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.

birthday cards

this week I have been doing some family birthday cards,

the first is for my eldest daughter, who is into pinks and purples

 this one is for my grand daughter who will be 3

 

you can see from these next 2 what her name is

This is the box for another card for Summer

this is where you sign the card

and this is the card, as you can see I went for bright colours, as most children love these

a bit hard to see, but I cut happy birthday from the britannia dies in pale pink mirri card

and then cut the same card for  her name, I bought the alphabet dies and am so pleased with them

I have been thinking about these dies for ages, as you know I make all the birthday cards 

for my grandson's special school, so they will really get some use

for grand children

I made a cat doorstop for my daughter, but my 3 year old grand daughter fell in love with it, so I have made this for her 4th birthday on monday

I forgot when I cut it out, I just folded the material and cut both sides together....ooops - the cats are upside down on the back, but I don't think Alice will notice

when I babysit for her, we always have to play a game that she calls "dog in the forest", so this is as near as I could get to one for a card

so I had to do her brother a similar card - they share a party this weekend

and this last one is just me playing with the new dies I got

name books

these 2 name books were ordered at the school fayre I did in spring, can put them on here now, because the relevant birthdays have now passed.

it was for 17 year old twins - Grace and Elliott

this is the box it was in

and the front of the card

I stamped a lot of different shaped tags with various messages and attatched to the front

then punched and die cut flowers to embellish with

the order said "pink and shoes and bags"

so that is what they got

and the verse was the one I used on the sample [my daughter's card], the lady loved it and wanted the same one

I must admit, it is a nice verse

below is the one I did for her brother, who wanted red and blue and football

this is the box

it was only after I had finished the card that I found out Elliott had 2 "T"s so had to make another,

but I now have a sample of a male name card for my stall ['cos I only have 4 daughters]

I did the same with the tickets

then added football stickers

and a few stamped images

and the verse is the same

so both twins can be alike, but different

a trifold garden card

a trifold card made using a Debbie Moore cd

the front is a pretty birdbath

then a butterfly

and finally a nice verse

"dress" cards

some"dress" cards from templates

   

I liked the pretty blue paper, added some bling,

 then had to think of a contrast colour for the rest.......

so bingo, I went for the orange for a complete change

and for the finishing touch

inside are a pair of matching tattered lace shoes

this one is done in aqua and black, looks effective I think.

this is a little girls cupcake dress, with lacy finishing

triangular card

this is a triangular card from a template I had forgotton I had

the front shape is one of the spellbinders rectangles, and tattered lace dragonfly [one of my fave dies]

this is the blank panel - left so I can put whatever sentiment is wanted

and on the other side I put the spellbinders bonsai tree.