Helmar Creative Team

Quick, Cute Card!

Today I will show you how to create this cute card 

To start a card like this choose a card base and some pattern papers as well as some matching paper embellishments.

I have used premium craft glue to attach all my paper layers together and stick to the card base.

Next step is to use the scrap dots to add dimension to the paper embellishments.

Allow the scrap dots to dry overnight so they are firm and solid for posting I have then added some gems as an added sparkle and a darkroom door word title Now you have created one quick and cute card why not go on and create a few more!

Happy crafting!

Button Bonbon Embellishments

We all have those spare buttons stashed away, you know the ones, those that you never end up using on your projects for one reason or another, well here's a very simple project that will get you creating and using up those buttons.

What you will need:

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive, spare buttons (flat) and some sparkles/rhinestones/bling or similar.

Firstly, you will need to sort through your buttons and start to stack a couple together, it's preferable if they sit nice and flat on top of each other so they stick well.  Play around with colours and textures and find the look you are after. Use as many buttons as you like, I'm keeping mine to two buttons as I need some fairly flat embellishments.

Once you are happy with them, take your Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive and apply a little glue to the base of the top button.

Place this button on top of the lower button and press to secure. Repeat this step if you have more than two buttons and allow time to dry.

Now take your sparkle etc of choice and add a little Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to the top button and then place your decorative piece on top. I'm using self adhesive sparkles but I still like to add glue for extra hold.

And there we have it, some lovely Button Bonbons to decorate your projects with. It's nice to have a stash of these on hand to add to a project for that little bit extra :)

I hope you enjoyed this easy tutorial and will consider using up some of those forgotten buttons that keep getting put back in the jar time after time.

Take care everyone

Jeanette xx

Creating with Fabric

Hello Helmar fans, today my share is a layout created with Fabric and for those who know me they know i am not really a sewing person, I would rather use sewing stamps as actually sew but what I have discovered is that Helmar actually has 2 Fabric glues in their range and they work exceptionally well in crafting.

For my layout I have used fabric for all but the base layer. As you will be able to see from the image below I have scrunched a layer of fabric onto my base layer. I have held this in place using Helmar Fabric Glue.

Then to create my elements for my layout I have used Helmar Fabric Stiffener & Draping Glue  to make my leaves for the flowers I cut the leaf shape out of fabric then on the front of the leaf I painted it with an old paint brush with Helmar Fabric Stiffener & Draping Glue then I laid the leaves on to a stick to give some curves to dry. for my flowers i painted them again and placed them onto old small jars to again achieve a curve then when dried layered them up and stuck them together using the  Helmar Fabric Stiffener & Draping Glue.

Once I had created all my elements I then proceeded to layer up my cluster on my layout using the Helmar Fabric Stiffener & Draping Glue to hold it all together.

 

I would say that if you are like me and not a sewer then these 2 products are simply amazing and well worth purchasing, your fingers do get sticky and messy, I believe it is well worth the time and effort.

Happy Crafting Kim Kendell    
   

A Card For Mummy

Hello Helmar fans, Raelene with you today. 
My Granddaughter was over a couple of days before her Mum's Birthday so with some help from me, a lot of flowers from my stash and some of my favourite Helmar Glues (Helmar Acid Free Glue and Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive) she created a card for her Mum.  I asked her what colour she wanted the bard to be and as I expected she wanted her 2 favourite colours (Yellow and Pink), so I narrowed things down and asked what colour the cardboard we stick things to "Yellow", what colour the paper should be "Pink", so from there I cut her some Yellow cardstock and got out my pink 6x6 papers and scraps so she could pick out the paper she wanted, she chose this paper with little butterflies on.  Then she had fun pulling out lots of yellow and pink flowers from my stash to use.

Now for the fun part, gluing things down.  I wanted her to give it a go each time to help with hand strengthening and fine motor skills but for the most part I had to put the glue where she wanted as she doesn't quite have the hand strength to squeeze out the glue herself yet.

 

When it came time to glue the flowers she placed the big yellow one down after I got some Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive on it.  Then she told me where each flower had to go and I put the Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive either on the card and then the flower was placed or I put it directly onto the flower depending on what I felt was the best way to get this done.
The little stick on flowers has barely any stick left so I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to ensure a secure stick.  I always use either Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive or Helmar Acid Free Glue with dimensional embellishments and even my letters as I find the adhesive that comes already on them can wear off after time and I wind up finding a layout has fallen apart without the aide of Helmar adhesives.

Miss E was very proud of the card she made.  She did a great job picking spots for flowers so the butterflies looked like they were flying in the background to or from the flowers (what she wanted).  Looks like we have a 3rd generation papercrafter in the making.  :)