baby shower book

This  is a baby shower book i made for a friend using the baby girl crate paper line. The book is from paperchase and covered with the patterened papers. Flowers also made from the paper using punches and dies.

 Each page has a headed banner and space to write message or quote.

Holidays - Letterbox tray -Tando and happy daze challenge

This is something i made a while ago and I'm entering it in to the happy daze and tando challenge challenge. I started by painting my chipboard tray with paperarsty fresco paint. Once dry it was time to fill the boxes.

The photo is printed on to canvas photo paper and placed in to the larger rectangle.The squares at the top of the frame are filled with some Websters pages paper and some hessian

 The stamps used to make the flowers are from an old fancy pants set, then embellished with buttons and the make waves that i stamped on acetate are from a pink paislee set. Shells and a small  set of keys make up the lower rectangle

 The lower square is covered in Websters pages paper along with a bottle and rolled up map and a small tag stamped with 'look' from a technique set

Yes its been a while since i last blogged but with school finishing for the summer hols, away on holiday ourselves and celebrating our little ones 4th birthday, i ran out of time to sit at the computer and blog. Yes I'm a bad girl. I will try a post a page i did at the papermaze crop at the end of the week

Bramford girls challenge - altered heart frame

Just finished this, so I'm going to say sorry to the girls for not getting it done earlier but life got in the way. I have to say i found this a little difficult, and couldn't think where to start, so i looked for inspiration on the net, and found an image of an altered frame that i liked.

I pulled out my scattered straw, mustard seed, aged mahogany and black soot distress ink. Some of the new prima stamps, wendy vecchi, paperarsty, kaiserkraft, 7 gypsies, pink paislee and tim holtz stamps and set about collageing my frame. (this took ages). I then went about adding my embellishments. The 2 squares are stamp board stamped with images form papaerartsy and wendy vecchi and then scratched. A pen nib, pink paislee button, and grunge board letters. Crackle glaze added to stamped image and cut book plates from grunge board added. The tag hangs in the middle, with a Wendy vecchi sentiment and a key. I have to say the pic doesn't do it justice

Altered Letter K

The bramford challenge was supplied by Janet. She gave us all a letter, the initial of our first name.For days i looked at this wondering what i could do. When i finally got the idea by searching for owl images on the Internet, and found an owl popping out of a tree trunk.and tried to recreate this on my K

Firstly i distress stained my K and then went about making my owl and tree trunk with crate paper, and a metal cog and some watch parts. I then added the smallest of flowers and leaves from T/H tattered garlands die and some bling

Guestt book and card

A work friend is celebrating her 40th anniversary by renewing her wedding vows. So I've made this card and a guest book. She never had a guest book when she first got married so i decided to make her one. She loves the colour black which is why i went for BG Little black dress collection

Here's the front of the book

And the middle page containing a poem. The wedding is next weekend 

Altered bra/ papertrey ink

A work friend is dong a sponsored walk/run for breast cancer next month . They give you a bra that you have to wear for the event which they want you to decorate. So this is what i came up with. The flowers are cut out of felt using 3 nesting flower dies from papertrey ink, and a the poinsettia leaf die also from papertrey ink

tried gluing them on but it didn't work. So out came the needle and thread. I'm sure she is going to look really good in it

HEXAGONS - my minds eye challenge and scrapagogo crop kit

Hexagons appear to be popping up everywhere. So with the new my minds eye paper i got from the scrapagogo crop kit and some from my own stash . I came up with this layout. The punched strip is from a fiskars/american crafts punch and the brown trim i got from a local craft shop

The chicken wire stamp is from waltzing mouse stamps and the splodge from papertrey ink grunge collection

The frame is made from a technique tuesday elements set which i have used as a template The rolled flowers are hexagons cut in a spiral and rolled up, plus some extra hexagons cut from the paper and layered. The be happy element was in the kit and the letters are from prima