Just For Fun - Its Spring time

This is my entry for this weeks Just for Fun

which is , Its Spring Time.

I love Pansys and Violas and when all the daffodils

start flowering I find myself looking for the little violas

i adore the colours the beautiful purples , lilacs and touches of yellow on their petals .

Ive had this sizzix die for some time, it was one of the first

i ever bought , yet I hardly use it . So I thought this was perfect for this challenge.

I started by cutting out a selection of colours

Then layering the different shades of the petals on a base flower

I took some cream cardstock and matted it onto gold

and added some gold ribbon across the bottom

I used a nib dipped in distress ink to highlight the petals

Added my sentiment and attached 3 flower heads

to my card

I added some purple cardstock to lift it a little

And thats my card finished.

Hope everyones plans for christmas are going well , its certainly very busy here

I dont know where the time is going too.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and as usual its much appriciated .

Hope you all have a lovely week. Please leave a comment so that I know

you have stopped by , thanks .

Just for Fun - Winter

Sorry Ive not been able to join in these last

couple of weeks , life has just gotten in the way.

This is my entry for this weeks Just For Fun

which is Winter.

I really love this lampost its one of my favourite dies at the moment.

I love the thought of wintery nights and snowflakes falling around

the glow of the street lights ( when im inside the house of course).

I used a silver pearl dabber to colour up the navy cardstock

before adding the lampost and snowflakes .

Hope you are all having a lovely weekend

thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment as always

its much appriciated .

The Scrapbook Garden - Christmas Cards

This is my 7th and final project for this months design kit for

The Scrapbook Garden.

A couple of cards and Im really pleased with the results.

I used the last scalloped square left over from the other projects

that i had painted with the gold dabber.

Made a traditional Santa with a rubber stamp and some red

glitter embossing powder

I cut pieces of Bazzill Rain Forest for the backing for each card

and then cut pieces of Authentique 'Awe' and 'Curiosity'

 and added it to the dark green bazzill rain forest.

Then adding the nested scalloped and the embossed santa

to the first one with some holly punched pieces with red stickles glitter berries

and a strip from the Authentique Noteables and finished it off

with some ribbon

For the 2nd card i added a stamped vintage car and a stamped christmas tree

with the noteables strip and punched holly as before and a small red bow

to finish it off.

And thats my 2 cards .....

As Ive now put up my Christmas decorations since the first post

for this months projects I though you might like to see some

photos of the things Ive made as they now are mixed in with

my decorations

The bird house hanging in the tree.......

The wooden blocks on my window sill.......

The advent drawers and the letter 'J' ..........

The little angel on my mantlepiece........

Everything looks lovely and of course the cards will go to someone special

and the gift bag will house a gift for someone too.

Thank you for stopping by my blog as always its much appriciated .

I hope you have enjoyed reading these posts as much as ive enjoyed working with this kit and sharing what Id made with it.

Thanks again and have a lovely week.



The Scrapbook Garden- Wooden Blocks

This is my 6th project for this months design kit for

The Scrapbook Garden

I love making these decorated wooden blocks , and with these papers

these ones have to be some of my favourites.

I started with 3 pieces of wood , quite similar in size to each other.

( Thank you to my friend Pauline , who keeps me supplied with wood

from her wood store for her fire)

As I was covering the back and front with paper I only applied

gesso to the edges of the blocks.

Next using my gold dabber i painted the edges

Next I added double sided tape to all of the edges back and front

Using plain Bazzill Kraft I covered all of the backs of the blocks

The fronts I covered with Authentique  'Curiosity' 'Awe' and 'Surprise'

trimming the edges with a craft knife.

Next using some double sided tape I attached some ribbon from my own stash

Once again using the gold dabber I coloured the remaining

Tando scalloped nested squares

Using the smallest one ( the other I kept for my next project)

I placed it over a red embossed December calendar stamp

I attached a punched out holly leaf cut from Bazzill Rainforest

and a drop of red stickles to make the berries.

Using the strip quotes from the Noteables

I added them beneath the ribbon

Using some rubber stamps of my own

which fitted the Christmas theme I added them to the blocks

as finishing touches

And there you have it.

I enjoyed making these and they are really easy .

They make very cheap ornaments and its a great way of using up the scraps from other projects.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, as always its much appriciated .

Hope you have a lovely weekend , I seriously need to rest Im beginning to feel burnt out.

Dont forget to pop over to the Scrapbook garden

to be in with a chance of being entered into the blog candy draw ,

and why not pop over to the online store and start making a wishlist for Christmas

( just in case Santa needs some ideas of what you would like)

The Scrapbook Garden- Square Gift Bag

This is my 5th project from this months design kit for

The Scrapbook Garden

My friend Shelagh kindly gave me this template to make these fab little gift bags.

The template is too large to be able to cut 2 pieces from one 12 x 12 paper

but as these papers went so well together it seemed fine to do a plain back and a contrasting front.  I used Bazzill Ruby Slipper and also Authentique Curiosity

I folded the paper on the score lines ( both pieces are identical)

Then punched holes in the top of both panels ready to accept the ribbon

which was from my own stash.

Using double sided tape i placed some on all of the edges

and attached both pieces to each other

I added the ribbon and secured it on the inside of the bag.

Its made a lovely little bag which was very quick to make.

Im sure I will be making alot more of these in all different colours .

If you havent been along to The Scrapbook Garden yet

pop over and enter the draw for the blog candy which runs until Christmas

Eve this time, and if you visit everyday you will get an entry every day into the draw.

What could be easier?

And dont forget to pop along to the online store

check out the new products theres some lovely items

at some great prices , so be sure not to miss out.

Thanks for stopping by and for leaving a comment , its much appriciated

Have a good week, and Happy Crafting

Scrapbook Garden - Golden Angel

This is my 4th project for this months design kit from

The Scrapbook Garden

Its a cute little angel which was so easy to make

Its a 3D Angel from Tando

I laid out all of the pieces on my non stick craft sheet

I used a gold dabber to colour the base, halo and wings

Covering one side of all of the pieces with the

paper 'Surprise' from Authentique

Once covered i used an emery board to tidy up the edges

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Next I used the gold dabber and coloured the reverse

side with the dabber

First I assembled the 2 pieces with the wings attached

And then slotted the others into place

Then using the gold dabber , dabbed all the edges with gold

Placed on the halo and thats it

It went together in a moment and will grace my Christmas tree in a couple of weeks time.

Thanks alot for stopping by my blog and for leaving a comment its much appriciated.