Hello, friends, and happy Friday to you! For those of you in the U.S., you may be gearing up for a holiday weekend, and all of us are starting to feel summer vibes! For today’s New & Noteworthy post, we have one of the latest collections from Crafter’s Companion that will bring a tropical feel to our papercrafting projects—and they have a great tutorial for you using it! Let’s take a look!
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Jewel bright, light and full of magic, the Nature’s Garden Hummingbird Collection will grace your card and papercraft creations with enchanting delicacy!
In some cultures hummingbirds are symbols of luck, joy and love, bringing light and sweetness into people’s lives. This stunning collection brings these graceful creatures to life through intricate designs, sumptuous illustrations and a jewel box colour palette. Perfect for crafting unique cards, crafts and gifts to treasure!
Follow this step-by-step guide to create a beautiful desktop organiser that opens out to reveal shelves, a notelet holder and envelopes.
You will need:
- Nature’s Garden Hummingbird Collection
- Guillotine
- Rock a Blocks
- Finesse Alcohol Proof Ink pad – Noir Black
- Spectrum Noir Classique Markers
- Ultimate Pro Scoreboard
- Gemini Die Cutting Machine
- Neenah Solar White Stamping Card
- Crafter’s Companion Tape Pen
- Craft Knife
- Ruler
- Ribbon
- Enveloper ( if you want to make envelopes!)
Step-by-step instructions:
- Cut out pieces of Linen Card as follows:
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- Two pieces 8″ x 10″
- One piece 3″ x 8″
- One piece 4″ x 8″
- One piece 5″ x 8″
2. Take both 8″ x 10″ pieces and use the Ultimate Pro to score down the 2″ line on both shorter sides and one long side as shown.
3. Use a craft knife to cut out the bottom corners on one piece of card and small slits in the other piece of card as shown.
4. Fold both pieces and slot together as in the image.
5. Take the 3″ x 8″ and the 5″ x 8″ card pieces and score down the 1″ line down both shorter sides and one long side.
6. Use a Glue Tape Pen to attach the piece from the previous step to the inside of your box shape. Use the longer piece at the center point of the box and the shorter piece at the front to create shelves.
7. Use your patterned paper paper pads to cut out and attach pieces measuring roughly 1/4″ smaller than each panel. This is called matting and layering. Top Tip: use a sheet of the 12” Paper Pad on the front flap to go over all three sides and then use matching 6” Paper Pad for the 2 dividers and back panel of the inside of the box to create a cohesive look.
8. Lay the Hovering Hummingbird Die and its outer frame onto Neenah Card. Follow the instructions included with your Gemini machine to die cut the design.
9. Color using Spectrum Noir Classique Markers.
10. Attach a piece of vellum to the back of the die cut image and attach to the front of the box. Cut out and attach frame to go around the outside of the hummingbird design using matching patterned papers. Top Tip: use the outer die from the Hovering Hummingbird Die to create the outer edge and then use a ruler and knife to create an aperture.
11. Take the 4″ x 8″ piece of card and score a 1″ line around all four sides. Cut notches out of each corner, fold and attach it to the box lid.
12. Repeat the process from Step 7 to add mats and layers with patterned paper. Attach to the panels and make sure your lid fits the box.
13. Take the largest die from the Tropical Tags set and die cut two from Linen Card. This will form your notelet holder!
14. Using the same die cut out some sheets of white paper or card that will become the inserts for your notelet holder.
15. Use the smaller Tropical Tags die to cut out a shape from patterned paper and attach to one of the coloured card tag shapes. Sandwich the white shapes in between both layers of card and tie together with ribbon
16. Die cut floral decorations from the Tropical Tags set and decorate your notelet holder. Use Finesse Alcohol Proof Inkpad and Rock a Blocks to stamp a sentiment from the Spread Your Wings set onto a piece of white card and attach.
17. Cut pieces of 12″ x 12″ patterned paper to measure 8/14″ to make envelopes to store inside your box organizer.
18. Use your the G line of your Enveloper on all sides to create cute envelopes from patterned paper!
Your Nature’s Garden Hummingbird desktop organizer is done! Ready to fill with your letters and notes or give as a handmade gift!
With delicate and detailed dies, beautiful stamps, and dazzlingly beautiful paper pads, why not check out the full Nature’s Garden Hummingbird Collection to see what else you can make?
We’d love to giveaway this prize package to one lucky commenter:
This bundle includes: Hummingbird 12 x 12-inch paper pad, Heavenly Hummingbird 3D embossing folder, Spread Your Wings stamp, Sweet Hummingbird stamp and die, Hovering Hummingbird metal die, Botanical Wreath metal die
To enter to win, please leave a comment by midnight ET on Wednesday, June 1st, telling us what kind of project you would love to create with this new collection! A winner will be selected at random and announced here on the SCT blog on June 3rd. Thanks for reading and be sure to find out about our upcoming releases and find more inspiration at our links below!
Crafter’s Companion: Website | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Crafter’s TV
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Last week, Lawn Fawn inspired us with a pool party on a card by Caly Person and offered up an amazing giveaway of some of their newest products! The winner of this giveaway is:
“So much cuteness in this Lawn Fawn release! That pool party card is super adorable! I’m most looking forward to reading on the patio this summer.” ~ Stacy K.
Congratulations, Stacy! Please email meghann@scrapbookandcards.com with your shipping address and telephone number to claim your Lawn Fawn prize!
Thanks for joining us on the blog this week, and don’t miss out on more inspiration and ideas to come starting on Monday! We’ll see you here then!
That is gorgeous! I’d love to create this project!!
I would love to create a journal with all this beauty!!
What a beautiful project! I would be able to make a lot of pretty cards if I won!
That paper pad is gorgeous. It’s going on my list and when I get it I’m going to have a hard time deciding between a bunch of girly cards or a beautiful picture folio.
Nature’s Garden Hummingbird Collection is simply gorgeous! I would love to recreate the project shown, as well as make make boxes for friends to store special keepsakes. I think the papers are the most beautiful I have ever seen!
Gorgeous collection! I would love to try the box following the tutorial shown. I would also love to make several special cards with these supplies.
Hummingbird paper is beautiful. I love making cards and gift tags with this paper I think it’ll be beautiful gifts for friends and family
What a lovely collection. I would use it to make a set of cards to give as a gift. Who doesn’t love hummingbirds?!
so many possibilities with this awesome collection – I would make a pop up easel card to show case these wonderful products – those papers are delicious:)
When I saw this collection and the projects you showed using it, I immediately started thinking about how I was going to make a box card that would fold and fit into an A2 envelope!
So very pretty! We love watching hummingbirds. My mom used to have 10 or more at the same time at her feeders. I would love to use these products for a layout about my mom watching them. Thank you Crafters Companion and SCT for the wonderful inspiration and opportunity to win!
Gorgeous collection! I would love to make a mini album with these goodies.
My MIL loves hummingbirds so much that she tracks their path on the internet. I’d love to make her a set of note cards!
How about a mini album AND some cards??? So pretty!!!
Hummingbirds are one of my favorites.
What a lovely desktop organizer! I would use these beautiful supplies to make cards, and maybe follow these directions for an organizer of my own. :)
I would use these to make amazing greeting cards for birthdays, encouragement and mothers day!! These are such beautiful items!
Awesome project with these beautiful designs!
I’d love to make a set of notecards for a pretty gift package!
Oh, I have been eying this gorgeous collection! First, I would make some cards then I would use a snap album and create my great niece a wedding album!
How gorgeous is this organizer! This collection is lovely, I would use it to make many cards and some home decor projects. Thanks to crafters companion for a great prize package.
I love the hummingbirds and would love to use them to make birthday cards for friends. Thanks SCT and Crafter’s Companion for the chance to win this awesome prize pack.
Love love love the hummingbird die! I would make so many cards! The paper would be great for summer scrapbook layouts, too. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Well, this bird nerd would love to make cards and a 3D box for myself to display in my craft room. Thanks so much for the chance to win this gorgeous prize.
Fantastic looking kit
and I would use it
for cards!
Carla from Arizona
I just love hummingbirds, but never see any in the city. I could have them all year round with this awesome bundle.
This prize would be wonderful for me to create cards that I donate to nursing homes and other facilities!
Oh what a gorgeous box and stationary project! I am a cardmaker and such wonderful cards could be made with these beautiful products.
I make greeting cards, so the collection
will make lots of cards for friends and family.
Love the hummingbirds. thanks for sharing
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Fantastic prize, the paper is gorgeous! I would use this collection to make a bird-watching journal and greeting cards.
Yes PLEASE… this would be a perfectly themed gift I will make for a sweetie who has loved hummingbirds all her 78 years and whose Birthday is mid July. She would so love a box of notes, Stamps and envelopes adorned with her precious birds to send to others. I too would cherish this set… I also love my hummingbird birds.
That is a beautiful collection! I would make some journal covers, card boxes, and cards.
this is so pretty. I would make lots of greeting cards for our church card ministry.
I would love to create décor for my craft room. The colors of the papers are just gorgeous. I would also use the stamps in my planner as a reminder to myself.
Oh wow! What a fabulous paper pad!!! If I win, I would love to recreate this box following the tutorial shown. Thanks for this great chance to win!
What a delightful project tutorial ! My bestie is a bird photographer so I would make her a box to keep notes in all her adventures ! ❤️
What a lovely project! I would love to create sets of cards with these beautiful papers. Thanks so much for the chance to win this delightful prize.
I’d love to try to replicate this project. I’ve never made anything like it and it would be a great gift for my mother.
I would create that exact same project. I have TONS of paper, but nothing like that. It is so beautiful and heart warming to my soul. Thanks for sharing.
My granddaughters love purple. I think I could definitely use the paper with the stamp and dies especially if we get to go back to the hummingbird sanctuary at the AZ Sonoran Desert Museum
So beautiful! I’m thinking of making a gratitude journal, and something as stunning as this would sure make it fun to use. And of course I’d be making a ton of beautiful cards and layouts too.
Oh my I love hummingbirds. I would use this beautiful collection to make a smaller size scrapbook for my sweet 85 year old neighbor who will be moving in August to a condo.
As many others I love the hummingbirds! I would love to make sets as gifts! Thank you!
I want to make that beautiful box to give to my friend, whom is the receptionist where I work. I would put her favorite chewing gum in the box also.
I so adore hummingbirds. With this collection, I would create several sets of cards to give to family and friends who have requested them.
What a beautiful collection and an inspiring project.
This is absolutely gorgeous! I’d love to create some birthday cards with it.
I would love to make a mini album for my granddaughter! This set is absolutely beautiful!
I hope I’m not too late. I would like to make cards with the hummingbird die cuts. Hummingbirds are my favorite.
This is such a gorgeous collection! I would love to create so many things: the project here would be perfect to make for my mum, a gift/memento box for my friend, and so so many beautiful cards!
I would make cards with this collection. Thanks for all the inspiration. :D