wallet tutorial

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Created by Joani 1/25/2010

Mini Wallet Tutorial

By

Joani McDonald

Mini Wallet Tutorial Created by Joani McDonald © 2010

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Supplies Needed:

� Cardstock (Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, White) � Designer Paper (The Angel Company© Catelynn Collection) � Embossing Folders used: Textile and Swiss Dots � Eyelets � Jewel Brads � Pop Dots or foam tape � Ribbon � Stampin’ Up!© Small clear bags � Adhesive � Velcro or magnet

Tools Needed:

� Cuttlebug or other die cut machine � Crop-a-Dile � Scor-Pal � Stampin’ Up!© Flowers #3 Die � Stampin’ Up!© Top Note Die � Paper Cutter � Miscellaneous Punches



The first thing you want to do is gather your materials together that are listed above. You should pick at least 3 coordinating colors of card stock and run them thru your Cuttlebug with an embossing folder of your choice. I used a half sheet of each color. These will be for the flowers you will use on the wallet flap and the ATC’s. Now cut them out with your Flowers #3 die cut ~ or if you have a Cricut or any other die you can use that also. Next you will take a ¼ sheet of card stock and emboss that with your embossing folder. I used a ¼ sheet of Pink Pirouette and my Textile embossing folder, and then cut it out with my Top Note die. This will be for the flap of the wallet. I like to have all my pieces together so when you are ready to put it together it goes quickly.



You will take your base, here I used Bashful Blue cut at 3 ½” x 11” and score it at 5 2/8” and 5 6/8” and set aside. You will want to decorate the front of the wallet first and I used Chocolate Chip cut at 5” x 3 ¼” and a piece of DP from The Angel Company© cut at 4 ¾” x 3”. Adhere those to the front of your wallet.

Now it is time to adhere the flap to your wallet. I took my piece of Pink Pirouette that I ran thru my Cuttlebug with the Texture embossing folder and cut out with my Top Note die. I then scored it in half and applied tape to only one side. I adhered that to the back of the wallet up to the score line.



Your wallet should be looking like this now with the front paper adhered and the flap glued in place.

Now you will take one set of the flowers that you punched out and attach them to the front of your wallet. If you are using the SU! © Flowers #3 die it will punch out the center of the flowers ~ however you will want to take the center of the flower that you are using as your last or bottom flower and tape it back to the center like I have done here.



Layer each of the flowers together and attach with a jewel brad in the center. Take a dimensional, pop dot or foam tape and adhere to the back of the flower. Now you are ready to attach it to the front flap of your wallet.

See, pretty huh?



I am sorry this picture is not a very good one… Now you will take your Velcro or magnet (whichever closure you prefer) and attach it to the flap and front of your wallet to keep it closed. What I generally do with my Velcro is give it a “haircut” so it will be a little easier to open. To do this after I attach the Velcro to my project I “open” it and on the fuzzy side I take my scissors and cut some of the threads off of it. It makes it a little easier to open. When you’re working with paper you don’t want to have to tug so hard to open your project, it may rip. Now that the outside of your wallet is complete let’s work on the inside.



You are going to take your small clear bags and use those for the “pockets” of the wallet. You will apply your adhesive to the “back” of the bag. By the back of the bag I mean the side with the seam. Apply your adhesive to all 4 sides closest to the edge as possible. When I tape something I generally add another piece of adhesive thru the center diagonal too just to make sure it stays put. Make sure that the opening of the bag is to the outside of the wallet so you can easily add items to your wallet. Repeat for both sides. If you do not have the bags from SU!© you can purchase some clear bags at your local craft store or Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart does carry similar bags in their cake and candy decorating department fairly cheap. Once the “pockets” are adding inside you will take a piece of white cardstock and add it to the inside of the clear baggie. This not only will give it a nicer look but it will help hide the tape that you applied to the baggie. This piece if using the SU!© bag will be cut to 2 15/16” x 4 15/16” ~ since the bags measure 3” x 5”. You will want to take very little off of the white cardstock so you can not see the adhesive at the edges. Another thing that I do is to add a piece of adhesive or a mini glue dot to the underside of the white piece so it will not come out when sliding your items in and out of the pocket. Your next step will be to add the eyelets and ribbon to the center of your wallet.



You do not have to add eyelets if you don’t want to, but I think that it gives a finished look to your project. When I add ribbon to something I generally like to add an eyelet so that I know the paper will not tear. I take my largest punch setting on my Crop-A-Dile and place it between the score marks in the center of the wallet. I don’t measure it, I just punch the hole in as far as the CAD will reach. Then add your eyelet and set it. Do the same to the other side.

This is what the inside should look like once the pockets are adhered, your eyelets are set and the ribbon is added.



Here is what it looks like on the outside once the ribbon is tied. We are almost done! We just need to make our ATC’s.

Your basic ATC is 3 ½” X 2 ½” for the base. Here I took a piece of Chocolate Chip for the base and a piece of Certainly Celery for the first layer. The DP is still from The Angel Company© Catelynn collection to layer on the top. I took some of the punched flowers I had and attached those on top with a jewel brad.



I punched a hole in the top and added an eyelet to the ATC then the ribbon to finish it off.

I made another ATC almost the same. I used Certainly Celery for the base and layered it with Pink Pirouette. I added a strip of Chocolate Chip scrap and some of the punched flowers to the ATC also.



Another eyelet and ribbon and I was complete with that ATC also.

This is what the inside of the wallet looks like completed with the ATC’s in the pockets.



So here is the completed project. I took the ATC’s and placed them in one of the pockets and filled the other pocket with punched flowers and tags from the left over scraps of paper I had. I figured that the recipient might like to have some of the flowers for themselves!

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