Top note die mini album

Happy new year everyone. I hope you have made a resolution to do more crafting! I thought I'd share with you a little mini album I made using the top note die.  I die cut some card board as covers and covered them in mocha morning dsp - gorgeous paper, thank you Angela who gave me a couple of sheets, it is now on my wish list. The pages are also die cut from cardstock, I punched a hole using the crop-a-dile and bound the using a book ring so dead easy to make.

 I used the scallop envelope die to enclose a little photo and message. I used the broadsheet alphabet stamp to stamp out DAD for the cover, it was a little xmas pressie for my husband with some photos of the girls in. The colour scheme is soft suede and crumbcake with some colour accents on different pages to co-ordinate with the photos.

A Rose is a Rose

I thought I would share with you the lovely stamp set that Claire, my SU 'Mum' gave me for Christmas.  This stamp set retired before I new about Stampin' Up so I missed out on buying it so I was really excited about getting it for Christmas.
Here is the card I made using it.

Although the stamp set is retired everything else is current. I used the very vintage wheel in the background and the sentiments are from the happiest birthday wishes hostess stamp set, the one on the front fits the scallop circle punch perfectly but I punched the centre out and mounted it on the scallop circle. I used the latice square embossing folder for some texture in the background and the top note die for the card front and insert.  The top note has to be one of my favourite dies as it is so versatile.  Colour scheme is rose, olive green and crumb cake. To get the 2 different shades of red stamp onscrap first then it's a lighter shade on your card.

Scallop envelope die needle case

I've been full of cold for over a week now but managed to do a little bit of crafting today.  I've been having a little play with my dies and felt and came up with this little needle case, not what I set out to make!

 I cut the scallope envelope out of purple felt and made 2 little pages from pink felt, very similar to melon mambo. I sewed the melon mambo ribbon around the middle of theoutside of the envelope, it was easy to sew as the ribbon has little holes all away along. I sewed the little pages inside, one went right across the middle, sewed into the side flaps and one was sewn just into one side so it will lift up to get to the page underneath.

I sewed some velcro in for the closure.  To decorate the front flap I die cut a pink felt flower using the funflower die and sewed it on with some more ribbon to hang at the back of it and a  button on the front.  There are a lot of improvements I can make but I'm pleased with my first attempt and it does the job of keeping my deedles safe.

Happy Christmas!

Just a quick post to say Happy Christmas. I hope you all have a lovely day. Here are some more bird boxes I made this time using non traditional colours, melon mambo and bashful blue and the hostess DSP which I love.



I used the woodgrain background stamp to make the wood grain effect on the pink birdbox.  The robins are made using the two-step bird punch again with a whinestone eye.

I hope you have a lovely day and remember to take lots of pictures that you can put in a scrap book next year!

More Christmas Decorations and simply stampin' challenge

The challenge this week over at the simply stampin' blog is Christmas which is very apt as I am sure we all have lots of Christmasy things to show off, I have made some more decorations for my tree which is looking very festive with lots of hand crafted decorations.  My lovely friend Val has just popped a round with a Christmas present for us, a beautifully decorated Christmas cake she made for us and some lovely gingerbread christmas trees and stars to hang on the tree. I will have to take some pictures before we eat them!
Here are some more little decorations I made using the season of joy stamp set and scallop circle and circle punches.  I put the little snowman on the grid paper and drew around it to know what size little box to make, punched holes in the side, stuck the scalloped circles on either side and hung them up using some silver thread.

I used bashful blue and tempting turquoise ink and card stock.  They look lovely on the christmas tree although I must say some of the snowmen seem to have melted away!

More Christmas Cards

Well not long now before Christmas, are you all sorted for the big day?  Here's another Christmas Card I made this time using the ornament punch and contempo christmas stamp.  The branches of the christmas tree were made using the lovely as a tree stamp.

The colour scheme is cherry cobbler and old olive, I used the spritzer tool with the marker pens to make the splatter. I used the contempo wheel for the insert.

Polar Party Christmas Cards

Don't get too close, I'm full of cold!  Here's some christmas cards I made using polar party stamp set and my faithful stamp-a-ma-jig to line everything up.

I used pool party dsp and card stock and island indigo card.  I made the lacy border with the lace ribbon punch cut in half. Aren't those penguins cute?

The little flower decoration is also cut from the lace ribbon punch with a circle of island indigo card behind and topped with a gem.