Thursday 30 May 2013

Fairtrade Mug gifts

Hello everyone and a special welcome to Karin who is a new follower this week.

I've been busy again making up mug gift packs for a Fair Trade Sale at the school my daughter teaches at. The school is making positive steps to encourage the children to think about where our food comes from and how the people who provide it often live below the poverty line. The Fair Trade symbol on foods shows that the growers and workers are receiving proper recompense for their labour, and will then hopefully be able to have a better standard of living. Each mug has fair trade chocolate and hot chocolate, along with some baby marshmallows to stir in. I have done these a few times now and you can see previous lots here. This time I decided to make a dent in some of my scrap booking paper stash and made bag toppers decorated with stamps cut out with punches. Here's a selection






And here are some of the 40 I made, packed up and ready to go


These take a little time to put together but they are great sellers at school sales.

I'm entering these into the Simon Says Stamps Anything Goes challenge,  and the Path of Positivity challenge.

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Carol x

Saturday 25 May 2013

Papertrey Ink Thank you card

Hello everyone,

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I'm sorry to have been absent for so long but with decorating and being away, I haven't had time to catch up with anyone or even to get into the craft room. We have just returned from a week away,visiting some friends in Essex, and then going to Norfolk for a few days, where the weather was particularly unkind. I was glad to get home and have some sunshine for the Bank Holiday weekend, but as I needed to make a thank you card to send to our Essex friends, and as today is the PTI bloghop, I had a the perfect excuse to dive into my craft room. I had been itching to get back into the craft room and have come to the conclusion that I must be addicted to this crafting thing because  I was even thinking about cards whilst on holiday. Do you think I need a twelve step programme or are you the same?

Nichole gave us a great choice of colour mixes for using on a flower card and I chose to use this one

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as inspiration. I used the Sending You die to cut a aperture in the front of the card and used the cut out piece as a panel to stamp my flowers from Natural Beauties in summer sunrise, orange zest, ripe avocado, hibiscus burst and raspberry fizz. I drew round the back of the die onto orange zest card and cut the shape out to make a mat for the panel.


This is how it looks closed. I added one of the border panels and a sentiment from Quilled Elegance ( I love the fonts in that set!), along with a few little butterflies that I cut with my Cameo and stamped with the Bitty Background Block stamps.

This is how it looks open



and I love the effect of peeping through a window.

Thanks for stopping by and after I have been to the supermarket to stock up on some food, I'm going to hop along and see what you've all been up to in my absence.

Hugs
Carol x

Sunday 5 May 2013

Papertrey Ink Birthday cards

Hello everyone,
I hope you are having a great Bank Holiday weekend. The weather is not too bad, but it is not warm enough to sit in the garden so I don't feel guilty about spending some time crafting indoors to play catch up with the His ' Hers card class. Day 2 was all about birthday cards and I challenged myself to use the same sets of stamps from Papertrey Ink on both cards.




For the masculine card I used a white, blue and brown colour palette and circle stamps from the Sketched Shapes set. I also used a birthday circle stamp from Birthday Tags and layered this into a die cut from Limitless Layers Circles, I stamped the tag again and cut out the centre to layer up and add some dimension. I stamped and cut an arrow to point at the focal point and used some glossy accents on the central star. A few scattered stars, finished it off.

For the second card used a sketch from the current Fusion Card Challenge with a colour palette of aqua mist, spring moss, autumn rose and scarlet jewel





I again used the stamps from Sketched Shapes and Birthday Tags, and a Limitless Layers circle die, but I also used one of the Photo Finishers dies in scarlet jewel to give some bold contrast. I added a little glittered star to the birthday candles and finished off with a couple of hearts.

The class will  be over tomorrow and I am still only on Day 2 but I will continue after the close because it is such a useful exercise.

I am also going to enter this into the Passion for Papertrey Lets Celebrate challenge
and Celebrate the Occasion anything goes.

Thanks for stopping by.
Hugs
Carol x

Wednesday 1 May 2013

New Home cards for His n Hers class

Hello everyone,

The decorating is coming along nicely but I'll be so glad to have everything put back into the bedroom so I can stop tripping over it in other temporary storage spots like the landing and bathroom! It has also meant that crafting time is down to the minimum so I am already 2 days behind on the new Online Card Classes 'His and Hers' class. I hate making masculine cards so I'm hoping that this class will be as informative as the others have been and give me some much needed help in this department. I took some time this morning to do the homework for day 1 which was to make his and hers cards. I needed to make a new home card for my eldest son who moved to a new flat yesterday, so I got to work.

I decided to use similar ideas for both cards and also use similar stamps. For the masculine card I used smokey shadow card along with kraft card as this has a suitably 'male' look about it. I used the 'Love Dwells Here' stamps from the Craft's Meow and coordinating Spellbinders dies to make the house. However, the house had a heart on it which I did not think would go down well in a 'house of trouser', even if it was stamped on dark card,


so I cut a little tag and put it over the heart as a cunning disguise which my son can push to one side if he wants to see the cute heart in private!

We have been shown that bold, graphic sentiments look best on masculine cards but I did not have a suitable stamp, so I took the one I had


and coloured the open letters with black pen to 'man it up' a bit


I also used a triangle stamp from my new Sketched Shapes set from Papertrey Ink to make a border.



My twine was lost against the kraft background so I dyed it with smokey shadow ink and placed the whole panel on a smokey shadow card base. I was quite pleased with how this tuned out.

For my girly card I used the same triangle stamp and sentiment  but used a different house stamp from Polka Doodles and different colours.






I stamped the border, used it vertically and added strips of patterned paper, a tip from an earlier class. This time I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the house and used foam tape to raise it from the background which I had stamped with a little fence and some foliage. I used a Copic marker to add some shadow. This time I embossed the sentiment and left it open but added the word 'new' in pink ink . A few scattered hearts finished it off. The same ideas but 2 very different cards.

I'm linking this up to the Simon Says Stamps 'Happy Mail' challenge
and the first card into the Stamping for the weekend using dies challenge

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Carol x 



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