Cupcake / Gift Gable Box with Strawberry Ribbon

So where did the sunshine go? Seriously though the garden was a little parched so we needed some rain, and the fresh smell after a shower is invigorating. 

Am sure the sun will make an appearance again, and the vegetable garden is looking good again.

Onto my next project share, a gable box which was made from two 12 x12 sheets, enabling me to make flaps for sides and bottom from both sheets and the result was a good size box - it measured 6 and 1/2 by 4 inches when finished - good for two cupcakes.

these are the supplies I used

Craft Ribbons Strawberry Shortcake Ribbon - yum (if you live in Ireland and want to order the ribbon, just email Crafty Ribbons so they can calculate postage before shipping goods, as the checkout on the shop adds way more than it should, and they kindly told me to email them when ordering)

Just Rite Stamps

Spellbinders label dies  28 - the pink shape behind the sentiment

Spellbinders grand ovals /grand ovals

Craft Creations stripe paper

EK success retro flower or Spellbinders/Heartfelt Creations posy patch dies

Fiskars Apron Lace punch

an old quickutz strawberry die

not sure about the brand of the punch used for the centre of the flower but it was blue with a white round punch thing (not a lever) - maybe someone can help me out there!

Some more photos of the box..

... and here is the centre 'holder' so the cakes don't move around and make marks on the walls of the box.

Hope you like the look of the box, which has so many options in terms of decoration - I will be making a Christmas themed box with no window, just perfect for small gifts.  

some Lili of the Valley Masculine Cards

really quick post this morning as I have lots to do today, and wanted to get these cards posted as they were done a couple of weeks ago!

Both cards are made with Lili of the Valley stamps which you can find here, and I have used the partial embossing technique on both of them too. The sentiment stamp is also LOTV.

The papers are from an old stack called Masculine from Dovecraft which I have had ages and still like a lot.

 The inking on the corners was done with TH distress inks to add to the texture of the embossing. 

 

The sentiment on the second card was done with Just Rite alphabet stamps and since the image above didn't show the fluffy stuff on the soap suds very well, here's a close-up picture below:

thanks for looking :)

Twinkling H2O Poppies... soooo shiny!

Its great to find a nice sunny day when I can take a picture of a coloured image to show the layering and demonstrate the loveliness of the mica pigments in twinkling H2O paints... aren't they delicious!!

here is a side on view - the day I took this, the sun was really shining - you can just feel the warmth!!

and another view, so you can see the embossing and the organza ribbon

For this card I used Just Rite Stamps, and the set is called Plant a Little Love.
..the sentiments are also from Just Rite and the set was called Custom Design Card making kit - it came with 2'' circular wood stamper (with grooves so the rubber stamps fit in without glue or an acrylic block), 10 borders and centers and times new roman font sets - its a great starter kit and you can find it here!

Autumn Cards

A couple of new makes to share with you, and we also made these yesterday at the workshop. Yesterday was a great day, we had loads of fun and a warm welcome for our new crafters, I think you girls thought we were a mad bunch, must have been something in the air yesterday.

So there was lots of nattering and at one point my cheeks ached from laughing, and we still did really well having finished all 6 projects without rushing for the door (this normally happens cos there is never enough time in the day is there when you're crafting?!) So thanks ladies, you worked really hard and am impressed at how easily all the treat bags came together.

I will post those separately when I can get a decent picture, but in the meantime, here are the last of this years' autumn cards.

The first is a just rite stamps sunflower card in black, white and dark cream / mustard yellow colours and the sunflower is stamped three times and layered, removing petals each time another layer is added. The embossing was done using two different cuttlebug folders, and the punch is a fiskars one called apron lace.

Finally added some dew drops coloured with alcohol inks and made with a glue gun.

The second card is one using a house mouse stamp called Autumn Cruise. I fell in love with this stamp when I saw it its sooo cute. We learned a new technique with nestabilities with this one, by using only part of the nestability die in the bug, you can create your own shapes or borders - for this one we used labels four, the largest die and only die cut the ends of the rectangle shaped layers in dark cream, dark red and ivory.

The sentiment is computer generated and the leaves are die cut from cuttlebug leaves cutting dies and then embossed with a cuttlebug folder, the same folder used on the sunflower card. The papers are from Bearly Mine Designs, the set is called Just Plaid and can be purchased HERE.

Will pop back later with the other Christmas card we made and the Halloween ones.