Another Week Another Thursday It's....................

I really don't know where the weeks are going - at this rate it'll soon be time for the "C" word and I don't mean camel!!!???!!!

With that in mind we have a fantastic tutorial which you could use to make a relatively inexpensive gift look worth a fortune by our very own Jill.

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Good morning friends!

Today I will show you how I do my bookcards.

It is a perfect gift with some chocolate or maybe crafting stuff

for one of your friends for Christmas!

I got a bookcard from Helle for my birthday and I measured it up to find out how she did it, and now I just love doing them!

You need:

Scoreboard

Cutting surface

Glue (I use my ATG)

Glossy accents for gluing the booksides (or similar)

Image, I used TEDDYBO_146 from Teddy Bo & CO, found here

Bazzill for the cardbase

Designer papers - I used Lost and found 6x6 paperpad from My minds eye

Aquarellpapers for the booksides, mine is 180gr.

Ribbons, lace

Embellishments. pearls, flowers,gems, bling or whatever your heart desires!

First you have to do is to make the booksides:

You need to cut from the aquarellpaper:

2 pieces of 4" x 9 2/4"

2 pieces of 5" x 9 2/4"

And then you score every 1/2" on all four papers.

Now it looks like this:

If you like an old look to it,distress all the edges with distress ink, I used Frayed Burlap 

This picture shows all four sides and my base 

Now you glue the sides together :)

Start with one short and one long and put it together in the end.

I found out this was the most easy way doing it.

Work it together and glue only at the ends.

It is important that you see that it is straight before you put on the glue!

For the base of the bookcard

you need cardstock that measures 5 1/2" x 9 1/2"

and you score at 4 1/4" and 5 1/4"

You see it under the booksides on my pics...

Cut all your layers and glue it on the base, on the inside first

and then glue the booksides to the base.

Before you layer the outside with your designer paper, remember to glue in the ribbon as it is to close the book...
  Now you just embellish your bookcard any way you want!

This is how mine turned out:

Front

Side

Back

And the inside :)

If anyone is interested, the Copics I have used:

Teddy Bo: E44-43-42-40, R20

Clothes: R59-46-29

W5-3-1-0

YG95-93-91

White shirt: E81-W0-Blender0

Shadows around: W5-3-1-0 and YG93-91

  Hopefully you didn't fall asleep with all those pictures :)

Hope you will try out my tutorial and we will love to see what you come up with.

If you show us your homework using my tutorial Gayle will send you a free graphic!

How great is that!

Have a nice day and happy crafting :)

Hugs, Jill

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Well I think that just about covers everything for now - how nice would one of those bookcards filled with chocolate be???!!!???

Yum Yum Yum

There are still a few days to enter our Clean and Simple challenge we've had some marvellous entries so far. Don't be frightened of entering if you think your card is too fancy - we struggled with leaving things off as well.

Have a great week!