Els Schutte

Welcome Home

March 9, 2023

Hi Everyone, Els Schutte here today. It’s March so time for another blog post.

This time I made a Welcome Home card using the beautiful Florals 9 and 14. I hope It will inspire you to make a card like this for a friend or new neighbor!

Below you will find the step by step instructions. Have fun creating this card.

I took the page with the text on it, cut it at 8 1/2″ x 11″ and printed this image on it. I also found some nice images in the paper pad and cut them out! ( see image)

Take a base card of 11″ x 7 1/2″ and fold it in half. Now your base card is 5 1/2″ x 7 1/2″. Put some foam dots on the back and glue the big image on the base card. Then glue all the other parts behind it.

Cut some flowers and leaves using Florals 9 and 14. I die cut 3 big, 3 small and 3 center pieces for 1 flower and 4 leaves.

Cut 13 of the Florals 9 flower and color them in the color you like.

Color all other flowers in the color you like and shape them. Once shaped, glue them together.

Make a nice composition on your card with the flowers you made. Stamp also the key with Versamark and put gold embossing powder on it and melt it with the heat tool.

And now your card is ready! I hope you like this card and that you will give it a try. Without the key you can use it also for Birthdays and other occasions.

Elizabeth Craft Designs supplies used:

Other supplies used:

Inks Green, Pink, Brown
Embossing powder gold
Lace
Wire
Flower centre
Nuvo drops

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Explosion Box

February 2, 2023

Hi from a sunny Canada! It’s Els Schutte here and it is my turn to do a blogpost again. This time I made an Explosion box. Below you find the step by step instructions. Have fun creating this box, you can use it for any occasion!!

Finished Product.

Cut all your flowers and leaves and color them with Ink, in the color you like.

Shap all the flowers and put them together, make a hole in the center and put the stamens in.

Take a 12 x 12 Carstock and scor it at 4 and 8 inch, turn it and do the same, cut off the 4 corners, now you can cut 4 pieces of design paper of 3 7/8 x 3 7/8, distress the edges and make nice corners and glue them on the 4 parts. I cut out the mandala of white and put that in the center.

Turn the box and cut 4 pieces of design paper at 3 7/8 x 3 7/8, Ink the edges do the corners and glue them on the 4 panels, if you have a paper with an direction, make sure to put the bottom of the paper on top, ( touching the middle black part), then take the stamp from the new stampset and stamp it on the 4 panels.

for the lif you need a piece of cardstock of 6 1/8 x 6 1/8 scor this on all 4 sides at 1 inch now you cut on one side into the scorlines till the scorline, and do the same on the opposite side., glue the lid together by folding the tabs to the inside. Decorative paper for the top is 4 x 4 and the sides are 4x 7/8 x 4

Stamp all these images with Versamark and emboss them with gold embossingpowder, The telephone is on Black Cardstock, then cut them out with the dies.

Take some acetate strips and glue the images on that and fold over the edge and glue it down, then they will stand up.

Close the box and decorate it with all the flowers you made.

And you’re Explosion box is ready!
I hope you enjoyed this Tutorial and that you will give it a try, we would like to see it if you make one!!!

Materials Elizabeth Craft Design
1760 Mandala
CS 268 Small the Flowers Stamp & Die set
CS 282 Cream & Sugar Stamp & Die set
CS 283 English Countryside 1 Stamp & Die set
CS 281 Hello Darling Stamp & Die set
Florals 11
Florals 12
Florals 16

Other Materials
Tule
Water drops
Stamens
Inks
Gold embossing powder
Acetate

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Pile of Books

January 17, 2023

Hi Everyone, Els here. Time flies, it’s already my turn again to give you some inspiration. I used the bookbox die to make some nice books. Below you will find the step by step instructions. Have fun creating this! You can also fill it with Chocolates or a giftcard……

Cut 3 of the bookboxes

Put the books together, but before you do that you score the lines on your score board and then Ink, distress everything.

Cut Flowers and leaves, as many as you want on your books.

Color the Flowers and leaves and shape them.

Cut and color the butterfly and the feather. Put stamens in your flowers.

Glue the boxes on top of each other and bind a ribbon around them and make a nice bow.

Now start decorating the books, in the next few photo’s you see how I decorated it………..

Put some glitter on the Butterfly and Feather.

I Hope you like the project and that you will give it a try, you can use it for many occasions like birthday, wedding, Valentine, easter etc……

Elizabeth Craft Designs supplies used:

English Countryside 2 stamp and dies – Coming soon

Hello Darling stamp and dies – Coming soon

Other materials:

Ribbon

Inks

Glitter

Stamens

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Merry Christmas with red bells

December 2, 2022

Hi Everyone, It’s Els here and my turn again to give you some Christmas Inspiration. I made this white and Gold Christmas Card, below you find the step by step instructions. Have fun creating this card and I can’t wait to see yours!

White Christmas Card with Red bell

Cut all the Items out of White and Gold cardstock.

Cut the holes of the frame and Glue the white frame on the Gold one a bit offset.

Glue the white holly leaves on the Gold ones offset and glue red balls on them.

Shape the flowers with a ball tool.

Take some stamens and a gold big stamen and pull them through the whole in the flower first 2 small Gold ones and then all the white ones, also take 3 red bells and attach a thread to them.

Attach the frame on a card that measures 4 1/4″ – 8 1/2″.

Take the bells and attach them with a knot on the frame see image.

Attach the Holly leaves and on top of that the flower. I also put 2 big gold stamens under the flower.

Take the Merry Christmas Stamp and stamp it with Versamark and Gold embossing powder. Glue this on top of a piece Gold paper and adhere it on the card.

I hope you like the card and that you will give it a try.

Elizabeth Craft Designs products used:

Other materials used:

Gold Cardstock

3d Foam

Stamens White and Gold

Red bells

Gold Embossing powder

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Looking out for Christmas

November 2, 2022

Hi Everyone, Els Schutte here. Time flies another Month so it is my turn again to give you some inspiration. I made a Christmas card with the Holly Planner page. Below you will find the step by step instructions. Enjoy!

Cut out Planner frame of Gold paper, and 4 of the small holly leaves, then cut 6 big, 6 small Florals 14 in red cardstock and 2 big and 2 small of green cardstock.

Color the holly leaves green , shape the flowers and glue 3 on top of eachother.

Glue some red berries on top of the holly branch.

Take a design paper and the Holly page frame and cut the side of the holes off like 1/4 or so……then glue it on top of the design paper.

Now mat everything on a white 41/2 x 81/2 card, then place the holly leaves and the poinsettias on the card like you see on this image.

Place some pinecones and decorate the leaves, flowers with some snow ( paste).

I also did some glossy accent on the berries on the design paper……..

I hope you enjoyed this card and that you will give it a try! You can use any design paper you want!

Have fun creating this card!

Elizabeth Craft Designs products used:

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Planner essentials 51 Holly Page

Elizabeth Craft Designs: Florals 14

Tape

Soft Finish Cardstock

Other materials:
White, Green, Red cardstock
Glossy Accent
Snow, pine cone
Foamballs,
Ink green
Frosting powder

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Jewelery for Fall

October 6, 2022

Hi Everyone, It’s Els here and mit is my turn to give you some inspiration so I came up with a nice Fall jewelery set, below you find the step by step instructions, have fun creating this!

Cut 2 small and 1 big leave out of Shrink plastic

Color the rough side of the leaves with Ink in the colors you like I used yellow, orange, green and brown, after coloring you make a hole in the biggest leave.

Take the heatgun and hold it close to the leave it will schrink, when it is done place a stamping block on it to keep it flat.

Here they are done all 3 of them.

Place some glue on the outsite and on places where you like the gold, then cover it with the gold leave.

Take a brush and get rit of all the loose gold leave, it will stay where you placed the glue.

Take a ring and pull it through the little hole for a neckless, and glue the studs for the earring on the back of the leaves.
So Ready to go enjoy your little piece of Art you made.

Materials:
ECD Maple Leaves die set.

Other Materials:
Ink: orange,yellow,green,brown, hole punch, heattool, ear studs, ring, gold leave, glue.

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Pumpkin Kisses

September 1, 2022

Hi Everyone, where almost getting into the Fall, my favorite season, love the smells and the colors, it is my turn today to give you some inspiration and this time I thought pumpkins would be a great idea, below you find the step by step instruction, have fun!

Cut the bucket 2 times, the spiral flower 3x, the leaves 3x and all the flowers 2x

Place them as seen on the picture

Now glue them together, and cut the bottom part a bit in a pumpkin shape.

Cut 1 flowerpot in half and use the top part, then color them.

Color the pumkins with yellow, orange, red and brown ink

Color everything as on the picture, I also put some glossy accent on the pimpkins to give it a shine.

Roll up the flowers, shape the leaves, cut a black card ad 8 1/2 x 9 and fold in half so the card will be 8 1/2 x 4 1/2 then a piece of pattern paper of 41/4 x 81/4 distress the edges and Ink them and glue this on top of the black card, then start building the card start with the pots and place a pumpkin inside.

Place some moss in the pots and adhere 3 flowers on top of it, stick some leaves behind the flowers too.

Now start building a tower with pumpkins, I placed a little caterpillar on 1 of the pumpkins.

I hope you like it and that you will give it a try, have fun creating this!

Product I used:
Elizabeth Craft Designs dies:
Florals 17
Florals 19
Florals 9
Flowerpot/Bucket

Other products
Moss
stamp caterpillar
Ink Orange, yellow, Green, Brown, Red
Black fineliner

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Christmas Wings

August 1, 2022

Hello everyone, it’s Els Schutte here today showing you how to create this elegant card using a combination of floral dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

My base card is 81/5 x 4 1/5 , then cut the foil cardstock at 41/4 x 8 1/4 and a white piece of 4 x 8

Take the 4 x 8 sheet and run it through an embossing folder and then glue them all on top of eachother the top one is on 3D foam.

Take all the dies and cut them out sveral times, see photo,it depends on many you want on your card!

Color all the shapes, I put novo drops where the berries are.

Shape all the leaves, Flowers, I put glossy accent on the holly leaves, and on the big red ones.

Glue down the ornament like a xmas ball and glue the bow on the bottom of it.

Glue the Holly leaves down

Glue the flowers together after shaping them put a center in it with prills and glue them on the card in a cluster.

Glue all the green behind the flowers and place the wings on the top.

Cut the branch with all the berries apart and place them random in the green, also add to pinecones.

Ad least I added some snow on it.

I hope you enjoyed the step by step tutorial and I do hope you will give it a try!!!

Els

Elizabeth Craft Designs products used:

Other products used:

Wing die

Embossing folder

Glossy accent

Rose gold glitter cardstock

Snow

Pinecones

Glitter

Nuvodrops

Inks….Green, yellow, red, brown, black

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Frame with Orchids

July 1, 2022

In the Friday Live show with Els there was a question if we have a Floral die where we can make an Orchid with, so this is where I came up with…………and I promised to do a step by step blogpost so here it is!

I used the Florals dies nr: Florals 4 Florals 12 florals 18 Florals 16

So this was the example I made and the next one with the frame we are making!

We are making a double frame and on top I combine the orchids with some other flowers.

Cut everything you see here and cut 5 of each flower and 4 of the stamens

Take the bigger flowers and cut 2 petals off so you have 2 left on the top and 1 on the bottom.

Take the light Green Ink and ink the big flowers in the center, put Yellow on the tiny ones in the center.

Color the stamens Green.

Put your tweezer on the bottom and fold the petal around it.

Shape these flowers on the back, then turn them and press in the center.

Take the tiny flower and fold the top 2 petals inside up and the bottom one to the back, put tiny orange dots on them.

Now glue all the 3 flowers on top of each other see the photo.

make all 5 of them and put some yellow flocking powder in the center.

Glue the stamens together.

Glue the flowers on the stamens and put those extra knops on there aswell.

For extra I cut these flowers and leaves out , colored them and they go on the frame as well, I didn’t do this step by step because the frames Els did so you can check her live videos to see how to make a frame and then you can decorate it.

So I hope you liked this step by step tutorial for the orchids.

I used the next dies:

Florals 4 – 12 – 18 – 16 – 19 – 15 – Boxframe – ferns – Leaves

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Under The Sea

June 2, 2022

It’s me again, Els. It is already June and that means a new Month with new inspiration. This time I made a sea style card and below you will find the step by step instructions. I hope you have as much fun as I did making this card. Have fun creating!