Inside The Covers

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Over the past couple of weeks I've shared the box and the front and back covers of my London Celebrates album. Today it's the turn of the inside covers.

This is the back.

And this of course is the front.

The cover has two large pockets to keep your tags etc in. I've added one of the shabby heart flags from the cut-apart sheet.

I've made some journaling cards from a cut-apart sheet. I've stayed with the red, white, and blue theme. Some of these will be going into the pockets later.

There are some postcards on a cut-apart sheet, and I've also made some of my own from the papers. I just had to use these soldiers, and there was even some left over for a tag!

I've put some magnets inside the folded bookmark and this will now hold something in place anywhere you like.

The collection is available here in Sally's store in both digital and physical papers.

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Go Explore

 Good morning and a very happy Monday! I'm back today with my second piece for the Country View Crafts 'Vehicle' challenge, and I've gone with a steampunk theme.

I'm not quite sure what kind of vehicle this is, it's a kind of teapot on wheels!

I started by making a simple background with some Distress Oxides.

Then added this Stamperia background stamp.

Then I stamped and coloured my lovely floating teapot. I was having such a lovely time that I even cut out the fiddly bits between the spokes, and the windows. I added some acetate to the back to give it a bit of extra strength so I could pop it up on 3d tape.

And there we are, all done!

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Take care and have a very happy week xx

London Celebrates!

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday! Today I'm sharing an album that I've made with the Relatively Thoughtful London Celebrates collection, and luckily it fits (just) in the box that I showed last week.

I couldn't resist turning the front into a shaker, which is really easy to do as you can print each sheet as often as you like. I spent a lovely hour (not) sorting out my red, white, and blue sequins from a mixed tub lol.

I made my album using a tutorial by Paul of Papercrafting With Paul. This is the Let's Get Cosy album that he used as his G45 DT application.

 

It's a fab album with lots of spaces for photos.

The album measures 7'' x 6.25'' so just right for the A4 papers. There's a cut-apart sheet for the flowers, and the papers also make fab tags and postcards.

This is the back cover using one of my favourite sheets, a shabby Union Flag.

And this is how it looks with one of the postcards matted and layered up.

And this is how it looks in it's box. It's a really nice fit and it will keep it safe and sound.

You can find the collection here in Sally's store.

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God Save The King

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday, I hope you are enjoying your bank holiday weekend (again). 

To celebrate the coronation of King Charles, Sally at  Relatively Thoughtful has designed the fabulous London Celebrates A4 collection, and here's one of my projects -  a recycled box to keep my (yet to be made lol) album in.

I started with a pre-made box that is from a beauty kit.

It measures just shy of 8'' x 6.5''.

When I make a box from scratch I construct it with tape as I can make the top quite a bit larger than the bottom. This means it can fit snugly, but not too tight, and the lid won't scuff the paper on the base. However, as I'm re-cycling a box there isn't enough room to do this, so I've painted all of the edges and corners so that it will look neat when the papers are added.

I've chosen some feature papers for the tops and bottoms, and some pretty florals for the sides. All the sides have been inked and I'm ready to start sticking!

The two most important pieces of equipment - a Teflon tool for burnishing, and a really good wet glue.

This is the inside of the lid.

For the box base sides I've used the same paper as the lid to tie it all together. I've also used a paper that isn't directional, so it's always the right way up lol.

And this is the bottom - don't the soldiers look fabulous!

I added one of the postcards to the lid, together with some layered-up flowers from a cut-apart sheet.

Here are the top and bottom together.

And a close-up of the postcard.

I love how the sides look with their matching papers. All it needs now is an album inside it - I really must make a start on that!

This beautiful collection can be found here in Sally's store in both digital downloads and physical papers and card.

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Time Machine

 Good morning and a very happy Monday. 

It's a new week, a new month, and time for a new challenge at Country View Crafts, and this time Evelyn has chosen 'Vehicles'

I wanted to try my new Lavinia Elements inks, so my background has been made with a gelli plate, ink, and Brushos.

The stamps are all by Antonis Tzanidakis for Stamperia.

The Elements can be found here.

And all things Stamporia here.

I hope you like it, and that you join in with our fun challenge.

Take care and have a very happy May xx

Tag Along

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday.  Today I'm sharing a BIG card that I made with the Independent Women collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

I'm going through a bit of a tag phase at the moment, so here's a few more.

I started with a sheet of this beautiful purple card and added some stamping and paint spatters.

Then I cut some layers. It doesn't matter that there's not a full circle of yellow as this will be covered up.

I also matted some of the tags from the cut-apart sheet.

And dyed my seam binding to match. It's the first time I've used Oxides to die the binding. I really like the opaque coverage it gives - I had yellow fingers for days!

I also chose some pieces from the Stamperia Province chipboard collection. These coordinate perfectly with the Independent Women papers.

Sooo pretty!

The collection can be found here in Sally's store 

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Be Unique

 Good morning and a very happy Thursday! Today I'm sharing my second project for the Country View Crafts Things With Wings, challenge, and this time I've made a postcard.

I started by making my background with some Oxide inks and a stencil.

Then I added some stamping with an old and a new Katzelkraft stamp.

I stamped my crazy bird and coloured it with Prismacolour pencils.

I liked how my background looked, but when I held my image against it, it looked a little bit lost.

To help cut down the background area I added some Tim Holtz tissue paper.

Of course, once I'd started it didn't end there! 

I added more stamping and some washi tape to my background

The sentiment is also a Katzelkraft stamp, and

Susan has a great range of them all here in the store.

There is still loads of time left for you to join in with our challenge, so please pop over to the blog and link up your Things With Wings for the chance to win a £20 voucher to spend in the store.

Have a very happy day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

Happy Easter Sunday

 Good morning and a very happy Easter Sunday!

Today I'm sharing a card made with the Relatively Thoughtful Happy Easter Collection, and the 2023 new additions.

Aren't these new papers beautiful? There are both patterned papers and cut-apart sheets.

I started by folding my base cards and adding the papers.

And this is how it looks when it's constructed. As you can see, the base Z has the larger piece to the right, and the top one has the large piece to the left. Together they make a double Z.

These are some of the fabulous images from the cut-apart sheets. If anyone knows where the chickens and daffodils ended up could you please let me know!

He's such a cutie isn't he!

I decided to go big or go home with my sentiment.

The flowers were surprisingly easy to cut out. I think they look really nice in the corners.

I really like the style of this card, and I'll definitely be doing it again.

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