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.

I was also asked if I could make a special card for a 13th birthday and to incorporate a photograph too, if I could.  Instead of doing a ‘traditional style’ card with the photograph on the front of the card I thought I would create a template for the number ‘13′ but which would be solid made from card and patterned paper.

However, I made the back of the card from acetate in the same shape as the front of the card and adhered the photograph here.  The area at the back of the photograph had some card adhered in the same shape to cover the rear of the photo and also an area to write a message.

The front of the card was finished off with a tag, a Bluebeary Hill Collection Birthday Bear and the birthday girls name, which were both hand drawn by me and coloured in with Promarker pens.  Promarkers are excellent to give a more 3D and shaded effect to an image.

If you are interested in my Bluebeary Hill Collection of bears please feel free to email me for more information HERE.

Step 1

Sketch, copy or trace your picture in pencil.  This image was drawn onto an A4 landscape piece of watercolour paper.

Step 2

Draw your text over the top of the sketched picture in pencil.  Here we have overlapped the text which will give a 3D effect when finished.  Then when you are happy with it, go over in permanent pen.

Step 3

Draw over the initial picture in permanent pen, ensuring that you only draw within the lines of the text only.  Erase the rest of the pencil picture which is outside of the text.

Step 4

Colour in the picture within the text with watercolour pencils.

Step 5

Apply water to the watercolour pencilled picture using either a brush or water brush.  Once dry, add shading as shown with grey and black watercolour pencils, ensuring graded blending to give a 3D effect.  Finish by applying waterbrush to shading.

This text was then cut out and placed on a dark piece of card to highlight the shading for the 3D effect.  This effect can be used for lots of different applications including on the front of birthday cards (adhere to card to make it stronger), bedroom door nameplate and so on.

This same technique can be used for other effects on text such as flourishes or swirls,

or flowers.

Another effect is to stack your text.  Here the picture within the ‘SCOTT’ text is a robot and can be seen blank and coloured.

This ‘ZOE’ text has a cute cat within the text and we can also see blank and coloured examples.

We would love to see your interpretations of this doodling post, so if you would like your doodles featured on our blog, email your work to:  submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

First of all draw your letters in pencil which means you can erase and amend should you need to.  When you are happy with your designs draw over the pencil lines with a permanent fine liner pen and erase the pencil lines.

Next draw different patterns on your letters.  Here we have gone for spots, plaid and stripes.

Here’s a coloured example.

These letters have doodled pictures on them relating to the actual letter on which they appear, i.e. ‘A’ has an apple tree and apples, ‘B’ has a waving bear and bear paw prints and ‘C’ has cats and cat paw prints.

And the coloured example.

These letters have a ‘Triptych’ theme to them, in that over the three letters there is a continuing floral theme.

Another coloured example.

These lower case letters have had varying doodled designs on them.

And a coloured example.

These lower case letters take on a more italic look and have a similar retro pattern on them.

Here’s a coloured example.

Taking on a ‘real writing’ italics theme to the text, these letters have been decorated from underneath the text with doodled flowers, hearts and stars, as featured in the previous ‘Doodling Made Easy’ series of posts which can be found HERE.

Here’s the final coloured example.

If you have been inspired by this feature, don’t miss the next post which will be coming soon.

We would love to see your interpretations of this doodling post, so if you would like your doodles featured on our blog, email your work to:  submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

Slider envelope

Slider envelope with card

Slider envelope with card front

Slider envelope with card back

If  you would like to see your work showcased on our blog, then please email photographs to: submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

In keeping with our Clearly Perfect theme, Fiona Haigh-Gannon has created this gorgeous 'clear' birthday card using acetate.

Fiona has also produced this 'clear' birthday card for inspiration.

We hope these can inspire you to have a go with acetate, acrylic or just plain plastic and hope you can email us with your creations to be featured on PCJ at: 
submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

Fiona wanted to break away from tradition with her Easter cards this year so she used rabbit and hedgehog stamps from the wonderful Penny Black range.

For the first card:
Take a square card blank and adhere a slightly smaller square of patterned paper to the front.
Stamp the rabbit image out twice and colour them both (I used Twinkling H2Os.)
Cut out the pots and rabbits from one of the finished images and decoupage them over the base image using silicon glue.
Matt and layer the rabbit image onto co-ordinating paper.
Cut a piece of co-ordination paper the same width as your card blank but about a third of the height and punch out a decorative edge along the bottom.
Adhere this to your card with the matted and layered rabbit image on top.
Using Nestabilities make a layered scalloped circle and stamp your sentiment around the outside edge.
Paper punch two flowers from scraps of your co-ordinating papers and adhere to the centre of your scalloped circle.
Add a gem to the centre of the flower for a bit of bling
Adhere to the bottom right-hand side of you card.

Easter Card 2:
Cut a piece of plain paper slightly smaller than your card blank and emboss the right-hand edge with the flower image using a Cuttlebug embossing border and adhere this to the card blank.
Add adhesive pearls to the centre of each embossed flower.
Cut a piece of patterned paper to fit the left-hand space and adhere into place.
Stamp the rabbit image out twice and colour them both (I used Twinkling H2Os.)
Cut out the pots and rabbits from one of the finished images and decoupage them over the base image using silicon glue.
Matt and layer the rabbit image onto co-ordinating paper and adhere to the top of the patterned paper.
Make a circle tag using Nestabilites and a hole punch and stamp on the sentiment.
Tie a ribbon around the bottom of the card and attach the tag.

Easter Card 3:
Cut a piece of patterned paper slightly smaller than your card blank.
Stamp out the Hedgehog image and colour it in.
Matt and layer the image onto co-ordinating paper.
Cut another piece of plain paper slightly larger than the matted and layered image and adhere to the patterned paper on an angle.
Adhere the matted and layered hedgehog image to the plain paper but also on an angle.
Adhere co-ordinating buttons to the four corners of the plain paper.
Make a circle tag using Nestabilites and a hole punch and stamp on the sentiment.
Tie a ribbon through the tag, wrap the ribbon around the pattered paper and attach at the back.
Adhere the pattered paper to the card blank

If you would like to share your easter creations with us, please email your photographs to: submissions@papercraftjunkies.com

I bought this glass photo frame for 99p.  When I saw it I just remembered it was my nephew’s birthday very, very soon and my mojo had up and gone somewhere without telling me.  As he is a great footballer I though this was perfect for him.

Simply all I did and all I had time to do was, print off a photo of my nephew and add some birthday greetings and die-cut the letters for his name and glue them on.  That’s it, done.  He was thrilled with it I am pleased to say.

You could decorate your frame much more elaborate to suit the occasion.

If you have any ideas on how to save money whilst crafting, we would love to hear from you.  Email us at: submission@papercraftjunkies.com

Previously Tracey Grundy showed us these gorgeous tins.  The tutorial for the hand made flowers which were featured in a previous post can be found HERE.

Gaye McLean (Chooks) used the said template and after decorating some tins, added these fabulous flowers to her creations.

Again, a previous post on altered art featured Tracey Grundy’s altered M&S bag (as shown), of which the post can be found HERE.

Gaye (Chooks) shows us her take on altering a bag.

Fiona Haigh-Gannon’s recent Pyramage feature (pic shown below) which can be found here HERE, inspired some of you to have a go.

P Elliott-Mills shows us her pyramaged cards ‘with a twist’:

J Edwards added pyramage to this scrapbook layout which can be seen clearer in the close up photograph below.

M Field shows us her pyramaged kitty.

We would love to see your creations which have been inspired by our tutorials.  Please email us at: submission@papercraftjunkies.com

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