November 25, 2010

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop–Winter Gift Tag

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This month’s blog hop is all about holiday tags. Well, I don’t celebrate any kind of holiday celebrations but I do give handmade gifts. So I went with a winter gift tag instead of a holiday one.

pti blog hop tag

I went with a Mishie inspired tag design. Her scrappy style is awesome. I hope you like my version. Once I make someone a handmade gift (in the winter of course!), this tag will be perfect. I’ll write the recipient’s name in the middle of the circle so it isn’t so empty. Or maybe stamp something little in there…

If you enjoyed my tag, please feel free to subscribe; I have thingies on my sidebar for both RSS feeds and email.

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps:
  PTI
Ink: Memento black, Antique Linen and Old Paper Distress inks
Paper: kraft-Ellen Hutson, DP-Cosmo Cricket
Accessories: Ribbon-May Arts, pearl-Dollarama, scalloped punch-SU!, cord-stash, button, twine-PTI, snowflake die-Spellbinders, E33 Copic marker (to darken ribbon), foam dots-Jody Morrow, circle Nestabilities

November 18, 2010

Taylored Expressions Blog Hop–Mini Puppy Gift Box

I am a huge fan of making little boxes. I bought the pattern for this one from My Time, Made Easy; it is called Tuckered Out. Cute name huh?

puppy box

Isn’t that puppy cute? The box was fun to make but, as usual, I noted a couple of problems. I really wanted it to open from the top but the tab wouldn’t stay tucked in! No idea why, I checked to make sure that I had scored in all the right places and I had. So I glued it shut and now it opens from the bottom. I noticed that one of the sides didn’t line up quite right either and I am pretty darn precise. But it is cute enough that I don’t mind making adjustments.

puppy box side

The puppy was stamped on light brown CS and lightly shaded with Copics. The white button is a vintage button, the brown one is from Basic Grey and the aqua one is from PTI. I braided the handle from PTI twine.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the blog hop. If you enjoyed my project, I hope you will subscribe, there are thingies on my sidebar!

 

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps: Beary Special and Beary Special Accessories- Taylored Expressions
Ink: chocolate-SU!, Antique Linen Distress ink
Paper: natural CS-SU!, DP-PTI
Accessories: buttons, white twine-as above, natural twine, template-as above, tag die-Quickutz

Taylored Expressions Blog Hop–Mini Puppy Gift Box

I am a huge fan of making little boxes. I bought the pattern for this one from My Time, Made Easy; it is called Tuckered Out. Cute name huh?

puppy box

Isn’t that puppy cute? The box was fun to make but, as usual, I noted a couple of problems. I really wanted it to open from the top but the tab wouldn’t stay tucked in! No idea why, I checked to make sure that I had scored in all the right places and I had. So I glued it shut and now it opens from the bottom. I noticed that one of the sides didn’t line up quite right either and I am pretty darn precise. But it is cute enough that I don’t mind making adjustments.

puppy box side

The puppy was stamped on light brown CS and lightly shaded with Copics. The white button is a vintage button, the brown one is from Basic Grey and the aqua one is from PTI. I braided the handle from PTI twine.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the blog hop. If you enjoyed my project, I hope you will subscribe, there are thingies on my sidebar!

 

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps: Beary Special and Beary Special Accessories- Taylored Expressions
Ink: chocolate-SU!, Antique Linen Distress ink
Paper: natural CS-SU!, DP-PTI
Accessories: buttons, white twine-as above, natural twine, template-as above, tag die-Quickutz

November 06, 2010

Floral Life Matchbox

Here is another matchbox I made for a Swap-Bot swap. This one required you to use your partner’s favourite colour(s)! Fortunately, I got a colour I like! One of my other choices was orange, no offence to orange lovers but to me it is usually yuck!

life floral matchbox

This purple, SU! elegant eggplant, is one of my favourite purples of all time, especially when used with the muted plums. I can’t believe they got rid of pale plum. Fortunately, I still have lots! I tried colouring the twine with a SU! perfect plum marker but it just doesn’t soak in like my Copics do, maybe they are a bit dry, so I switched. That’s why the colour on the one end is a bit different.

I just love the watercolour look I get from using this stamp with markers. SU! markers this time,I just can’t get the hang of using Copics on stamps. I didn’t even have to spritz the stamp to get this effect. For the generation stamping, I just huffed on the stamp to get the second impression.

This has to be one of my most used stamp sets even though it is relatively new to my collection. Any time I need a pretty and pretty easy card, I go for this set. I can make a card using it in about 5 minutes and even with a bit of jazzing, I can do it in 10! It is appropriate for almost any occasion, for a woman at least! You can’t see it but I coloured over all the purple stamped areas with a light purple Spica pen and since I don’t have a green Spica (what’s with that?), I used yellow. Gives it a subtle but pretty sparkle.

Guess what? I found out the new version of Windows Live Writer (free to download if you use any Windows operating system) supports emoticons! Rolling on the floor laughingThumbs up  So get ready to see more of them! In  case you’ve never heard about Live Writer, it is a relatively simple word processing program that uploads your files directly to your blog. As you type, you can see how it will look on your blog complete with font, type size and colour, bulleting, background colour etc. It also includes some simple photo editing, watermarking  etc. as well as the ability to schedule posts and I’ve never had one not show up. (I’ve screwed it up…) It is SOOO much better than typing right into Blogger. Download it today!

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps:
Life-PTI
Ink: celery, eggplant-SU!
Paper: white, eggplant CS-SU!
Accessories: pearl-Dollarama, twine-PTI, Copic marker, SU! perfect plum, pale plum, celery markers, 1/2” hole punch-SU!, foam dots-Jody Morrow, Spica pens

November 01, 2010

Shabby House Warming Gift

We got new neighbours this weekend. I was really disappointed when no one welcomed us to the neighbourhood so I was determined to say hi to our neighbours in style. I started as soon as I saw the For Sale sign, calling the real estate agent to find out the closing date.

shabby house neighbours

So I made this adorable little house from a PTI template to hold some brownies I plan to take over. It doesn't look like it but it is actually a box with a detachable roof. Then I saw a recipe for caramel and I was determined to make my own. (That is a whole other story of it’s own.) So that ended up in there waiting for the brownies. I have a bit of a cold so I haven’t taken it over yet.

shabby house side

Here is the side, the other is the same just without the tag. I poked a hole through the button hole to attach the tag. That way if they want to remove it, the hole won’t be very noticeable. The door is stmaped with celery but it was too bright so I toned it down with glitter. It really is still too bright, I should have used moss cardstock instead.

The roof was airbrushed using another piece of punched CS as a mask. I was kicking myself that I hadn’t offset the scallops as I would have entered it in the Paper Crafts or Moxie Fab challenge to use offset scallops. Oh well. After airbrushing the ‘shingles’ the contrast was a bit stark so I continued to airbrush getting the look you see in the photos. The gable roofs were airbrushed similarly but without the masked parts.

The flower is made from scalloped music paper circles with a silk flower in the middle, I removed all the parts of the flower except the petals (it had these weird little thingies to hold the petals closer together but they showed somewhat, eww, and the stamen/pistil/whatever was ugly too) and used a brad to hold everything together. Then I placed a drop of glue on the brad head and added clear microbeads; I do wish I’d had some gold or yellow ones though.

I’ve been trying really hard to edit my photos so they won’t be so dark. They always look fine on my laptop but since the screen angle adjusts, it seems to always make me underexpose my photos or choose ones that are underexposed. GRR. Here’s hoping this is better!

Enjoy, Rebecca

RECIPE
Stamps:
Home Made-PTI
Ink: chocolate chip, celery, pale plum-SU!, Antique Linen, Tattered Rose Distress ink
Paper: PTI natural white CS, chocolate CS-PTI, Melissa Frances DP, vintage music paper
Accessories: scalloped circle Nestabilities, Spellbinders tag die, silk flower-Michaels, pearls-Dollarama, Copic Airbrush system, E47 Copic Marker, MS microbeads, butterfly and border punches, PTI buttons, gold cord-SU!, vintage lace, Scor-Tape