Easter

thought I would have some decks up for Easter, my "tree" is the twisted hazel that had my Christmas

baubles on, and the bunnies and chicks match the bunting.

a cheap wreath made to look pretty

this is a cheap wreath I bought ages ago, so decided it was time to do something with it.

I chose various colours of card from the docrafts pack in one of the goody bags,

then got out my urban stamps, mainly the script and the music ones [I did one for my sister who is musical] and stamped in sepia ink.

I then die cut using various dies and made flowers and flourishes, and cut out the bird

then put brads for the flower centres, tied a bow from ribbon, and attached them all to the wreath.

calender

I have been looking for ages for some of these perpetual calendars, 'cos my daughters all like them, so having found some this is for my youngest 's birthday

have never done the old decopatch thing, so had a try with this

I thought the papers were good for the kitchen diner Kate has, as there are cockerills, chickens, ducks, lambs and spring flowers , am pleased with the result.

Oak House studio one stamp project

this weekend is the "one stamp" 24 hour marathon stamping weekend.

there are 24 hours to make as many different project using only 1 stamp [well 3 this time], and it is their "walesby heart" which comes in large, medium and small

these are beautiful stamps, so I have been having a play, as I am busy at the weekend, I started early

so here we are, my first project is a plain pale blue scarf, a cheapy I came across, so I stamped the heart onto it with midnight blue colour chemistry inkpad.

 I am really pleased with the result, it has made a cheap scarf look classy

and here is a bit of a close up, it is really difficult to show how nice it looks

   

next I made a dangly thingy, don't know what to call it 

the hearts were stamped with powder blue colour chemistry inkpad, onto white card that had been cut out using the sizzix nesting hearts.

I did 3 of the large and the medium size, and 6 of the small size, then edged in red and stuck back to back to make a dimensional heart ,with some bakers twine in the middle.

I threaded teal coloured wooden beads inbetween the hearts, the large set, then small set then medium and another small set at the bottom

a bit of a close up

shows off the woodgrain effect in my door really well !!!!!

for my next project I made a heart shaped gift box using the crafters companion ultimate pro board,

I stamped the large heart all the way around the side of the box with amethyst colour chemistry ink pad, on the box lid I used the doily edge punch from tonic, and put purple ribbon around the lid lip, and tied a bow.

for the flower, I stamped 3 hearts in a triangle shape twice for each size heart with the amethyst ink pad, then curled and shaped the petals, then layered it all up, and glued a gem as the centre, then glued it centrally on the top of the box. The little purple twisted shapes are made from some memory cord I had forgotton I had until I had a bit of a tidy up, so I thought they would finish my flower off nicely.

wall hanging

12 days of christmas in blue and gold

and in green and gold

and in red and green