scrapbooking2angels: Twiddleybitz or not? And printing on Calico

Have you seen what Jennifer Hodge has been creating over at her blog ... Jen is a DT for Twiddleybitz and as you know our DT Ngaire is also on the team ... so we are looking into stocking Twiddleybitz at my2angels but due to lack of space we won't get stock everything but we need your feedback
Tell us what you want so we can start stocking Twiddleybitz

And here is what Jen has been creating combining my2angels products and Twiddleybitz

May The Joy of Christmas

I've finally started my Christmas Cards!! This is really a simple, quick and easy adaptation from the basic step card - I made the side step 5cm in, and only on one side. This left room for the beautiful Twidddleybitz Doily Frame to hold my greeting,

and the Christmas tree on the inside step.

I love the way the charms and silver rhinestones add that touch of movement to the card and really draw the eye. I adapted my2angels silver Christmas Baubles and added a Christmas Tree Charm instead of the star (the star is put away for another project)

cut and score the cardstock
cut the 3 panels of patterned paper
ink all edges for the card and the patterned paper
colour the chippy pieces and set aside to dry
colour the ribbon and bow with the same green used to colour the tree (distress stains)
attach all patterned paper to the card
stamp the greeting using Black Stazon Ink
add the Silver Christmas Baubles to the doily
add the ribbon to the card
attach the chipboard tree and doily to the card - add the present charm
add the ribbon bow to where the Silver Christmas Charming Chain is attached
Add some bling to your card and you're done!!

Ingredients:

Twiddleybitz - Shimmer Cardstock

Twiddleybitz - Circle Doily #2 (FRA019)

Twiddleybitz - Christmas Tree

Kaisercraft December 25th

my2angels Silver Christmas Baubles

my2angels Present Charm

Rhinestones

Shabby Shutters Distress Ink

Peeled Paint Distress Stain

Fired Brick Distress Stain

Stazon Ink Black

Miscellaneous Ribbons

AND

Happy Birthday 2 you

Another Centre Step Card (can't seem to get enough of them at the moment!) - but a masculine one this time!! I used the gorgeous Sears n Son papers and teamed them with the awesome small hot air balloon from Twiddleybitz and 'accessories' from my2angels ...

And of course - a close up for you of the gorgeous items from Tracy at my2angels,

these being Antique Bronze Compass Charm

and Antique Bronze Large Flower Filligree

This time I started with a pre-cut and folded card from Twiddleybitz!!
Scored and cut the card
Cut the patterned paper
I inked all card, and paper edges and the 2, y, o, u, with Black Stazon Ink
Stamped "Happy birthday" on the bottom horizontal panel - also in Black Stazon Ink
Used alcohol ink to colour the white bow and flowers
Used a number of coloured distress stains to colour the hot air balloon
Added the gold paint around the edge of the balloon and y, o, u
Adhered all paper to card
Added the compass charm and bow
Adhered the hot air balloon, 2, and y, o, u
Adhered the head of the brad and the 'love' charm
Lastly I fed the stalks of the roses through the centre of the brass flower and adhered all to card

Those Paper measurements again (cm):

1 x 2.5x14

2 x 2.5x6.5

1 x 7x8

I hope you like my take on Masculine LOL!! I needed a card for that wonderful man in my life and didn't think pastels, flowers, and birds would cut it!!

Ingredients:
Twiddleybitz Pre-cut card and envelope - C6 Kraft colour
Twiddleybitz Small Hot Air Balloon (BAL002)
Twiddleybitz 2 (TAB002)
Twiddleybitz Alphabet - square
Kaisercraft Sears & Son Moustache Patterned Paper

my2angels Pre-tied Bow - White

my2angels White Roses

my2angels Antique Bronze Compass Charm

my2angels Antique Bronze Large Flower Filligree

my2angels Antique Bronze Love Charm

my2angels Hardware Brads

Ranger Alcohol Ink - Denim; Mountain Rose

Vintage Photo Distress Stain

Mustard Seed Distress Stain

Fired Brick Distress Stain

Adirondack Paint Dabber Gold

Black Stazon Ink

Miscellaneous "Happy Birthday" Stamp

I hope you like it - I enjoyed going all 'manly' for once... must do it again soon :-P

Jen

:-)

FOOTNOTE: As alcohol inks are classed as a Dangerous Good and Australia Post WON'T allow them to be posted hence why we don't stock them, Glimmer Mist can be used to colour the bow and flowers

AND WHILE WE ARE ON THE SUBJECT OF TWIDDLEYBITZ ... their cards which we were stocking and flew out the door before we could pack the orders will be back in stock by 22nd October

and now for some another UFO from Geli which a great tut at the end

Another UFO is no longer an unfinished object. I recently did this layout "Stop and smell the roses" in class

(the original layout)

I knew I wanted to do a cowboy & Indian version of this page:

(my cowbow version)

If you grew up in Germany and you didn't spend the last 50 years under a rock, you know who these fellows are. Winnetou and Old Shatterhand by Karl May are absolute cult figures of the Wild West and if you don't know them, you have truly missed out on something awesome. As kids we used to watch the movies many times and play cowboys and Indians for hours.

My cowboy version still has the feathers...

...but these cool charms from my2angels were just what the doctor ordered to give it some Wild West charm. Here's a cowboy hat and lantern...

...and a gun charm

Of course I have no photos of our childhood games, so I found a photo of the movie heroes online. I knew the photo needed something to give it the Wild West look and I decided to print it on calico

Now, I didn't re-invent the wheel, I'm sure someone has shown how to do this before, but this is quick and easy and looks oh-so-cool!

Step 1:

Make a little pencil arrow on the top sheet of paper in your home printer's tray to show which side is up and in which direction it goes through the printer. (Sounds dumb, but will make your life so much easier in step 3)

Print the photo in the size of your choice on plain copy paper. Bigger is better, mine was 5x7".

Step 2:

Got a good image? Now cover it with a piece of calico that's at least 1" bigger all round and tape it down with packing or masking tape on top of the picture. Make sure none of the tape covers the area of the picture.

Tip: If the calico it crinkled, iron it first!

Step 3:

Put the paper back in the paper tray (Use the arrow from step 1 to show you which way! Mine was up-side down) and press print again. Your picture will come out perfectly printed on calico.