More altered papers

Hello all and welcome, specially also to new followers, thank you for coming along on my arty journey!

I am on a mission to use up some of my huge collection of papers, and so I have now finished the second little mini book I have been working on this month.

I have shared in detail in earlier posts how to put minis like these together and also how I go about altering the papers used, if you are interested, you can find descriptions here, here and for the construction of the little book here.

Like usual I have used inks, background stamping, embossing and die cuts.

Most of the stamps used were designed by Gabrielle Polacco.

And here the final two pages, using exactly the same techniques once more, just with different colours.

Most of the dies used are from the Tim Holtz wild flower thinlits set.

And one final tag, to fit in the side pocket between two of the pages:

I embellished the tag with a couple of little home made Tyvek beads and that was pretty much it.

Well, I am glad my little books are finished now, - high time for some different kind of projects and art work, but more of thast in a few days to come. Thank you for your visit like always!

xxxxx

Mini book final part - the tags

Hello lovely visitors. Today I am sharing the final part of the little book I made. If you missed the other parts you can find them here and here
The little book has two pockets, just the right size for a #8 tag.

I made them in a similar style to the little book itself and chose the colours so that they would match the pages adjoining the pockets.

I used Pion Design papers that had been gathering dust in my stash and then altered them with Distress Inks, stamps, an embossing folder and in the case of this one, some lace.

I decided to stick with my flowers and butterflies theme. This little butterfly was fussy cut from another paper of the same collection.

Using the same background stamps and similar colour scheme throughout a project help to tie it all tog

gether I find.

Another fussy-cut butterfly from the same collection, but this time coloured a bit with Distress Ink (Scattered Straw)

Below are still a couple of photos of the tags together with the pages they belong too.

Well, that's it for today. I am working on another little book right now. Both are gifts for crafty friends I am going to meet up with in a few week time.

Have a wonderful week everyone and thanks for your visit!

Birthday set complete and some news.....

Hello everyone and lovely to see you here. A special welcome also to my new followers, I feel honoured you decided to follow me.

Well, today I managed to complete the gift set I made for my SIL:

The bag and tag I showed already in my last post, but I have now managed to finish the card:

I followed the same technique as with the bag and tag, to make them all match more or less of course. The little postcard this time is from the Graphics 45 French Country Collection stamps.

One of the elements cut from the 6 x 6 paper collection. (You can read more about that here )

Some flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, layered with some leaves and a bit of tea dyed cheese cloth





And finally another butterfly with some strips cut with the Tim Holtz tattered banners die.

Now to the news: Some of you might remember that I was chosen to be a member of the Sincity Stamps Design Team. Well, today would have been the day of my first post, but..... all of the stamps they sent me to work with got stuck in customs so I never received them in time. So meanwhile I thought I would just show you some of the wonderful stamp sets I will be working with:

They are really reasonably priced if you are interested (only $20 for a full rubber sheet) and they have many  amazing designs, from Art, to Steampunk to Seasonal, so much to choose from,  I fell in love with them straight away and am now keeping my fingers crossed they will get here soon.....

Thank you for dropping in today and see you next time!

Who should be so lucky?

Well, I was, when I was lucky enough to win the wonderful Vintage Garden Collection from Pion Design recently. But before I go on , first of all, thank you for dropping in here today!
It's taken me a long time to finally cut into these wonderful papers, instead of just stroking them, because they are so beautiful, but today I finally took the plunge.

I needed a special gift bag for my SIL whose birthday is coming up soon, and I thought these papers would be perfect to decorate it.  So I had great fun layering several ones on top of each other, distressing the edges etc.
There are so many fun elements to play around with in this paper pack. I received both the 12 x 12 and the 6 x 6 papers (such a lucky win....).

But of course I also wanted to do some stamping to add to it all. So I used my lovely rose postcard stamp (I think it's a Stampendous one) and coloured it with Distress Inks to match my chosen papers. I used Picked Raspberry and Victorian Velvet together and it matched perfectly as you can see from the butterfly that I cut from the papers and added to the postcard. I cut a few doilies from one of the papers (made a bit paler by washing some watered down Gesso over it) and tucked a few other pieces behind and around it.

A couple of sentiments from the Tim Holtz Simple Sayings set pretty much finished it all off.

Next I made a little tag to go with it. The 6 x 6 papers are perfect to decorate them. I layered and distressed the  papers in the same way and then decorated with another little postcard, but this time cut from one of the papers.










Well, there you have it, a fun and easy project to do. Now all I have to do still is to make a matching card, but that I will show in another post.

Hope you like my little gift set. I brought some edible goodies from France to go inside the bag.

Thank you for visiting and have a good week ahead!