THE BEGINNING AND PREP..

 Hello everyone,

The day before my DT project goes up and as there were so many photos I decide to show the prep first and the finished project tomorrow as my DT project..

First up, circles, must have my obsession month..

and loads of stickers to use up and they were the perfect size..

this was a paper pad 8x8 I got for my birthday 

wonderful cut aparts

and gorgeous scenes in very deep rich blues and browns..

I had to cut down to size so my method had to be clever..

I needed lots of label holders and made my own screw heads..

Tags with windows, 

( me and cellophane don't really get along, but we coped this time..)

layered up circles..

more tags for journaling poked into a bigger tag which,

 in turn goes inside pockets.

Some macrame cord ties with knots and round disc 

with gems and starfish for hanging or a bookmark..

Holes were punched and eyelets added..

and here that is all done..

for the cover I wanted a door, rustic type of thing, heavy looking.

so I cut and arch in two sizes with woodgrain paper and cut the small panel

 to fit onto the bigger panel and added a brad for door handle.

and I had a negative..mmm...this could make a window..

and it did and more of that cellophane and I nailed it..

put a gorgeous paper behind and added ephemera to the front..

time for a watery bottle using alcohol inks on a packaging pack!

It was so hard to die cut, just wouldn't cut so had to add card behind it..

bottle was done and a sticker in place and popped on the cork..

i also thought a shaker could be good..

so using a CD insert was a great help and quick..

This stamp and die set form Simon Says Stamp is superb and

 one of my favourites that I do not use often enough, 

No stamping, just die cut the floral paper and it looks like it was meant to be..

Two frames with leftover alcohol ink panels..

all the pages folded and ready in a very dark deep blue.

and here is my tray of goodness ready to play

 and the final pictures of the made journal will be up tomorrow 

for my Little Red Wagon DT post..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

Luv CHRISSYxx

YELLOW ROSES..

 Hello everyone,

Another quick post, this time yellow Roses..

The finished product..

and I used several sets of flower dies to make this one up..

Altenew for the roses and leaves and Honeybee stamps for the bud..

My papers were a happy accident, not a lot of yellow around.

Two more set of dies, my slimline trellis, and arches..

They both cut so well and make up what I wanted..

Nearly there

Just needed a gold embossed sentiment and some 

gold half round pearls and done..

There you go,

Thank you so much for stopping by, see you soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

PILOT CARD..

 Hello everyone, 

Just a quick share today, I have a lady who asks me every year to make three cards for her family birthdays  and every year the theme is the same, so it gets harder and harder to come up with idea...this guy is a pilot and fly's for Vietnam Air and just been promoted to captain, so this is what I cam up with , with the help of the free pictures on the internet..

A busy background with two fussy cut planes and a 

captains hat and on the headband a stamped and gold embossed Happy Birthday..

on the inside on the left side, was inside the cockpit and the gauge

was a TH chipboard one, so happy I found that in my stash.

fussy cut these glasses and with very few bad words..

and all the strips of patterned papers from my stash of leftovers..

so there you go, a pilot card flying all the way over the Vietnam....

to a pilot..

Thank you so much for stopping by..

See you soon..

Luv CHRISSYxx

" S " IS FOR STENCIL..DT

 Hello everyone, 

Wednesday is her again and our lovely Imke is hostess over at Little Red Wagon and her theme is " S " for Stencil..fun, so I made a blizzard.

So I need my Arch die set for what I had in mind..

Oh, lord, going to be a long morning..

In fact I needed lots of Christmas die for this..

Cut my panels

red matt and papers..

other side green plaid..

Inked up my trees, my favourite Christmas tree that Chrissyxx sent me

years ago and I still love it.

then I stenciled

over everything and everyone..

Back and front

every panel has different colour papers so the snow looked different

the deer were an after thought and skipped the blizzard

and the post box was wiped off as you couldn't see the mail,

standing proud..

and back to the front..

So that was fun, I love good stencil day..

So do come and join us HERE with you stencil projects

Thank you so much for stopping by.

I'll see you soon..