There's No Place Like Home

Morning! Just a quick post today to show you a project I made last year - There's No Place Like Home.

This is made using an empty wooden embellishment container - it was already painted grey, so I just added some background paper, cut up a stamped image into 9 equal squares & added some lace & embellishments!

I love how it's turned out - I've been making quite a few home decor items recently, as sometimes it's nice to make something for yourself to keep!

My Latest Creation...

Inspired by Maxine (of Maxine's Melange, which is now closed), I have created my version of the chair pin cushion:

The chair is from a doll's house furniture set, made from MDF, that I had to build! I then painted it with white acrylic as the base coats, then a couple of coats of antique white & finished off with a coat of gold Spray & Sparkle.

The cushion has been made using Stampin' Up!s Spice Cake designer fabric & the cotton reel has been made using chipboard, card & Stampin' Up!s Spice Cake designer series paper. I think the delicate patterns & colours really suit this type of project.

 

I've really enjoyed making this & it's inspired me to move on to other miniature projects. I'm currently making a dresser! I'll post some pics when I've finished it.

Let me know if you fancy making something like this & I'll arrange a class!

Sale-A-Bration Event Make & Takes

These are the Make & Take projects from my Sale-A-Bration event. The top picture shows the "Winter Warmer", which is a hot chocolate sachet, a packet of mini marshmallows & a stirrer - perfect for the snowy evenings we've been having recently!

The 2nd & 3rd pictures show a Ferrero Rocher treat holder, made using DSP, a punched scallop circle & some grosgrain ribbon. These would be great as wedding/party favours, as you could easily match the party colour scheme.

The 4th & 5th pictures show a lolly holder - this is cased from Jo (Jomumof4 on ILWS), another UK demo, but I've changed the top slightly so that it could be used for boys as well as girls. Very quick & easy to do - & a great way of using up your card & paper scraps! The DSP part of the holder, where the lolly is, can be held together with brads or with glue dots. I've used glue dots, as I thought it was a safer option for children. Thanks for the idea, Jo!

Mini Pizza Box & Cards

I've been wanting to make a mini pizza box for quite a while, but was never happy with the available templates for the box, as to me, they weren't a proper pizza box. So in the end, I decided to come up with my own template. Here's the box I came up with:


The box is 4"x4" & I made some 3.5" x 3.5" cards to fit in it.



I've also written a tutorial for the pizza box (in pdf format) & it's available here.

What can you do with a few papers & some envelopes?

Once a month, the Altrincham Craft Stamping Group have an all day meeting, which includes a small kit. This month, I put together what I thought was quite a good kit - it included 10 6x6 K & Co papers, a mini note pad, a mini gel pen, some C6 manilla envelopes, some buttons, brads, ribbon, a mini file clip, 3 binding rings & some pieces of thick plain card.


I decided to case a similar idea I'd seen from a US demo (sorry, I can't remember who it was) & make a mini envelope organiser. Here's what I came up with:

Finished at Last!!!!

I haven't posted for a while as I've been very busy making 157 wedding invitations for my brother. These are no ordinary invites - each one is a mini book; the front cover has a dry embossed border (done on the Big Shot), is hand-stamped & has a hand-cut rectangle window, revealing heat-embossed silver hearts & "Invitation"; inside are 4 pages of information about the wedding & the back cover was hand-notched to hold the RSVP card. All the pages were punched using the Bind-It-All machine, then threaded with ribbon & tied in a bow. Plus I stamped my details on the back.

As well as doing all that, I had to print the insides, getting all the card the right way round to print on the reverse side - and there were 3 different types of "insides"!! Here's the finished product:

Some of the lettering is blurred as I didn't think my brother would appreciate me broadcasting the details of his wedding across the internet!

I took photos of each of the stages while making these, so I will post a tutorial of how to make these - you may not want to make wedding invites, but this idea could be used for lots of other things - even a mini book for Mother's Day.

Shirley

Tag You're It! workshop

The Tag You're It! workshop was on Thursday night & here's a picture of what we made - 5 cards & a card wrap to hold them in. All items have been made using the tag punches, but using various different techniques. The card in the centre with "cute" on it is actually a bookmark made using the long tag technique. The blue card next to it also has a bookmark on it - made with a long paperclip. The green card next to the cute card doesn't have a flower on the tag - it has a hole in it & the flower is on the card!

Shirley

Punched Creations workshop

We had fun on this workshop! All these items are made using punches - just to show you how versatile all those lovely Stampin' Up! punches are! Spongebob was definitely the hardest - he took nearly an hour on his own!! I think I should have shaded the lion, as I have done with the other animals - he looks a bit flat!


Shirley

Stepper Box

This is the box we made on the Stepper Box workshop. As you can see, the box opens out to show 4 small boxes to keep jewellery, desk items like paper clips, staples, etc & other small things - you could make several to keep all your small items handy! This sample has been made using the Tart & Tangy stamp set & Picnic designer paper.


Shirley

Christmas Table Decoration workshop

We made a stamped candle & candle holder, stamped napkins, napkin rings, place cards, drinks mats & favour boxes. Everything was kept in a matching box (not shown).

Christmas Gifts & Stocking Fillers

This is what we made on the Christmas Gifts & Stocking Fillers workshop - a stationery kit, a pamper kit, a boxed male gift, some reindeer poop & a "yummy" box of chocs!

For close up pics & to see what's inside the Stationery Kit & the Pamper Kit, click the link above for the RSW projects gallery.

Tart & Tangy Notelets

Here's the box & one of the notelets made at the Tart & Tangy Notelets workshop. The box & notelets were made using SU's Tart & Tangy stamp set, card & the Picnic designer series paper. To view all of the notelets, visit the gallery (the link is above) - I didn't want to clog the blog up by putting all the pics here.

So Swirly Card Box & Fun & Fast Notes Cards

This is another card box & set of cards, this time made using the So Swirly wheel to decorate the box. The cards were made using the Fun & Fast Notes stamp set. To see each card in detail, visit the RSW Projects gallery on the RSW web site (link is above).

Birthday Chocs

Here's a box of chocolates I made as part of my mum's birthday pressie. The chocs are Elizabeth Shaw mints, each one has a scallop circle front & back, plus the birthday greeting from the Circle of Friendship set. The box was made using the scor-pal, SU card & So Swirly wheel. I also stamped the tissue paper that was inside the box.

Christening Keepsake Exploding Box

Here are some pics of a Christening Keepsake box I made for a Christening we attended last weekend. The little girl is called Theadora (Thea for short). I left the inside of the outer layer for the parents to add photos to.