Mothers Day Box and Card

I have made this card and box for my Mum, so I hope she likes them.

I got the inspiration whilst shopping in Sainsbury's, Lucy and I found some mini cupcake chocolates, I knew as soon as I saw them how I wanted to present them in a box.

I have used the vintage vogue stamp set from Stampin up, bazzill bling card, dotted swiss bazzill, distress inks victorian velvet and antique linen, a Martha Stewart punch, pearl brads and ribbon that I have lots of.

I covered a card base with my cardstock, punched out the foliage then stamped the flowers using the DI's onto white card. When they were dry I cut round them leaving a thin white strip all round, next I scrunched them up to break down the paper fibres.

I layered a small and big flower held together by the pearl brad. On the back of the flower  I glued a small circle then glued the leaves to that. When I put the card together I decided I also wanted to add the leaves from the stamp set, to me they finishes the card off.

 I made the box by working out how high it needed to be to hold the cupcake chocs, I then made the lid to fit over the base. For the inside of the box I made a platform then punched three holes to hold the cupcakes snugly.

 The cupcakes came in a pack of nine, Lucy has said I am only allowed to make one more box as she wants to try the chocolate.

Gift Card

I am hoping my mother-in-law will like this when I give it to her on Mother's Day this year, she loves candles.

 This is a card and gift box all in one, I have made the box part big enough to hold four tea-lights, but it could be made to hold individual chocolates

 The flowers are from A die I bought from http://www.craftbuddiespapercrafts.co.uk/ which I edged with glitter, as well as the leaves. The butterfly is a sizzix die also edged with glitter and gems to form the body.

 I made compartments to keep the tea-lights in place.The ribbon is some velvet ribbon I found in my box, the colours were just right for this project.

I saw these cards whilst looking for something else on google, I have kept the idea in the back of my mind ready for Mother's Day.

Little black bag.

I am so sorry I have not updated my blog for so long, I have no real excuse, only that my computer is still playing up and to get it to do anything takes for ever.

This is a gorgous gift bag that I made for my son's girlfriend to hold her birthday gifts. I first saw the design in a book, so I read how it was made, a bit like browsing the magazines before you choose which one to buy,  then made my own when I got home.

The bag is made from bazzill black card 

The flowers are fabric ones I found in my cupboard but I now wish I had made the flowers.

 

To finish the bag I added silver stitching for the flower stems and around the handles.

Filofax Dividers

I love the colours of the papers that I used for these dividers, the papers are Laura Ashley ones.

These filofax divides are the largest I have been asked to make, they are for an A4 filofax.

I was asked to make them with pockets. The divider above has a slide in pocket where the cream card is and is on the front of the divider.

 This pocket is on the back of the divider.

This pocket is clear.

All the dividers are distress inked, I then added faux stitching to each of the dividers.

I really enjoyed making these dividers

Valentine Box

This darling little box holds one chocolate, just right for a loved one or for someone who has everything!!

Zana, who comes to the Craftbuddies Crop, put me onto a blog called 'min lille blogg', on it are the most delicate boxes and cards that I have seen for a long while. I adapted the instructions to suit me as I prefer to work in inches, this is my take on the chocolate box.

The heart edge is made from a fiskars punch that I bought second hand, a very good buy I think as it is just right for this project.

The little hearts are the punched out bits from the the edge with 2mm gems glued on.

 

The flower is made from a strip of white card concertinaed and glued together, unfortunately I forgot to measure how long the strip of card was before I made the flower. I made the flower centre from the same paper.

 

The chocolate fits snugly in the centre of the box. But not for long in my house!!

Valentines Card

This card has an antique feel to it.

For this card I first embossed gold miri card using the cuttlebug swirls embossing folder, I then rubbed dark grey acrylic paint  over the miri card with kitchen towel. I left it dry for a minute then buffed the raised embossed parts of the card with a clean bit of kitchen towel. The strip of miri card across the bottom of the card has been coloured with red stazon, it looks even better when done using red acrylic paint. The effect is like antique gold.

Before I layered and matted the large miri card onto red card I attached black and red ribbon to the right hand side of the miri card. The heart was cut by my cricut and is attached to the card with foam tape.

Valentines Card

It's that romantic time of year again creeping up on us.

This card looks better in real life! I used paper from my scraps box to cut out different size hearts, I then inked round some of them. Next I inked round a card blank using a brown DI. At first I put the hearts on the card without the pink strip of paper behind them but it didn't look how I had imagined the card, so I then put the pink strip in at that tied all the hearts together. Finally I used a rub on for the words, but this could easily have been hand written, stamped or printed.