Floral Candle Wrap

Using the August 08 A la Tarte

Additional supplies needed:
A white candle
Stick pins or corsage pins
Small flower punch
                         
1. Cut a piece of black cardstock to measure 10 x 2 ½.   You may want to use a decorative scissors for the top and bottom edge.

2. Cut a piece of pink pattern paper that measures 10 x 2¼. Attach to the black cardstock.

3. Wrap the cardstock and pattern paper around the candle and attach to the back with pins.

4. Cut various flowers out of the floral paper.

5. Punch the same amount of flowers out of black paper.

6. Poke a pin through the black flower and then the center of the KI flowers and attach to the candle.  Make sure to leave a space for the large flower on the right side.

7. Create the large flower by first layering the white Doodlebug flower over the black. Place a hand cut flower from the pattern paper on top. Finish it off with a black punched flower. Attach to the candle with a pin.

Tip:  To give the candle wrap extra dimension I bent the petals of each of the black flowers slightly out around the pin.

The new Pink Paislee 8×8 pads! We’ve got both in stock right now. I can’t wait to play with Vintage Moon and my collection of owl stamps.

The August 08 Full Tart had a little bit of a recurring theme with butterflies. We had Scenic Route chipboard butterflies, Heidi Swapp ghost butterflies, plus the butterflies on the paper from K&Co.

Melanie Douthit had a few beautiful butterflies on her layouts. The white ones were painted with white acrylic paint on the back and once that was dry, the Stickles from the kit was popped on the front.

For Melanie’s next butterfly she put glitter glue all over the butterfly, then covered it with green glitter. Once that was dry the rhinestones were added.

Other butterflies that I found…

By Bernie:

By Roree:

By Sonda:

I have to admit that I found the August card sketch a little bit of a challenge! All I could see in the sketch was Christmas trees! So I was very excited when the design team’s interpretations started coming through. I love them! What do you think?

Card by Roree:

Card by Bernie:

Another one by Bernie:

Card by Betsy:

Card by Jen:

Today I thought I would point out Melanie’s shadowbox that she made for the Half Tart gallery. There are so many really cool details, so do take a closer look!

So what do I love about it? Simply the way she has made the kite from the patterned papers and the KI lace paper. I love how she has used the 7 Gypsies Gaffer Tape to make the kite tail. I also love how she has incorporated one of my favourite stamps - Michelle’s Big Scroll - to add some movement to the kite.

Thanks Melanie!

Knotted flowers and decorative ribbon edges using the August Half Tart.

Step 1: 
Choose flowers you’d like to use on projects along with coordinating ribbon.

Step 2:
Tie a knot in the center of each scrap of ribbon.

Step 3:
Thread ends of ribbon down through center of each flower and secure ends on back.  You can trim them so they don’t show, or allow them to peek out from under flowers.

Step 4:
For decorative ribbon edges, punch holes down the side of chosen area on your project.  Choose coordinating ribbon.

Step 5:
Thread ribbon through hole and tie in a knot.

Step 6:
Repeat as many times as you want to create a fun decorative edge on your layouts or cards.

Did that title get your attention? Well we have free inspiration for our kits each and every month, and this month’s gallery is just smokin’!

There are three galleries, so scroll down to the left and make sure you click on all three.

Go and check it out now!

We have some special limited edition kits that are now up on site. These kits were put together for an advertisement in the latest edition of Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft. Check them out here.

After I posted Roree’s gorgeous doily flower tutorial yesterday, I received this stunning layout via email! Doesn’t it make you just want to scrap with your August Full Tart? What? You don’t have one? Hurry then, and grab one before they sell out!

Thanks Roree, I really love this layout.

The flower centre is die-cut using a Cricut machine and Storybook cartridge.

Door Hanger Step By Step by Roree

Here is an easy door hanger project using the fun stamps and products from the July A La Tarte kit. 


1. Cut out two green patterned paper panels and one chipboard panel to 3 ¾ x 9 ½”.  Round each corner with a corner rounder punch.

2. Measure the door knob where you will hang the door hanger, and cut out a circle at the top of each panel slightly larger than the door knob using a circle cutter.

3. Using the paper doilies in the kit, fold each doily in half three times.  Trim off the tip of each folded doily and adhere a folded flower to the bottom of each one.

4. Adhere two pieces of ribbon to each paper panel.  There will be four ribbon piece in total, about 4 – 4 ½” long.  Adhere the paper flowers at the top of each piece of ribbon and stitch or adhere a button at the base of each flower.

5. Using Teresa’s Banner stamp, stamp the image twice onto the blue patterned paper and twice onto the red patterned paper.  Cut out the whole banner image on the red patterned paper and just the box image on the blue patterned paper.  Adhere the blue box images to red banner images.  Decorate the stamped image with letter stickers and jewels from the kit.

6. Adhere the finished banners to the door hanger panels.  Then, adhere the finished paper panels to each side of the chipboard door hanger.

7. Now, hang it on your door, choosing whichever side that suits your mood.