More Guild Projects

Hi all,
we have now had Ruby and Eloise's birthday celebrations so I am able to get on with more of the Guild stuff, not long to go now.
Although I have managed to take photos of all of the projects as we, at last, have a sunny day, I am only going to upload a couple at a time.
The first one is a Birdhouse Mini. I had already made one but when I stood it next to everything else the colours were all wrong. So, dug out yet more Webster's Pages papers and created this little beauty. I love this album not just because of the concept (the mini is attached to the roof and sits inside the house) but also because there is so much room for adding photos and journalling. I suppose it would be best suited to a nature/garden lover but I would happily fill it with any old photos!

Having now uploaded this, it has occurred to me that ribbons should have been added to the ring binding on the roof, so please imagine there is cream ribbon!

The book itself. You can see the roof 'pages' to the left.

The inner pages are made up of two flap pockets that are attached back to back with a couple of tags sandwiched between them.

So you can put photos on the flaps, the photo mats and the tags.............oodles of space!

The next project is my favourite, I think!
I was pondering why someone would want to create a memory album and came up with travel, either a holiday, a favourite destination or a journey. So the Travel Trunk mini came into being.

Grungeboard 'belt' is threaded through a D ring and held in place with a magnet. The journal tag, car charm and wander disc are attached by a ball chain. The 'crocodile' strips are cream card that I ran through an embossing folder - sweet eh?

The binding inside is an accordian fold so that the pockets and mini photo album sit inside snugly.

Here are the bits and bobs that sit inside:

The papers and cardstock used for the pockets and book are Cosmo Cricket 'Joy Ride'.

                   Hope you like these two memory albums :0) see you soon with some more, Ali x

It's Craft Term!

I look after my grand-daughter, Ruby whilst her Mummy goes to work and as Eloise works in a school, half term is Mummy time so Mamma gets the week to herself :0)
March is a madly busy month for birthdays in our family so I thought I would share the cards I have been making.
I have also made some cards for the website but haven't got around to putting them on yet, maybe tomorrow!

First one is for Justin on the 2nd. I love this funky little monkey - he pops up again on the next card. You can't really tell on the photo but it is all layers, the leaves, then banana, monkey, arms and finally little banana has about 3 layers.

Next one is for my little treasure who is going to be two on the 4th, so what better than Noah's ark where the animals go in 2 by 2! A real labour of love cutting out all of those animals!



Then there is Dave (cousin in law) and Lily (Del's niece) on the 5th.

On the 13th is my eldest lovely girl. Eloise really liked the Webster's Pages when I was showing her my recent purchases so made her card with them.

The 15th is my buddy Kirstie, mad fashionista who works in the city and loves to be on trend!

I have also made one like this for Vix on the 18th but in purples. Finally although our youngest family member, Nellie Pea does not have a birthday till May I found these papers with pea pods and couldn't resist!

I have also been working hard on my Mexico scrapbook and will get round to taking photos when the bloomin rain stops. The lighting is rubbish!
Take care and happy half term x

Mothers Day Card

Saw this delightful little flower idea in a magazine. Layers of tissue paper dyed at the edges with distress ink. Wrap lace around a brad post and attach them all together. Fluff up the layers and voila! Super dooper. I think I shall be making quite a few of these little beauties!

Happy Crafting x

Getting ready for the Guild

Dear all,

it's been a busy few days. It was Aimi's 23rd birthday yesterday so we had a small get together last night en famile and on Sunday we had extended family over for Jamie Oliver's slow roasted pork - if you haven't tried it, give it a bash it's delicious!
On top of that we have been decorating the hall stairs and landing but the lovely Del gave me a break from satinwooding the doors so I could make my first project for the Essex Guild (I am applying (again) to be a member)
Here it is;

a working clock with mini book

the engineering was a bit of a nightmare but I am delighted with the results. Papers are My Minds Eye - Spidersweb, as are the gold embellishments - Vintage Findings, flowers from IamRoses, the handles and hinges are 7 Gypsies and the keys and charms from a broken necklace of Aimi's!! 

The mini book inside is made from Webster's Pages - Hollywood Vogue, just gorgeous. Hope you like it, and more importantly hope the guild do too!!

8" x 8" album

I was thrilled to see that somebody, somewhere has been looking at my blog! All I need now is a comment and my blogging world will be complete :0)

I am uploading some photos of an album I made a while back now, but having looked at them again I thought they were worth putting on here. It was made for a customer who wanted layouts for different sized photos. Her friend was getting married and she wanted to fill the album with photos of their group of friends throughout the years and then give it to her on her hen night. What a lovely idea.