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.

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.

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.

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!

Time for tea

Oh my I am truely in love with this die, it's the Cheery Lynn English tea party DL101. I have inked the edges with worn lipstick distress ink, the images are free digital stamps but I can't remember where I got them, if you recognise them please let me know so I can give credit for them. I have coloured the images with copics and added diamond dust glitter and gem stones.

Cheery Lynn christmas trees

These are a few snap shots of the cards I made in the video, with a close up of the stitching, my new dies arrived last night so off to play.

My very first video

Well nothing for months and then several posts in a week, now a video, whatever next.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBFYMTFv-m0

A big thank you to my thirteen year old son Adam who filmed and edited the video for me and without him it would not have been possible.