Exploding Box Workshop

Dear All

Well the day of the workshop has come and gone. It was lovely to  meet up with my  fellow crafters and we sat down at 10.30 on Tuesday 30th October to craft our hearts out.

In the morning we made magical pop out boxes which when the lid is taken off the embellishments pop up by magic.

After a break for lunch we made a bigger version of the pop out box from 12 x 12 card and these boxes were big enough to hold small gifts in the centre.

What I love about workshops is that while we are all making the same project the finished items all look so different. With time in the afternoon to decorate our boxes the finished boxes were bright colourful and very pretty.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the day, we had crafters from North Petherton, Lympsham and Wrington.
Hopefully in the New Year I will be able to run a couple of craft days to while away the winter days, and North Petherton ladies are hoping to run one of their craft days, which are always popular.

Happy Crafting
Dee

Decoupage

Hi Crafters

I am a terrible flitter and seem to go from craft to craft. As you can see from my posts I make cards, and boxes, stamping,  die cutting and painting to paper crafts. I also make flowers and leather brooches etc. In between I sew a little, and I have been known to knit, but not for a while.

Recently on You Tube I found the envelope wallets, (see "shabby chic folders "), and some of these had been finished with decoupage. I love the vintage look so wanted to give it a try.

The very pretty napkins are difficult to source in stores nowadays, but I found some on-line and had a few happy hours yesterday gluing and covering all sorts of things

A covered notebook for keeping track of your Christmas lists
Menu, Recipes, Gift list, Card List, visits etc

  

 

 

A small gift card holder

 

 

 

Vintage decoupaged heart

More Leather Flowers

Hi Crafters

Thought today I would share with you a few more leather flowers I have made.

My crafting is getting geared toward Christmas Craft Fairs and I recently sold a few of my brooches and flowers at a Craft show in the Princess Theatre, Burnham on Sea, which was held with a coffee morning for McMillan nurses.

These are the more straight forward single flower style and I will  need to make more brooches and corsage style for the sales.

These will retail between £5 - £7

Dee

More Shabby Chic FOlders

Hi fellow crafters

Yesterday I posted a shabby chic folder 
I thought I would upload more pictures showing other folders

This is a paper depicting clocks with subtle hues of colour. It comes from a large pack of My Minds Eye and is lighter weight paper, so very suitable for this. The charm is a clock with a bubble bee.

The folders make great storage for receipts, or store vouchers, correspondence invoices etc.

Dee

Shabby Chic Folders

Hi Crafters

Saw these on You Tube and had to have a go as they looked so cute.

I had some manilla envelopes in the cupboard and everything else was from my craft stash

I made these with scrapbook papers but some of the very pretty one I saw used serviettes and modge podge.

A 12 x 12 sheet covered one envelope
Cut a piece 22cm deep making sure any print is the right way up when you put it on the envelope
Cut this piece in 2 making 2 pieces 15cm x 22cm

Glue each piece to the front and back

With the remaining piece of paper cut a piece to cover the flap (use the envelope flap for a template), and glue down. Keep the remaining piece to make an additional tag

I have then used distress ink to age the sides and five the shabby chic look.
Decorating with brown tags and string plus a tag made from the matching paper and an embellishment that compliments the paper.

I love the results and hope to make some for the Christmas Craft Fairs.

This one has a fairy and flower paper so I have added a young girl bag embellishment to the tags attached to the back flap. While the front has some glitter added tot he fairy dress and flower centre.
Dee

Envelope Cards/Wallets

Hi Crafters

I have not posted for a week or so , but have been crafting in meantime so am going to share with you my new makes over the past couple of weeks

The first is an envelope card/wallet. Like a lot of ideas I saw this on You Tube. There are several posts regarding them and a couple explain how to make them.

The lovely part of this card is it can be used to give a voucher or cheque, (particularly useful for weddings as most couples are asking for money these days), and it present the gift of money or voucher in a pretty and thoughtful way.

This is the wedding envelope card. As you can see I have decorated the envelope edge with cotton lace and the centre with a silky flower and diamante. under the envelope flap is velcro to hold it down, but when you lift the flap there is a secret section to add the voucher or cheque.

This is the back of the card and in this sleeve is a piece of matching card, which is stamped on the back with the greeting, leaving lots of space to add your personal message to the recipient.

Here is one for a Birthday

Happy Crafting
Dee

Thinking Outside the Box 1

Hi Crafters

There is nothing I like better than getting a craft stash that someone else has finished with and sells off and I can then think of another use for the papers and card in the stash.

Today I had an EBay delivery and there were several packs of card and vellums with toppers and sticky ribbons, as well as 3d flowers and floral stickers. All in a Art Nouveau style.
The card stock was luxury metallic finish and there are matching vellums


As I unpacked the stash I was thinking of how I would use the items. I can of course make cards and it would take little to do this and produce a quality greeting card, which I will do with some cards, but the square cards gave me a piece of card 29cm by 15cm, as did the vellum inserts for them.

These I can make gift boxes which will be perfect for the festive season coming up. The card gift boxes are tied with ribbon and a vellum flower added from the kit completes the look.

The vellum boxes I have made a belly band for them put the 3D flower on the same,  and will add tea-lights for my craft sales.

This is the first idea from the stash, and I will follow up as I think of more.

I will also sell some of the cards and embellishments, where I have surplus to my needs, as a lot of the fun is in the ideas for the stash.
Dee