Sewing box

I wanted to make a nice present for a friend of mine with whom I share birthdays and since I know she likes sewing I thought of this little box. She has not got a lot of room where she lives at the moment so I didn't want to lumber her with a great big thing and thought this little version would be perfect. Now lets hope she likes it. It's made out of a 12x12 piece of card and recovered in fabric. I have also added a bit of padding on the inside to make it more lush and so she can use it to prick pins when she's not using them. I haven't given it to her yet, so let's hope she'll like it (and that she doesn't read this before I give it to her or that could seriously kill the surprise!). She's away on holidays at the moment so I think I m safe....

La Ronde de Noel

Ok, I know! I am indeed very very late in showing you this considering this was my interpretation of la Ronde de Noel for Les ateliers du scrap. Still you know what they say , better late than never! I have been soooo busy and still am so I have a few more things to add to the blog but will have to find the time to add them between two exams or essays to write! For now I hope you enjoy this lot!

Jewellery box

A little jewellery box created from cereal boxes , docraft paper flowers as well as flowers created with various sizzix dies. The owl stamp is from Leane Creatief  and the papers I used are my mind's eye "29th street market". The hinge is actually a brad from seven gypsies. It is about the size of a large card so ideal for decoration on a chest of drawers in a little girl's room (which is exactly where it's ended up I hear!).

White corset card

This one was for my mums birthday. She loves dancing and I thought the "skirt" looked very dancy! The body is cut from a template (you can find it on my template page) and was embossed with a sizzix folder (flowers). The fringe and ribbon are from my stash which I normally get in Birmingham rag market. The only thing with this particular card is that you have to enclose a separate little note that you slip in from the top so you don't have to open the ribbon at the front. You could however modify the template and make the card open at the side instead. Up to you folks!

Box Card

I wanted to make a special box for my sons' friend birthday but as I was pushed for time I didn't have time to make a card too so I decided to make a box card! I  used the tutorial in a previous post and quite enjoyed it so I had another go. This one is larger than my previous attempt. I also made some jewellery to put in the card.

 

 


This embellishment is a metal frame which I stamped and heat embossed with white powder. I printed the words on my PC and cut them out in the shape of the inside of the frame. I inked the edges with rangers vintage photo distress ink and then I glued the cutout inside the frame and covered it in modpodge.

Birthday Boy!

Ok I know, I've been neglecting my blog! I am very busy at the moment with exams etc... so I don't have much time to craft and even less to blog! So to satisfy my "cravings" of everything "arty" I just have a quick hop on Pinterest from time to time in between exams preparations! I have to survive somehow!! Anyway this card was actually made in the summer when our Australian cousin we met for the first time came to visit with his dad. It was his 30th on the say he arrived so I didn't have much time to come up with something especially since I only found out when he landed! So this is what I came up with. He is very much a man's man, with typical Australian male no messing about approach if you know what I mean! I always find cards for men a challenge as I like pretty... but I didn't think a butch australian would be particularly excited about prima flowers or even vintage lace... So there you have it:

 

 

Just a little card...

This card was made with background papers from My Mind's Eye "29th Street Market". The flowers are a selection of docrafts paper flowers to which I added holographic glitter glue. The butterfly is a Cheery Lynn die cut that I inked to give it some depth. I used a stamp from My Paper World: "labelling Fields" (art. no 4003 003 00) which I embossed with Wow embossing powder "Earthtone Olive". All the edges are inked in Rangers "Walnut" distressed ink. The flourishes are marianne creatables, not sure of the reference as I lost the packaging but it is a fairly easy one to get hold of. So there you have a little card on its way to wish my partner's daughter a happy birthday indeed!

Mai ATC exchange

Here is the ATC I received all the way from Polynesia from Okéalor. Lovely colours and very pretty. Thank you Okéalor, I love it!

Design Diary

My daughter's best friends birthday was a chance to create this little design diary. Her friend enjoys sketching clothes and accessories and I thought this way she could save her design with style! I really enjoyed creating this little book and I hope she'll love it too.

May ATC swap at les Ateliers Du Scrap

Vintage birthday card

Here is a large vintage birthday card for a friend of mine. I know she's very fashion conscious so I am hoping she will like it! I printed the background paper from a label I downloaded off the Graphics Fairy website and I think the mannequin is also from her site.  I printed it on normal printer paper and then aged it with antique linen distressed ink from Ranger. The mannequin is a Tim holtz die cut and so is the bobin.  The border at the bottom is a Cheery Lynn border die cut which I inked with vintage photo ink again by Ranger.  I used the ame ink to distress the edges of the card too.  The top right corner was stamped in vintage photo ink with a WOW stamp called "Vintage Wallpaper" (stock code: STAMPSET12). The flowers are Dovecraft "Paper Blossoms" in natural colour.  The butterfly was given to me during an ATC exchange with the girls from Les Ateliers du Scrap. So that's it really, I hope you like it!

 

18th birthday mini album

I hope you have a few minutes to spare as I am afraid this is a bit of a large post, mostly due to the considerable amount of photos! I worked on this album for a full 6 days as I was commissioned for an 18th birthday. I did have to scan and re-print virtually all the photos which took quite a bit of time. 

   

For this album I have used papers called Lime Twist from My Mind's eye collection.  I love their stuff and since I only just acquired this pad it was a perfect opportunity to put the papers to good use.  Actually saying that the front cover and back cover papers are from the same designer but from the 29thStreet Market pad.

You will have recognised the Tim Holtz Hardware Finding die cuts which were heat embossed first with silver powder then gold. I sanded them to make them look old and rustic and inked with crushed olive and walnut distressed inks.
The numbers are wooden which I tinted with walnut distress ink and then added ModPodge for shine. The metal letters for the name are from Making Memories - I think - but the label is no longer present so I can't be sure.
The wired word "Happy" is my own creation and the metal coggs, chains, keys and pin are charms which I had in my jewellery stash!

There are a lot of tags added for the owner to put their own comments so some of them were left blank or with little decoration. The boys' mother wanted some places were she could write dates etc and I think I gave her plenty of that.

 

This booklet actually opens up and  has a pocket which contains tags left blank.

 

 

The lad is crazy on apple computers so I created his own mini Macbook which closes with velcro and has a picture of him when he was small.

  

These last two pages were left blank so he could add photos from his 18th birthday party. His mother loved the album so much that she made me add two further pages as she hadn't given me pictures of herself with the baby and she felt left out!

Unfortunately I forgot to photograph them...

I did have a major nightmare when it came to binding because with all these pages I didn't have a bind it all wire big enough! Luckily I had those metal rings left over from another project and since they were quite large they fitted perfectly. The added advantage is that they open so when the mum wanted to add pages it wasn't a problem!

Anyway that's all folks so I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed creating it. Thanks to all of you who gave me ideas for the embellishments which in the end I kept fairly minimal since the papers were so vibrant.