Birthday cards

A couple of different birthday cards for my neighbours. The first is for my neighbour Lucy who loves Guinea Pigs, so as soon as I saw  this image in one of the new Daisy Trail digital kits I just had to use it for her birthday card. I added a party hat and used an embossing folder for the background

 

The second one is for her Mum Christine who's birthday is 2 days later. For this one I used my Pan Pastels for all the colour and then used my dies to cut the bird and leaves.

Sewing set

I have been working with the beautifully vintage Keiserkraft Needle and Tread collection available from The Fruit Pixie. I have found lots of different things to do with the collection, here is my sewing set.

                                        Consisting of a large tin for your sewing scissors

                                                    a smaller pincushion storage tin

                                                               and a Pin book

 

If you would like to know how I made these then pop over to the Fruit Pixie Blog.

Ruby Rocket Cook collection magnetic menu board

 This is another project I have made for The Fruit Pixie using the Ruby Rocket Cook collection

  

 

      The inspiration for this came from a menu planner I saw on Pinterest. Just the thing I needed as every night hubby and I ask each other the same old question     "What shall we have for tea? " and you always get the same answer " I don't know !"  So now with this wonderful idea that question is a thing of the past................. well that's the idea! :) 
               So if you go through a similar thing then this could be the project for you, there is a step by step photo tutorial over on the Fruit Pixie website.

AJC Hollywood journal page

For July the Art Journal caravans port of call was the USA.  One of the first things I think of when I think of the USA is Hollywood and I LOVE my old Hollywood films.

  So this Hybrid mixed media page is my celebration of the golden age of Hollywood.

Dies storage book

I thought I only had a few small thin dies until I decided to make a die storage book using the Ruby Rocket cook papers and plastic CD pockets for the Fruit Pixie.

 

The great thing about the sticks 2 magnetic sheets (which comes in A4, I cut them up to fit the pockets) is that they are magnetic on one side to store your dies,

 

the other is to store your stamps.

 

I also labelled the pockets and used some more of the Ruby Rocket paper, which is double sided, to make some dividers to easily find the die I want.

 

So now my dies are safe and organised! Its a great project to make too.

 

All the papers and chipboard pennants are from Ruby Rocket and are available from The Fruit Pixie.

Ruby Rocket VE Day scrapbook layout

Whilst rooting around in my old family photos I re- recovered this wonderful photo of my Mum ( then a teenager ) and her Mum ( my nan ) at their VE day party. I had to scrap this photo and I knew just what to use.

    The Fruit Pixie sells the perfect Ruby Rocket Vintedge collection, which gave me this lovely layout and is all, except the letters, are available from The Fruit Pixie.

AJC Page - RAMC

For my second page for the AJC India port of call I just had to do a page about my Uncle. He served as a ward orderly for the RAMC ( Royal Army Medical Corps ) in India. He is a big part me and my sisters life and we have grown up hearing about his adventures in such a foreign land. Stories like pockets filled with so many red fire ants he thought it was fur lined! Vultures that swooped down and pinched the breakfast from his tray as he crossed from the kitchen to the dinning room tent and just the other week he told me about a huge tornado that came and took the verandahs and sides off of a brand new hospital he was guarding!

Ruby Rocket Cook collection projects

I love Ruby Rocket and am lucky that The Fruit Pixie who I design for stocks it. This time I have been using their Cook collection and have come up with these 2 quick and easy little projects. All the products are available from http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/index.asp

 

This sweet little card is made with the Ruby Rocket Cook paper and some of the shapes from the die cut pack.

 

This accordion book is made using the papers and die cut shapes form the die cut pack.

 

Inside I have hidden another mini tag book, great for adding family recipes.

 

 I thought this would make a nice gift for a friend or keen cook or perhaps someone who is about to leave home for University or is getting married as it would be a fun way to pass on your family secret recipes!

 

To find instruction on how I made my book and card pop over to the Fruit Pixie blog-  http://thefruitpixie.blogspot.co.uk/

Poetic Licence tag - Gold

Well I did it! I actually made one of my poetic licence tag! make sense I must confess though I did leave out 1 word of the 12 I was given but it was just too good to pass up!!

    So here it is Tag 26 on the AJC - Gold

Holi festival journal page

In June the AJC port of call was India. So for my first page I celebrated the Hindu festival of Holi. It looks so much fun, in March people buy bags of coloured powders from the markets. They then throw them at their friends and family! So everyone spends the day covered in bright colours and having great fun!

   So in the spirit of the festival of Holi I too had great fun throwing paint and ink at my journal. I must admit I am rather pleased with the finished result.

I can't believe we are half way through the year on our AJC. I am really enjoying it and am proud of myself I have got this far as last year life forced me to give up in the April.

China Blue scrapbook layouts

The Ruby Rocket China Blue collection from the Fruit Pixie is great for scrapbooking and so I put together these 2 layouts using photos from our Austria holidays as the papers always remind me of Austria somehow. Full instructions and a list of all the things I used can be found on the Fruit Pixie Blog.

 

 

Summer in Filtzmoos, Austria

 

Winter in Finkenburg, Austria

China Blue Ribbon flower card

There is a lovely ribbon collection available with the Ruby Rocket it China Blue collection from The Fruit Pixie, as well as wonderful big brads too so I just had to make a ribbon flower with them.

 

There is also a large collection of beautiful tags too that match the paper collection

 

 

So I used all 4 elements to come up with this simple card. Everything here is available at The Fruit Pixie online shop.

 

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/index.asp

 

China Blue Journal

As soon as Sarah from the Fruit Pixie sent me the new Ruby Rock it China Blue paper I knew I would make my holiday journal with it. The whole collection reminded me of Austria and the Gumunden pottery I collect which is blue and white.

 

It also gave me a chance to use some of the hand carved stamps I have made recently. I had always wanted an edelweiss flower stamp but the chances of finding one was zilch, so I found a photo we had taken of a wooden one, traced it and carved it. I must admit I was so pleased with way they looked. The journal one is one of mine too!

 

All the pages in my 6x6 journal are the same, somewhere to write and somewhere to store all the goodies like bus tickets, leaflets etc. Of course another chance to use another one of my stamps too!!

 

So here it is all done, now all I need to do is pack! My journal and stamp carving tools are coming along too of course!

Hybrid Poetic licence tags

I know these tags don't exactly make scene but to be honest when you are given 12 random words it is difficult to get them to make any sense at all but I must admit I really enjoy the challenge of getting them in some form of order and then collaging a tag to go with it. This is all part of the Art Journal Caravan.

My little street

This was such fun to make for the Fruit Pixie, a little street of Chipboard houses and trees from Creative Individuals and covered with the paper from Keisercraft  Miss Match collection. Step by step instructions can be found on The Fruit Pixie Blog.

AJC Journal page Atlantis #2

This is our last week in Atlantis on the AJC.  I have started to enjoy and have faith in my own artistic ability, something I have always thought and been told, I had none, so this is a big step for me but I am starting to think perhaps I can do it :)    

  So this page is ALL my own work!

AJC page Storys from Atlantis

The port of call for May with the Art Journal caravan is Atlantis!  So here is my mixed media  page. I must admit it did take me longer then usual but as I have not been at all well this month, it was an ideal project for me to dip in and out of as my health would allow. I am really pleased with it and intend to be more confident in my arty skills and do more of this style.

Blackboard triptych

I made this little blackboard triptych using the Crafty individuals chipboard frames and swirls available from The Fruit Pixie. For full instructions on how I made my triptych pop on over to the Fruit Pixie blog or facebook page.

AJC journal page Africa

This is the second page for the AJC port of call - Africa. I must admit I was totally inspired by the Out of Africa kit from Rucola designs for this page, I loved all the vintage look maps and animals. The backgrounds were created using my trusty Gelli plate, it was a shame to cover them over really, so here is how they looked before

And here is the page finished.

I needed a word to go in the frame to finish the page off, nothing seemed right but then I thought why not use a Swahili word! So that's what I did, wawindaji is Swahili for hunter.

Poetic Licence #17 May face flowers

Here is tag number 17 in my Poetic Licence tag book for the AJC. Each week we are given 12 random words from a list of 400 and we have to make something of them. As you can see they hardly ever make sense but that is part of the fun of it all.

AJC Journal page - Africa, 100 friends

I took the papers from the Gelli plate session I photographed before and made this journal page for my AJC journal.  Our port of call for April was Africa, it took me a while to become inspired but got there in the end.

The backgrounds are my own but the images are from Tangie and ViVa studios. The saying - A small house has 100 friends is an African saying and was one of the journal prompts this month.

Great Gatsby bookmark

Here is my book mark from The Gatsby Chic collection available from the Fruit Pixie online shop. Full details of what I used are on The Fruit Pixie blog and Facebook page.

Gatsby Chic box of cards

I designed something a little different here for The Fruit Pixie and the Craftime Gatsby Chic collection, a box full of note cards. This is a great project to use up all the scraps and to be able to use the cards ( which personally, for me were a rather strange choice for the rest of the collection ) and also the sticker which again were rather small but used with the half cards were perfect.

  I thought this would make a lovely gift or just something for your home to keep your cards in so you always have something for those emergency birthdays or when you need a card. I also added the cute notebook that also comes in the collection to use either as an address book or perhaps keep birthday dates in.   

    For a detailed look at all the cards pop over to the
                                              Fruit Pixie blog - http://thefruitpixie.blogspot.co.uk/