Grandma

Good morning all, Monday again so soon! Oh well I hope you all enjoyed your weekend. 

Today's card is one I made for a friend at work. She wanted something for her grandma so this is what I came up with.

There's quite a bit going on with this one lol. I started with the window! which was cut with a Britannia die, and then looked for an image to go behind it. This one is from a Lili of the Valley artpad. 

I chose the papers and card from the stash to co-ordinate and matted and layered them on to a 6x6 card blank.

The spray of flowers are made up with rolled roses from a Marianne die and ready made flowers. Then I added a fern die cut and some twirly bits. 

The butterfly and tree dies are freebies from craft magazines I think

and the little bird is another Marianne die. 

I inked all the edges and stamped the grandma using Dusty Concord distress ink, and then finished the card with the Lili of the Valley sentiment and loads of purple jewels and pearls. 

I thought a special card deserved a special box too so I covered a ready made box with some paper and then stencilled a couple of ferns on to it using more Dusty Concord.

I added a couple of white rectangles for a Happy Birthday and a message and then finished it with a flower and a purple bow.

Hope you like it, take care, see you soon.

xxx

Mum

Good morning all and welcome to another Tuesday, they don't half come round quick lol, and it's April already. Wow. 

Well today I can share with you the card I made for Mum for Mother's day on Sunday. It is very simple, but I liked it and more importantly so did Mum.

I die cut a heart out of white hammered card and then dug out some ribbon roses that we picked up in The Range a while back.

I spaced them out around the edge of the card and then used my trusty Cosmic Shimmer glue to stick them down.

I used a 6x6 card blank for the base and some pretty blue spotty paper from the stash as a background.

Then I added the heart and a little Mum word. To finish it off I tied a little elephant charm around the word. 

I finally got around to buying some boxes for 6x6 cards, so I popped it in one of those to give to mum.

That's all from me today, see you soon, take care.

xxx

Altered Box

Good morning. Hope everyone is having a good week. I have been having a good old crafty time the last few days, making Christmas cards and birthday cards and finishing off a couple of projects I had on the go. One of the projects is the title of today's post.

 

We all have a few bits and pieces lying around that are just a bit boring or have seen better days, and this was one of them. A plain note pad holder that had sat at the side of Jude's telephone for years. When she moved in here it was just sat on the desk waiting for something to be done with it. So I eventually got my sticky mitts on it and gave it a new lease of life.

 

It was really simple. A couple of coats of off-white acrylic, followed by a coat of Gloss Medium to seal it.

Then I added ribbon and trim to the bottom and adhesive lace trim and pom-pom trim to the top.

 

I decorated the sides with chipboard stickers from the Hampstead collection and then added some melt art flowers that I had made to finish it off.

 

What do you think? Hope you like it.

See you soon. 

 

xxx