Jam recipe book

Over the past couple of years I have really enjoyed jam making. It was something I always had problems with, my jam would set solid!! Buying a jam thermometer has solved that problem, so now there is no stopping me!!   I love the internet for searching out jam recipes but I find I can never find the same recipe the following year. This has now happened a few times so I decided it was time to make a jam recipe book to keep them all in.

Of course with my Silhouette Cameo anything is possible, so I adapted a 3d card that had a mason jar as its base and turned it in to my book cover. 

 

All I had to do is create a label, which is easy using the basic shapes.

 

You can cut any font you have on your computer on my Cameo so I found a font I liked and cut the letters out.

 

The strawberries I had in another 3d card file so I cut a few of those and embossed them in a dotty embossing folder.

 

All I needed to do then is stick it all together, cut some 5x5 pages to go inside and bind it all together using my Bind-it-all machine.

 

 

Now I have a place to keep all my jam recipes. No more endless searching the internet to find them again. As well as a nice afternoons crafting too!

MDF Tag beach huts

  As it is August bank holiday weekend here in the UK, I thought I would share my beach huts I have made for The Fruit Pixie online shop using the MDF tags. Of course your tags don't have to be made of MDF you could easily cut tag shapes from any sturdy card for this project.    

This is such an easy project to make.

 

First I drew around the tag shapes on white card and cut them out.

 

I then placed them on my Hougie board and scored every half inch to give me the look of horizontal boards.

 

I chose nice ice-cream colours from the Cosmic shimmer chalk paint and painted every other board. Then left them to dry.

 

 

For the doors I cut pieces of white card and again scored ever half inch but this time vertically, on my Hougie board. I cut thin strips of the same card which I stuck on to make the door surround. A little sticky pearl made a great door knob.

 

I glued the painted beach hut card pieces onto the tags

 

For the roof I cut strips of the same white card and stuck them on top of the painted tag shapes so they looked like a roof.

 

The roof trim was make the same way as the roof but I used a border punch to cut the patterned edge

 

Attach your door's to the middle of the beach huts.

 

Play around with the arrangement of the huts Until you have something you like and then stick them together.

 

This is the back of my piece. The holes make it easy to hang them up.

 

I then cut the word beach on my electronic cutting machine and stuck them on across the beach huts.

 

So there we have a nice summery home decor piece. I have mine hung on the wall but it can also just be stood up. Of course you can add little shells and bits and pieces you pick up on a beach walk to decorate your huts.

 

I used a Hougie board to do all my scoring. You can find them in the Fruit Pixie online shop here -

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/hougie-board-13054-p.asp

 

I used the Cosmic shimmer chalk paint here -

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/cosmic-shimmer-paints-644-c.asp

 

 

Tell the Bees stamped card

  I have been using the Craft Consortium Tell the Bees stamp set, available from The Fruit Pixie, to make this sweet card.

I used a white 5x5 card blank for the base.

 

I stamped the bee and the words Queen Bee in black in and mounted onto a piece of card from my scrap bag.

 

I then stamped the hexagon background stamp several times onto the card base using the scattered straw distress ink.

 

I attached the topper onto the card using 3d foam and glued the beautiful sparkley sequins on to finish the card off.

 

 

You can find the 5x5 card blanks, as well as many other sizes in the Fruit Pixie shop here -

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/5-x-5-card-blanks-508-c.asp

 

The Tell the Bees stamp set and sequins here -

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/craft-consortium-713-c.asp

 

Mountain side of dreams Art Journal page

Each month I write a mixed media post as part of my creative crew duties for Tangie Baxter and Co.    This month I wanted to do a page with the July collage sheets. As part of the Art Journal emporium we receive a weekly work sheet as well as a collection of collage sheets. This month they really captured my imagination as you can see.

I am such a mountain girl, so I loved both the images and the poetry.

 

You can find information on joining the Art Journal Emporium here -

https://shoptangiebaxter.com/pages/art-journal-emporium

 

My blog post plus a short tutorial can be found here -

https://shoptangiebaxter.com/blogs/news

 

 

Craft Consortium Gypsy Gypsy paper Fawn Fairy Toadstool house

As soon as I saw these beautiful Craft Consortium Gypsy Gypsy papers, available from The Fruit Pixie, I knew I wanted to make a fairy house. I decide on the SVG Cuts Toadstool house box from their cotton tail village set to cut on my Silhouette Cameo.  

I cut all the pieces in white cardstock to make the box and toadstool more sturdy, then cut the pieces again in the Craft Consortium Gypsy Gypsy papers.

 

For the bottom of the box I used the beautiful gilded paper, which cut extremely well on my machine.

 

For the lid I used the glitter dot paper and then decorated it with one of the rub-ons that come in the paper kit.

 

 

 

The top of the toadstool I used the deep pink print paper in the kit and then covered the white spots with Glossy Accents crackle.

 

Of course they just had to have a pet ladybird cut from the flower paper.

 

 

The two little fawn fairies who live in the toadstool were from one of my digital kits. You can find lots of free pictures on the internet to use for them. I then used a deer die but just cut off his antlers to stick on their heads.

 

The flowers are all taken from the flower collage paper and I also added some dried moss to make it look like the forest floor.

 

The trick to making them stand up by themselves is very simple. I actually used the waste backing of the rub-ons but you can use acetate or anything see-through you have to hand. I cut it to size then folded in half. I then stuck my fairies on to one side and the bottom of the folded piece to the box so they stood up by themselves. 

I did the same for the flowers too.

 

All it needed then was a dab of glitter pen and a little door knob for the front door and their home was complete!!

 

I really hope you like my Fawn Fairy Toadstool house. It really was such fun to make and I am sure my friends would agree very me!!

 

You can find the Craft Consortium Gypsy Gypsy paper kit here -

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/craft-consortium-paper-pad-gypsy-gypsy-26861-p.asp

 

 

Teenage boys birthday cards

I think the hardest cards to make for a crafter have to be teenage boy's cards. Last month I had two to make, one being my nephews 18th and the other a family friend a couple of days after.    Luckly my nephew is a keen Star Wars fan so I came up with this card for his birthday, not your usual 18th birthday card but one he would like 

 

The second card was this one 

 

I am lucky that I have my Silhouette Cameo electronic cutting machine that I just couldn't do without now.

KSD The Big Game digital kit

Craft Consortium Gypsy Gypsy paper Birthday card

  Today I have a beautiful vintage style card to show you that I have made for The Fruit Pixie. It looks as if I have spent ages cutting and collaging but thanks to the wonderful papers in the Craft Consortium Gypsy Gypsy paper kit, it is a nice quick card to make.

The bottom right corner is a corner from one of the 12x12 papers in the Craft Consortium kit. So all you need to do is cut that out. I bubble cut mine ( not cutting out all the little details ) and because this corner was on a plain background it works well.

 

The card behind, where I have placed the greeting, is a glittered card. These come in a sheet of cards in the paper pack too.

 

I used scraps of the blue glitter dot papers to fill in the gaps on my card front. All the papers are double sided so you can use every scrap you have left.

 

To finish the card I added some flowers, again from scraps of the papers I have used to make other projects, in the top left corner and the bottom right and then added my sentiment which is a die cut.

 

You can find these beautiful papers by Craft Consortium in the shop here-

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/craft-consortium-paper-pad-gypsy-gypsy-26861-p.asp

 

I was working on these 6x6 card bases, which are lovely quality - 

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/50-craft-uk-6-x-6-card-blanks-kraft-25999-p.asp

 

I hope like my vintage style birthday card, what will you be using your papers for? I would love to know.

 

Until next time, take care, 

 

   Love Katrina