Ferrero Rocher place settings

I made these for my mother in law's 80th birthday party, I saw some similar on Pintrest but I wanted mine a bit bigger so worked out the sizes I wanted, after a bit and trail and error!

 I started with a piece of kraft card 7 1/8 by 4 inches, I then scored the long side at 7/8 and 3 1/8 then 4 inches and finally 6 1/4 ,the short side was 7/8 then I flipped it round and did 7/8 in from the other side. I then cut out all the corners and the two inside pieces as well. I used the second smallest size circle die which gives a circle of 1 1/4 inches. I then used a bone folder to fold the score lines. I added double sided to tape to the three flaps on the side without the circle and folded it to make the box.

 I put double sided tape on opposite sides of the sides of the box and added a piece of acetate that was cut to 2 1/4 by 6 3/4 inches, press it on firmly.

 I die cut a border and glued it around the bottom of the box to hide the double sided tape

 I added a length of raffia, wrapped around twice and tied in a bow.

 The final touches, add your chocolate and I needed names so die cut a vintage frame, inked up with distress inks in vintage photo and there you have it a cut little table decoration. I loved making them so much that I might make them again for Christmas to take into work.

More butterflies

I made this card at a make and take at a craft fair. It was an embossing folder but I don't remember the make, the butterfly is stamped with distress inks along with the greeting, I added some stickles glitter.

Butterflies

I love this card (I don't say that often) It's very simple, cream card base and I used a spellbinders scalloped oval to emboss then my Martha Stewart score board to add the criss cross lines, cut a plain oval and raised it up on foam pads. The butterfly is a Cheery Lyn die, I inked the edges slightly, added a few pearls and that was it.

Here is the same card in pure white.

Hope you like them.

Such a bad blogger!

Ok I have been missing for a long time, we have been renovating and craft time has been limited, I am hoping now to get back in the swing of things. This card was made with an image I cut out years ago on my old craft robo and has been hanging around waiting to be used, I entered a challenge and used it up.Very simple card.

Recipe Box from Kaiser

As soon as I saw this Kaiser recipe box I wanted it, I have so many scraps of paper with food creations that desperately needed organising, this looked perfect for the job. 

 I painted the box in antique cream paint from Kaiser then covered it in the script paper, again from Kaiser. I mat and layered the top with my nesties and made some matching flowers, the letters are a digital freebie,will post a link if I can trace them.

 I think the border die is a Cheery Lynn one which I threaded brown ribbon through. The saying is another free wordart.

Inside I have written out my favorite recipes and laminated them, I knew I would use the laminator one day!

Another area of my life organised.

magnolia card

I love this kaiser paper so much, it's from the Bonjour collection, the colours are so pretty. the stamp is a magnolia, coloured with a mix of copics and promarkers, the border is by spellbinders.

A close up soyou can see how pretty she is.

Another card in an envie

 I am just loving these cards, be prepared for some more.I have kept it quite simple, the paper is my memories I got in a sale and wish I had bought lots more now. The die is a Cheery Lynn one that I have threaded ribbon through, this is my favorite die.

Check out the brads, they started out life as silver and I dipped them in PVA glue then dark red flocking, I think I will be trying that again.

Rainbow card and bag

Don't you just love this rainbow paper, it was a digital freebie from Mel, just gorgeous. I have simply added the flower with a brad in the centre, some ric rack for the stem and cut some leaves by hand to add a greeting, I finaly did a little scrawl around the edge with a black fine liner. I also decorated the bag to match with that awesome digital freebie, all the best people are born in march but I have no idea who it was designed by as there is no name on the file, I will add the details later if I can find them.

magnolia

I have to say I am very pleased with this card, in fact so pleased I don't want to part with it!

 The envelope is double sided card stock with ribbon threaded through to close it.

 A picture of the card on it's own, the flowers are a Marianne die along with the swirl. The greeting is stamped on a label nestability die cut. I coloured the image with promarkers.

 A close up of the cute image, I have added flock and stickes to the flowers.

I stamped the flowers with a background stamp and added stickes.

Birthday Boy

Well I have not blogged for ages but does it matter, does anyone actually read my posts? I think it's just a record for me to remember what cards I have made.

Anyway this card was for my Nephew, I used kaiser backing paper, embossed a strip of pearl brown paper with the swiss dots folder, then added the frame and greeting which are both digital freebies from Summer Driggs, I then added the stars to put his name on the card. A simple card but I kinda liked it.

Now that summer is nearly over I have no excuse I need to become productive with my crafting. I am making things but just not blogging so I have lots of finished items to photograph.

One folder three ways

I have been having a play with my embossing folders. This first card was using  the tulip embossing folder with white pearl card then I stamped the verse in the centre using a See Dee stamp, I then embossed a second sheet and cut out some of the flowers and added them with sticky pads to give some depth. Not happy to leave it at that I stitched little pearl flowers and beads on the flowers. This card looks much prettier in real life.

 This second card I used the same folder but used a brilliance pearl ink pad and a brayer to ink up one side of the embossing folder, I added a stamped greeting and again stitched little pearls in the centre.

 This last card I inked up the opposite side of the embossing folder and used the debossed side so the flowers are edged in the lilac, again I added a greeting and stitched pearls on them.

I love this folder, I think it will be getting plenty of use, it's avaliable free delivery world wide here

Happy new year

Happy New Year, I have been so busy that I haven't had time to play with all my new stuff! I have cleared my desk and am ready to go just need to decide where to start.  These are a couple of calenders I made as Christmas gifts, I used a kaiser coaster as the base and added the large scalloped nestie on the front and back as the base then I used the Cheery Lynn doily die. The lilac card has paper flowers that I bought but the pink card I made the flowers using the cuttlebug quilling dies.

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas to everyone in blog land, hopefully I will be back making cards very soon.

Stampin up textured impressions flower garden

One folder three ways

On this card I chalked the image to give a soft look, then added a martha stewart punched border, ribbon and an oval nestabilities with stamped greeting.

For this card I used metalic gold rub on, it's like a paste and gives a totaly different effect, it's teamed with a cheery lynn border die

This card is similar to the first but I coloured the embossing folder with inks first, I was aiming for red but it came out much softer and definitely not red.

All three cards are flying to England tonight to be donated to a friend who does coffee mornings for charity, hope they will sell!

Matching gift envelope from freebie paper

As promised (at last) the matching gift pouch using my free paper. I edged it with a martha stewart swirling lace border punch, added a birthday friend greeting and little brad both from Kaiser. I hope my friend likes the card and present, I have bought a die that fits neatly inside.

Holly card

I love this spellbinders set, I am not sure of the name of it as I cut it at a friends house but it's so pretty, I layered it up to give depth, I used a martha stewart punch for the corners, I think that's called swirling lace. I used pine needles distress inks to give the holly a touch of colour then added the gem stones.

Quilted handbag card

My friend did a class using this quilted paper style and I thought I could give it a try, it didn't turn out too bad but there are a few things I would do differently next time. I couldn't find any papers I liked so this is a patterned wrapping paper, I cut lots of squares out using my nestabilities small squares then stuck them on to paper and stitched them down using a zig zag stitch, I then cut the shape of the bag and stitched that on to a piece of card and added all the embelishments.

Another two

Here's the other colours I made

Kaiser Christmas decorations

I made these christmas decorations instead of cards for the special people in my life. I used four kaiser wooden coasters and joined them together with ribbons, covered them in pretty papers and used a nestabilities label set to add frames and the letters NOEL which were cut from boys will be boys die set.
On the reverse of each coaster there is a little rub on kaiser verse and I left one free to write a message. I added flowers from my stash and gem stones.
The boxes were made to match and decoated with a spellbinders fancy tags set.
I will post the other pictures tomorrow.

Flower card using my free paper

I used the paper I created to make this card, I used silver thread to stitch around the hexagons, then I layered a spellbinders die on top (can't remember the set it was from as I borrowed it!) followed by a nestie circle which was stamped in black with a kaiser friend stamp then I added a kaiser brad to the centre. I have made a little gift pouch to match will photograph that tomorrow.