Woodland Folk

Still building up to doing anything that requires a bit more skill but have now made a few cards after my crafting holiday!

This is from a DOCrafts Woodland Folk die-cut pack. The base picture is layered up with all the lovely animals (even the hedgehog that looks like a teddy bear, he's hiding in this picture - thanks to Michelle for pointing that out!!).

The extra tree layers are added after all the other 3d work by attaching some 'card extensions' so that the trees sit over all the other layers - not necessarily a card for posting!

Blog article

A great blog I keep an eye on is Ann Martin's All Things Paper.

This week she has posted an interview with the brilliant Diane Boden Crane which features some fab pics and the chance to win goodies!

Diane's work is so fine the pictures really can't do the detail justice, although the work does look fantastic. I am lucky enough to have seen some of the pieces 'for real'.

Do visit the article to see for yourself.

SU Evening

I was lucky enough to be asked along to another Stampin' Up evening recently.

This is the make and take we did - it's not 100% straight but there we go!

The textured yellow card for the base is lovely and is layered with a piece of their paper, which is double sided - it did seem a shame to stick the other patterned side down!

The white card has 2 corners rounded using the corner punch. Some lovely daffodil delight taffeta ribbon is wrapped around the paper layer and tied into a knot. This is emphasised by using the 'word window large' punch to cut away a section of the white card which I think is rather effective.

The stamp is from one of the sale-a-bration sets currently on offer. The flowers are punched out using the boho blossoms punch and a brad in the centre to pick out the colours of the card. A Thank You punch also ties in the colours.

Thanks to Stevie for a great evening.

Blog Holiday!

Sorry for the lack of postings.

Although I could do with building up a small stash of cards I am having a small crafty break because I have been rather busy at work and there aren't enough hours in the day for everything (although that doesn't usually stop me!).

Hopefully I will be back up to speed soon and playing with all these crafty things I have been stashing for months!!

I will be keeping a close eye on everyone else's blogs for now though!

Book in a box

A couple more books in boxes. One for a relative which I filled with pictures, the other a present from someone else I was asked to make.

I have posted some of these before. Each 'page' is made from a 6x6" square of paper folded in various ways, each one of these then has a hinge added between to make a mini album.

The boxes are each made of another 8 squares, folded differently again. These ones I personalised and added a matching butterfly for a bit of pink glitz as they are in slightly pearly paper.

Off to do some Italian homework now - lucky me!!!

Owls

After my pre-Christmas production problems there were a few people I wanted to make a card for that unfortunately I knew I wouldn't get round to (hello if you are visiting!).

A sneaky way round this was to make some Happy New Year cards!

This lovely chap is one of the new Woodland Folk cutting dies (I still seem to have Mums cuttlebug sat here so thought I'd give it a go!).

The backing piece is using an embossing folder from the same folk on lovely green sparkly card.

I then cut out the various main body parts in brown and cream, the little 'bits' on the end of wings being rather entertaining! Eyes, Beak and feet were next then a branch which has a lovely bark look thanks to the roughness of the cuttlebug plates.

More use from the SU oval punches for a greeting in owl colours and I think he is rather cute!

Invitations

Apols for the quick post. This is a picture of some Evening Invitations I have just made. I made the Wedding Invites in December but because they got finished late at night a picture didn't really work!

The day ones went out with a reply card and little info card for guests on accommodation etc.

The text is printed on ivory hammered card with a blue border. This is then backed on some lovely pearly blue card from AnnaMarie Designs. DOCrafts butterfly punch (I so wish it actually completely punched the butterfly out!) which has 3 little Anitas gems in it's middle for extra sparkle.

Very surprising how time consuming just cutting card is!