FINALLY ABLE TO SHOW THIS

Well I can finally unveil the gift I made recently for my fantastic cousin who has just had her first baby. Having already made a gift for her sister recently who'd also had a baby I didn't want to duplicate the gift, then I came across a box and chipboard book that I already had made up and set to painting it the obligatory blue for a boy (mind you I absolutely adored the paint I was using!). I decorated in black cardstock and bluepaper and added the letters of his name

After the book was complete it came to light that my over enthusiastic embellishments had led to the box not being deep enough to take the book added to which the blue paint was running out so no chance of making a second one! With some consideration I set to with the trusty big shot and some thin chipboard, cutting hearts out and then using an embossing folder to put the dotted design on the same before painting and adhereing to the outside of the box to raise the lid up and give the book a little more space. And so my potential problem was turned into a beautiful addition to the box - I loved it!


Picture of the box with lids on and the hearts stuck underneath - who would have known that it wasn't intentional?

Here is the book folded out, spelling out his first name. The letters were cut out of thin chipboard and covered in paper, embellished with wire and beads with the addition of chipboard hearts.

And the other side with his second name and pockets with tags for his Mum and Dad to add any essential little bits of information they wanted to.

Pocket up close

And again

And again

It was a lovely project to do and I'm assured it arrived safely and was received well! Now for my next project mmmm what to do!

OFFCUTS AND MATCHING BOX

Well I posted a lovely mini project the other day which was a landscape take on Voodoo Vixen's organiser (two days ago me thinks - scroll down to find it) and got my dear husband to make a matching box for it to sit in - which he kindly did, so after some pink paint, distress inks, a little stamping here's the finished article. The first shows the box inside and the top of the lid...

Then this one shows the inside of the box and the inside of the lid, I did a row of stamping on the inside of the lid which I didn't like so an extra piece of paper and a bit of ric rac sorted that little issue out!

But then I'm always left with a load of offcuts, which usually just get put into my scraps box - but this time I thought I'd try and use some of the scraps up - now anyone who knows me knows I don't profess to be any good at card making - this is primarily because I only ever use offcuts from my scrapbooking LOL but I'm quite happy with these, the first is an anniversary card.

I haven't decided on the second one as sometimes I put a greeting on it and then decide it would have suited a better purpose LOL.

Then a group shot of the four finished cards, like i said I'm really quite pleased with them, but now I've run out of the gorgeous Blonde Moments pages - feels like the end of an era - I've always had some Blonde Moments in my stash - mind you word has it the gorgeous Dyan is on with designing new papers - can't wait!

Got a few other things bubbling in the scrapping pot at the moment, so I'll post as they are done - trying to up my total postings before the end of July LOL - mind you off to work today - boo hoo - figures and numbers only - no pretty paper!