Fun with friends and a little book again

Hello all, thanks for dropping by here. Today I am sharing a little book created with Eileen Hull's passport die.

A few days ago I had some friends over for an afternoon of crafty fun and we all made one of these (well we did not finish them), but we made a good start and I have now completed mine.

Here's a photo of us all around our table

From left to right: Rita, Jennie, me and Annie

We had so much fun and decorated our covers with texture paste and paints, Infusions, Oxide inks, stamping and so on. It's always so inspiring to see how different people create such different things all using the same stash.

Below is the spine, I used twine to sew my signatures and threaded the middle one with some beads for decoration.

Mine turned out quite fat as I created 3 inserts, using coffee dyed papers, some Tim Holtz and Prima papers as well as some digital print outs I had prepared for us all in the right size. I'll be sharing some of these as freebies in days to come, so stay tuned :).

Here is the back of mine, I left it quite plain, while adding a few embellishments to the front:

The saying is made with a stamp from a set by another Scottish friend, who sadly could not be with us, - Lynne Moncrief from Adorn. Annie had very kindly brought this stamp set along and I think we all used it in places.

As I made 3 little inserts, each with about 5 double pages'  I'll only show you a few of the pages, maybe I'll share a few more at some other point, - here goes:

Here you can see how I tucked the ribbon for the closure under a couple of little punch outs.

A page with a pocket and a little tag, - it's all in junk journal style again, which at the moment is my favourite style for making these little books and journals.

Here is the little tag that fits inside the pocket, another space for a quote or some journaling.

Some subtle stencilling and a coffee dyed page.

I sewed the signatures together with twine, that I also then pulled through to the cover as you might be able to see from one of the photos above. I left it all quite plain, so things can be added at some later stage. I am probably going to use this for some of my favourite hand written quotes.

Well, that's it for now, thanks for your visit like always and see you next time, have a good week!

xxxxx

And the countdown continues

Hi everyone, today I have two more Christmas cards to share, both done in a very similar way:

I started with a size 8 tag, created a background using a mix of  Paper Artsy Infusions and Distress Spray. I then ran my tags through an embossing folder and highlighted the raised bits, with a mix of Distress inks (ground espresso) and Treasure Gold.

They then were finished with die cuts and matted onto card, easy peasy and as they are flat they will be easy to post.

The snowflakes are Sizzix Tim Holtz, the sentiment is by Sue Wilson for Creative Expressions.

The little bell is a Marianne Creatable embossed and then glittered with Distress Glitterdust in Vintage Platina.

The second one was done in pretty much the same way. Just added a few strips of washi tape, as I felt it just needed something.

I sprinkled some glitter dust across the card for some added shimmer, but of course the photos don't pick that up properly.

This time a triple layered snowflake to hide the hole in the tag.

Well, that's it, two more to tick off the list, I fell I am well on the way now and really enjoying it.

Thanks for dropping in like always and stay creative!