Pauls Boutique style card bag

Well heres my latest project, designed for Beth's 13th Birthday next week. The tutorial for it is shown on post below and on youtube, any further instructions or information is available by emailing me or leaving a comment

The inspiration for this came from finding a zebra print piece of felt in a craft store, it instantly sparked what card to make for my Pauls boutique obsessed daughter. It was really simple to make, the only time consuming parts came when waiting for fabric glue to dry between pieces.

Well i hope you like this and would love to get some feedback

Pauls Boutique style card bag tutorial

All the fun of the craft fair

Yesterday I spent the day at Birmingham NEC Craft Hobby and Stitch International. Was lovely to see all the new products, and demonstrations. I gathered a few contacts and hopefully will have an internet based shop up and running in next few months.

As always i'm drawn to the lovely displays from sizzix

these from craft inspirations were also very inspiring and a great demonstration on new spellbinder designs

Fabric Flower Alteration Tutorial

Large Scale Layout

While wondering round ikea I found a large square picture frame (Ribba) measuring 20" square with a mount included of 11.5" square. It was perfect as also had a deep shadow box frame ideal for oversized embellishments.

First i covered the mount with old music sheets, which i lightly painted with gesso to produce a more unified appearance. both the inside and outside edges were inked with Distress inkpad 'old paper' and 'tea dye' applied with a blending foam pad.

For inside the mount I used a sheet of Scrapadapery 'Robert Burns', i lightly inked the edges of a 8x10" photo with black ink, and mounted on a sheet of cardstock inked with brown.

Embellishments. the stamped flourishes, Autumn Leaves flourishes 2, were stamped on acetate with black stazon ink, this allowed for movement and any mistakes.

The felt edging strip was from prima, originally in white, proved a little difficult to ink so i ended up colouring in with a brown permanent marker.

The leaves were cut using Tim Holtz distressed flowers sizzix die, and inked brown. the small paper flowers were just brought from local market, sold on a bunch with individual buds cut off.

Large flowers were fabric flowers brought from poundshop in white, sprayed, stamped with script pattern using versamark fine brown, edges inked in brown, and crystals added to centres (see my colouring flowers demo above)

Valentines day project

I never really been much in the way of lovey dovey stuff, but this year was different. I wanted to let the man in my life know just special he was as not only was it valentines, but also our first anniversary. We have done so much since our first date together last year, so what a better way than to do a mini book celebrating all those wonderful times. This was really difficult to do a masculine theme, as I usually do kiddy, flowers or bling, so although it was quite plain, it did get the message across of how much I love him.

and he got a card, with a secret tag hidden inside with a special message