I have also made this as a gift using Jenny's criss-cross box intstructions from the Flight of the Butterfly class.
How much easier this is to make with my Simply Scored!
Anyway, box decorated in some paper from a Papermania Rose Garden pack.
6 4x4" cards also decorated in bits of this paper, some matching pink & green card and a selection of stamps and punches from SU including Flight of the Butterfly and Butterfly Prints.
This is the first of a couple of gifts I have made in the last few days.
This is made using the instructions Jenny gave us when we made one of these bags at our Summer Extravaganza.
A little scored box is encased within 2 large framelits which I've stamped with versamark using a Mixed Bunch stamp.
Because I'm not a fan of pink I found recently I didn't have any pink card when I wanted to do a baby card so had to buy a stash! This is some lovely Anna Marie card.
A smaller framelit is placed on the bag with a Personal Impressions sentiment stamped on it.
Flower stamped in Rich Razzleberry and attached to a punched flower in a lovely sparkly card from the stash.
Leaves from SU bird punch and finished with a spiral rose & gem in the centre of the flower and some ribbon to close. Turns out a bag of Thorntons truffles fits just right in this bag!
And for today's experiment a card we were shown at Newbury by Julie and I have noticed the technique appearing on quite a few blogs recently.
The dimensions I came across for it used a strange size card and as I wanted to keep to C6 I made up some for now. It needs a little perfecting but I'm quite pleased with my first attempt.
I chose blue as I need to take a card featuring 'blues' to Crafty Bunch next week and have limited time to make too many but had to have a play!
All the layers of card are cut out and then the blue mats are removed, a little adhesive is added to the middle of each of the 3 cream layers just to keep them stacked (and the oval sentiment). I used a stamp from the SU Vintage Vogue set and stamped across all the layers with Tempting Turquoise ink. I then used a Craftwork Cards butterfly stamp and stamped this over the layers using Pacific Point ink.
Then I stuck the top 2 layers together and, for once, remembered to add some ribbon before sticking the last mat down. This almost co-ordinating ribbon ended up in my stash from a wedding favour I think!
A bit of playing required with sizes to perfect it and all the different stamp options but one I will be trying again.
Today a couple of cupcake cards and I have actually managed to add some quilling this time.
Quilling is my favourite but it gets a little neglected sometimes when I have lots of cards to do and stamping can be quicker!
I have been trying different 'cake' cards as Sarah at the lovely Wishing Well Cupcakes is taking some cards to add to her stand at events to see if they tempt people.
These lovely little cakes are inspired by a great Quilled Creations kit called 'Cupcake Bakery', I've also used 2mm paper which I am taking more & more of a liking to and obviously it works better for postage too.
The stamps are also from a great set and very en vogue at the mo - they are from a Personal Impressions set which features many things to do whilst keeping calm!
Couple of punches used for layering and some card candy in the corners to finish.
Do visit Wishing Well Cupcakes on Facebook to see where you can buy their treats next!
Jill
Thanks to the 8 ladies that came to yesterday's Quilled Flowers Workshop at Yandles.
It all got quite hectic with people working at different speeds and wanting to try different techniques but everyone finished some flowers and I think we converted some more unconvinced crafters - many are coming to the Christmas workshop so I didn't scare them too much!
Thanks to Val at Aquarius Blog for coming and posting her completed sampler today. I have probably posted this sampler today which is what we were aiming for yesterday. Unfortunately I haven't done any other crafting this week as I was sick a few days ago and came close to cancelling the workshop - I managed that but needed a bit of a rest afterwards!
I will see what I can rustle up in the next day or two as August & September are really busy crafty months and I'm really behind now!
So, yesterday's trip was to the Olympic Park to watch the technical rehearsal for the Opening Ceremony.
Bit of a trauma with motorway traffic on the way which meant we didn't have any time to wander round the park first which was disappointing, but at least we made the main event which was also looking doubtful at one point!
Thought I'd post these pictures as there has been a lack of much crafting for a couple of days and I got home at a crazy hour this morning so will be having an early night. Obviously I can't tell you about the ceremony - you will have to watch on Friday!
Thanks to the Crafty Bunch members for the lovely Birthday cards too today!
Jill
Many apologies for going missing for a week - I have been keeping an eye on blogs but not been able to blog myself.
Another busy (& exciting - more to follow!) couple of days to come and hopefully things will settle down.
Today's present that I have made is using a fabulous set of Clarity Stamps that I bought at Newbury (which my brother is very kindly funding for my Birthday!).
The 'Sport' word is one stamp and there is a corresponding set of 8 different sporting activities on individual stamps that sit nicely in the 'O' - great for all my sporting friends and family.
I've stamped up 6 cards in different colours (and sports) and simply mounted them on matching card colours and then on to white card.
The box is made using instructions from the lovely Jenny which are part of her Bright Blossoms stamps class. It was really easy to make and thank goodness for my SU simply scored - part of my busy week was trying to perfect some pocketfold wedding invitations for which it was invaluable.
A combo of SU punches added to the velcro lip of the box and present ready to go. I think there will be plenty more of these in the future.
A bit of Tour de France TV watching this afternoon whilst prepping for next weekends Quilling Flowers workshop.
Thanks for popping by.
Jill
