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We aim to live up to our name and to show you the most inspiring papercraft techniques, share the latest ideas and hand-pick the most inspirational products for you to buy. We aim to bring you everything you need to get the most from our brilliant ho

* American Crafts 1canoe2 Saturday Afternoon 12x12 paper pad, wood stickers & layered stickers, from Scrapbook * Ribbons * Trims * Brad * Pigment inks – blue, peach & pink * Blending tool Have a go at making an accordion book using your frames! Di

Q What did you use to make your fab card? A I made my slider card using a digi image from Some Odd Girl, which I coloured with ProMarkers. The sentiment is from Scruffy Little Cat. Making a slider card is a new technique for me, but now I’ve tried

Don’t miss our 200th issue, which comes with this exclusive Fancy Flourishes kit! Make a batch of your own natural soap using traditional methods, in the inspiring setting of the Quantock Hills in Somerset. www.boocottage.com Learn how to carve and p

We predict personalisation will be a hot trend for 2020, with names and photos on cards being a key look – our frames die set gift (p6) is ideal for this! Card that move are still big news too, so check out our cool slider cards (p8) and Hamster moti

F›rom shakers and sliders, acetate holds so many possibilities for card making. In this project, we put acetate in the spotlight, and we think you’ll agree, it’s the base for some pretty fabulous cards! Here, Jules has used this crafty essential to m

Q Tell us about your card! A I cut an aperture into an 8x8in card, then attached acetate behind to make a window. I created the background using my Sheena Douglass Sparkle pens, and stamped some fairies onto the acetate. Q Do you have a top tip fo

Share your cards, creations and craft room snaps with us. Every letter printed wins a Midnight Garden Mirri Magic Topper Deck, worth £7.99. Our Letter We Love Most will also win the Perfect Planet Designer Deco-Large Collection, worth £24.99. You can

Have you ever been surprised to find something that you thought was lost forever? Maggie Holmes, on Facebook “I once lost the magnets from my Stamperatus, and spent forever looking for them. They eventually turned up several months later, stuck to m

Patricia Alison James is this month's Letter we love most! She made 20 different character cards using her create-a-character kit from issue 196 of Papercraft inspirations. Patricia says, “I always like making unusual shaped cards, so when I saw this

I found a stamped image in a drawer that I had forgotten about, so I added some more inking, doodling and layering, along with a textured stencilled background. It also gave me the perfect opportunity to test out some brand new sentiment stamps, and

Show off your crafty space! Whether it’s a big room or a tiny desk, we’d love to see where you craft… Penny Combs Rausch says, “We had this big basement that was empty and I wanted a craft room, so we had one built. Bingo! I accumulated cubes and ass

The most thrilling card making competition of the year has drawn to a close and with entries from every corner of the UK, you certainly kept us busy! After opening sacks of envelopes, we were joined by colleagues from our sister magazine Cardmaking &

I won the third place prize in the 2017 Cardmaker of the Year competition but, after that, I lost my direction with papercraft for a while. Finding out that I was a runner-up has really motivated me to try my hand at card making again. I tried out s

Retiform is a word you may not come across often in everyday life, but a quick search online will tell you that it alludes to anything with crossing lines that create a net-like appearance. For crafters, this is a perfect chance to use simple supplie

Let someone know you are thinking of them with our thoughtful designs. Our space-themed birthday greetings are out of this world! Send words of encouragement inside these beautiful inspirational cards Vicky designs gorgeous cards as her way to 'sw

* Altenew 6x6in paper pad – Enchanting Wishes, from Bumbleberry Crafts * Fun Stampers Journey stamps – Space Cadet, from Spellbinders * White & black card * Distress Inks * Glossy Accents * Alcohol markers * Sticky foam pads 1 Stamp the planet ima

* A5 Polkadoodles paper pack – Gentle Song, from Polkadoodles * Moonstone dies – Beautiful Birdcage, from Hunkydory * Framelits die – Stitched Labels, from Sizzix * Stamp set – Stitched All Around, from Stampin' Up! * A6 stamp set – A Little Sent

We challenged Sarah Jackman-Read to make five cards using just five bought items – plus a few extra bits from her stash! 1 Pink Paislee 12x12in paper pad – Paige Evans Truly Grateful, from Hey Little Magpie 2 Pink Paislee swatch books – Paige Evan

New Year’s resolutions are a chance for us to assess what we want to get out of the next 12 months. Whether you’d like to begin a new exercise routine, or just spend more time on your papercraft, setting out your goal and having a defined beginning d

Q What do you think about these printables? A Three of my grandchildren have hamsters, I know they would love these designs! I chose two hamsters, one big for the foreground and a smaller one who is busy running in his wheel. I made a border along

Q I recently bought a set of Gansai Tambi watercolours, and I want to learn how to use them. In particular, I'd love to be able to create easy backgrounds for my cards, perhaps with some detail over the top. Do you have any ideas for bringing them in

I recently bought a die set where all the dies are attached together, and in the process of cutting them apart with wire cutters, I accidentally bent one of the dies. Help! Ah –very easily done, but also very easy to fix! Simply run the squiffy die

New double-sided box dies from Crafter's Companion allow crafters to create an array of versatile boxes with just one pass through your die-cutting machine www.crafterscompanion.co.uk Michelle McCarthy Design Team, Crafter's Companion. Michelle has

Basic card kit, plus * Simply Creative tags – Christmas Glitter * Gemini Elements metal die – Torn Edge Circle, from Crafter’s Companion * Alteration tags – Large White, Large Kraft, from Stix2 * American Crafts Shimelle Field Trip stickers, puffy ph

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When I put my hand into my caddy to get out some tools and there was a massive spider in there! Realising there was one less needle than when I started! Running out of craft materials – now that is scary! Andrea Lambell made this colourful turt

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Have twice as much fun when you make the double slider cards that are featured on our YouTube channel this month. You’ll love the way we make our safari animals walk past each other on these clever cards! We used the Safari printables from issue 192,

Enchant your loved ones with the Fairy Garden collection from Crafter’s Companion. With whimsical fairies, cute woodland creatures and tiny toadstools in a soft pastel colour palette, the collection will whisk you away to a fairy grotto. We have thre

Visit www.papercraftinspirationsmagazine.co.uk click on the ‘Competitions’ tab or click the competition links on the homepage, then fill in our online entry form! Read our instructions and enter by 10th January 2020. See page 76 for full terms & cond