Paradise found

 Something sweet and romantic for class next week!  

A little while ago Gayle showed me how to make these flower vines from silk flowers and if you come to class I will show you too. You can add more flowers, make it more viney, whatever you like.

 A stitched heart, some scrolls...

...a few swirls and the very cool rhinestuds (find them here at my2angels in loads of colours for only $1.00 for 50!!!!)

  Cheers, Geli

Lazy days

Yes, these photos look familiar, they will sit together with the previous post once I get around to making a wedding album for my lovely new sister-in-law. In the meantime I am using them for class projects. (The frame featured in the blog hop here went to the other brother-in-law.)

You can use the leftovers from the last class and we'll add some texture and washi tape. 

If you want, you can make this girly of course, just add some flowers and stuff.

UFOs

I bet you too have UFOs in your house. They are the UnFinished Objects in everyone's craft pile. This week I managed to actually finish a few of them. These are all based on diverse class layouts I had started during my class and they were left to rot in the UFO pile. I thought it might cheer your crafty little soul to see them finished.

"Our Wedding"

This one is the cover page of my sister-in-laws wedding album. By then I had used up all the photos, but ended up with an uneven number of pages. A bit of planning would have been useful, but now it's a photo-less page. And why not?

Clever chicks will see that it's based on the resist technique I had in this month's issue of Scrapbooking Memories (and that means you'll have to get the mag, I can't share it here)

To make the flower center I glued a glass cabochon on some pretty Prima Songbird paper with Glossy Accents (Dimensional Magic works too), let it dry...

...cut it out and glued it on a round silver filigree and then on a flower:

Once that was on the page I added a charming bouquet and a charming pin with some gold stamens:

I used the Sew Easy tool with the "love" design for the stitched circle: 

 A sprinkling of pearl Mica fragments gives the title a bit of shimmer. It's hard to capture in a photo, but it looks like mother-of-pearl. Very pretty.

"Fantabulous"

This one had likely grown roots in the UFO pile, it's been there so long. It's based on an iris-folding technique we did in class and this one needed some TLC to come to life. 

 I thought some pretty flowers to pep it up and I had a rolled satin flower in my stash, but the black gardenia and the grey rose were just the contrast I needed. 

 Honestly that's not the colours I would normally reach for, but look how nice they are. I added a little glimmer mist to the black one, by the way, and a couple of brown mini leaves. And lastly, there is a cute baby foot charm (painted bronze):

"Flower children"

You'll have to take my word for it, that's what the title means. This page is for my parent's yearly album they're getting for Christmas. Thankfully they're not blog junkies, so the secret should be safe. This one is based on the "Our Street" layout I taught recently:

For this version I used the giant white mulberry flower too (this time tugged under) and a cluster of a cherry blossom, a white orchid, and a white and a pink rose bud on a  silver filigree wrap:

I hope this inspires you to dig out some of your own UFOs and finish them! 

Geli

Christmas, all cheery and bright - and quick too

First of all, I can't believe that I am doing a Christmas post in September! But some of you like to get started early on cards and there are new Christmas papers at my2angels I want to show you. It  is the new Mint Twist range from Kaisercraft, perfect for those of us who prefer a bit of bright and cheery to muted and old fashioned.

All I had was 1/2 sheet of this Mint Twist Jingle paper and I managed to get 3 cards out of that plus a few embellies.

If you are in a hurry, you can cut out the tags from the paper and use them as they are, but I like to always add a bit to it.

For the first card I stamped leaves into the tag to fill it out a little more and did some hand stitching with the Sew Easy tool and the Flourish head, plus 3 washi tape flags. 

 The Christmas bauble got a glass cabochon to make it 3D (use Dimensional Magic to glue it on) and 2 white bows.

The next card has a giant mulberry flower for a bit of background texture. I could have sprayed it with glimmer mist, but decided to leave it all white so the cute tag will stand out. 

I made 3 different frames: 2 rows of sewing, a rhinestone chain and spots using Liquid Pearls.

 The sweet little pink present charming chain adds just enough wow factor. They come in different colours, too. I popped a little pink bow on top. 

These bow packs are great for having a bunch of mini bows on hand whenever I need one.

The last card has 3 layered tags from the same Jingle paper

  and I finished it with some cotton lace, red velvet ric rac, baker's twine and a present charm with 2 small leaves. This card was really quick to make cause I was running out of time before school pick up. I reckon you could make 10 of those in an hour.

 I hope you got some Christmas inspiration. It's always a good idea to start cards early so you don't run out of time.

Geli

Fun things to do with washi tape

Rainbow alert !!!

I have a little girl who changes her favourite colour daily and "rainbow" is often the colour of the day.

I have a smallish collection (tiny, compared to some I have seen...) of washi tape and this stuff is really fun. So, what can you do with washi tape? 

If you like to have a play with it, come along to class next week and try it out. You don't have to go for the rainbow look, pick whatever colours you like.We'll make some washi butterflies, hearts and swirls...

...and a few tabs:

See ya there!