Snowflower Box 2011

.. and that's what I call this little favour / gift box, a cross between a snowflake and a flower.  Had the template for this box a while, can't remember where I found the measurements, but its a normal size rectangle box with a lid which opens on the top, so easy enough to make up..

This is what is looks like completed - we had loads of fun making this last Saturday in the workshop and if anyone makes any more with different colours please let me know and I can post your work and examples here, if you want to share..

For the decoration I used:

Spellbinders Snowflake die, 

EK success Flower punch, 

Quickutz snowflake 12'' die cut down to only use three of the flakes on the die, 

ribbon 

Magnolia Doo Hickey leaf die

and a simple punched border,

..oh and one pearl with a bit of white acrylic paint (there's a pattern forming here!)

 a close - up of the front of the box...

big enough to fit some home made chocolates (Charmaine!!..........) or some little bath fizzers or any other homemade gifts you might fancy and want to make for someone special!

Will be back with another Lily of the Valley easel card using flowers and berries when I have taken the photos..

handbag invites

here are the handbag invites as promised, now that the recipient has received them to give out to all those being invited to a 50th birthday party..

the request I received was to make a handbag shape invite in green and gold, so went in search of a pretty green colour - the gold is slightly matt and not very 'yellow' or 'shiny' so it works well with the pale mossy green ..
the green card is called 'pea green' and is from Craft Creations and has green pearlescent effect on one side and smooth white on the other so needed a new blade when cutting on robo)/
the red card is from Craft Creations too and is red hammer card, the pink is from Cards and Scrapz.
the black and gold card was from stash

the flowers were made using one flower punch in one size ands using and embossing tool to make the inner petals curl, and then adding a glue gun made dew drop (coloured with gold alcohol ink) or added black pearl on the respective colours.
think thats it for now..

handbag shaped birthday card

a handbag card which I decorated a little more than the original invites done a couple of weeks ago and made into a birthday card without any stamping or digi / other images for the meslyn mini challenge

the original card is green and gold and the handbag was designed for party invites whcih are little simpler (will show the pics when they are all done)

..the little card is (it fits into a square envelope) made without any colouring or stamping but embossing and cutting with my robo -
designed the template myself and it was taking too long to draw the flourish on design master II that I decided to draw the flourish freehand on paper with a marker, scanned it and then converted into a cutting file with the trace wizard thing in DMII..

.. added a little tag with birthday sentiment, used a gel pen for the faux stitching and some prima flowers, as well as the quickutz diamonds embossing folder, and can see me making more of these they are so girls and you can come up with all sorts of ideas for embellishing them and go wild with that end of it!!


and some close ups

thought I would share today's makes with you.. only three cards but I expanded on ones I had already done...

New Sandal Card With Box

I made a sandal card in a box in A5 size before, and wanted to make more, so here is another. I made a simple box myself too and this is a mini one, it is only 5 inches square.. hope you like it. I did some pricking on the straps and embossing (again!)




EDITED with information on how I did this - thanks for your comments Dawn!

1 make a box with standard scoring board

2 make the sandal:
*drawn a sandal sole and cut one smaller than the other, using fancy edge scissord if you wish to make a nice edge
* glue the inner to outer sole (emboss the inner sole if you like)
*cut two strips of card for the straps and insert these together in a small cut near the top half of the shoe (use a pricking tool if you like or emboss the strips before you thread them throught the sole)
* use DS tape and / or glue to secure the straps under the shoew and then to the card which has already been coloured and embossed as below:

3 the embossing / texture
* hammered white card embossed with the floral CB folder.
* used derwnet pencil crayons (use pastels or other pencil or wax crayons if you have them) to add colour to the raised embossed edges
* the technique of holding the coloured pencils I learnt while doing Art / drawing - hold the pencil or crayon parallel to the paper you are working on by using all your fingers down the lenth of the pencil IYKWIM this way you shade the embossed bits using the side of the coloured lead in the pencil and not the tip or normal 45 degree angle you would use to colour or hold a pen

hope this helps