A Unique Fish Tank by Michelle Jackson-Mogford

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A {Unique} Fish Tank

by Michelle Jackson-Mogfo

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ools:urple Cows 2 in 1 Combo Trimmer #1040

urple Cows Click Blade Colonial #2810

urple Cows Freestyle Mouse #6040

urple Cows Click Blade Score #2811

urple Cows Hot & Cold Laminator #3015/3025

urple Cows Click Blade Straight #2801

urple Cows Click Blade Wave #2803

urple Cows Click Blade Victorian #2809

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upplies:urple Cows Hot Pockets 8.5"x11" #4040

urple Cows Hot Pockets 12"x12" #4050

urple Cows Hot Pockets 11"x17" #4090

osmo Cricket Snorkel crafting kit

ear snaps cats eyes ink stacker - chocolate and

ueberries

ear snaps Smooch Spritz ink in blue

ear snaps glitter

ear snaps smooch inks

elmar scrap dots and 450 quick dry adhesivecohol inks, white card, colored pencils


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A {Unique} Fish TankStep by Step Instructions:

1. Using the Guillotine on the Purple Cows 2 in 1 combo trim-

mer trim the sides and back for your fish tank from Cosmo Cricket

beach towel paper. The front and back will be 10'' x 12'' and the sides

10'' x 7''.

2. From some scrap paper trim 2 more rectangles 1 @ 8'' x 10''

and 1 @ 8'' x 5''. Centre these rectangles on to the side and front and

back pieces you have just trimmed (the one at 5'' wide for the side

pieces the one at 10'' wide for the front and back) and mark around

them with a pencil. These pencil rectangles will act as a guide for

you to cut out the apertures.

3. Using decorative click blade

#2803 in the rotary side of the Purple

Cows 2 in 1 combo trimmer, cut out th

apertures from each piece. As the blad

doesn't make contact until you press

down on it, you can position it to cut a

accurate and perfect aperture every ti

Ink the apertures when you're done to

bring out the lovely scallop edge usin

the clearsnaps blueberry ink.

4. Put the sides and front and back of your fish tank into

some #4050 Purple Cows Hot pockets. Centre the pieces lining

them right up to the top to leave laminate available for the

folds later. Once all the paper is in place give the apertures a

good spritz with the smooch ink spritz and leave the pockets

open to dry.

5. While the fish tank pieces are drying fill a # 4040 Purple

Cows hot pocket with a mix of blue and green alcohol ink to

create a random pattern. Leave the pocket open to dry (don't

close the pocket while it is wet as it will ooze ink when it goes

through the laminator!)


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A {Unique} Fish Tank6. While all the Hot pockets fillings are drying, using the guillotine again trim 2 rectangles for the top and bottom of

the tank. I used Cosmo Cricket carbonation for this. Both rectangles need to be 12'' x 7''. Put one rectangle into a # 4050

Purple Cows hot pocket and the other one in a # 4090 Hot Pocket, centering it so we can fold edges over later to create th

lid.

7. Switch on the Purple Cows #3025 hot/cold laminator and while it is heating up sprinkle some clear snaps glitter

into the now dry hot pockets (the ones with the apertures and the alcohol ink one) and then close them up. Get a sparepiece of 12'' x 12'' card ready at this point to use as a feed guide for your hot pockets to support them as they go through

the laminator (you don't need to use this method for the base and lid pieces as they are solid paper pieces)

8. Laminate all your pieces and when you're done don't forget to switch off the machine (unless you've been collect

ing things to laminate, don't forget you can have a laminator session for up to 2 hours before you need to give the machin

a rest!)9. Now you need to cut all the pieces to siz

with the guillotine and score folds using click

blade # 2811 in the rotary trimmer of the 2 in 1

combo. Trim the 12'' x 10'' front and back pieces

the 12'' width (remember to allow a small margi

at the sides of the 12'' to contain the laminationand trim it at 10 1/4''. Score along the bottom at

10'' and fold the extra 1/4'' to allow this to adher

to the base. Trim the 10'' x 7'' side pieces to 10 1/

x 7 1/2'' then scoring the height at 10'' and 1/4''

either side folding them over to create the fixing

tabs for the box. Trim the base up to the sides of

the paper remembering to leave that lamination

margin and then trim the lid piece with a 3/4'' lip

all the way round (making it 13 1/2'' x 8 1/2'') sco

these 3/4'' lips and fold over. Cut into the corner

as you would when making a box so the flaps si

inside each other.

10. Now you have all the box pieces ready

the next job is to cut the 'sandbanks' for the

inside of the tank. Choosing different patterned

papers from the Cosmo Cricket snorkel kit cut

some sand banks using decorative click blades

#'s 2809 and 2810 in the Purple Cows freestyle

mouse # 6040. Make 2 12'' wide and up to 4'' in

height and 2 6'' wide up to about 5'' high. Usingthe freestyle nature of the mouse you can create

some lovely curved pieces for your tank. Using

the rotary trimmer and the score blade, score at

1/4'' up from the bottom of each piece, make

the fold and make a small cut upwards along

this tab about halfway along.


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11. Next using the straight edge click blade # 2801 in the

rotary trimmer cut some slits in the base piece, evenly spacing

them along the width and cutting 2 slits at 11'' and 2 at 5 1/2''.

12. Thread the sandbank tabs through the slits

the base, fold one bit of the tab one way and the

other half the other and glue in place under the ba

using Helmar 450 quick drying glue. Folding the tab

ways like this will make the sandbank stand up.

13. Using the Helmar 450 glue again, glue the

tabs on the bottom of the front, back and side pieceto the under side of the base (so the sides will stand

up around the base.

14. With the sides pushed upright use the tabs

on either side to glue to the front and back pieces o

the inside to create the box for the tank.

15. Glue the corners of the lips on the lid together using the Helmar glue.

16. Cut some seaweed shapes from the alcohol ink filled pocket and some fish shapes. Glue the seaweed shapes to t

front of some of the sandbanks using the Helmar glue which dries clear and add in some shells using Helmar scrap dots.

Glue the fish to some strips of waste laminate and fold over a tab at the end to glue into the inside of the lid.


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17. Cut out a mermaid body from some white card and colorwith clearsnaps smooch ink and colored pencils and then cut the

head from a photograph of the person you'd like to capture in this

fishy setting and glue in place. Glue scrap strips of laminate to the

mermaids and in the same way as the fish glue these into the inside

of the lid.

18. All that remains is to put the lid on the box, place somewhere

to display and enjoy your fish and mermaids bobbing about in their

glittery, fishy world. What fun pieces of home decor will you create

with your Purple Cows tools? Thanks for playing along with me on

this project, happy crafting loveM x

A Unique Fish Tank by Michelle Jackson-Mogford

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