Just wanted to show off my new ink pad storage!
It has removable shelves and will hold all 48 ink pads from SU… I have a few more to go!!!
Not bad for £30… it also came fully assembled and when I can get around to it, it can be painted to match our dining room.
The cards below I made for a group of 6 two year olds! Our children are all born within a month of each other as we met at atenatal classes so we recently decided to have a joint birthday bash which was wonderful!
I took inspiration from the fabulous Julie Kettlewell (Julies Japes) to make these giraffe punch art characters… I did two versions for the boys and the girls.
As mentioned in previous posts, I am now a sales leader for Mini IQ… my team is called ‘Cupcakes’, so of course I HAD to buy this set!
I made the girls in my team some little gifts, a covered diary… do they can add in their party bookings! and a matching post it note keyring!
I was asked to make some toppers to go on top of cello bags like my Easter ones!
Here is a first for me… decoupage from a printed picture!
I made this as a thank you for the teacher of our sing and sign classes as they’ve come to an end after 18months… they’ve been fantastic and to anyone out there considering baby sign… it’s well worth it!!!
So…
I wanted to make something incorporating the logo or the cat – called Jessie! However I kept drawing blanks and wasn’t happy until I tried this!
I printed the logo 3 times on paper and then cut and stuck them to card. I then cut away sections of the design and layered them up using dimensionals!
I should have taken a side view picture to showcase the depth… hey I’m learning :)
A cute little 3-D card which I made for a friend who recently had a little girl… well of course you knew that! it’s a pink card!! ahem….
Anyway…
I found an excellent tutorial of this online but sadly after searching through my entire list of saved blog items, I can’t find it, so if it was you and you’re reading my little blog… please let me know and I’ll add your name here!
I cut the 2 of the largest nestabilities on my cuttlebug, you could of course use scissors, but I don’t trust my ‘neatness’, created patterned paper using very vintage wheel and melon mambo ink and cut these with the next smallest circle.
I then cut away the 1/4 to form the pram shape, and then turned to SU fab punches to create the wheels.
The pram is then held together with a strip of paper snipped along its entire length at incredibly tight together intervals so that it would bend and stick the sides on. To finish it off, a strip of paper used to make the handle and the trim to the bonnet.
If I was making this again, I’m make the strip wider so that the pram could hold more… as it was I filled it with a little giftcard!
On our recent SU training day – run by the lovely Amanda (Inspirin Inkin), we learnt how to make these rulers. (I think they were from Monica Gale’s My many passions blog)
Anyway, when I was asked to make some gifts for my friend to sell at her child’s nursery, these came to mind! 9p from Wilkinson plus 11p for a jumbo eyelet, sell them for 40p and voila… 20p profit! You’re not going to get rich but it all helps :) We’re going to thread ribbon through the ends with the name of the nursery on as a nice memento.
We also stamped jungle animals on oddments of paper and scalloped the edges to wrap around chocolate bars – sadly I forgot to take pictures of these!
In case it wasn’t apparent, their theme was Jungle animals!
Here is the donations pot aka a wishing well decorated with loads of punch art! Can you spot the elephant? monkey? giraffe?
I was quite excited with the elephant as I adapted one that we were shown at our previous training using the butterfly punch to form his ears. I was pleased to discover that I could use the tag punch to cut in half and form the elephant ears! also cut carefully around the edge to form his trunk!
An unusual choice for a 2 year old girl’s birthday, but she loves purple!
I’ll say right now that I do not intend to leave my blog alone for quite so long again, the last two months have been quite mad and a little bit stressful for me! I’ve had visitors, my nan had a stroke and sadly passed away, holiday AND working incredibly hard to qualify to be a sales leader with Mini IQ… I’m glad to say that I did it!
But all this has left me with little (but I managed to cram in some!) time to craft…
I did on one deep dark horrible afternoon manage to do some stamping and share it with my son Jonah… a born crafter :)
