Thursday, December 23, 2010
Christmas Anticipation
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Homemade Christmas Presents
Or you could use your favourite cake or biscuit recipe and bake a lovely delicious cake. That will always go down well.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Behind the scenes
This single page of retail therapy I made some time ago as the back page for an album, and could easily be adapted for a Christmas shopping page.
The close up shows the detail of the tag which was made with metal mesh which was painted with paint on the edges. The metal tags were tied on with wire and the tag was then lined with a matching colour. The wire then had a bit of ribbon tied to it to embellish it. Each tag was then decorated with a little shopping bag. How cute are they?
Happy shopping
Adrienne
Monday, November 15, 2010
YOU BEAUTY
From the Big 5 list ... this magnificent leopard;
a pleasing encounter with an elephant;
and an old, laid back Buffalo.
two Grey Herons having a difference of opinion;
a little tortoise crossing the road;
and the bush ablaze with colour.
Not bad for 8 hours in the bush and enough to give our foreign visitors a taste of Kruger.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Make some quick greeting cards
Monday, October 25, 2010
Glitter up your heritage photos
Don't be afraid to use glitter with your heritage photos.
My Mind's Eye has the most beautiful, subtle range of glitter paper and embellishments available at the moment. The paper I used below had the banners and "celebrate" already printed on the paper.
I used the matching printed lettering to spell out "A handful of love". What I did was raised each little banner on some foam adhesive to create a bit of dimension.
Another tip you can implement is when you want to end off a ribbon in the middle of the page without an embellishment to finish off the raw edge - just make a slit in the page with your craft knife and thread the ribbon through to the back and stick it down with tape. That way it is neat and won't fray on the front of the page.
Here you can see some of the glitter detail. By using foam adhesive you create shadows on the page which adds another dimension of interest to the page.
Heritage photos can sometimes curl, so another tip to remember is use a stronger adhesive such as a double sided tape to adhere the photos to the page.
Happy scrapping.
Monday, October 18, 2010
This year I made, together with the help of some scrappers, 250 wallets that could hold a nail file. They are ideal to keep in your purse. You might want to make some yourself so this is how you go about making them:
Place the curved layer on top of the longer bottom layer and stitch together by machine on three sides to create a pocket. Back stitch at the beginning and end of the machine stitching.
Trim the threads short - the stitching shouldn't unravel because of the back stitching.Take the nail files out of their packaging and insert a nail file into each little wallet.
You will need to colour co-ordinate each flower and button with the wallet colour.
For the lady's wallets they each got a flower with a button and for the men's wallet the got an off-cut of ribbon tied into a loose knot with two buttons to create a "bow tie and shirt"
These nail file wallets make great stocking fillers for Christmas. Why not give it a bash? It is also a great way to use up leftover card stock. If the nail file you buy is longer in size just make the wallet proportionately longer.
Happy stitching _ _ _ _ :)
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
We are back from Italy
we tossed a coin into Trevi Fountain,
walked over the Ponte Vecchio,