Hi everyone, I am very honoured to have been asked to write a blog review for Hunkydory.
First of all, let me share with you that I have loads of Hunkydory products and have been collecting them for many years. I especially like the magazines and you always get some gorgeous crafty goodies with every issue.
Premier Craft Glue
This is the first time I have used this particular glue and I found it very quick to adhere my cardstock and was really pleased with the result. There is 40g in one bottle and at £0.99 per bottle it is very affordable. You only need a little so it goes a long way and as an added bonus, it also dries clear.
Moonstone Woodland Wildlife Dies
These little guys are just adorable, they cut really easily and are just fantastic for putting together a woodland scene, especially at this time of year. At £14.99, its a really good price considering there are 11 elements contained in this pack.
Luxury Foiled Snowflake Acetate
I absolutely love the Snowflake Acetate and use this a lot. It really looks effective on many different types of projects. As long as you use a magnetic sheet when die cutting the acetate it cuts really well and usually on the first attempt and at £3.99 for five sheets its not a bad price. Just don't waste any of it!
Blending Tools
The Blending Tools are really easy to use and they are one of my favourite colours which is purple. They move swiftly across the cardstock/paper and give a really smooth finish. The price is £5.99 for two blenders and six sponges.
The Square Little Book of Poppies
I am not ashamed to say I own nearly all of the Little Books, but I must admit Poppies are my overall favourite. I love Poppies anyway, and even more importantly, I have a West Highland Terrier and she is called Poppy! Again, a good price of £9.99 for 150 pages, six sheets each of 25 different designs.
Rainbow Mirror Card
Since I discovered the Rainbow Mirror Cardstock I have to stop myself from using on nearly everything but I always get very complimentary comments when I do. It always makes the main image pop out. The price is £5.99 for eight A4 size sheets but you can often purchase this as a BOGOF for £12.99 containing 20 sheets (which an extra four sheets).
To sum up, I don't believe you can buy better quality than Hunkydory products. They produce beautiful card-making kits and even a novice card-maker can create a gorgeous project using all things Hunkydory!
The following is just a quick guide of a couple of projects I created using the above products.
Card recipe:
White Neenah cardstock
Black cardstock from crafty stash
Tattered Lace snowglobe dies
Stamped sentiment from crafty stash
Hunkydory Snowflake Acetate
Hunkydory Premier Craft Glue
Hunkydory Woodland Wildlife dies
Hunkydory Blending Tools
Tim Holtz Black Soot ink
Card recipe:
White card blank
Pattered paper from crafty stash
Hunkydory Rainbow Mirror cardstock
Hunkydory image from the Little Book of Poppies
Hunkydory Premier Craft Glue
Tonic scallop square dies
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Elephant Tutorial
Good morning, everyone, I thought I would do something different today and have prepared a tutorial. Hope everyone can understand it!
Recipe:
White cardstock from crafty stash
Creata Black mirror card
Creata Red mirror card
Bugaboo Elephant Paisley digi image
Red foil
Sheena Douglass embossing folder
Tonic fancy rectangle and alphabet dies
White super smooth paper for insert
Sentiment from My Paper Stash
Here goes with the tutorial:
First of all. you need to print out the digi image onto white cardstock using a laser printer. If you want to foil an image, you have to use a laser printer or have the image copied at a photocopy shop. Foiling will not work when using an ink jet printer.
Next, insert the image into a carrier sheet and add a piece of red foil on top, then pass through a hot foiling machine.
The result is a fabulous red foiled elephant image which I think is pretty impressive.
For the next step, run the black mirror card through the embossing folder. This is one of Sheena Douglass' Indian range. Once embossed, sand back to reveal the white core and make the elephants pop off the page.
Next, take the Tonic dies and cut the image out first, then another two different sizes, one in red mirror card and one in white card. Die cut the letters in red mirror card ready to matt onto white cardstock. Use a corner punch to round off the edges.
The main base card is a piece of A4 black cardstock folded in half to make an A5 landscape card blank.
Matt and layer all the elements as above and voila this is the finished card.
To complete add an insert with a sentiment cut around with fancy scissors.
Shoe Tutorial
Good morning, everyone, I thought I would do something different today and have prepared a tutorial. Hope everyone can understand it!
Recipe:
White cardstock from crafty stash
Creata Teal mirror card
Bugaboo High Heel Silhouette digi image
Teal foil paper
Sheena Douglass distress embossing folder
Tonic square die
Here goes with the tutorial:
First of all. you need to print out the digi image onto white cardstock using a laser printer. If you want to foil an image, you have to use a laser printer or have the image copied at a photocopy shop. Foiling will not work when using an ink jet printer.
Next, insert the image into a carrier sheet and add a piece of teal foil on top, then pass through a hot foiling machine.
The result is a fabulous teal foiled high heel shoe image which I think is pretty impressive.
Next, run two pieces of the teal mirror card and white cardstock through the embossing folder. This is one of Sheena Douglass' called distress. Next, take the Tonic dies and cut the image out first, then another two different sizes, one in white card and one in the waste card.
The base card has been folded in half then the front panel folded back on itself to create the shape.
Matt and layer the two pieces of embossed teal and white card, matt and layer the main topper onto teal mirror card and add to the left-hand panel on the front overlapping to the right-hand side.
Finally, add the small high heel shoes, one on the front of the card at the bottom left and three on the inside of the card on the right.
This is the view of the card when opened.
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