Tutorial from DT member Louise Williams

How cute is this little card, just perfect for Christmas!!! Our very talented team member Louise has created this little tutorial so that you can recreate it yourself!

Supplies:

Twiddleybitz Santa Key

Shimmers spray in colour of your choice

Kindy Glitz in red, black and iridescent

Rasberry Christmas papers

Rasberry Pearls

Rasberry Christmas rubons

Bazzill Swiss Dots cardstock

Dimensional Magic

Dimensional paint

Black marker pen

Template

1. Cut a piece of the bazzill swiss dots card to size and fold in half.

2. Cut the end off the Twiddleybitz Santa Key and round off the edge to form an ornament shape.

3. Spray with shimmers spray, decorate with pearls and kindy glitz and leave to dry. When dry cover with a coat of dimensional magic and leave again to dry.



4. Cut a piece of Christmas paper the same width as the card and trace a shape design on the top and bottom edge using a template. Cut out and line the edge with the marker pen. Adhere to the centre of the card front.

5. Cut a strip from the same paper and attach with foam tape horizontally in the centre of the card.

6. Rub a design onto a spare piece of the bazzill cardstock, trim to size and mount on foam tape to the right hand side of the card. Using a thicker foam tape, mount the dried ornament on top of both the strip and the rubon.

7. Finish the design with dots of dimensional paint, using the bazzill dots as the guides of where to place them.

And there you have it!

November Mid-Month Guest Designer Rosalie Packham

Hi and please welcome our guest dt girl for November - Rosalie Packham. Rosalie has created this gorgeous shadow box with instructions... we hope you like it as much as we did!
Project 3: Off the Page–Shadow Box
Placing ripped tissue onto the chipboard with white glue
and then painted over is my technique on chipboard.
Materials List
Twiddleybitz Shadow Box Wave
Twiddleybitz Mirror Shapes Butterflies pack of 4
Twiddleybitz Bag of Dragonflies Pack of 3
Making Memories Paints – Speciality Glaze Sky and Emerald
Making Memories Paper flowers
Kaiser Flowers, Rhinestones and Glass Brads
Dimensional Magic
Pritt and White Glue


Step 1: Put the shadow box together as per instructions except
for the backing board.
Step 2: Paint the backing board and inside of shadow box .


Step 3 On the front of the shadow box rip up bits of tissue and
randomly glue down using the white glue.



Step 4: When dry, paint over the tissue lumps and all other
parts of shadow box. Then dab glitter paint all over.




Step 5: Using backing board as a template cut out a piece of
patterned paper and glue onto the backing board.(Optional)
Step 6: Complete assembling Shadow box.
Step 7: Attach Twiddleybitz glass butterflies to inside of shadow
box with Pritt and foam mounted tape to add height.
Step 8: Choose a portrait photo 5x7 and cut out around the person
and attach to bottom of shadow box with glue.
Step 9: Choose your flowers using colours that compliment picture
and attach a large glass brad in the middle of each.
Step 10: Attach Flowers, three in middle left corner and three in
top right corner.
Step 11 Paint dragon flies using one colour for the wings and the
other for the body. When dry attach two rhinestones for eyes and
cover all in dimensional Magic. Attach to shadow box near flowers
with Pritt. Stick in 2 small butterflies amongst flowers.

A tutorial and a farewell....

Hi everyone, here is a tutorial for a gorgeous card from Tracey Holdyk...due to personal circumstances Tracey has resigned from our Design Team...we would like to thank her for all her hard work over the past couple of years and all of her gorgeous creations. We wish you all the best for the future Tracey you will be missed! xxx

From Tracey:

"You are the Best" greeting card. Hope you enjoy this little project that I have put together for you. Twiddleybitz chipboard is quite thick and so this technique is just perfect. Did you know that you can pull aways layers from your chipboard to create several shapes from the one piece. Its a great way to get more for your money. The technique is not hard but it is a little fiddly. After the first few you get the handle on it and its quite fun. Enjoy and can't wait to here what you thought.

Materials
Kraft card
Pattern paper (I used Basic Grey)
white cotton material
Twiddleybitz chipboard flowers from the Home Sweet Home kit
white paint
sanding tools
craft glue
buttons
Sewing machine/hand stitching.
Rub-on greeting or stamp

Instructions
Step one - cut kraft cardstock 15cm x 21cm and fold in half to make the base of your card.

Step two - cut pattern paper 10.5cm x 14.5cm, distress the edges and then using a sewing maching stitch to the front of your card. Don't worry if you don't have a sewing machine, just simply had some hand stitching.

Step three - cut two pieces of white cotton material approx 11cm x 2cm, fray the edges and sew to the front of your card.


Step four - Grab your chipboard flower and using your fingernail or tip of your craft knife pull the top layer of chipboard off (approx 1-2mm down). Continue doing this until you have about four flowers. Twiddleybitz chipboard is ideal for this technique because it is made up of several layers. It is also a great way to get more out of your chipboard.

Step five - The three flowers with the tail, you can still do the same technique however you are just pulling the top layer of petals up to give dimension.

Step six - Once all you flowers have been pulled apart, paint them with white paint. don't worry too much about neatness as we are going to rough them up a bit anyway.



Step seven - Using your sanding tools, lightly sand back some of the paint from your chipboard giving a shabby chic look.

Step eight - one all you pieces are dried, attach them to the front of the card.

Step nine - add some buttons to the centre of you flowers if you like. Maybe glitter? what ever your heart desires.

Step ten - Add your sentiment. I used a rub-on but you could have easily stamped a sentiment instead.

Congratulations on finishing your beautiful card.

Hope you have enjoyed this little technique, maybe you can try other Twiddleybitz shapes.

October Guest Designer - Jen Burns

We would like to welcome this month's Guest Designer Jen Burns ... Jen has done this gorgeous layout "Adore" with instructions. Enjoy!!!

1. I started with 7 gypsies Flocked Market paper "Tobar" as my base and chose two different Bazzil cardstock to match. I have distressed these edges with a distressing tool and ink.

2. I have used the Twiddleybitz loose alphabet to spell the word "ADORE" and I have coloured these with Lumier paintsand also put them through the Cuttlebug, then inked the edges with Black ink and I then applied some Rub N Buff over the raised areas.

3. I have sprayed the Twiddleybitz heart with Glimmer Mist.

4. To add some more texture to the heart I have embossed a small stmap over the pattern randomly with silver embossing powder.

5. I then added black felt behind the heart to make the intricate pattern stand out against the paper.

6. To add a finishing touch I used small crystals to enhance the swirls in the pattern.

7. I love the two piece Tulip Vine and have coloured the tulips the same colour as my Adore word...on the leaves on the top section I have used a dark green ink and the bottom section a lighter green ink for contrast.

8. I have then glued the two pieces together using the stem and leaves. The flowers I have added dimension by bending up the top flower and using Liquid Scrap Dots to keep the shape of the tulips. I have brushed a little Tim Holtz distress stickles over the top flower as well to add another colour.

9. I have then finished off my layout using some flowers that I had at home with a nail head in the centre - I have brushed some Irridescent Pearl over them to blend a little. The felt ribbon is threaded through a ribbon holder embellishment. The pin I have decorated with some ribbon and a Fleur De Lis charm.

I love this photo of my Mum and Dad taken at my cousin's wedding, My mum and dad have been married for 43 years and still "adore" each other as much today as they did when they met...(just don't ask them to say so LOL!).

PRODUCT LIST:

7 Gypsies Tobar paper Lumier Paints - Sparkle

Twiddleybitz Alphabet – ADORE Edge Distresser & Sandpaper

Twiddleybitz Vine Tulip Pinecone Ink

Twiddleybitz Vine Heart Rub n Buff

Black Felt Ribbon Cuttlebug emobossing folder

Ribbon holder charm Embossing Powder/Versamark

Pin and Fleur DeLis charm Heat Gun

Small clock face Iredescent Pearl paint

3 Flowers Colorbox chalk ink set

2 pieces of Bazzil Distress stickles – Tim Holtz

Crystal Blings Nail heads

Double sided tape Helmar Liquid Glue

Helmar Scrap Dots

A fabulous layout with step by step from Teresa Abajo...

The many faces of Jake

Ingredients:

Tweenybitz frame

12 x 12 sheet cardstock

Black Tulip Colour Spray

Various photos – cropped to 2.5 cm squares

Patterned paper (Basic Grey Boxer range)

Large Owl from the Owl Set

Copic markers to colour the owl (Tombows, Marvys or acrylic paint will work too)

Variety of alphas for the title

Scrap of hessian or other fabric

Sewing machine (optional)

White gel pen (optional)

Step 1

Place the Tweeny Squares frame off-centre onto the cardstock, on a slight angle. Spray with Colour Spray, having shaken the bottle well. Make sure the frame sits flat on the cardstock or the colour will run underneath. Holding the spray bottle further away produces a fine mist, and closer to the page produces larger droplets. Spray until you are happy with the coverage.

Step 2

Gently remove the frame from the page, place it on newspaper, and spray with Colour Spray until it’s completely covered. When it’s completely dry, adhere the photos and patterned paper to the back of the frame.

Step 3

Colour the owl using Copic markers, and glue some white paper behind his eyes.

Step 4

Adhere a strip of hessian or fabric to the side of the cardstock, and adhere the completed frame on top. Glue the owl to the frame on the right hand side.

Step 5

Use your alphas to complete your title.

Step 6

This is optional – use your sewing machine to run a stitch around the layout as a border. I did a little zig zag near the hessian strip.

Step 7

I found that one word in my title didn’t stand out enough, so I added a row of dots through the letters to highlight them.

And there you have one quick layout!

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NEW DESIGN TEAM ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!

We are SO excited to welcome the following ladies to our design team for the next term, we loved their DT submissions and cannot wait to see what other gorgeous creations they come up with using Twiddleybitz products!!! We hope you join us in their journey with Twiddleybitz!
Owners: Andrew & Nicole Skender
DT coordinator WA - Melanie Forbes
DT coordinator East Coast & International - Sherry Mendoza
DT Girls -
Beck Beattie - Vic
Carol Thompson - WA
Felicity Malyszko - Vic
Georgia Keays - WA
Jo Kinder - NSW
Louise Williams - NZ
Sonya Thair - WA
Teresa Abajo - Vic
Tiffiny Sawyer - NSW
Tracey Holdyk - WA
Tracy Wyldman - NSW