I’ve started thinking of ideas for gifts, although I’ve left everything a bit late this year, so I don’t have much time. I’ve also just been asked by my sister to make her Christening invites, so yet again, I’ve got tons to do – just when I thought I was catching up!
Isn't it fab? Don't you just love that lovely bird? This was made in a workshop with the fabulous Leandra from PaperArtsy. I had been really keen to have a play with the 10 Seconds Studio tools, as a set has been on my want list for a while and I really wanted to try them first to see which set would be best. I bought the basic set to start with, but I can see I'm going to be buying more! In the class we painted the edges with acrylic paint, but when I got home I decided to add some copper Krylon to the edges to tie in with the metal.
I also had to knock up a quick card for my boyfriends kids to give their grandma. I'd made our card ages ago, but had completely forgotten that the kids would need one too. So this was made in a rush on Sunday morning so they could give it to her at her birthday lunch!
Isn't Stampbord great? I made these two pieces at the weekend - the large one is 2"x2" and the small one is an inchie. The large one is on the way to Heather as part of my Pay it Forward challenge, I hope you like it Heather :)
I finally got round to altering the second lunch tin I bought. This one is for myself. As the top is rounded, I decided the easiest thing to do was to paint it with alcohol inks, in Lettuce and Cranberry. The bottom half is covered with papers (Crate and Basic Grey). The little tag is a wooden domino which I painted with acrylic paint, then stamped and gold embossed the angel, then I stamped her again onto cream card, and overlayed her over the embossed halo. I added some irridescent medium to highlight the halo, and some peridot crystals. I then coated the whole thing in glossy accents. The 'cards' tag was stamped with Doodlebug alphabet stamps.
I'm still working on my Christmas presents, and I was really keen to get some metal lunch boxes to make files for birthday cards. I wanted one for myself and one for my best friend Mandy. Most of the cards I make are A5, and this is where the problem started. All the lunch tins I could find (like the large Provo craft one) were just a bit too small. I wanted a top opening one too as this would work best. After literally hours of searching I found some here: Lunchboxes.com, so then I had to sit back and wait a week for them to arrive from the States.
Mandy loves Cath Kidston. Her house is full of beautiful tableclothes, crockery and fabrics by Cath Kidston. So I knew that had to be the colour scheme and theme. So I bought some patterened Cath Kidston napkins, and used these as the starting point for her tin. Firstly I separated the layers of tissue, then stuck it to the botton part of the tin with some gel medium. I then coated it with a coat of clear acrylic varnish. I did the same on the back, then went through my cupboards to find co-ordinating ribbons, some red spotty paper and a lovely red vintage button. I made a card tag and cut out one of the flowers from a napkin to stick onto it. I also made a wooden tag from a domino and put a chipboard 'M' on it. I realised that trying to put paper or tissue around the opening clasps would be virtually impossible, so I painted this area with Tim Holtz Crackle paint in Antique Linen. Then I stuck ribbon over all the joins. The 'cards' tag is just some circles of card, and the letters are stamped with Doodlebug letter stamps. This is attached with more ribbon. Finally I tied some ribbons to the handles.
I made up the file dividers from brown card, and stamped each month with Purple Onion stamps, embossed with blue and red powder. Then on cream card I printed each month so the birthdays can be written on.
I've just made a start on the Christmas gifts I want to make this year. These boxes will be for my two little nieces, and I plan to fill them with some girlie hair accessories and jewellery. The boxes themselves are wooden boxes that were full of dominoes. I've got a whole stack of these, so expect to see some more gift boxes over the next few weeks!
I was feeling in an Autumn mood today (even though it's the first sunny weekend we've had for a while!). I love Autumn, it's my favourite season. I got Craft Stamper magazine this morning and the free stamp was these lovely trees, so that gave me the idea for this simple design for the November pages of my calendars.
While I was playing around (and was meant to be coming up with ideas for the Christmas invites), I made this little hanging domino.
Each year I get asked to make the invites, table plans, place cards, gifts etc. for my Company's Christmas party. This is the 3rd one I've done, so I'm sort of running out of ideas now! I have decided this year's theme will be the 3 wise men/crowns. For the invites, I'm making little domino books with the invite details typed in the middle. Here are the dominoes that will go on the front (although I've actually now substituted the brown sequins for some nice green ones I've just found in my cupboard).
3 down, 67 to go! lol
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