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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Paper Easter basket



Quick and easy to make, in five minutes you will have a cute paper basket you can fill with chocolate or little gifts.
All you need is a square piece of paper (I used double sided printed paper), siccors, glue a ruler and a pencil.
For the small basket I used a 6" piece of paper and for the big basket a 12" piece of paper.
How to
With a pencil and ruler draw an evenly spaced 3 x 3 grid onto the paper.
for the 6" piece of paper draw the lines 2" apart.


Fold and unfold along each of the lines to make a crease

make cuts like in the pic below

fold up the left and the right side of the paper to turn it into a basket
and glue the sides see pics below




use a strip of paper to make a handle and glue it on the basket.
I also put some brads through

I atached a Rick St. Dennis digi, Larry Lapin



and filled the baskets with chocolate eggs








and here is a little sneak of the circle journal page i made

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Dragons Dream TIO challenge 136

this fortnight at Dragons Dream Tag it on, the recipe is from May again and she dreamed up" Orange, Purple and butterflies.
There has to be one real stamp and it has to be a tag, here is mine

 
hope to see your tags in the challenge
 

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Tim Holtz february tag with a twist

Had finally time to do the februari Tim Holtz tag, but cause Valentines is over I changed it a bit. I don't have the queen of hearts stamp TH uses, but I like the Rick St. Dennis MFA digi I used better anyway, the rest of the tag is pretty much the same a Tim's but I did change the senti to one that fits the Queen of Hearts better.  "Off whith their heads.

I used:
distress ink Barn Door and Aged Mahogany
Tim Holtz Cling Rubber Stamps STEAMPUNK CMS107 2011
Rick St Dennis Queen of hearts digi
Tim Holtz Sizzix COLLAGE & NOTEBOOK Texture Fades Embossing Folders
Glossy accents, archival black ink, and some ribbon

 
I will enter the following challenge

baby sock cupcakes, duckies and easter eggs

A fun project using Rick St. Dennis Duckie digi's and an egg carton,
 
I gessoed the egg carton and let dry, then put on a layer of white acrylic paint and let dry again. then gave the carton a pink wash (used a sponge to add pink paint and whiped it off before the paint was dry)
Coloured the digi's and cut them out, used a die to cut out the labels for the top and the inside of the box (I used rose paterend paper for that). Ink the edges of the labels using a pink ink pad and glue the duckies on.
The little bow's were Rick's idea, he said the duckies would look great with real bows, and he was right.
then I added some ribbon and pearls on the lit of the egg carton and after some discussion with the boss also on the inside LOL.
 
Now there are different ways to use this box, you can put chocolate Easter eggs in it, but, I wanted to use it as a gift for a collegue of mine who had a little baby girl last week (that's where all the pink came from LOL). I put baby sock cupcakes inside.






 
These baby sock cupcakes are not very hard to make, here is how to
 
 
what you need is a pair of coloured  and a pair of white baby socks

Separate the socka and pair one white sock  with a coloured sock

 
Turn the socks inside out

 
roll the cuff sown halfway
fold the cuff a second time to create a sturdy edge

Pull the tip of the sock through the inside of the cuff ans gently gather the extra fabric to create a swirl. Set sock aside
 

 fold the cuff of the second sock a second time to create the sturdy edge again and pull the tip of the sock through the inside of the cuff again, but instead of a swirl create a pocket


 
Carefully place the first sock inside the second sock, and you can place the entire sock in a cupcake liner to finish, I just put it in the egg carton without the cupcake liner.
Repeat steps with the second pair of socks.
 
I also made some cupcakes out of onesies, to go with the egg carton, this little gift also has a duckie label on it.



 
Here is how to:
 
fold the onesie like in the pic, fold the sock inside as shown in the pic and roll the onesie up, put a ribbon around it and put in cupcake liner





 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

cute turtle

The fun thing about making a cutsy project is, when i show it to people that know me very well, their comments are pretty much the same.   "Oh, I thought you only did scary stuff".
 
Noooo...... I don't, ................sometimes I like to make something pretty or cute or pretty AND cute LOL
 
see for yourself




This funny little turtle is of course a Rick St. Dennis digi he is called Easter Turtle.

Hope you like.......(if you came here hoping to find zombies, scroll one post down, LOL)

I will enter this cute turtle in the following challenges:
http://foreverfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/februarys-monthly-challenge.html

http://lejdesignschallengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/lej-designs-challenge-no-40-for-someone.html the project is made for someone special ;-)


http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/02/handmade-embellishments-make-your-own.html

http://rubysrainbow.blogspot.nl/2013/02/ch-47-roses.html


http://www.baffies-kreativladen.blogspot.nl/2013/02/challenge-16-und-ein-bloghop.html

Bloody Valentine day 3

Last day for bloody valentine, that went by very fast, seems to short just 3 days, o well here is my final tag
I used a Rick St. Dennis digi  you can find this cutsey zombie here
 
Blog Roll






thanks for all your nice comments, and loved looking at all your bloody projects
 
I will enter this tag to the following challenge:
 
 

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

bloody valentine day 2 and mermaid card

This is day 2 for the bloody Valentine hop by Smeared Ink (blog roll at the end of this post), I made another tag using a Rick St. Dennis Zombie be mine digi, the brains in the back ground is a rubber stamp from de stempelwinkel.
now isn't he cute......
 
 
and I finished the mermaid card, using Sirena
 
it's a simple card, just added some pearls and layered the image. I added glitter to the mermaid's tail, but
 you can't see it very well, on the pic below it shows better.
 
See you tomorrow for day 3 of the bloody valentine hop
 
Blog Roll


Shell
Black Dragon
Susan S.
Monique
Sandy
Jane
Abbie
Leigh
Wendy
Lady B
Ike
Kristy


I will enter the zombie tag in the following challenges:
http://gloomy-art.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/ga-055.html

http://lilredwagon.blogspot.nl/2013/02/challenge-172.html (hey I know it's a zombie, but i used the word " love " lol