A Fold Out Book

Hi There

Today I would like to share with you a small fold out book from Little Yellow Bicycle, in their Vita Bella range.
This one I made up fairly quickly to put photos in of my niece's baby boy.

This is the book all nicely folded up and tied with some green satin ribbon.

This is the book with both sides opened. On the right hand side is a pocket to either put another photo in or some journaling. On the left hand side is a photo mat.

This is with both the top and bottom flaps open. As you can see there are photo mats on these and in the center panel. As I said at the start of this post this project was a quick one. I made in it an hour and a half one evening. There is so much more you can do with these little books, as I will show you tomorrow. That is one which I was able to spend more time on. Rather than having to do it quickly :-)
The Vita Bella pack for this was purchased from The Stamp Pad.

Hello Again

Well hopefully back to blog land for a bit. I have had a poorly son, and then a hubby in hospital.
Both almost back to their best now thankfully.
So a special card I made for a 50th Birthday.

This is an 8x8" scalloped card base. The backing papers are from Making Memories Noteworthy range. The panel has been die cut with Nestabilities Labels 10. This paper is the revers side of the backing paper used.
The name and sentiment were both cut with my Craft Robo/Silhouette. Both the sprays pf leaves were die cut with Marianne dies in green card. The outer four flowers were from Wild Orchid Crafts and the center one is a Prima cream rose that I inked with a distress ink.
With the exception of the flowers all the products for this card were purchased from The Stamp Pad in Saddleworth.

I hope you like this card.

Something Useful !

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Today I would like to share my Kaisercraft Letter Rack. The actual Kaiser kit was a Christmas present from my wonderful friend, Carol. I say useful as my Dear Hubby will look at things I have made and say 'That's nice, what do you do with it!'

The papers I have used are from the Kaisercraft 'Chapter One' collection. I made the project up, although not stuck together, whilst I decided which paper I was going to use on which piece. Then I cut and stuck the papers piece by piece, leaving a little overhanging the board. When the glue was fully dry, I then went round and sanded the edged of the paper off, as this gives a smoother finish.

This is the finished project. I have inked the edges with my Silver leaf Krylon pen,

This is the bottom pocket. I used Glossy accents on the butterfly on the paper and added glamour dust whilst still wet to add some sparkle.

The second pocket had a very plain piece of paper on it, so I trimmed it with a border from the papers. (on Kaiser papers where the name and range details are on the front of a 12x12 on the back they print a small border!) and put a rub on on the right hand side.

Again I have used Glossy Accents and Glamour dust on the flower on the paper.

The Kaiser Papers were bought from The Stamp Pad in Greenfield. She also had lots of other goodies from Kaiser waiting to be unpacked.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing this project, and I hope it gets put up soon!

An Engagement Card

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Today I would like to share with you an Engagement Card I made for a work Colleague.
I wanted to make something special for them both. The card is a 6" scalloped square card. The paper was some white paper with red hearts that I have had for ages (not sure which company), Forever Friends decoupage topper. The red is some 'plasma' sheets I got at a craft show many moons ago and then had now idea what to do with it! Here I have layered it over the paper and as you can see, although it gives some texture, you can still see the hearts paper underneath.
All the edges were inked with worn lipstick distress inks.

Thanks for looking

Well Hello There !

Sorry I have been away from Blog land for so long.

I seem to have got out of the habit of crafting, so haven't had anything to blog about recently.
I think I am starting to get back into the swing of things now, at least I hope I am.

This is a birthday card I made for my friends daughters birthday. She is lovely, a typical 14 year old, hence the picture of a slightly stroppy teenager. However she is very girly so I have added some flowers and done it in pink. The pink background paper had glossy flowers on it, but they are not quite as dark in real life.
The image is by Lili of the Valley and flowers from Wild Orchid.

I hope you like this card.

Crafty Get together

Myself and a couple of friends are hoping to organise a crop once a month. A place where you can get together with other crafty people and have a fun day scrapping, making cards,anything crafty really. We have been looking at the Church Hall in Greenfield. It is on a bus route, not far from the station and has a car park. 
We are looking at meeting up on the third Saturday a month starting on 18th February. At the moment the cost is likely to be between £7.50 and £10 per month, depending on how many we get coming. You would need to bring you lunch, however there is tea and coffee making facilities on the premises.

It doesn't matter if you are a new crafter or an more experienced one, the idea is to share ideas with other like minded people. 

Please let me know if you think this is a good idea or not. Also let me know if you would like to come along then if we have enough we can get the wheels in motion.

Happy New Year ! !

Hi There, Long time no 'see'.

Sorry for the lack of posts in December. Life kind of got in the way a bit.
Well I am back and ready for a new year of crafting and hopefully some weight loss along the way. Well I would also like a lottery win, but I guess I can't have everything :-)

I am just in the middle of a book for a relatives 18th Birthday. I will pop some photos on here as soon as I can figure out how to transfer pictures from my new camera to the computer.

Hope you all have a Very Happy New Year.