Mini Star Book Tutorial

Good Morning Folks.  Here is my take on how I did this star. as many of you asked how it was done.   Sorry if its too many pictures.  Have a Good Day.   Rita xx 

Mini Star Book Tutorial

I have to tell you that this post is picture heavy as I’ve tried my best to give you a step by step tutorial.  Sorry its in stages as I went along and it is not distressed or embellished in any way.  I’ll explain as I go along showing what I've done.  Step by Step in pictures and hopefully it becomes clearer as I go along.   I started by cutting Five 3" x 3" squares and scored them all at 1.1/2"  

Then I scored them again from corner to corner on one side only and creased this fold. 

 Hope you are still with me

 When you push in the scored folds it should look like this one below

Just from another angle

All five little squares ...

 Waiting to be put together....

 Glue on the square as shown until all five have been added

 At this point I threaded a large eyed needle and put both ends down through the bead and tied a not . leaving the other ends and the bead free to add to the star. 

Take one of the ends of ribbon and stick on the corner with a smaller piece of card to cover  then the other side to match. 

Now if you slide the bead towards the star it keeps it open.

 To close it in to a little book, open it up again using the bead and turn it around till all the squares com together again and slide the bead down to close.

 This is what it should look like closed.  Hope this all make sense after such a long winded tutorial.

Now you see why I needed so many pictures. 

Hope you enjoy putting your own mark on these.  Have Fun.   Hugs Rita xxx

Gift Card ( Tutorial )

Hello my dear blogging friends.  Thank you all so much for all your Good Wishes, but really I think I'm out of the woods now and feel much more like my old self again.  I need to keep well as looking after OH is nearly a full time job. He goes to see the Orthepaedic consultant on December the 10th and the following week he goes for a Pre-Op. So he has not had too long a wait.
A few people asked how I made my Gift Card and so I have put together a 'How To' on what I did.  I'm pretty sure it was a you tube tutorial as I had only marked down the measurements etc.  I used an A4 sheet of card measured it out to 11 inches by 4 1/4, and then scored the two opposite corners and folded it over. You then scored the centre which is the V shaped part and fold it over, really that is all there is too it.  You can do the same again for your inserts, just make it a tad smaller and cut to size.  Could be used for Birthdays or Weddings too.  So easy, but if my instructions are not very clear, please feel free to e-mail me and I'll try to help further.  I'd much rather be sitting with you and making it, tutorials are not my strong point.  Here are a few pictures to guide you and that may help with the folds etc.   Enjoy your Sunday.  Its absolutely Glorious here.   Hugs Rita xxxx

Probably if you were to make it 4 inches you could get 2 cards.  Just a thought.

Tutorials Coming Soon!

I hope you will come back and visit once I have had a chance to offer you some wonderful tutorials!

See you soon!

Rita... Sept. 10, 2013