NEW BORN GIFT

A few years ago a school friend who'd been trying for a baby for an age finally had a baby daughter, she was utterly over the moon and I made a little gift for her.  Last November she managed to add to her family with another daughter and then came the dilemma of what to make, I had a considerable think about this but eventually opted to make something similar to the original.

It folds up into a box

This is sat on the table.

 The back of it documents all the Facebook messages she got (I thought it was a good way of documenting all these lovely messages!

 Up close

 It is a little different from the original, but I had fun making it and it was well received, in fact if you wanted to know what the original looked like

Hope you are having a good day!

EVENING ALL - TRYING TO HAVE AN INDUSTRIOUS WEEK

Big waves to everyone, well it's been a mighty busy day at work and at home, but it's kick back time so before I attack the thing called my craft-space which is lacking seriously on the 'space' front at the moment I thought I'd put together a quick post for the beautiful book that Annette (Voodoo Vixen) created for the UK Scrappers Cyber crop recently.

I've had to wait a while to post on here as one of the two I created during the cyber crop was a gift and I wanted the recipient to actually get their paws on it before it appeared on my blog.

I created two books at the same time, the one on the left a gift for Carmen and the one on the right to be filled by yours truly with appropriate photos at some point in the future.

I loved the tissue paper design for the book as per Annette' instructions

The book unfolded

 It has a mini book as part of it's main design

 Which you can see a bit better here

 It has lots of little pockets and spaces for tags

 And more

 From the side you can see the two giant matchboxes, painted to colour co-ordinate with the rest of the book.  I thought Carmen might want to put Logan's hospital bracelet and any other small mementos in here.

 Up close my book in red

 I added lots of ribbons and threads

 And a giant key!

Inside the book is a mix of papers including some hand stamped and masked as the papers I used for this one were not double sided.

 I made a slip when making this and attached the double sided a different way so there's no ability to add tags - so this will be a photo based mini book

 Used some lovely DCWV papers I've had for a while

 Again the side shot with the matchboxes

I'm so pleased with both books, I love how tactile they are and how easy they were to put together, so much so I've now bought four more matchboxes and got hubby to cut me some grey board ready so get ready to see some more of these books very soon!   Just not sure what to do with all the matches if I'm honest!

If you fancy having a go yourself!  It can be found as a PDF download on this page  here it's the third one down called it's a mystery, but all the classes were great, so feel free to explore the page!

If you fancy seeing more of what Annette creates check out her blog here 

GLIMPSES OF A GIFT IS ALL I CAN GIVE YOU

Well today I can only post little snippets of what I've been up to this week, this is because it's a gift for one of my fantastic cousins who has just had her first baby. I was unsure what to make because I'd made her sister a gift who also had a baby recently and didn't want to make the same so I just started playing with paints one afternoon and then bits of paper and before I knew it the gift was done. Its currently sat on my worktop but needs some careful wrapping and then sending off in the post today so it gets to her. I hope she likes it, I must admit I'm really pleased with it! And I love the blue - it's out of an acrylic paint set of my son's that he doesn't use any more (because he finished the canvas he got to use the paints on), it is such a positive colour! So other than the colour what else can I tell you - well there's glossy accents and ink.

Bead and wire work!

Die cuts and torn paper

Home embossed chipboard shapes

And all sorts of other delicious items! I promise to post full pictures once it's received

Anyhow I'm going to toddle off now! Hope everyone is having a great day!