quick post

 

just a quick post. This is the guest book for the same friend at work that i did the table numbers for. The base of the book is from paperchase. I used the t/h bird cage die and tattered floral garland die.

 The middle page i used some old basic grey avery stamps and a tando bird cage along with the tattered florals die. Her theme is green, birdcages and birds.The other pages have headers like books i have done in the past.

Hope she likes it. Now off to the bramford crop!!!

its been a while......

but with school holidays its been difficult to do any form of crafting, plus the childminder has been on holiday for 2 weeks, so no spare time to even touch anything paper related. Anyway at last months crop at martlesham i got this layout done. A simple but effective. I use natural cheese cloth on this page spayed with OA mists and the splodges are done with crafters workshop template. The rest is layered with pink paislee paper, used a punch and some chipboard swirl with leaves. a tag  and made the flowers from tattered florals die. I have to say not my usual fuzzy layout but recently i have lost my scrapbooking mojo, and that day at the crop was quite difficult for reasons i won't go it to.  It may be a crop i no longer attend, if the situation remains uncomfortable

 Finally this week on Thursday i was able to get in the craft room. So a work friend asked if i could do her table numbers for her wedding. She has bought stuff off ebay but none of the suited her theme (bird cages, birds and green) So i used the T/H bird cage die, and a sizzix die to cut out the birds.The numbers were cut out on thick card with my circut using the base camp cartridge.

Paper is from and old K and Co paper pack. Painting the numbers was very messy I used two coats on both side of walnut distress stain and then walnut distress ink on the edges. I had very brown fingers, but the end result id good. Just got to make her guest book

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