Sunday, 13 December 2009

Tree number 2 finished and twinkling in our bedroom. The tree is a mulberry wine colour and the decs are pale gold,wine and chocolate coloured.



Saturday, 12 December 2009

Merry Chrimbletide. First tree just finished blue and silver this year



Saturday, 5 December 2009

Festive wreaths, the 'how to' is HERE.




These take very little paper to make. I have used the same setof 5 My Mind's Eye papers to make a calendar, a flat tree and one of these wreaths and I still have at least 1/4 of each sheet left. (The top light green one)
The top dark green one is also made from leftovers from another project.
The bottom one is BG Figgy Pudding. I have a plastic wallet where all my basic Grey bits go, they range from half an inch up to half a 6x6 sheet...so none of te bits are very big. But all the flowers in this one came out of that bit wallet.
I borrowed an oval punch for the petals on the first one, but then once home I hand cut the petals for the other two, the 'buttons' are just a 1 inch punch with holes made using the cropodile.
All the holly leaves are cut on the cricut, using the 'stretch your imagination' cartridge. I used 5 A4 sheets of green card and 2 half sheets of 12 x12 BG.
Very tempted to keep all 3, but I think 2 will be given away.
This month at our art group we made this mini book,well when I say 'made' I 'started' mine and then gave up in favour of tea and biscuits. That was on Monday, I have just finished it. The idea and design was put together by Ms.Efemera.

The chipboard and acetate pages were cut out on the Big Shot. I covered mine with BG Scarlet's Letter. It was a 12x12 paper pack that I was using, you know the ones, they have a sheet of tags that never get used...so I added some tags inbetween the chipboard pages. This gave me a little more space for photos and also used up some of the flippin tags lol

I also used 7gypsies rub ons and stickers, and some flowers from Jean.

A book ring and some America crafts ribbon completes the ingredients. I filled it with photos taken at a Guillemots gig last year. The Banksy style images were painted on the walls of the club we were in for the gig.