Helmar Creative Team

Altered Decor Project

Hello everyone! I’m so excited to share with you my first project with Helmar! We moved cross country almost one year ago and we are still settling into our home and decorating. I have been making updates to my daughter’s room and when I was trying to decide on a project, I knew she would love a little pretty item for her room. I went on the hunt for some pieces to make what I was envisioning in my head.

I found this little wall hanging and knew I could use it as a base and create something uniquely for her and in colors matching her new bedding. The edge was a pretty coral color already, and while the quote was cute, it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for in her room. I picked up some heavy canvas and cut it to size to cover the front but left the coral sides showing.

This left the perfect blank slate to build my project! I then painted the S dark blue with some acrylic paint. Pay attention and get the edges, too, to get a more finished look. Or, if you want a bit of extra depth and contrast, paint the edge a complimentary project or be extra careful and leave the edge the natural color. Whatever you choose, be sure to seal the paint for extra durablility. I used Helmar’s Crystal Kote Matte Varnish. The Glossy finish would also be beautiful if you prefer!

While that was drying, I grabbed some quilling papers and decided to make a few little flowers and leaves to decorate the front of my project. You can also use some paper scraps and trim some narrow pieces and roll them by hand. There’s no need to go buy special tools to make these little beauties! Helmar’s 450 Quick Dry Adhesive was the perfect glue to secure the ends of the paper to keep my flowers from unraveling.

Now the assembly! I layered my different elements and moved things around until I found a layout that was pleasing to my eye. Then I added a few more touches. After I was happy with the composition, I grabbed my 450 Quick Dry adhesive again for some of the pieces and others I used my Premium Craft Glue and glued everything into place. The Quick Dry was TOO quick for some of the quilled pieces to place them on the project! When's the last time you had a glue dry too quickly?!? I love that there are so many helmar glues to meet all of my crafting needs! I love how it turned out! I know my daughter will love it, too!

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Happy Mail with Memorydex cards

Hello there, Lisa here today.

I'm so excited to be here for my first post for Helmar.

I recently joined the Helmar Creative Team & I am really looking forward to sharing a varying range of projects with you - using the amazing Helmar adhesives.

I am a Scrapbooker, journaller & I love to create Happy Mail. I also participate in paper craft swaps.

 

The Helmar products I have used are:

Helmar Craft Glue

Helmar Liquid Scrap dots

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

So today I am sharing something I have made for a swap.

This is called a loaded envelope. The swap brief was to make 3 Memorydex (rollerdex) cards to swap with your swap pal.

My swap pal & I set our theme & decided on Pink, Gold & floral. 

So the envelope is filled with the handmade cards & lots of other goodies (keep reading - I'll show you).

So I started with the envelope, which I made using my WRMK Envelope punch board (love this). I constructed the envelope using the Helmar Craft Glue.

I have been a paper crafter for a long time & to be honest I have mostly used double sided tapes to adhere projects.  So the last few weeks since I received my kit, I have had a great time sampling the glues to see what works with my projects. My current favourite is Helmar Craft Glue! I haven't stopped using this stuff! Would you believe I have barely used any double sided tape for about a month!

What I love about it...It's easy to apply (doesn't require much strength to get the glue out!) Weird comment I know, but I have weak hands & this is a huge plus! It goes on so smoothly, it dries quick enough whilst stilll being quite forgiving - meaning you have time for slight adjustments. It dries completely clear & wrinkle free! 

Here are the Memorydex cards. I cut them out using a Heidi Swapp Die. As you can see lots of Pink, lots of Gold & floral.

Here are some close ups...I once again used the Helmar Craft Glue to assemble any flat pieces of standard paper.

I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry for the heavy duty jobs - like construction & attaching of the bow. Attaching the sequin trim, sequins.

For this card I additionally used the Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots to make the sweet little hearts, the sentiment tags & extra floral embellishment pieces to sit up ever so slightly. 

So would you like to see what else I stuffed in the envelope?

Some decorated Project Life cards which have a little note to my pal, a sequin mix, some washi tape & a Tea bag.

I also made the tassel which you can see attached to the envelope. I made this with wool - just by wrapping it around some card. I used the Helmar 450 Quick Dry to adhere the beaded trim & the jewel rhinestone so I know it will stay put!

I hope you have enjoyed my share today. if you have any questions just let me know.

You can follow me on Instagram if you'd like - you can find me here.

ANZAC day craft

Hi! Its Bridget here today.   I am so excited to be sharing my first project with you on the Helmar blog.   My first project is a very important one and that it is an ANZAC day craft.

ANZAC day is one of the most important national commemorative occasions in Australia and New Zealand.  It marks the anniversary of  the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand armed forces during World War One.

It is a very tricky subject to teach your children about, but an important one. I find a great way to teach our children is through activities like baking Anzac day cookies and craft.

Today I am sharing how to make a ANZAC day wreath.

 Items you will need:

Egg carton

Tissue paper

red paint

black pom poms, or black buttons

a sheet of cardboard

green card stock

scissors

ribbon

Fabric paint

Helmar Fabric Glue

Helamr 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Helmar Craft and Hobby PVA Glue

 

First we cut up the egg carton into individual sections, then we painted the outside red and allowed it to dry.

 

Draw and cut out a ring from a sheet of cardboard. We used red glitter cardboard, but you can just paint plain cardboard red.

 

 

Then we use Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to glue the egg cartons to the ring making a wreath.  My ring was quite large so we did end up cutting up another egg carton.

 

We then cut up some red tissue paper into rectangles and with a little Helmar Craft and Hobby PVA glue we glued in the tissue paper to create petals.

Next we placed a little black pom pom in the center of each egg carton with a little more Helmars craft and hobby glue. 

 To finish this off, my girls also wanted to add a few leaves, so we cut some leaf shapes out of green card stock and placed them randomly around the wreath.  We also then got some blue velvet ribbon, which we wrote on "lest we forget" and with some Helmar Fabric Glue added this to the project.

Here is our completed project with a piece of rosemary which symbolises remembrance.

 

'Lest we forget'

 

Mini Boxes

Hello Helmar friends Lydia back today to share a fun little project. I had a lot of fun making these and I hope you are able to join me and see my process and get some inspiration to make your own.

All you will need for this project is

- Mini noodle box or Pillow Box template
- Pattered paper
- Embellishments
- Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots
- Helmar Tacky Glue
- Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

First things first: pick out some pattered paper an trace my templates. Then, cut them out.

Next thing I did was fold all the sides of my cut our box templates and got of the trusty and strong Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to adhere all sides together to form the little boxes.

These are the finished and glued little boxes. Now for the fun part for embellishing these cute boxes.

By using both the Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots to give some of my embellishments some height I also used the Helmar Tacky glue to adhere other elements to the boxes..

And ta-dah they're done. I love, love, love how these turned out and they would be prefect filled up with some little chocolates or goodies as part of a gift.

Here are some close ups for you.

 

I hope you all enjoyed my process of these cute mini boxes andI hope you grabbed some inspiration to make your own.

Hope you have a great day.

Lydia xxxx

 

Artist Trading Cards

Hi all Vicki-Ann here for the Helmar Creative Team today.

 Recently I was in an Artist Trading Card or ATC swap with the Australian art swap group on Facebook. It's where you re-use playing cards to make mini art. They have been traded by artists for many years.  With this swap it was an inspiration deck and you had to make 22 ATC's and send them off to the leader of the swap and then they were mixed up and you got 22 different ones back. 

So these were the ones I made for the swap, I made a variety of ATC's but it would have been fine to make them all the same. 

List of items I used. 

• Helmar Decoupage Craft Paste
• Helmar Tacky glue
• Helmar glue spreader
• Playing cards
• Card stock
• Stamps 
• Acrylic paints
• Stencil
• Pens for doodling

So to start they said the easiest way was to glue all the cards on to a piece of card stock and treat it as one page.

Thought that was a brilliant idea so I used my favourite product the Helmar Decoupage Craft Paste to glue all my playing cards on.

I like to glue the paper and the back of the cards and then press any bubbles out with the Helmar glue spreader.

You get a really good finish and the Helmar Decoupage Craft Paste dries clear.

I used Decoart Americana paints and some of my home made stencils to do the shape at the sides. The stamps were Tim Holtz and Darkroom door for the dragonfly, lady bug, be free and fly words. I also used the Prima honeycomb stamp. 

To put my quotes on I used the Helmar Tacky glue.  

This was such a fun project to do and I am looking forward to getting my 22 ATC's in the mail. 

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to you all. I've created a cute layout of our youngest son Harry and
our daughter Daisy from Easter a few years ago.
I used some fabulous Helmer products that worked so well.

Here's what I started with

Helmar Premium Craft Glue
Helmar Fabric Glue
Helmar Fray Stoppa
Helmar Gemstone Glue
Kaisercraft cardstock
Echo Park Beautiful Life paper collection
Cocoa Vanilla Studios Make a Wish embellishments
Websters Pages Country Estate paper collection
My Minds Eye enamel dots and shapes
The Reject Shop wood veneers
 Freckled Fawn wood veneers
Spotlight Easter stickers
The Reject Shop wood veneers
Craft Queen ribbon and twine
Silhouette Cameo
Pink Paislee 
Sewing machine

 To begin with I glued a small strip of the Echo Park paper to the middle of the white cardstock using Helmar Premium Craft Glue.

I wanted the background to look like an Easter basket so I started to add ribbon's and threads with Helmar Fabric Glue.

 I glued Helmar Fray Stoppa to the ends of all the different threads.

 Then I glued my photo onto a light green cardstock mat and placed it in the middle of the page again using Helmar Premium Craft Glue.
Next I started to add my embellishments. I had a few different shaped Easter eggs from a pre cut Silhouette file that I printed with pink and blue cardstock, then glued them together.

I glued them randomly and added wood veneers and stickers. I glued all of the
enamel dots with Helmar Gemstone Glue so they won't budge!
Lastly I sewed a running stitch border around the white cardstock.

Here's the finished layout, I hope it inspires you to create one too :) 

 

 

Happy Easter from the team at Helmar!

Letters To My Grand Kids

Hello everyone. I have a journal I am working on for my grandkids. They will "find" it probably when we are gone. But, it will tell them a little about our lives and what we did during the year.

The supplies I used are listed below but you can use anything you would like in your journal.

Designer paper
junk mail (like the advertisements you get for voting and such that is heavy duty)
script stamp
used postage stamps
button
stencil
vintage photo
old card I had made in the past (but not finished)

Helmar Decoupage and Craft Paste
Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive
craft paint
sandpaper
kids

 

Using a piece of junk mail make an envelope. Cut and fold your piece to reseble an envelope. I used Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive to glue the bottom and sides of my envelope. After the envelope is done, you can decorate it any way you choose. I painted mine then used a script stamp to stamp on it then a stencil with letters on it. While that is all drying, take your book you are using, I picked mine up at a local thrift shop. It is a heavy page kids book. I decoupaged each page using Designer paper and Helmar Decoupage and Craft Paste.
I then took my handmade envelope and attached it to the first page using Helmar 450 Adhesive and then added used stamps and a button to the envelpe. I put a letter to my grandkids inside the envelope to read when they are older. On the opposite page, I took an old card I had made and never finished, glued that onto the page added another small envelpe to the front and made a tag to go into the envelope. The inside of the card and the back of the tag are two more places you can journal on. This is and will be a fun project to keep adding to and to make. Thank you for joining us today and don't forget to stop by Helmar and check out all the wonderful adhesives, and more, they have to offer.

Below are the pictures of steps...

These are pics of making the envelope for the letter. Using Helmar 450 Adhesive

Below is putting Helmar Decoupage and Craft Paste to each page to put designer paper on the pages.

If you paste the link below into your browser, you can see the book pages made. 

https://www.facebook.com/donna.lueders.1/videos/vb.100000283719442/1465875940098516/?type=3&theater

 

Easter Scrapbooking Layout:

Hello Helmar friends!

Today I have an Easter layout for you but it is not about the children; it is about us grown ups!  I have scrapped a photo of my favourite Easter egg treats, every year I scrap the kids but this time it was about me. It is important to document us not just our kids or other family members.

I have used two Helmar products to make this layout:

liquid scrap dots

450 quick dry adhesive

I have used a cut file to cut my egg but if you don't have a cutting machine you could cut an egg shape and then punch different coloured shaped (or just circles to it), using Helmars 450 quick dry glue as I did.

I then cut a bunny rabbit and added small punched flowers over it again using Helmars 450 quick dry glue.

Note I have added some journalling to the bottom of my layout using my old typewriter (picked up in an op shop!) it is important to add some meaning to the photo I think.

The other embellishments I have used such as stickers I have use Helmars Liquid Scrap dots which added height to those embellishments.

This is a simple layout but has visual impact due to the larger elements and colour choices of this layout against white.

At this time of the year you can pick up Easter themed paper and stickers from many craft shops.

It is important to use an adhesive that will dry clear especially when adhering small paper embellishments such as the flowers on the bunny which is why Helmars 450 dry quick glue is one of my go to adhesives.

I hope I have inspired you to go and scrap a grown up Easter layout, perhaps of your favourite Easter treat so in years to come others will remember!

Thank you for stopping by today.

Have a wonderful Easter break, eat chocolate and scrap I say!!!!!

 

Reflection: Bible Journaling: Week Before Easter

Guess what I got just in time for Easter? A journaling bible!!  Many may ask what's that? Best way to describe it is as a bible with extra large spaces along the margins.  The pages are really thin and I wanted to protect them so I plan to prime them a bit..  Let me show you my finished page!

 

I first began by getting the things I needed to make my primer/clear gesso.

The supplies included:

Helmar- Craft & Hobby PVA Glue

Helmar- Crystal Kote Matte Varnish

Fredrix Powdered Marble

Water

A jar with a lid

A Spoon

A cosmetic wedge

 

I originally saw this done on Youtube by Pink Poodle Crafts and decided to try it for myself! The reason I am choosing to use clear is because I  am trying my best to be able to see the words through my work.  If you didn't know you can often wipe away paints or protect the layer closest to the gesso.  I really wanted to try this out for my new bible. I plan to draw and paint within it as a form of artistic worship and praise.

 First I poured 4 ounces of the craft & hobby pva glue in a clean mason jar.

 Then I added a little bit over an ounce of water.  I wanted to make sure I got all the glue out the bottle so I added the water in the bottle and shaked it around before I poured it in the jar.

The I added 3 tablespoons of Fredrix Powdered marble.

 Took a spoon and stirred it around for a while. (beause I like to.. :::haha:::)

 Then I put the lid on and shook it up, for a while.  When I decided to use it, I took the contents from the lid and used my cosmetic wedge to pick it up.

 I dabbed the clear gesso to the page in my bible.

 One it was dry I began to art with a pencil and then some water color paints and crayons.

 Believe it or not unlike some of the other store bought brands of clear gesso, I found this super smooth.  I almost thought I had done it wrong, until I used it!  I am very pleased with my final page and I plan to use this clear gesso again in other art work. I hope you will join me and try this, you may tweak the ingredients based on the humidity and altitude of your surroundings.  The recipe is NOT exact and I fond different people do slightly different things.  The only things that stays the same is the use of white PVA glue, Water and white marble dust.  

 

Happy Easter to you all.  While you are preparing for the holiday I hope you get all your adhesives Helmar try. You deserve quality products on your fisnihed crafts and art projects!!

 

'Live more...' by Sarah Rosse

Hello crafty friends, Sarah here with a scrapbooking layout for you. For some reason I felt like scrapping this photo of my husband and myself from a walk we took recently around a local lake.  We love to visit there with our two boys, but rarely do we stop and take photos of ourselves - this particular day, we took some random shots and this was a lovely selfie of the two of us with a pleasant background.  When I look at the photo, I want to remember the story behind it - the carefree feeling of walking and enjoying the sun....hence the reminders for both of us in this layout.

Materials needed for this project are as follows;

Helmar P.V.A. Professional Woodworking Glue

Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive

Kaisercraft Ubud Dreams sticker sheet and 'Merak' patterned paper (from Shop and Crop Scrapbooking online store)

Dylusions white acrlyic paint, paint brush

Faber-Castell gelatos - colours used are Metallic Blueberry, Metallic Mint and Cotton Candy

Wooden Veneer Alpha Set from D-lish Scraps (online store)

Embellishments of your choice - Map Marker by Charms Creations (online store), date stamp, black ink

Let's get in to creating this layout....

Step 1 - Using the Helmar Professional Woodworking Glue, adhere the Wooden Veneer alphas to the Kaisercraft patterned paper base.  This glue is fantastic for these wooden pieces - adhered them down without a problem. Leave this to dry.

 

As pictured below, you can adhere the alphas however you like - I have some upside down, sideways and back to front, just to add some interest.

Step 2 - While the wooden alphas are drying, mount your photo onto cardstock. I am using a 4x6 portrait photo and have mounted it on both blue, then white cardstock.

Step 3 - Using a large paint brush, paint white acrylic paint all over the wooden alphas. Be sure to dab paint all around the letters, in the little crevasses, etc. Once dry, paint on a second liberal coat of paint.  Leave to dry - if you're impatient like me, you could help the process with a heat gun.

    

Step 4 - Once the paint is dry, you can apply some colour.  If you dont have gelatos you could use paint for this step.  Rub some gelato stick on to your craft mat and add a few spritzs of water. Mix with a small paint brush and apply to the painted area.  For this layout I applied the Metallic Blueberry and Metallic Mint to be darker (down and across the painted area). I then used the Cotton Candy for a lighter wash across the remainder of the painted area.  Allow to dry.

     

Step 5 - Now to adhere down the embellishments. Whilst the sticker sheet embellishments are sticky, I like to add adhesive to them to make them last on the project - particularly if they are to be stuck to a painted surface.  I also like to outline each piece with a black brush pen to make them stand out.  Using the Helmar 450 Quick Dry Adhesive, stick down the sticker words and map marker.
   

 Step 6 - Lastly complete the layout with any final touches - I like to add a date stamp to remember the date the photo was taken. I also add a mandala sticker from the sticker sheet.

 

Thanks again for joining me - I hope you enjoyed this project!