Box and Bow

At CA this week We learnt how to make a cute wee box to keep cards in it would also fit pictures 6x4 so would be a lovely gift box for a friend. We also made a bow but I had a great deal of difficulty with this but finally found a similar one on youtube and then figured out how to do them. Once I worked out how to do them I found it really neat and did a heap. I used the quilling flowers to add to the box that I made as well.

Box and Star CA Monday

This is a neat little box that holds 6x4's wether that be photos or cards would be up to the maker but it is a cut way of cataloguing photos. The tutorial on CA was an altered froebel star. The Froebel star is really quite something and the instructions can be difficult to follow even when watching them. Along with this is the quilling flowers I have been making from the cuttlebug dies that are new out. they are very pretty but again take a little bit of thought.

Annes Little Folded Bag

Well Anne brignal from Crafters Anonymous was our tutor again this week and we made this fabulous little bag. It is made of one single sheet of paper and it is the way it is folded that gives you the bag without having to cut into the paper. Anne had a lovely rose on hers and recently I had search to find how to make paper flowers so I thought I would put one of these flowers on the front of the bag.
From my stash of paper I found a pretty blue and coral tartan which I have always likes and then found a coral cardstock that was an excellent match. The rose is made from the StampinUp 2 step Owl Punch using the owl body and the StampinUp scalloped circle punch. The square and scalloped square are spellbinders nestabilities and the embossed background on the coral background is Divine Swirls Cuttlebug folder. I have inked the inside of the coral square with Bashful Blue ink and have inked the edge of the coral rose petals with Early Expresso and the centres with Daffodil Delight. The leaves come from the StampinUp 2 step bird punch and again I have inked the leaves with Bashful Blue to give a little depth. I used a bottle of glitter I have which I bought some years ago to add some sparkle.
I like to put my ribbon through holes and I love eyelets so I used sun and butterfly eyelets in deep blue for the ribbon to go through to make my handle.
Hope you enjoy looking at what I'm doing as much as I enjoy making things leave me a comment to let me know you've been.

Star Box

The star box we made on Crafters Anonymous. Check out the link on my side bar. This tutorial was from Rebekah Kaberry and is amazing. Thank you Rebekah for all your effort This would make a lovely box filled with chocies.

Decorate a clipboard challenge

Another challenge from crafters anonymous. This time to make a clipboard or decorate one. Well i had a piece of board at home looking very -- "board". so I decided to bling it up with some sellotape I had left over from a few christmases ago. then I thought it would be good if I had something to hold some note paper so I have used 2 floppy disk pockets (now you know how old they sre). then the clips looked sort of sad so I used the sellotape agsin. the bird and cage (my humour) the bird has flown! they are Mariposa rubons I got on special. The owl is a cricut cutout I have had for some time and he just seemed to want to jump onto the page.

The challenge is to make a Calendar

The challenge is to make a Calendar. Over at Crafters Anonymous there is a challenge each fortnight and this fortnights challenge is to make a callendar. Well this is my take on the project.My DD and SIL have been married 3 years and I have made them this card.

Sometimes its hard to tell if less is more.

How do you know when 'Less is More' I entered a challenge on CA Crafters Anonymous to swap ATC's. I made 10 and so I thought I would take pictures at each stage so if I wanted to replicate them again I would be able to see what I had done. Also, sometimes I find, I think the last stage I added should not have been added and I would have been happier without it. This has been a great exercise as although I will not replicate this again exactly I will colour this stamp again. The stamp I used was the flower from StampinUp "Happiness Shared" and is a beautful stamp and sentiment I recently purchased. If you like this stamp set I am a SU demonstrator and you can check out my StampinUp blog Oh So Many Crafts with this link. I am always happy to take orders or do workshops for those in the Tauranga area.


The ATC's finished including the glitter. You can also see the chalked background on the one on the right more as there is a shadow on the card.


I started with yellow on the rose thinking to highlight the lighter areas then green on the leaves.

I added a darker green to the veins on the leaves and really liked this look.

I added the pink and then the darker pink in the shadows

then I added regal rose. it was a bit darker than I had thought and I wondered about this step

But I went to sleep on it and decided that I should ink the background but decided to chalk the background with a very pale blue chalk. this makes a huge difference when you see them.

Then I added the glitter and that was the pic I started with.

Thanks for looking, give it a go.

Crafters anonymous Sunday Challenge

Crafters Anomymous has a new Sunday Challenge each fortnight and I am a bit late with this one but it was set by Janet who said we needed to use 2 items from our stash. Well I made a christmas decoration using some red paper I have had forever and to put it together some christmas sellotape in green. Check out Crafters Anonymous