Mixed Craft Saturday Featuring Michele's Magazine Review

Good Saturday Morning Ladies,

I hope that you are all well and ready for the weekend, will you all be decorating for Christmas?

Lynda had her operation Thursday to clean our her wound, they had to go a lot deeper than they had anticipated.  (Which they probably wouldn't have had they done the operation a week ago when the Consultant first noticed the problem), I think it's a disgrace.
Lynda had a very low blood count after and as a result she had to have  Blood Transfusions yesterday, she was in a lot of pain yesterday bless her, fingers cross she is feeling brighter today. Hopefully that's it all sorted now and Lynda can start preparing to go home, Lynda if you are well enough to look in today, we are all sending you lots of love and hugs xxxxxxxx

Today I am sharing a little project I have been working on this week, it's another of my swap projects.
I used the Octagonal Box die set by Christina Griffiths (Card Making Magic), instead of using the die set as a flat box as it is intended I added higher sides so that I could pack the inside with some lovely goodies. See the photo below...

I made the base of the box with Old Olive and Cherry Cobbler Card, I found some beautiful papers that complimented the base colours perfectly, I decided to accent with Gold Mirror card to give it a touch of luxury, I used it to die cut some little lattice panels for the edges of the base and lid.  I also decided to finish the edges of the paper by adding narrow gold borders down those corners.

I needed to have something to hold the goodies inside the box, so I used the Octagonal Frame die set also by Christina Griffiths to create these three little trays, I made the little frames in Cherry Cobbler card and added a Vellum Doily and topped that with a Paper Doily, I then pierced a hole in the centre of the trays and added a loop of Red Gingham Ribbon through, securing underneath and covering the 'workings' with a smaller die cut Octagon. I filled all three with Candles, Choccies and some Craft goodies.

The photo above shows the trays ready to pop into the box, (I haven't shown the craft goodies just in case the recipient looks in, unlikely but could happen)!

This photo shows the Gift Box all filled and ready to go!

What do you think?

Karen

Karen has had a really busy week, finishing off those amazing 'Twiddlemuffs' which she donated to a local Residential Home where they will give great comfort their Recipients, Karen it must be so rewarding knowing that your work is going to give someone such comfort and maybe help them to relax.

Karen's second craft project of the week now, how amazing are these absolutely incredibly cute 'Amigurami Alpacas'. Karen made them for the Lady who gave her the photo as a guide, I think that the Alpaca's look hilarious in that photo, the one on the right looks like it is wearing a wig and has had lip implants!.  They are such funny animals aren't they?!

Karen you have done an incredible job, I know the lady that asked for them will love them.

Thank you so much for sharing your makes with us XXX

Michele's Magazine Review

Hi Ladies,

Papercraft Inspirations has a great set of Dies free this month.

Here’s some ideas of what’s inside the magazine.

Just look at the different projects you can make using the free gifts.

Here’s part one on Inspiration for Gift tags.

And part two.

Interesting article on Retiform Stamping-not something I’ve heard of before.

That’s all for this week,

Happy Crafting
Love Michele

Thank you Michele for another Fantastic magazine Review,  I love the free dies that you get with this month's issue, they are quite delicate looking and look very versatile, the inspiration page shows their versatility.  The article on '10 things to make with Gift Tags' is brilliant, I love some of those ideas.

Lastly is the article on 'Retiform' stamping, I have never heard of this technique, it's exciting to find new techniques to explore, it looks like it's a stamping stamping technique that requires you to mask off areas around your stamping, the end result looks almost like decoupage.

Really interesting article, I am going to look into this more.

Thank you so very much Michele for taking the time to put this review together, I really appreciate it XXX


That's all for today Ladies,

I hope that you all have a lovely weekend,

Love and hugs to all,

Sandra
xxxxxx