Christmas Baubles using Inkylicious Stamp

Keeping in a theme of stamping of which I love to do as well as paint with inks and create fantasy themed projects, Christmas was in my mind. So hunting through all my stamps I came across a tiny cabin in the woods themed, just the perfect stamp I was looking for to create a scene in a bauble. I stamped it out on printable acetate then added some white for snow using a white gel pen as well as using a gold glitter gel pen that I bought from Inkylicious, as well as purchasing the log cabin stamp from them too. The bauble I bought from Hobbycraft store clear and about 6 cm in size.
I got some foils strands in white by do crafts from the Range and cut this up into tiny bits to place in the bottom of the bauble to act like snow, I love this stuff it always seems more magical than just glitter. I drew around the inside of the bauble so that it would fit inside. These baubles you can open in half so I added some foil to one side of the acetate then some to the other and closed them adding a little pva glue to secure. I like the way these fit together they are not loose so you could just tie ribbon through the loop as shown, I then added a red bow to keep in a traditional festive theme.
Printable acetate is perfect for these easy crafts, but I would suggest that you use Stazon ink for stamping, just as an experiment I tried other inks and they did not work well at all. You can also use the acetate in your printer just make sure you have the rough side of the acetate to print on and you will have perfect images. I made 6 of these pretty baubles in all some stamped some printed all ready for my Christmas tree this year. I have a small stock of them to make some for my family to place on their own trees. This project is a little fiddly but worth the effort just allow time for the inks to dry on the acetate and ensure that you buy printable.

Happy crafting all

Holly

Fun Time for Halloween

Halloween I just love it. Every year I make a work colleague something
for her birthday that is on 30th she now has 3 of my projects. But this one I am showing first was for a friends granddaughter who was a little bit scared of ghosts etc. We thought it be good to make her a halloween in a box card that she could have fun with and might encourage her to not be so scared of the up coming Halloween. This was the end result. I started making the normal basic card. I cut out some pumpkins and ghosts and witches shoes. The witch legs I just cut some strips and using pro markers coloured them as stockings then added the shoes. Placing them upside down as if the witch was diving into the box, her skirt is made from patterned tissue paper folded into pleats and trimmed to points for the bar where the ghosts are sitting I designed this in my cricut machine as well as the leaves bar so that i was able to place the items exactly. Then added the ghosts and leaves. The outside of the box I drew on spiders webs by using a white gel pen and brushed over with my fingers a rub on in silver giving it a misty look. I added pumpkins to the flaps and a big boo sign at the base. This all folds flat and is able to go into the post. To finally complete it i cut some very thin strips of card and rolled them round a skewer stick tight as you can get it the card twists then add them to pumpkins and witches skirt. such a fun fun project to make and easy even if you do not have a cricut machine.

Happy Crafting

Holly

A little bit of Alice in Wonderland

I have a wonderful friend called Jo who is mad on Alice in
Wonderland. So I got thinking how I could make her a nice gift in this theme. I started making just the top hat and a stand. I added some organza wide fabric for hat band and made a tag that I stamped. Then made some simple hat pins using some beads I had stored, this got me started on sorting out some of my craft room..lol. Then I decided to make a tea cup out of pattened paper and sat a cut out of the white rabbit and the queen of hearts in, using some reindeer moss and a paper lace. This project was growing by the day every evening returning home from work I spent a couple of hours adding more bits. I found some images from a book I had and cut them out of alice and the mad hatter. Using a mini playing card...err sorry it was not the Queen of hearts typical when you need one so adapted it to resemble a card character. Adding some pretty paper flowers and more tiny beads and reindeer moss to a 7x7 board that I covered in green patterned paper. The hatters hat  used some tissue patterned paper. Finally to complete the project I used a tiny tinted bottle with a label on it saying drink me, you can just about see this in the bottom right of the photo next to Alice. Although, this project took me some time I certainly enjoyed making it and Jo was delighted with it, she now had it situated in her craft room.
Hope you enjoyed reading this as much as I did making it.

Happy crafting

Holly