Saturday 23 August 2014

Scallops a go-go

Hi Crafty Friends

I am delighted and honoured to be asked to do classes in box making for RWS. Here are the two I taught today. OK, so one is a basket, buy hey it's only a box without a lid. This month's class had a scallop theme

This was inspired by the box I keep my Christmas tree decs in. It uses one sheet of A4 and a bit of fancy partial die cutting on the top. I used a Go Kreate die for the top and an X Cut border die for the scalloped decoration.


I was pleased with how this pentagon shaped basket worked out. I'm thinking it would be good done in Christmas colours and filled with bags of home made sweets (fudge for preference). 

It was a lot of fun, just hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as I did.
happy crafting
j xx

Monday 11 August 2014

Tickling the ivories

Hi Craft Friends
I enjoyed working with the ivory palette for the card I did for RWS, so I made a variation on it. This is for a friend's milestone birthday.


The frames etc are as before, but I've used a memory box flower die. I've made it slightly bigger, as I found some lovely paper for the backing layer. It hasn't photographed very well though.
Happy crafting
xx

Saturday 2 August 2014

back to die cuts

Hi Crafty Friends
After a quick foray into stamping, I'm back to die cuts. here's a card I did for RWS 


I used two Spellbinders frames (Radiant Rectangles and Elegant Labels 4) , a memory box heart and Go Kreate butterflies. I think the sentiment tag is Cheery Lynn. The scrunched up background is tissue paper.
Happy crafting
xx

Friday 1 August 2014

Stamping

Hi Crafty Friends

I've been trying to get into stamping a bit more have have gone for a different look from my usual for this post. I've bought quite a few background stamps, and most of them are piled on here!


I embossed the compass and whacked on the Glossy Accents which took forever to dry. I managed not to touch it before it was dry (a first!)

I thought I'd make a congratulations on passing your exams card, and people as old as me will remember Hilda Ogden (she of the wall 'muriel') saying 'The world is your lobster' I may rethink the text as everyone I know who is taking exams is too young for this. But what to choose? 'Your dream ticket', 'your ticket to ride', any suggestions welcome

happy crafting
xx