Hello. Welcome to three bees in my bonnet blog. A blog of lots of things from nonsense to AI, PSD and AE tutorials. I also like to get proper hands-on and bake, sew, crochet, paper cut pictures and sometimes, pop-up cards and 3-d paper models.
I have a papercutting to do. The first stage is design—a rough paper drawing then drawn in iIllustrator. Tracing the design doesn’t really work too well, I’ve found. I create the flowers and leaves and superimpose them over the design then do the painstaking Shapebuilding and / or my method (I think it’s my…
Read MorePaper beads have been around forever and are simple to make. A few supplies and you’re good to go. There are free patterns all over the net, all similar to the pattern here. 1. Save the image above to your desk top then cut them out using thin paper (magazines are good – or plain…
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Another ‘L’. I always design in Illustrator and fill them with colours. I wish I could get decent coloured paper to actually cut from.
Read MoreThis cutting will be going in an A3 frame for O**** and needs to be ready for the weekend. Ireland is on red alert today because of hurricane Ophelia. Our little country isn’t used to extremes of weather and so this kind of thing takes us all unawares. It is certainly ferocious out there. but…
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A lovely little robot pop-up called Bindy. It folds flat inside a card then pops up when it’s opened. I think this works for males and females for a whole load of different occasions.
Read MoreIt’s my old mate the watering can. I created it in 2008? Maybe earlier – I’d have to check the date on the original file. I saw it recently in the Do Crafts magazine – not credited to me – just ‘from on the internet’… maybe saw the cut out template on SplitCoastStampers. I gave…
Read MoreI love robots! Thought I’d just show you my Bindy Bot pop up card made in champagne and grey Conqueror metallic paper. I think he has a lovely smiley face. Fred the Ted thinks so too but thinks his is cuter.
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Three Bees in My Bonnet 