For You Gift Box

After being subjected to three hours worth of biology lectures I thought I'd take a quick time out and update my blog before I hit the books again. When I was at home this weekend I made another gift box using some 8 x 8" Kraft Card and some of the die-cut flowers from Craftwork Cards. To begin with I made up the little flowers for the top, layering them up and adding gold brads at the center of the two smaller flowers. I chose a sheet of the blue, beige and teal Sweet Pea paper to go behind the flowers as I wanted to introduce some colour to the box. I stuck a small square of the paper on some gold Mirri card before mounting onto the box and decorating with the flowers and a teal-inked message tag.

For the sides of the box I used another of the papers from the Sweet Pea range and cut rectangles of different colours which I then mounted onto gold Mirri card to tie in with the top of the box. To complete I added gold gems to the corners of the sides to add a bit of final sparkle. I love how simple these flowers are to use and they look fantastic on loads of different projects.

Well that's all from me for now, hope you like the box!

Blue Birdhouse Card

I was flicking through some of my mum's new Craftwork Cards goodies over the weekend and discovered a set of die cut images that included this cute wee birdhouse. Feeling a bit inspired, I chose to make a 5 x 5" card using the birdhouse in combination with a Kraft card bird which I decorated with blue glitter pen.

I decided to stick with a blue, beige and brown colour scheme and so I used a couple of the blue flowers from Craftwork Cards which I cut out and creased to give a little bit of dimension. To the centers I added silver brads to give some sparkle, as well as some silver gems to the flowers on the birdhouse. In the background I used a paper that tied in with the detail on the birdhouse mounted on some co-ordinating blue card. To complete I added a greeting banner made of Kraft card with one of the Craftwork Cards message tags and some more silver gems to the top left corner.

Katy's Challenge: 15th - 22nd January

I entered Katy's Challenge again that ran from last Tuesday to yesterday. It was a sketch challenge this time: a circular image with a wiggly background and a title message. Here's my card based on it...

I used one of the circular images from the Wellington Ultimate Die-Cut pack, which I mounted onto a rust coloured paper from the Wellington pack and then onto gold Mirri card. I created the background using four of the papers from the Wellington 6 x 6" paper pack that I cut to match the sketch before mounting onto gold Mirri card. One of my friends turned 19 on the 20th January so I added a little 19 tag at the top of the card in blue and gold. To complete I used pale blue letters to add the word "friends" and some navy blue spotty Candi.

Floral Gift Box

I actually made this gift box about two weeks ago now and then promptly got caught up in exam revision and forgot to upload the pics! Well here it goes anyway, this is a basic rectangular box that I decided to decorate using one of the fab Craftwork Cards Goody Bags. I started by making up each of the flowers using different combinations of the pre-cut flowers in the pack. I used a variety of embellishments at the center as you can see: the top left has a metallic blue brad at the center, the bottom right has a pink polka-dot button and the others have varying colours of glittery gems. Once assembled I glitzed all the flowers with some Spray and Sparkle to give them a nice finish before setting them aside while I covered the box.

For the lid of the box I kept it simple by mounting a sheet of the co-ordinating blue paper onto some silver Mirri card. Round the rim of the lid I used green and pink paper with white writing mounted onto silver Mirri card with contrasting coloured brads. On the sides I used white spotty paper and inked the edges to match the sides of the lid before mounting on silver Mirri card. To finish I added a message banner and the flowers to the lid and...TA DA, there you have it!

Floral Birthday Cards

Well back to university for the new semester now so I thought I ought to take a quick break from exam revision and get the old blog up to speed with my latest creations of the holidays. I've take a liking to the Craftwork Cards flowers that you can use individually or layer up to create a bit of dimension. This was my first card using some of the more brightly coloured flowers which I combined with a Doodlebug checkered paper that I found that was in the same colour scheme. I the tore a sheet of orange Coredinations card and used this behind the flowers to give a more shabby chic look and also break up the background a bit. To complete I stuck on the flowers at varying heights to give a bit of dimension, added a blue ribbon and Craftwork Cards message banner mounted on blue card.

For my second attempt I used flowers from one of the Goody Bags that came with co-ordinating coloured paper. I love the little spiral flowers that you can roll up to give dimension so I mounted one of these onto two of the five petaled flowers and added a metallic pink brad at the center. I also used two of the smaller flowers to which I added glitter gems at the center. In the background I used a sheet of blue paper from the Goody Bag and a square of torn pink Coredinations card embossed with a leafy embossing folder. To finish I added a strip of paper from another of the papers in the Goody Bag with white text on it, a white message tag and some pale blue pearl gems.

For my final card I bent two of the large flowers to give them a bit of dimension before layering them up and stitching a chocolate brown button into the center with pink thread. I used another two of the smaller flowers either side with glittery gems in the center. This time I used a sheet of the white Coredinations card which I embossed with a floral design embossing folder and then inked lightly with cerise pink ink. The background paper was the same as I took a strip from for the previous card as the colours tied in with those in the flowers. To complete I added a silver spotty message banner with a birthday greeting and some dark blue pearl gems.

Well that's it for this post, back to the joys of physiology revision...

Male Vintage Car Card

Afternoon all! I actually finished this card last night but have only just got around to photographing it...so here it is, another attempt at making a more masculine birthday card. I found the car print paper in the 12 x 12" Papermania Happy Days pack and remembered that there was a set of stamps that came out a while back that were different styles of vintage cars. The nearest I could find to one of the ones on the paper was the Porsche 911, which I stamped in a similar shade of orange ink to the background. I then tore and crumpled the image before inking with chestnut ink to give it an aged look. I mounted the image onto Kraft card with antique-looking brads before mounting this onto orange card.

To complete I added self-adhesive chocolate brown lettering in the word "vintage", three gold glitter strips and some brown and gold Craftwork Cards Candi.

New Creativity Magazine just arrived!

I have to admit, when my mum first pulled the Chronology papers out of the Goody Bag for this month I was a little bit hesitant. The designs are nice but they seem to be printed in a really dark black that makes it difficult to find elements to go with them. When the new magazine came in with the set of Chronology stamps through I thought it was worth giving them a try. Here's what I came up with...

I liked the vivid orange of this backing paper so I stuck with an orange, white and black colour scheme for the card. I tore the edges of the Chronology paper before mounting it onto plain black card and then onto a white 5 x 7" card blank. In the foreground, I added a torn piece of the black card complete with a white organza ribbon and orange message banner with black self-adhesive letters and brads. I stamped the large image from the stamp set in black ink before trimming to size and inking the edges with a co-ordinating orange ink. I was aiming for a more masculine card so I avoided flowers and instead chose some black button embellishments with orange and white thread through them to complete the card.

Embossed Bottle Tops Card

Another New Year bargain that my mum and I found was the Happy Days Tri-Boss Embossing folder. I used this along the edge of a torn square of red Coredinations card, to which I then added varying-sized rectangles of Happy Days paper. I found an odd piece of yellow ribbon that matched the colours in the bottle tops paper that I cunningly used to cover up the mark that the edge of the embossing folder made in the card.

The message banner is a simple piece of pale blue card that I decorated with green stitching and then added one of the Craftwork Card sentiments to the circle. To finish, I added three lime green Candi and some lime green gemstones in the corners of the papers.

Happy Days Card

Well Happy New Year everyone, lets hope 2013 is good to you! Me and my mum raided our local Dobbies yesterday as it seems that they are getting rid of their craft section :( On the plus side it meant that they were selling off a load of their stock half price so I finally convinced my mum to buy the big 12 x 12" Happy Days paper pack. For this card I cut small sections of five of the different papers in varying sizes and layered them up in a tile-like arrangement down the right hand side of a 5 x 5" card.

I decorated another of the Craftwork Cards mannequins with an embossed sheet of white card, which I inked lightly with red ink to tie in with the colours in the papers. The message banner is just a plain sheet of red card with one of the Craftwork Cards birthday sentiment tags on it. For a final bit of detail I added red stitching, a checkered bow to the center of the dress and some red gems around the neckline and in the corners of two of the smaller sections of paper.