it get anymore special? I dont think so.
Here you can see the handcut decoupage layers of the roses, which gives the design depth and interest. There are up to 4 layers of elements of the roses stamp design. I have used Stix2 silicone glue to create the layers, the pearlised paper can be manipulated and given an extra dimension by just curling the cut out elements around my scoring tool.
To create this 8x8 frame, I have used to following products:
Papermill Direct:
Pearlised paper - 120gsm
Buff smooth card - 260gsm.
Teal plain card - 240gsm.
Ivory card smooth - 250gsm. (Front Verse)
9mm double sided tape - FPAL2732950.
Silicone glue - S57100.
Pva glue with metal tip (attach butterflies) - S56890.
Layer perfect (metric) - S57321.
Pick up pencil - S57265.
Non stick craft sheet - S57132.
Additional items;
Rich Cocoa memento ink pad.
Rose stamp - Kanban Crafts.
Grey Squirrel Promarker pen.
Butterfly punch - Martha Stewart.
8x8 box frame - The RANGE.
1- Take a piece of PMD Teal plain card and cut to 8"x8". Then take a piece of Buff smooth card and cut 10mm smaller than 8"x8". Then taken a piece of pearlised paper and cut 15mm smaller than 8"x8".
2- Place your pearlised paper infront of you on top of an non stick craft sheet. With this stamp you get an additional rose head stamp in the pack, so take this stamp and layer up with your Rich Cocoa ink. What we want is lighter Cocoa impression (or a secondary print impression) so before stamping directly onto the pearlised paper, take a scrap piece of paper and lightly stamp your rose design first so the bulk of the colour is left on your scrap paper then instantly stamp again direct onto your pearlised paper. This then gives your secondary print impression. Do this roughly 16 times in a random fashion making sure you also stamp off the page to give a more free flowing and natural effect. Once dry, highlight each rose head by drawing round each one with the Grey Squirrel Promarker pen. Now matt and layer on to your Teal and Buff card stock.
3- Repeat step 2 by stamping your rose head onto a separate piece of pearlised paper. Highlight your rose heads once again using your Grey Squirrel Promarker and then cut out each rose head. I have left roughly a 3mm border around the edge of the rose heads as this will ensure you get a neat shadow line all the way round from your Grey Squirrel outline.(See picture below)
You can see from the picture below how much of a difference drawing round your rose head on the pearlised paper really makes. The rose head on the left just sinks into the background, however the rose head on the right just instantly but elegantly stands out.
4- Next take another piece of all 3 colours and cut the Teal card to 4"x6". Then cut the Buff smooth card to 5mm smaller than 4"x6", and then the pearlised card to 10mm smaller than 4"x6".
5- Take your pearlised paper that you have just cut 10mm smaller than 4"x6" and stamp your rose or chosen design out. Theres no need to do a secondary print impression, stamp first time. Leave for a few moments to ensure its dry and then matt and layer onto your mats that you have just cut with the Teal plain card andBuff smooth card. (See picture below)
6- Take another piece of pearlised paper and depending on how much dimension you want on your finished frame will determine how many time you will now restamp your full image. For exmple, my finished image has up to 4 layers on certain parts of the rose design so therefore I have stamped my image a further 4 times and cut out all the elements. I have also cut out some of the leaves to also give a 3 dimensional effect. As the step above, there is no need to do a secondary print impression. Using your 3D silicone glue, build up the layers of your cut out elements onto your main rose stamped image.
7 - Going back to your 8"x8" random stamped rose background, take all the individual rose heads that you stamped and cut out and gently curl them using a bone folder, scoring tool or anything round. Decoupage them on top of your rose head stamped background to give the background another dimension.
8 - Using your silicone glue, place your matted and layered decoupaged rose design in the top left posision of the 8"x8" background. Using your silicone will ensure it gives your main image height only where needed and will not press and squash any of your background rose heads.
9 - This stamp also comes with a small stamp of well know phrase by Alfred Lord Tennyson but I wanted the phrase to stand out more so I typed out the phrase and printed it onto PMD Ivory smooth card and matted and layered onto coordinated Buff and Teal card stock. I attached it to the bottom right corner using silicone glue.
10- I wanted to add some butterflies but didnt want to use my dies as they are large and could take away some of the focus from the main design. I have a butterfly paper punch by Martha Stewart so I punched out 7 butterflies in Teal plain card stock and randomly placed over the design using Pva glue with a metal tip by Stix2 Anything.
11- All that is left now is to assemble your frame and it's now complete.
Thank you for taking the time to pop across and have alook at my PMD blog post this week. Im looking forward to see you next month, which for me will be a big month. Roll on June.
Craig
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