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 Editor:
Carl Golder
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E: carl.golder@warnersgroup.co.uk

Managing Editor:
Hello Parchers
Sally Jarvis Welcome to the December issue! Inside this month's magazine you will find inspiring
T: 01778 392433
E: sally.jarvis@warnersgroup.co.uk parchment ideas that will encourage you to hone your crafting skills and produce cards and
Advertising Manager:
Melanie Batterbee
projects that will amaze your family and friends. For those of you still looking for Christmas
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inspiration, look no further as you will find a selection of Christmas cards plus a great selection
Design: Amanda Clare
of BONUS winter themed patterns. If you’re looking for something a little bit different, why not
Marketing Executive: Clowance Lawton have a go at Lesley Shore’s 3D Crackers (page 17). And if you’re wanting more Christmas themed designs and missed it, pick
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E: clowance.lawton@warnersgroup.co.uk up a copy of the November issue, details of which can be found on page 11.
Photography: Brett Caines

Publisher: Lucie Dawson Besides the seasonal topics featured, there are still many more projects to choose from, including a striking floral
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Martin Harris T: 01778 391000
arrangement by Dorothy Holness (page 6) and a shaped butterfly card by Tina Cox (page 12).
Subscriptions and back issues:
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DISCLAIMER
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is accurate; however the editor nor publisher assumes no responsibility for Editor treat this month with two different pieces
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to choose from. The pointsettias featured
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While reasonable care is taken when accepting advertisements, the
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COPYRIGHT Page 17
Important Notice: Patterns in Parchment Craft magazine can be used to
make as many finished products as you like for any purpose, including
to sell. Designers appreciate an acknowledgement of the source, such as
‘Handmade by (the maker’s name) from a design by (the designer’s name)
in Parchment Craft magazine’. However, it is an infringement of designers’
rights to copy and sell the patterns themselves by any means, including
offering the material for publication either printed or electronic.

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White pencil or white ink and mapping pen
Small, Medium and Large Ball embossing tools
Small, Medium and Large Shader tools
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Fine and Bold, Single, Two and Four Needle perforating tools
Embossing and perforating mats
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Contact us What’s going on in the parchment world. TAKE
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Designed by
Tina Cox
New Beginnings
“To end this shaped card series, I have designed a butterfly card.
I have painted the butterflies using bright colours from the
You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:
Pergamano
Five-in-a-Circle perforating tool
Multi Grid No. 4 (fine straight grid)
Tinta white ink
Tinta black ink

Do you have an original and unpublished piece of

Mapping pen
Perga Colours Exclusive range and added lace work using Perga Colours Exclusive
No. 2 Kolinsky round brush
Multi Grid No. 4." Tear off palette
Sticky ink

Trace Paint

26 The Parchment Craft

Perga glitter (tint of blue)

Step 1 Step 3 And

— Attach a plain piece of parchment to the
pattern.
— Use a sharp white pencil to trace the fold line.
— Use white ink to trace the large butterfly
outline, the large heart, oval and all of the
circles between lace work.
— Trace the smaller butterflies and greeting
with black ink.
— Rub the colours from Perga Colours
Exclusive, PCE 5 (pink), PCE 10 (lilac), PCE 13
(light blue), PCE 28 (turquoise) and PCE 20
(black) on a tear off palette.
— The butterflies are painted on the front and
the greetings oval from the back.
1) Using a damp brush as flat as possible
against the paper, paint a wash for the top
Pink insert card
top wings and PCE 28 for the lower wings
and for the lower butterflies using PCE 28
for the top wings and PCE 10 for the lower
wings. Remember to make some strokes
longer and some shorter.

Perforate (shallow)
butterflies using PCE 5 for the top wings 3) Make shorter strokes with the same
and PCE 13 for the lower wings and for the technique approximately one third of the

work which you would like to share with the readers of

Step 2
— Place the parchment on a thin perforating
mat and with your Five-in-a-Circle perforating
tool, semi-perforate the lace design.
— Remove the parchment from the pattern.
lower butterflies using PCE 13 for the top
wings and PCE 5 for the lower wings.
2) Using a feathering/flicking technique, paint
fine lines, approximately two thirds of the
way from the outside of the wings to the
inside on all the wings, using PCE 10 for the
way with PCE 20.
4) Paint a wash with PCE 20 for the hearts.
5) Paint the oval greetings with PCE 5 and
PCE 13.

Parchment Craft magazine? If so, please send your card or TINA SAYS…
"When painting and to
avoid buckling do not
have the brush too wet."

Reader Challenge and Results!

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 Inside your December edition... Key
• TAKE YOUR TIME • QUICK MAKE

04 The Bells are Ringing 06 Best Wishes 08 White Stars 12 SHAPED CARDS:
Looks may be deceiving, but this gorgeous It’s a pleasure to welcome back to the This wonderful design offers the technical New Beginnings
white work Christmas card can be completed magazine, the fantastic Dorothy Holness. challenge of cutting. Drawing a conclusion to her series of Shaped Cards,
in a matter of hours. Tina Cox creates her favourite insect, the butterfly.

On the Cover!

14 FEATHERED FRIENDS: The Golden Eagle 17 Decorative Crackers

The eagle is the perfect bird for colouring, and here Alison Yeates shows you how. Looking for a challenge? You will love this 3D grid work project.

New series!

22 White Christmas Rose 24 EMBOSSING FOR 30 Christmas Poinsettia

A Christmas rose makes an elegant card which, BEGINNERS: Arum Lilies It’s time to get Groovi with this fantastic poinsettia themed card by Hilary Bucci-Pepper.
if you change the centre, it can be used for any Judith Maslen uses different embossing
occasion. techniques to create a unique design.

34 A Gift for Christmas 36 So Elegant 38 Flowers in a Vase 42 Gift Wrapped with Love
Here’s a gorgeous box which can be made in So beautiful and so very stylish, this mixed Dewi Alimwidjaja uses dorso colours to add Following on from her gorgeous rose in the
no time at all! medium card is for the parchment purist. depth and dimension to her vase of flowers. October issue, Maria returns with a beautiful
winter flower.
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The Bells are Ringing

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This is a great Christmas quick make, ideal for a beginner and

Designed by
Julie Roces believe it or not can be completed within a matter of hours! You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:

Trace
— Fold an A4 sheet of plain parchment paper
in half to mark the fold line.
— Align the creased fold line over the fold line
in the pattern and secure the paper with
low tack tape.
— Trace the whole pattern with Tinta white ink
and a mapping pen.
Emboss
— Working on the reverse side of the
parchment, start embossing the square
border using your Large Ball embossing tool.
PCA
Fine Large ScallopEdge perforating tool
— Let the parchment rest and repeat the Fine Straight FlexiDuo Grid
process using your Medium Ball embossing Pergamano
tool, to smoothen out any uneven areas. Tinta white ink
— Emboss the border of the circular aperture
And
using a Small Ball embossing tool.
Gold cord
— Emboss the holly leaves and berries that
Green insert card
surround the aperture using your Medium
White insert card
and Large Ball embossing tools.
— Try to add some highlights on the berries by
leaving some areas without embossing.
— Emboss the leaves with a flicking motion,
outlining the veins using your Medium Ball
embossing tool.

Try sprinkling
glitter on the
leaves!

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 foldFoldline
line
Key
˜ Perforate
˜ Emboss
˜ Cut

JULIE SAYS… grid

Grid
“You may choose not to cut
out the centre aperture.
An alternative way is to
shade the circular area grid
Grid
with a hint of colour
to make it stand out.
The beauty of cut work
depends a lot on where
you place the perforations
and how evenly you space
them out. If the lines
made by the perforations
are crooked and not
aligned, it will show!"
© Julie2017
© Julie Roces Roces 2017
● Emboss
● Perforate
Perforate
— Emboss the edges of the bow with ● Cut
— With your Two Needle perforating tool,
your Medium Ball embossing tool and perforate over the dotted symbols inside
emboss the mid-section with a Large Ball Fine Large
the circular ScallopEdge
aperture.
embossing tool. — Use the finished card as your guide to
— Emboss the bells, using your Medium identify the smaller areas that should be
and Large Ball embossing tools: emboss perforated.
the bands on the bells with a Medium — Perforate around the square border using
Ball embossing tool, and apply a light your Fine Large ScallopEdge tool or any
embossing on the body with your Large Ball other multi-needle tool in your possession.
embossing tool.
— Use your Small Ball embossing tool to Finishing
outline the pine needles. — Cut out all of the Two Needle perforations.
— Emboss the bell’s clapper in the same way — Also cut out the outer edges of the Multi Stockist information
as the berries but using your Large Ball Needle perforations.
White glitter shaker 20g
embossing tool. — Attach the finished parchment to an insert
card and tie the sheets together with a
£1.50
Grid work ribbon or cord.
www.hobbycraft.co.uk
0330 026 1400
— Secure the parchment to your Fine Straight — Adding a sprinkling of glitter will add a
FlexiDuo Grid face up. festive appeal to your Christmas card.
— With a One Needle tool, perforate over the
traced area marked for grid work.
— Remove the parchment from the Fine
Straight FlexiDuo Grid.

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Best Wishes
M
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KUEIC
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You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:
PCA
Sun embossing tool

Designed by
This gorgeous floral card is deceptively easy to produce Medium Shader embossing tool

and uses the minimum amount of tools and techniques.

Fine Straight FlexiDuo Grid
Dorothy Holness And
Suitable for beginners, this is sure to be a pattern that Green coloured pencils
Coloured insert card

you re-create again and again.

DOROTHY SAYS…
“If using a Fine Straight FlexiDuo Grid,
do all of the perforating first, then remove
it and position over the pattern.”

Trace
— Attach a plain piece of parchment to
the pattern.
— Trace the flowers with a sharp white pencil
and mark the corners of the border with a
dot of white pencil.
— Lightly trace all of the leaves with a sharp
green pencil.

Colour
— Working on the front side of the parchment,
colour the leaves with a light green pencil.
— Add darker lines down the length of the leaf.

Emboss
— Working on the reverse side of the
parchment, emboss the flowers, starting
very lightly with your Medium Shader or
Large Ball tool.
— Add a second layer of embossing using the
same tool and a bit more pressure.
— With finer tools, add more pressure to the
edges of the petals where they overlap to
give more depth and shape.
— Use your Sun embossing tool to fill in the
large flower centre.
— Emboss a few lines down the lighter areas
of the leaves.
— Emboss the design in the lace panel with a
Fine Ball embossing tool.
— Join the border dots with a ruler and Fine
Ball embossing tool.

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 Cut
— Carefully cut all of the perforations to
crosses and slots.

Finishing
— Cut the parchment along the tab line and
fold along the fold line. Key
— Attach the tab to the back of a folded ˜ Perforate
coloured card with narrow double sided
tape (the edges can be covered with peel
˜ Emboss
off strips). ˜ Cut
— Trim the card along the embossed borders Sun/star tool
through all of the layers.

Fold line
Tab line

Looking to add a bit of zhuzh to your cards?

Try these gorgeous floral elements.
Mulberry Blush Paper Rose Embellishments (18)
£2.00
www.hobbycraft.co.uk
0330 026 1400

Assorted Craft Flowers (14)

£1.00
www.theworks.co.uk
0121 313 6050

Mini Ribbon Roses (30)

£3.50
www.paperchase.co.uk
01223 352 524

© Dorothy Holness 2017 www.parchmentcraftmagazine.com

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White Stars
YO
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You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:
Pergamano
Fine Stylus embossing tool

Designed by
This beautiful piece of white work is a design that your Five-in-a-Circle perforating tool

recipient will cherish for years to come.

Tinta white ink
Zully A. Vega Tinta leaf green ink
Pinta Perla white paint
Pantigoso
Perga Cutters
Perga Glue

Trace Perforate (shallow) Rainbow parchment paper

— Attach a plain piece of parchment to the
pattern and secure it with low tape.
— With Tinta white ink trace the whole design
except for the large black dots.
— Use gold ink to trace all of the black dots.
— On a separate piece of plain parchment,
trace the top layer of the centre panel with
Tinta white ink and the greeting with Tinta
green ink.
Dip dot
— Working on the front of the parchment
and with your Extra Large Ball embossing
tool and gold ink, dip dot as marked on the
pattern. (See the finished picture).
Mapping pen
— Place the main piece, face up on a thin
Paintbrush No.1
perforating mat.
— Perforate with your Five-in-a-Circle tool at And
Gold ink
the base of each dip dotted area.
Green ink
Paint Green adhesive gemstones
Red adhesive gemstones
— Working on the reverse side of the
Red insert card
parchment, paint within the greeting with
green paint or ink with a fine brush.
Allow to dry.
— On the front of the parchment use Pinta Emboss
Perla white to fill in the stars. — Working on the reverse side of the
parchment use your Extra Large Ball
embossing tool to emboss the dip dots.
— With your Extra Small Ball tool, emboss
all of the traced lines on both pieces.
— Emboss the small white stars with your
Fine Stylus embossing tool.

ZULLY SAYS…
“I really enjoyed the challenge of
creating and making this design,
especially the cutting.“

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 — With your Small Ball embossing tool, Cut
emboss all of the dots within all of the — Carefully cut out all of the pieces with
Five-in-a-Circle perforations. your scissors or snips.
— Use your Extra Large Ball embossing tool
to emboss the areas marked ‘A’ and ‘B’. Finishing
— Also emboss the big stars. — Assemble all of the pieces with Perga
Glue and then attach to a piece of red
Perforate (deep) insert card.
— On a thick perforating mat, re-perforate all — Finish off by adding red and green
of the Five-in-a-Circle perforations and then decorative gems.
perforate around the outside of both pieces
with your Two Needle tool.

Key
˜ Perforate
B B B ˜ Emboss
B ˜ Cut
A A
B

A
B

MERRY
CHRISTMAS

Top layer

ABCDEFGH
ABCDEA FI JGB K
HC LD ME NF OG PH
Bonus letters!

A B C IDJEKF LGMH NIQJORK PSLTMU NVOWP

© Zully A. Vega Pantigoso 2017
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Book your preferred date!
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Hilary Bucci-Pepper, designer and owner of Wightcat Crafts shares her thoughts Saturday 11th November 2017
All day workshop in Plymouth covering traditional techniques
about life in the crafty world. with Pat Murphy.
pat.murphy1947@hotmail.com
I can’t believe December is just around 07910045432
the corner, what a year it’s been! Life at Saturday 11th November 2017
Wightcat Crafts certainly keeps us on our Groovi and parchment craft workshop at Port Talbot Library,
Aberfan Shopping Centre with Gail Sydenham and Linda
toes! Williams. 10.00am - 4.00pm. £25.00.
Over the year, we’ve seen lots of changes a.sydenham@ntlworld.com
in the craft world and part of being in Tuesday 21st November 2017
business and having a shop means keeping Regular workshop covering traditional aspects of the craft
with Academy Tutor Tracey Aldred at the Princess Theatre,
up to date with everything, so along with Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset. 10.00am - 2.00pm.
social media, the internet and emails we tracey.aldred@hotmail.com
01278792004
also meet up face to face with our suppliers
and colleagues from other businesses too, Sunday 26th November 2017
Workshop at Headley Park Primary School, Bristol with Jackie
so networking plays an important part. Rainbow. Suitable for beginners and advanced crafters.
We’ve journeyed over to the mainland 10.00am - 4.00pm. £13.00.
jackierbow@talk21.com
to visit quite a few craft shows this year, 0746 2580285
not as many as last year as my health hasn’t
Wednesday 29th November 2017
been so good, but we still keep up with Workshop at Silverwood Garden Centre, Spalding, Lincs with
everything, and we’ve been to the majority Maria Maidment and limited spaces, so book early to avoid
disappointment. 1.00pm - 4.00pm.
of trade shows to find out what’s hot and 07757089215
what we’ll stock. Of course there’s been a
Saturday 2nd December 2017
big change with Pergamano and Groovi Groovi demo with free make and take workshop with
has gone from strength to strength. Josie Davidson and Chris Walker at Crafter’s Companion,
Chesterfield. 10.00am - 4.00pm.
ParchCraft Australia also brings out new 01246 811838
templates and tools; with all of these new chesterfieldstore@crafterscompanion.co.uk
products we keep quite a few in stock. Sunday 3rd December 2017
We have had some wonderful Groovi Workshop with Chris Walker and Josie Davidson
Crafter’s at Companion, Chesterfield. 10.15am - 4.15pm.
workshops, some at the shows we have 01246 811838
been to and of course those we have hosted chesterfieldstore@crafterscompanion.co.uk
Hilary'sdaughter Amanda is working on a new project
in the shop. Saturday 9th December 2017
These are always a lovely social, with friends meeting up and learning new techniques. I’ve also Monthly parchment class at Wightcat Crafts, Isle of Wight with
Hilary Bucci-Pepper. 10.30am - 1.00pm.
attended updates to catch up with other parchment craft teachers and learn new techniques so www.wightcat.com
these can be passed on. As you know, crafters love sharing information and even if you can’t get 01983 527525
See our advert on page 44.
to any of our classes, I’m always happy to help over the phone or email.
Back in April, we talked about stamping on parchment, I wonder how many of you have used Saturday 9th December 2017
Groovi and parchment craft workshop at Port Talbot Library,
your stamps. Don’t forget there are so many different ways of getting your image on to your Aberfan Shopping Centre with Gail Sydenham and Linda
parchment and it doesn’t matter how you do it. We’ve already talked about Groovi and PCA Williams. 10.00am - 4.00pm. £25.00.
a.sydenham@ntlworld.com
templates, using your stamps and of course there are all those lovely grids with different patterns
and designs; don’t forget too, that with traditional parchment craft you can also use a design Sunday 17th December 2017
All day workshop at Holme Barn Crafts, Eastleigh, Hampshire
or pattern to trace your image with a white pencil or a mapping pen and white ink. We have a with Judith Maslen.
wonderful selection of lovely patterns packs and books. holmebarncrafts@gmail.com
Turn to page 24 to see Judith’s latest design.
I’ve nattered on, I could talk forever about parchment and crafting but I will leave you with a
picture of my daughter Amanda, who has picked up the tools after a taking a bit of a break.
If you are hosting a workshop or exhibition,
I’m sure she won’t mind me saying as way of encouragement to others; she has an invisible illness please email details of your event to:
but enjoys her crafting when she can and even comes to some of my workshops. carl.golder@warnersgroup.co.uk

All for now,

Hilary Bucci-Pepper

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You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:
Pergamano
Five-in-a-Circle perforating tool

Designed by
“To end this shaped card series, I have designed a butterfly card. Multi Grid No. 4 (fine straight grid)
Tinta white ink
Tina Cox I have painted the pattern using bright colours from the Tinta black ink

£2.99 !
Mapping pen
Perga Colours Exclusive range and added lace work using Perga Colours Exclusive
No. 2 Kolinsky round brush
Multi Grid No. 4." Tear off palette
Sticky ink

Trace Paint And

Perga glitter (tint of blue)

Step 1
— Attach a plain piece of parchment to the
pattern.
— Use a sharp white pencil to trace the fold line.
— Use white ink to trace the large butterfly
outline, the large heart, oval and all of the
circles between lace work.
— Trace the smaller butterflies and greeting
with black ink.
Perforate (shallow)
Step 2
— Place the parchment on a thin perforating
mat and with your Five-in-a-Circle perforating
tool, semi-perforate the lace design.
— Remove the parchment from the pattern.
Step 3
— Rub the colours from Perga Colours
Exclusive, PCE 5 (pink), PCE 10 (lilac), PCE 13
(light blue), PCE 28 (turquoise) and PCE 20
(black) on a tear off palette.
— The butterflies are painted from the front
and the greetings oval from the back.
1) Using a damp brush as flat as possible
against the paper, paint a wash for the top
butterflies using PCE 5 for the top wings
and PCE 13 for the lower wings and for the
lower butterflies using PCE 13 for the top
wings and PCE 5 for the lower wings.
Do not have the brush too wet to avoid the
parchment buckling.
2) Using a feathering/flicking technique, paint
fine lines, approximately two thirds of the
Pink insert card
way from the outside of the wings to the
inside on all the wings, using PCE 10 for the
top wings and PCE 28 for the lower wings
and for the lower butterflies using PCE 28
for the top wings and PCE 10 for the lower
wings. Remember to make some strokes
longer and some shorter.
3) Make shorter strokes with the same
technique approximately one third of the
way with PCE 20.
4) Paint a wash with PCE 20 for the hearts.
5) Paint the oval greetings with PCE 5 and
PCE 13.

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New Beginnings
YO
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You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:
Pergamano
Five-in-a-Circle perforating tool

Designed by
“To end this shaped card series, I have designed a butterfly card. Multi Grid No. 4 (fine straight grid)
Tinta white ink
Tina Cox I have painted the butterflies using bright colours from the Tinta black ink
Mapping pen
Perga Colours Exclusive range and added lace work using Perga Colours Exclusive
No. 2 Kolinsky round brush
Multi Grid No. 4." Tear off palette
Sticky ink

Trace Paint And

Perga glitter (tint of blue)

Step 1
— Attach a plain piece of parchment to the
pattern.
— Use a sharp white pencil to trace the fold line.
— Use white ink to trace the large butterfly
outline, the large heart, oval and all of the
circles between lace work.
— Trace the smaller butterflies and greeting
with black ink.
Perforate (shallow)
Step 2
— Place the parchment on a thin perforating
mat and with your Five-in-a-Circle perforating
tool, semi-perforate the lace design.
— Remove the parchment from the pattern.
Step 3
— Rub the colours from Perga Colours
Exclusive, PCE 5 (pink), PCE 10 (lilac), PCE 13
(light blue), PCE 28 (turquoise) and PCE 20
(black) on a tear off palette.
— The butterflies are painted on the front and
the greetings oval from the back.
1) Using a damp brush as flat as possible
against the paper, paint a wash for the top
butterflies using PCE 5 for the top wings
and PCE 13 for the lower wings and for the
lower butterflies using PCE 13 for the top
wings and PCE 5 for the lower wings.
2) Using a feathering/flicking technique, paint
fine lines, approximately two thirds of the
way from the outside of the wings to the
inside on all the wings, using PCE 10 for the
Pink insert card
top wings and PCE 28 for the lower wings
and for the lower butterflies using PCE 28
for the top wings and PCE 10 for the lower
wings. Remember to make some strokes
longer and some shorter.
3) Make shorter strokes with the same
technique approximately one third of the
way with PCE 20.
4) Paint a wash with PCE 20 for the hearts.
5) Paint the oval greetings with PCE 5 and
PCE 13.

TINA SAYS…
"When painting and to
avoid buckling do not
have the brush too wet."

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 New Beginnings
(Tina Cox)
New
2 Fold line Beginnings 2
Emboss New 3
Step 4
— On the back of the parchment, 2 Beginnings 22
emboss over the white traced outlines
2
and circles inside the perforations using
your Extra Small Ball embossing tool.
33 1
— Lightly emboss the butterfly wings with
your Large Ball embossing tool.

Grid work 11 © Tina Cox 2017

Step 5
— Stick the parchment, back facing up, 2 2
on Multi Grid No. 4 (fine straight grid). C Tina Cox
— Emboss the dots in areas 1 and 2
following the diagrams with your Small
Ball embossing tool. Key
— Without removing the parchment from 22 22 ˜ Perforate
the grid, turn the whole thing over and Tina Cox ˜ Emboss
Pergamano Multi Grid No. 4 C

perforate in areas 2 and 3 with your One ˜ Cut

Needle perforating tool. If you prefer,
you can remove the parchment from the Finishing Grid 1
Grid 1
Grid 2
Grid 2
Grid 3
Grid 3
grid, turn it over to the front, align the — Stick a pink insert card
embossed dots on the grid and continue Pergamano Multi Grid No. 4
inside the parchment
to perforate the design as shown on the butterfly and carefully cut
pattern. around the shape.
Grid 1 Grid 2 Grid 3
— Remove the parchment from the grid. — Using Sticky ink and tint
of blue Perga glitter,
Perforate (deep) and cut add a little sparkle on
Step 6 the card on the circles
— Re-perforate deeply the lace design with between the lace design Embossing
your Five-in-a-Circle perforating tool and and along the white Perforating
cut between all of the perforations. gridded heart outline.

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Embossing
Perforating

Step 4 Step 5 Step 6

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FEATHERED FRIENDS
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Designed by
Alison Yeates
The Golden Eagle
“A couple of years ago, we were fortunate to see this majestic bird living in the wild on the Island of Mull.
It was elegant in flight and sat proud on a branch of a tree surveying the scene.”
Colour
Step 1 Step 2 Step 6
— Attach a plain piece of parchment to the — Add light yellow ochre, more burnt umber — Under the eye use cold grey III and between
pattern (over the page) and colour the under the lid to create shadow. Blend all the beaks use Naples yellow and cold grey III.
eagle with coloured pencils. over the eye with cream (not over the pupil) Step 7
— Colour the pupil with a black pencil but and add more colour as necessary. — Use cold grey V to add lines and dots under
leave a white highlight. Add raw umber and Step 3 eye and between the beak and eye.
burnt umber. — For the beak colour using cold grey V as Step 8
shown. — For the feathers make sure that your points
Step 4 are sharp and start adding them in with raw
— Add a light coat of cold grey III then burnish umber, and begin to develop the ‘V’ shapes
ALISON SAYS… with cold grey I. that will create the clumps of feather.
“A perfect bird for colouring, especially with Step 5

Faber-Castell polychromos pencils, gradually — Add Naples yellow and more of the greys to
build up colour.
building up the layers of feathers.” Great
for men!

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 You will need Step 1 Step 2

Your basic tool kit plus:

Pergamano
Semi-Circle perforating tool
Dorso blending medium or Zest-It
And
Faber-Castell polychromos pencils
Black (199)
White (101)
Raw umber (180)
Burnt umber (280)
Light yellow ochre (183)
Cream (102)
Cold grey V (234)
Cold grey III (232) Step 3 Step 4
Cold grey I (230)
Naples yellow (185)
Terracotta (186)
Yellow coloured parchment
Four gold coloured brads
Brown insert card
Gold mirri insert card
White insert card

Step 9
— Add terracotta. Add burnt umber in the
shadows and to darken the ‘Vs’ slightly.
Keep working with the three colours
gradually building up the feathers; use
cream on the tips of the large feathers. Step 5 Step 6
Step 10
— On the reverse side of the parchment,
colour with burnt umber and white.
— Blend with Dorso oil or Zest-It.

Perforate (shallow)
— Place the parchment back onto the pattern
and lightly perforate the inner two rows with
your Semi-Circle perforating tool. (There are
some single needle incisions in the corners).

Emboss
Step 11
— Emboss the feather lines with a Scriber
embossing tool and the dots with a Small
Ball tool. Step 7 Step 8
Perforate (deep)
— Re-perforate all of the Semi-Circle
perforating marks.
— Attach a yellow piece of parchment to the
pattern and shallow perforate all rows of the
pattern, emboss and re-perforate as per the
top layer.

Cut
Step 12
— Carefully cut the inner spaces on the yellow
parchment as shown on the pattern.
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 — Cut out all of the edge perforations to
remove the waste parchment on both Step 9 Step 10
layers.

Finishing
— Using brads, attach the two layers of
parchment to a piece of brown card,
which has been cut just larger than the
parchment; then mount onto a slightly
larger piece of gold mirri card; and finally
onto a folded white card.

Stockist information
Faber-Castell polychromos pencils (24)
£24.98 Step 11 Step 12
www.curtisward.com
020 8979 5233

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Key
˜ Perforate
˜ Emboss
˜ Cut

Top layer

Bottom layer

© Alison Yeates 2017

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THE SHOWSTOPPER
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Designed by
Lesley Shore
Decorative Crackers
These fantastic ornamental and ornate crackers by Lesley You will need
are too pretty to pull, but make a fabulous decoration. Your basic tool kit plus:
PCA

To make the cracker Shader embossing tool

Pergamano
backing layer — With the Semi Square tool, perforate
Semi-Square perforating tool
Multi Grid No. 19 (diagonal grid)
— With a sharp white pencil, trace the along the edges marked 'X'. Mini Grid No. 21 (Merry Christmas)
cracker template onto a piece of — Emboss between the perforations with Perga Cutters
coloured parchment paper. your Extra Small Ball embossing tool. Perga Glue
— Emboss all of the traced lines with — Cut between all of the perforations And
your Small Ball embossing tool. with your Perga Cutters or parchment Coloured parchment paper
— Erase any visible pencil lines. scissors. Craft wire
Silver seed beads
Straight scissors
Quilling tool
Large silver beads
Silver gel pen or mapping pen and silver ink
Feather
Double sided tape
Silver mini-brad

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 — Perforate along all of the other lines with
your Two Needle tool.
— Cut between the perforations with your
Perga Cutters or parchment scissors.
— Fold along the fold lines, with the bright
side of the parchment to the outside.
For the holly design
Trace
— Attach a piece of coloured parchment to
diagram 1 and on the bough side,
trace with a white pencil.
— Repeat previous step, tracing diagram 2.
Emboss
— Emboss on the reverse side all of the traced
lines with your Extra Small Ball embossing tool.
Perforate
— Perforate with your Two Needle tool
between the holly leaves and around the
outer lines.
Cut
— Using Perga Cutters or parchment scissors,
cut between all of the Two Needle
perforations.
For the snowflake design
Trace
— Attach a piece of plain parchment to
diagrams 1 and 2 and use a white pencil
to trace the outer border lines. (There is no
need to trace the holly detailing).
Image 1
Image 2
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Emboss
— With an Extra Small Ball, emboss all of the
traced lines.
— Erase any visible pencil lines.
Grid work
— Position your parchment on Multi Grid No.
19 and secure with low tack tape.
— Emboss, perforate and cut according to
images 1 and 2.
Perforate
— With your Two Needle tool, perforate
around the outer lines of the grid work
pieces.
Cut
— Cut between the perforations with Perga
Cutters or parchment scissors.
Embellishments
Trace
— Trace the poinsettia leaves with silver ink
onto a piece of plain parchment.
— With a sharp white pencil, trace the pine
needles onto plain parchment paper, the
holly leaves onto coloured parchment
paper, the snowflake onto coloured
parchment paper and the flower onto plain
parchment paper.
Emboss
— Using your Shader tool, emboss the
poinsettia leaves according to image 3
— With your Large Ball embossing tool,
emboss the centre of the poinsettia leaf
sections from the front.
— Use your Extra Small Ball embossing tool to
emboss the centre vein of each poinsettia
leaf and pine needle from the front. The
traced lines of holly on the bright side of the
paper. The traced solid lines of the snowflake
with your Small Ball embossing tool. A
rectangle 3.5cm x 2cm for the greeting and
your greeting from the Multi Grid.
Perforate
— With your Two Needle tool, perforate
around the outlines of the poinsettia
and holly, the the dotted outline of the
snowflake and the outline of the greeting
rectangle.
Cut
— With Perga cutters or parchment scissors,
cut between all of the perforations on the
poinsettia, holly, snowflake and greeting.
— With straight scissors, cut along the lines
of the flower, the solid lines of the pine
needles (cut almost up to the centre vein).
Cut out alternate needles completely.
Berries
— Cut three pieces of craft wire 6cm long.
— Thread a silver bead onto each piece.
— Fold the wire in half.
— Twist the two ends of the wire together.
Finishing
— Layer the poinsettia leaf sections according
to the main image and secure with Perga
Glue. Add silver seed beads to centre of
each flower with perga glue.
— Fold the pine needles slightly along the
centre vein to give dimension.
Image 3
Image 4
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 — With a quilling tool, roll the flower and secure with Perga
Glue. Add a silver bead to the centre with Perga Glue.
— Wrap the top layer cracker pieces around the cracker
base layers, securing with Perga Glue on the picot edges.
— Add Perga Glue to the tabs and fix the cracker together.
— Arrange the embellishments according to the main
image, securing with perga glue and double sided tape.
— Fix the snowflake in place with a mini
brad.

Key ˜ Perforate ˜ Cut

Flower diagram
Diagram 3 x4

Diagram 1 Diagram 2 x2
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 Cracker
Crackertemplate
template

tab
tab tab
tab tab
tab

xX
Xx

Cut

Fold

Holly
Holly © Lesley Shore 2017
Xx44
X x1
1

Xx33

Snowflake
Snowflake X 1x1
Poinsettia
Poinsettia

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White Christmas Rose

M
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KUEIC
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An intricate border framing a white Christmas rose You will need

Designed by
Hilary Bucci-Pepper
making an elegant card which, if you change the centre, Your basic tool kit plus:

can be used for any occasion. PCA

Trace
— Begin by attaching a plain piece of
parchment to the pattern and secure with
low tack tape or pins.
— Using a mapping pen and white ink,
trace the top layer.
— Remove from the pattern and on a separate
piece of plain parchment trace the central
rose (bottom layer) with a white pencil.
— With a white pencil, mark the dots for the
Five Needle tool and the outer square.
Micro Sun embossing tool
Pergamano
Emboss Large Shader embossing tool
Semi-Circle perforating tool
Step 1 Five Needle perforating tool
— Working on the reverse side of the Mapping pen
parchment use a Large Ball tool to solid White ink
emboss the whole of the central frame. And
Step 2 White brads
— On the other piece of parchment and on Red insert card
the reverse side, emboss the rose starting Green insert card
with a Large Shader and then changing to Cream insert card
Smaller Ball tools to create definition.
— Emboss from the front (under a piece of
clear plastic) to create the edges of the — Emboss the outer square with a ruler and
flowers which bend slightly forwards. Small Ball embossing tool.

Perforate (shallow)
Step 3
— On the piece of parchment with the rose,
shallow perforate with your Five Needle
tool over the white pencil marks around the
border. Replace back on the pattern and
perforate through the pattern if you find
this helps.
— With your Semi-Circle perforating tool,
perforate around the outer square border.

Emboss
Step 4
— On the reverse side of the parchment,
emboss around the central dot in the Five
Needle perforation with your Extra Small
Ball tool.
— Using your Small Ball tool, emboss inside
all of the Semi-Circle perforations on the
outer border.
Step 5
— Place the parchment on a piece of dark
card and still working on the reverse use
your Micro Sun embossing tool to emboss
inside the perforations made by your
Semi-Circle tool.

Perforate (deep)
— Perforate around the border of the central
frame and the inner sections with your Two
Needle perforating tool.
— Re-perforate all of the Semi-Circle
perforations.

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 Top layer Bottom layer

Step 6
— Re-perforate all of
the Five Needle
perforations,
keeping the tool
upright gently twist
a little to the left and
then to the right
to make the holes
larger, referring to
the main image.

Cut
— Using parchment
scissors or snips,
carefully cut all of
the perforations
referring to the main
image.

Finishing
— Gently brush some
glue on the back
of the central
frame and position
carefully over the
rose (use the pattern
for reference if
necessary).
— Affix your
parchment to © Hilary Bucci-Pepper
a piece of red
trimmed card using © Hilary Bucci-Pepper
brads and then
mount onto your
backing cards. Key ˜ Perforate ˜ Emboss ˜ Cut © Hilary Bucci-Pepper 2017
Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

Step 4 Step 5 Step 6

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EMBOSSING FOR BEGINNERS

Designed by
Judith Maslen
Arum Lilies
The arum lily is an excellent subject for white work,
You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:
PCA
Bold Straight FlexiDuo Grid
Pergamano
giving you lots of opportunities to capture light and shade. 2mm Star embossing tool
Perga Colours Exclusive (14)

Trace Dorso oil blending medium or Zest-It

And
— Prepare by rubbing the back of the emboss all of the straight lines, the circular
Faber-Castell polychromos pencils
parchment with a tumble-dryer sheet. frame around the flowers and the circles
Phthalo blue (110)
— Attach a piece of plain parchment to and diamonds in the border patterns.
Self-adhesive blue gems
the pattern and secure with strips of low — Use a Medium Ball tool to emboss the heart
Tumble dryer sheet
tack tape. shapes in the borders.
Blue insert card
— With a sharp white pencil trace the whole of Step 1
White insert card
the pattern except for the greeting. For this, — Still working on the reverse, lightly emboss
use the fine point of a blue drawing pen. the parts shown in step 1.
Step 2
Emboss — Turn the parchment to work on the front
— Turn the parchment to work on the reverse. and emboss the inside of each bloom
— With your Extra Small Ball tool or Scriber, marked ‘x’. (The finished effect can be seen
in step 2).

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 — Turn to work on the reverse once Judith Maslen
more and repeat the embossing
shown in step 1.

Stipple
— Place the parchment on a piece of Grid
Grid
cardboard and, still working on the
reverse, use a One Needle tool to
x
‘x’

stipple the flower centres.

Colour
— Working on the reverse,
use phthalo blue to colour around x‘x’ x
‘x’
the lilies, smoothing out the colour
with either Dorso oil or Zest-It.

Grid work
— Turn the parchment to the front
and attach to your Bold Straight Grid
FlexiDuo Grid.
— Perforate the grid pattern as shown
in the grid work diagram then Grid
Grid
remove from the grid and turn to
emboss with your Star embossing
tool on the reverse.

Finishing
— Turn the parchment to work on the
With Best Wishes
front.
— With the fine point of your PCE pen,
add a dot of colour inside each Star
tool impression.
— Attach a self-adhesive gem inside Step 1
Grid work diagram © Judith Maslen 2017
every heart shape in the border.
— Work around the outside of the
design with your Two Needle
perforating tool, then snip out the
perforations and release the design
from the parchment.
— Attach to your blue insert card
with decorative brads, then stick
the trimmed blue sheet to a folded
white card with double-sided
tape.
— Finish off by adding blue gems.
Key ˜ Perforate ˜ Emboss using Star tool ˜ Cut

Step 2
JUDITH’S TOP TIP! Stockist information
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You can place a piece of thin film over the
parchment and emboss over the top but I
personally find the shine can be removed by
gently rubbing with a soft eraser.”

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Christmas Poinsettia
M
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Designed by
Hilary has created a traditional Christmas card made
Hilary Bucci-Pepper from layers of parchment with additional 3D elements.
Emboss
Step 1
— Insert the Nested Scallops Rectangles into
the Plate Mate and attach a plain piece of
parchment securing with Groovi tabs.
— Using an Extra Small Ball tool emboss the
rectangles as shown.
Step 2
— Attach the parchment face down on the
Diagonal pattern no. 2 border piercing plate
and emboss the border as shown.
Step 3
— Insert the Nested Scallops Rectangles into
the Plate Mate and attach a piece of red
parchment securing with Groovi Tabs.
— Emboss the fourth rectangle, the scallops
and the dots.
Step 4
— Insert the Nested Scallops Ovals into the
Plate Mate and attach a separate piece of
plain parchment.
— Emboss the fifth oval from the outside and
the scallops.
— Remove from the Plate and emboss the
scallop edge with a Large Ball tool.
— Attach the parchment face down onto the
Occasions Border Plate and emboss your
wording of choice, remove from the Plate.
Step 5
— Attach the parchment face down onto
Jayne's Poinsettia Name Plate and emboss
the flower detail.
— Insert Jayne’s Poinsettia Name Plate into the
Plate Mate and attach plain parchment,
and referring to the image emboss two sets
of flowers.
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goodies!
Step 6
— Remove from the plate and emboss the
back of the poinsettias with a Large Ball
tool.
Colour
Step 7
— On the front of both layers of parchment
colour the scallops with a sharp red pencil.
Step 8
— On the front of the red parchment carefully
draw a line with a gold pen and ruler on the
inside of the embossed rectangle. Be careful
not to smudge it (turn the ruler over so the
bottom edge isn’t touching the parchment
and then the ink won’t seep underneath).

These 3D poinsettias make great card toppers!

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 You will need Step 1 Step 2

Your basic tool kit plus:

Groovi
Border Plate Mate
Plate Mate for A5 Square Plate
Jayne’s Poinsettia Name Plate A5 Square
Plate Mate for A5 Plate
Nested Scallops Rectangles A5 Plate
Nested Scallops Ovals A5 Plate
Occasions Border Plate
Diagonal pattern no. 2 border piercing plate
Groovi Tabs Step 3 Step 4
Pergamano
Multi Grid No. 28 (bold straight grid)
Two Needle Bold perforating tool
Red parchment paper
Perga Glitter
Sticky Ink
And
Red polychromos pencil
Gold pen
Red card

Perforate Step 5 Step 6

— Attach the base layer of plain parchment
onto Multi Grid No. 28 and perforate with
your Bold Two Needle around the border.
— Repeat this step with the red parchment.
— With your Two Needle tool,
perforate around the border of the scallop
edge topper and around the edges of all the
poinsettia flowers.
— Picot cut the perforations around all the
borders and the poinsettia flowers

Finishing Step 7 Step 8

— Add fine lines of Sticky Ink with the
mapping pen to the poinsettia petals and
sprinkle with Perga Glitter.
— Add a dab of Perga Glue to the back of the
petals and glue together.
Step 9
— Cut your cardstock for your layers
— Attach your layers of parchment together,
using tape behind the red parchment
border and a little dab of Perga Glue on the
topper along the border where the flowers
will be, that way it won’t show.
Step 9
— Mount the parchment onto the cardstock.
Stockist information
— Lastly, glue the flowers in place.
All Groovi products available from:
www.claritystamp.com
01732 868215
HILARY SAYS…
“My card consists of a base layer of plain Faber-Castell polychromos pencils (36)
parchment, a layer of red parchment, £37.95
www.curtisward.com
a topper and 3D Poinsettias.” 020 8979 5233

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Parchment Pictures
They say that “a picture can paint a thousand words”, and that is certainly the case with
these photographs. Social media is such an important and valuable way of sharing projects with a watching
world-wide audience and during the month of October the Parchment Craft team were scrolling through their
Instagram accounts and sharing the following snap shots.

As seen in
the October
issue

Stunning
Carl's quarter
favourite! panels

Make sure that the next time you upload a piece of parchment craft to social media you include the hashtag
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A Gift for Christmas

M
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A small box decorated as a gift box for Christmas. You will need
Designed by
Mary E. Price
The template can be used all year round and for any Your basic tool kit plus:

occasion by altering the embellishments. Gold ink

Tracing glue
Red embossing powder

Trace Colour Red and green felt tip pens (inks or paints
can be used if preferred)
— Attach a plain piece of parchment to the — Colour the holly leaves, berries and the Clear nail varnish
box pattern. floral pieces with green and red felt Scissors
— Trace the outline of the box along with tip pens. Use an alternative colouring PVA glue with a thin applicator
the fold line with a white pencil. medium if you wish. Talcum powder
— Use a white pencil to trace the holly — Colour on both sides of the parchment Double sided tape
leaves, berries and the greeting with to give a good depth of colour. Adhesive gems
gold ink.
— Prior to the next stage… rub a little Emboss Sticky ink
For alternative example
talcum powder over the parchment, — Emboss the sentiment and all of the gold Ultra-fine gold glitter
this will prevent the embossing powder lines with a Stylus or Scriber and use an
adhering anywhere other than intended. Extra Small Ball tool to emboss all the
— Trace the rectangular boxes on each side fold lines.
as shown in blue with tracing glue (or — If you wish to, emboss the veins
use Sticky ink or a Sakura Quickie glue on the floral pieces.
pen). Leave for a short while to ensure
the glue is tacky rather than wet.
— Remove the parchment from the pattern
and sprinkle red embossing powder over
the boxes.
— Shake off the excess and heat with a
heat gun.
— On a separate piece of plain parchment,
use gold ink to trace two each of
the floral pieces for the poinsettia
embellishment.

ALTERNATIVE EXAMPLE
The box template can be used for any occasion. In the other
example the rectangles, greeting and hearts are traced with gold
ink. A Sun embossing tool was used to emboss around the inside
of each heart and the embellishment was a flower constructed
from two large, two medium and one small piece as shown on the
pattern, embossed, layered and decorated with gold glitter.
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 Bonus Greeting! Box pattern

Merry
With A B

Love Christmas
Tab A

Tab B
A B

© Mary E. Price 2017

Cut Poinsettia patterns
To
— Use scissors or a sharp craft knife to cut out
the box, cutting down the dashed lines to
form tabs. 1x green
— Cut out the four pieces for the poinsettia 1x red
embellishment and then layer them up.

Finishing
— Fold all of the fold lines and fold in the side
sections securing them with the top tab.
(e.g. side sections marked ‘A’ secured with
tab A)
— Run a very small amount of glue along the 2x red
fold line of the tab before folding it down.
— Cut a piece of card stock to fit in the base of
Tab c
the box for added stability.
— Paint a thin layer of clear nail varnish on
the holly leaves and berries and to the
poinsettia finishing off the latter with a
central gem.
— Add the complete poinsettia to the centre
of the lid and using a small piece of thin
double sided tape secure tab ‘C’ to the
MARY’S TOP TIP
inside of the front of the box… preferably “If you have a poinsettia die of the right
after adding the gift.
— A small piece of tape will allow the box to
size, use that instead”
be opened without damage.

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So Elegant
YO
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TA
You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:
Pergamano
Multi Grid No. 28 (bold straight grid)

Designed by This fabulous design combines coloured detailing in the Multi Grid No. 14
Perga Glue
Roselyne Rivierre
centre with a beautiful floral grid worked border. And
Faber-Castell polychromos pencils
Pale geranium lake (121)
Pink carmine (127)
Sky blue (146)
Cobalt turquoise (153)
Brown ochre (182)
Venetian red (190)
Indian red (192)
Burnt umber (280)
White paper
Orange insert card

Trace
— Attach a plain piece of parchment to
the pattern and secure with low tack tape
or pins.
— Trace the three sides of the two rectangles
and the semi-circle around the figure with a
sharp white pencil.
— Trace all of the floral outlines.

Grid work
— Secure your parchment to Multi Grid No. 28
and firstly complete all of the embossing as
shown in red on the pattern with your Small
Ball embossing tool.
— Leaving the parchment attached to the
grid, flip it over and complete all of the
perforating (shown in black) with your One
Needle perforating tool.
— Change to Multi Grid No. 14 and emboss all
of the flower shapes.

Perforate
— Use your Two Needle perforating tool
to perforate around the semi-circle as
indicated on the pattern.

Emboss
— Use your Ball and Shader tools of choice
to whiten the embossing (on the reverse)
created from the Multi Grids.
— Erase any visible pencil lines.

Colour
— Place your parchment back on the pattern
and working on the front of the parchment
use your Faber-Castell polychromos pencils
to colour in the figure.

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 — Use brown ochre and Venetian red for the
headband.
— Colour the flower of the headband with
pink carmine and burnt umber.
— Apply Venetian red, Indian red and burnt
umber for the hair.
— Colour the skin with pale geranium lake,
pink carmine and the bottom edge with
Indian red.
— Use burnt umber to colour the eyebrows,
eyes and the edge of her elbow.
— Colour the lips with pink carmine.
— Use sky blue and a little burnt umber for the
folds on her tunic.
— Colour the drape on her arm with a mixture
of brown ochre and Indian red.
— Apply pink carmine, brown ochre and
Indian red for the top of the drape and
colour the bottom with brown ochre, cobalt
turquoise and burnt umber for folds.
— Colour the dress with pink carmine and
Indian red.
— Use cobalt turquoise and brown ochre to
colour the leaves.
— Use pale geranium lake, pink carmine and
brown ochre to colour the flowers and add
fine lines of burnt umber to the edge of the
leaves and to the heart of the flowers.

Dorse
— With cobalt turquoise, dorse the border of
the central design.

Cut
— Use scissors or snips to cut out the grid
work and between the semi-circle and
flowers.

Finishing
— Cut a piece of plain white paper to the same
size as the centre design and secure to the
parchment with dabs of Perga Glue.
— Attach to a piece of orange card with Perga
Glue.

© Roselyne Rivierre 2017

Stockist information
Multi Grid No. 14 Key
£8.95 ˜ Perforate
www.wightcat.com ˜ Emboss
01983 527525 ˜ Cut

* The theme of
this grid is spring ROSELYNE SAYS…
featuring flowers and
birds and is ideally
“If you’re not a fan of working with
worked with a One colour, use embossing tools to fill in
Needle tool. the figure.”

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Flowers in a Vase
YO
KE
TA

Designed by
Take your pick! Worked from the same pattern, Dewi has submitted two exceptional
Dewi Alimwidjaja creations both featuring shaped and contoured 3D flowers. One design has been coloured on
white parchment, the other shaded with grey and black pencils on black parchment.

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 You will need
Your basic tool kit plus:
Pergamano
Fine Stylus embossing tool
2mm Star embossing tool
Semi-Square perforating tool
Semi-Circle perforating tool
Caramel parchment paper
Dorso colours
Perga Kit
Perga Glue
And
Black parchment
Carbon copy paper
Green, yellow, white, dark brown, red and
dark ochre pencils
Light yellow and red flower stamens
Dark green dotted insert card
Colour
Red insert card
— Working on the front of the parchment,
Burgundy aperture use coloured pencils to colour the whole
Mini scallop deckle edged scissors design and all of the 3D flowers.

Emboss
Coloured version — To determine the shape, re-emboss all of
the coloured areas.

Trace
— Start by securing a plain piece of parchment
to the pattern (over the page) with low tack
tape or pins.
— Use a sharp white pencil to trace all of the
detailing in the top layer.
— Attach a second piece of plain parchment to
the pattern and trace all of the 3D flowers.
— Attach a piece of caramel coloured
parchment to the pattern and trace the
bottom layer.
Perforate (shallow)
— Place your parchment face up on a thick
perforating mat and work around the outer
layer with your Semi-Circle perforating tool.
— Repeat the above, this time on your caramel
coloured piece of parchment.
Emboss
— Working on the reverse side of the
parchment lightly emboss the flowers,
vase and all of the 3D flower petals with
your Medium Ball embossing tool.
— Emboss within all of the Semi-Circle
perforations.
— Use your 2mm Star tool to emboss within
the Semi-Circle perforations on the caramel
coloured parchment.
Perforate (deep)
— Re-perforate all of the Semi-Circle
perforations on both the plain and caramel
coloured sheets.
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Cut
— Carefully cut out along all of the Semi-Circle
perforations on both sheets and all of the
3D flowers.
Dorse
— On the reverse side of the parchment use a
dark red crayon to apply colour to the area
below the vase.
— Use yellow ochre behind the flowers.
Finishing
— Attach all of the 3D flowers according to
the pattern with Perga Kit (piece 5 at the
bottom, piece 1 at the top).
— Make a small hole in the flower centre to
thread through the stamens, then apply
Perga Glue from the back of the paper.
— Attach the caramel coloured piece of
parchment to the plain parchment with
Perga Glue.
— Use mini scallop deckle edged scissors to
cut a piece of dotted green insert card,
then glue together.
DEWI SAYS…
“Refer back to the photo and check
your shading to see where the light
hits the vase.”
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 White work version © Dewi Alimwidjaja 2017
Trace
— Sandwich the white coloured carbon copy
paper between the pattern and the black
parchment.
— Trace the entire design using your Fine
Stylus embossing tool.
— Repeat the above and trace all of the 3D
flowers.

Colour
— Use white and black pencils to shade in the
main orchids and the 3D flowers.

Emboss
— Working on the reverse of the parchment,
very lightly emboss the ends of the
trumpets with your Medium Ball embossing
tool.

Colour
— Use a sharp white pencil to add shading to
the vase.

Cut
— Carefully cut out the 3D flowers.

Finishing
— Attach the 3D flowers to the main piece
using Perga Kit.
— Secure the flower stamens to the 51
3D flowers.
— Attach the finished piece to your 24
aperture frame.
— Dewi has added to her finished design a
multi needle border on white parchment. 5
1
3
3

4
2 3-D Elements:

Top layer
1 2 3

Bottom layer

3D Flowers cut
nts: 3-D Elements: 3-D Elements:
perforate

emboss
2 13 2 4 13
1
5 2
2
4
3
3 5
cut
4 5

3-D Elements:
3-D Elements:

Key
emboss
cut
emboss
cut
emboss ˜ Perforate emboss
1 2 Emboss
˜ 3 perforate emboss 4
1
4
2
5 3
˜ Cut
4 5

emboss emboss

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emboss
cut
emboss
cut

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emboss
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Gift Wrapped with Love

YO
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Designed by
Inspired by a Victorian Christmas, with lots of lace and ribbons and of course the traditional flower the
Maria Maidment Poinsettia, this fantastic design features shades of red, green and yellow.

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 Grid

Key
˜ Perforate
˜ Emboss
˜ Cut

Grid pattern

Grid

© Maria Maidment 2017

→
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 — Trace all of the white areas (see finished — Perforate the pattern inside the areas

You will need piece) with a sharp white pencil or white

ink, and the red scroll work detailing with a
marked ‘grid’ following the grid pattern.
— Remove the parchment from Multi Grid No.
Your basic tool kit plus: red fine liner pen or pencil. (Doing this will 28, then perforate around the outside with
not show the line work when you colour or your Medium Picot V perforating tool.
Pergamano perforate the lace work areas) — Perforate outside the red scroll work with
S
 hader embossing tool
your Two Needle tool.
M
 edium Picot V perforating tool Colour
A
 rrow perforating tool
M
 ulti Grid No. 28 (bold straight grid)
— Working on the front of the parchment and Emboss
with felt tipped pens, colour the flowers and — Turn the parchment over to work on the
P
 erga Glue
leaves using two different shades of red, reverse.
And green and yellow. — Gently emboss the flowers and the leaves.
C
 oloured pencils and felt tip pens — Using gentle strokes shade the petals and — Emboss in between the grid work pattern.
R
 ed metallic paint or red pearlised ink leaves so the colours blend and create tone. — Emboss the outside edge of the parchment
F
 ine paint brush — Fill in the red scroll detailing with red using a selection of Shader and Ball
F
 ine black drawing pen
metallic paint or ink and a fine paint brush. embossing tools.
White ink or pen
— Allow to dry.
B
 lack insert card
— On the reverse side of the parchment, Cut
use a red felt tip pen to colour the edge of — Using scissors or snips carefully cut out the
the picture. lace work pattern in the centre and around
Trace — Finish off the flowers by applying gold or the outside.
— Begin by attaching a plain piece of bronze ink to the centres.
parchment to the pattern and secure with Finishing
low tack tape. Perforate — Use Perga Glue to attach the finished
— Trace the flowers and the edge of the — Place the parchment (face up) on top of piece of work to a piece of black or
pattern with a fine black drawing pen. Multi Grid No. 28 with a perforating pad coloured card.
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