In order to maintain the highest quality of the hand drawn characters these images have been saved as 300 dpi (Dots per Inch), which is professional print quality.  These are to such a high standard that they would not fit on a CD so we’ve had to put them on a DVD!  The discs are PC and Mac compatible as long as you have a DVD ROM drive.

Each DVD Disc has over 550 printable pages and over 1800 printable elements.  There are over 300 printable background sheets alone plus accessories, badges, blank and coloured characters (in both JPG and PNG Format), Decoupage Sheets and Sentiments.

All images have been saved in JPG format and can be viewed and printed via your PC or Mac.  In addition, the Blank and Coloured Characters and the Accessories have also been saved in PNG format with transparent backgrounds.  Therefore, these PNG images can be resized as required in your preferred graphics program, e.g. Adobe Photoshop/Elements.  These images can then be printed off and used in your paper crafting or formatted for use in digital crafting such as digital scrapbooking.

Each DVD has images of 8 family members.  Disc 1 has the following Rustin family members:

From L to R we have – Andi (daughter), Baby J, Bolton (son), Cooper (son), Hammer (dog), Henry (Dad), Lillie (Mum) and Screwzi (daughter and twin to Bolton).

Disc 2 has the following Rustin extended family members:

From L to R we have – Aunt Franny (Lillies sister), Bop (family bot), Grandma Peggy Screw (Henry’s Mum), Grandpa Sawl (Henry’s Dad), Liv (daughter to Franny & Charlie), Patrick (son and twin to Liv), Spanner (cat) and Uncle Charlie (husband to Franny).

Here are some examples of items I have made:

The PNG Baby J character has been re-sized and printed off for the top of this Altered Washing Tablet Box.  The sentiment is also from the DVD too.

Here is an Altered Large Peg which has been covered in the Cooper large character paper in yellow.

Here are some example cards made with the decoupage sheets from the DVDs.

Meet the Rustins DVDs Disc 1 and Disc 2 can be purchased for the bargain price of £14.99 each with FREE WORLDWIDE POSTAGE at pcjdigital.com

The first 10 crafters to purchase one or both of our DVDs will also receive a FREE Smoochie Manoochie Clear Stamp.

These ‘Interlocking Cards’ are so easy to make and are different from the normal run-of-the-mill cards.

You will need:

• Patterned paper/card
• Plain paper/card
• Metal ruler
• Scissors
• Pencil
• Bone Folder
• Craft Knife
• Interlocking A6 Card Template

1.  Fold your A5 sheet of patterned card to make an A6 card.

2.  Turn your A6 card over to show the inside and draw around the half circle part of the template on the left hand side.

The template is shown as yellow in this picture for clarity.

3.  By using the straight edge of the template, draw a line on the right hand side of the half circle and cut out this shape with your craft knife.

4.  This is how the front of the card should look.

5.  Repeat step 2 on the A5 sheet of plain card but only cut around the curved line, do not cut this section out completely.

6.  Fold this A5 sheet of plain card in half to create an A6 card, then fold the right hand side of the card back over and crease with the bone folder.  The left hand side of the card should also be folded back over but ensure that the cut out section is not folded or creased, as shown.

7.  Take the plain paper/card and apply double-sided tape to back of the far right hand section and the far left hand section including the back of the half circle.  Then adhere this plain card/paper to the patterned card, as shown.

8.  Here is a side view of how your card should now look.

9.  Here you can see that by interlocking these pieces you create a circle on the front of the card.

10.  The size of the circle you create on the front of the card is actually the same size as a 3″ circle punch.  Punch or cut some contrasting paper/card and adhere to the card front.

11.  To create the flower in the centre of the circle on the front of the card front, the free template from a previous post was used.  Please go HERE.

12.  The text on this card was hand written, as shown.

Your finished creation should look like this.

If you repeat these steps but use the rectangular template, your creation should look something like this card.

TIP: to create the wings of the butterfly, the same template was used which made the flower petals.

Here we have some more examples using the Interlocking Card A6 Templates.

Create a gorgeous girly girl card like this one.

Here we have a great card for a boy with a skull and crossbones theme.

This cute card for the birth of a baby boy is lovely as an interlocked card.

We would love to hear from you and see your Interlocked Card creations, so send your photo’s to: submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

Although there is a little bit of drawing involved in creating this card, there is not a lot of skill required as the templates for the monster face and fingers have been included.

You can either copy or trace the monster head, which was then coloured in with watercolour pencils in muted browns and greens.  once you are happy with your monster head, add some random eyelets – it doesn’t have to be perfect which is in keep with the monster theme.

Once you have your monster fingers cut out and coloured in, both the head and fingers should be adhered to the card front with foam pads.  The sentiment was added by using a Dymo machine.

Why not have a go at making other types of monsters or even aliens.  Kids will love them.

All images are 300dpi and are free to use in your own personal projects ONLY.  You may resell small numbers of items made using these images but not the images themselves.

If you use this Freebie, take a photo and send us a picture! submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

Original downloadable FREEBIE

Gaye McLean (Chooks) made this gorgeous card using the FREEBIE, which would also be great for Valentines Day too.

Grunge Heart by Chooks

Debbie Moore (Debbee) used the same FREEBIE but made it into a fab Birthday Card.

Grunge Heart by Debbee

Debbie was also the great designer of this lovely stamped image which she has used for another example of a Valentines Card.

Image and card by Debbee

We would love to see your crafty examples of Valentines and Love Cards, so please email your pics to: submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

Here we have the gorgeous Valentine Bear in Shorts which can be downloaded in black & white and colour:

All images are 300dpi and are free to use in your own personal projects ONLY.  You may resell small numbers of items made using these images but not the images themselves.

Here are a couple of example cards made with this lovely ted.  For this first card, the bear image has been downloaded and printed off.  The hearts on the shorts have been touched up with a red Sakura Gelly Roll Pen and the ‘Be my Valentine’ sentiment has been hand written on the outer edges of the card.

This second card had several images printed off to then decoupage the image, as shown.

The following template was used to make the ‘LOVE’ text at the side of the card.  Double-sided card has been used for this card, showing the red reverse side of the card through the cut sections of the LOVE text.  The ‘With love on Valentines Day’ sentiment is hand written and the doodled border has been filled in with a white Sakura pen.

All images are 300dpi and are free to use in your own personal projects ONLY.  You may resell small numbers of items made using these images but not the images themselves.

We would love to see any cards you make with these downloads, so email your photo’s to: submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

Here we have our cute Cupid Bear which can be downloaded in black & white and colour:

Our second is our Heart Bear which can also be downloaded in black & white and colour:

All images are 300dpi and are free to use in your own personal projects ONLY.  You may resell small numbers of items made using these images but not the images themselves.

We would love to see any cards you make with these downloads, so email your photo’s to: submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

The dictionary definition is:

hy·brid

You are obviously aware that most crafters make cards with crafting materials but digital crafting is also on the up an up, in that all the crafting is done via your computer and digital images on screen.  Well, hybrid crafting is just a combination of the two, i.e. printing off digital images to be added to your actual card as can be seen with this Eighteenth Birthday Card.  The card has been made from a template, the text is hand-drawn and the teddy is a digital image from a soon to be released range of digital downloads from PCJDigital.com.

In order to make this card, download and print off this ’18′ template.

Take a piece of landscape A4 card and rather than fold in half for the card, measure 13cm and mark.  Then score to be folded.  The front of the card should be a bit bigger than the back.

After you have used the template to draw out the ’18′ on the card front, select the patterned paper for the front of the card.  Apply adhesive to the front of the card and adhere the ’18′ then cut around the number.

Decorate the blank ’18′ how you wish.  Light brown ink was applied sparingly to the card front and then sanded to give a distressed look.  Some doodling and gems were also added.  Your card is now ready for your digital image.  The bear image was printed off in colour and then cut out and adhered to the card front with foam pads.

The text was first hand drawn in pencil, then a permanent liner was applied over the top of the pencil, which was then rubbed out.  The text was then coloured in with watercolour pencils and glitter pens.

I’m sure you will agree that for a Hybrid Card, it works very well.

TIP: as this card is bigger than an A5 card, you will either have to put it in an A4 envelope or why not make your own envelope?

All images are 300dpi and are free to use in your own personal projects ONLY.  You may resell small numbers of items made using these images but not the images themselves.

If you use this Freebie, take a photo and send us a picture! submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

This first template ‘Diagram 1′ is for the centre piece of this card.

After cutting your card to size, score and fold as per the diagram.

As per Guidelines A & B snip approximately 5mm into the insert.

Next with reference to the second template Diagram 2 cut another piece of card to size.

As per the diagram, once you have cut out the shape of the card, measure, score then fold the card.

The left hand side of the concertina card should look like this with an extra 1cm fold on the right which will be connected to the right hand side of the card when assembled.  Don’t forget to snip where indicated on the diagram.

The final template for Diagram 3 is a mirror image of Diagram 2.

Once the card has been measured, cut, scored, folded and snipped it should be turned around to be the mirror image of the other piece it is to be attached to.

Apply some double-sided tape to the extra 1cm piece on the first card and adhere it to the second piece of card.

You should then have something like this.

Next using a border punch in a similar colour to the rest of the card, punch then adhere the strip to the top and bottom sections of the card.

Use a dress makers pin wheel to put holes in the borders.

With a permanent liner pen connect the pierced holes to produce faux stitching.

Attach ribbon to the front and back of the card to tie closed by measuring and then attaching with a gromlet using the Crop-a-dile Big Bite.

Next the text for the middle section is to be handstitched so first select the font you would like to use.  Here we have chosen ‘Connecticut’ sized at 96.  Take the printed sheet of paper and place it over the top of the selected card.  The card and paper should be placed on top of a mat, an old mouse mat would be ideal.  Next taking a ‘cross stitch’ needle pierced holes along the lines of the letters.

Once pierced the letter should look like this.

The stitched letter should look like this.

Here is a comparison with the text on the printed paper.

Adhere the stitched letters to the middle section of the card with foam pads.  The rest of this section has been decorated with swirly stamps, heart vellum stickers, a hand cut quirky heart and a punch heart which has been coloured and pierced to look like a button.

To decorate the rest of the card, take 4 sets of die cut wings to make up 2 butterflies.  Then take a piece of red paper and fold it several times so that you will get four separate wings from it.  Draw around the wing with a pencil then cut the wings out all in one go.

Attach the red wings to the others by stapling them together.

Next adhere the wings to the card with double-sided tape and add a hand cut heart over the middle of the wings with foam pads.  These hearts are ideal to write your sentiment.

The colours chosen for this card are more for a male, in my opinion, but I am sure it will be gorgeous in any colours and any theme.  Here is an example of a Christmas Card.

We hope you enjoyed this tutorial.  It may take a bit longer than other cards to make, but I’m sure you’ll agree that your loved ones are worth all that effort.

All images are 300dpi and are free to use in your own personal projects ONLY.  You may resell small numbers of items made using these images but not the images themselves.

If you use this Freebie, take a photo and send us a picture! submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

All images are 300dpi and are free to use in your own personal projects ONLY.  You may resell small numbers of items made using these images but not the images themselves.

If you use this Freebie, take a photo and send us a picture! submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

All images are 300dpi and are free to use in your own personal projects ONLY.  You may resell small numbers of items made using these images but not the images themselves.

If you use this Freebie, take a photo and send us a picture! submissions@papercraftjunkies.com