Jewellery Boxes for the Granddaughters

G'day, We finally had a beautiful sunny day so that I my daughter could snap some photos of the jewellery boxes that I made my granddaughters for Christmas. I did make another one exactly the same as the ones pictured below but I already sent it to Laila for her 1st birthday last week. They where heaps of fun to create and I had a chance to play with the sizzix big shot and all the wonderful dies that I been purchasing of late. It is my hope they will treasure them for years to come.

 I made 4 little boxes adored with flowers, their names and a pretty butterfly.

A little difficult to see in the photo but there is glitter across their names and I've put a clear plastic over the top to protect their name tag.

I kept the bulk of the floral arrangement to one side as there is an elastic band that can  be pulled up over the side to hold the lid down on the box. It wasn't until I added the little punched out 6 pointed flowers with the coloured copic centers, that the piece pulled together.

The paper I used was pretty but I wanted to shabby it up just a little, so I stamped in walnut distress ink the script font and the messy circle image in random places. The inside top of the box has a pretty ribbon with bow and a little charm that reads 'made with love'.

 There is plenty of room inside for the girls to add other pretties.

I made them each a little bracelet with a hanging tea cup and saucer, a pretty pink crystal and a bow to tie it all together. I can imagine the girls having a highland tea party in the future.

Jewelery Boxes Details
Box: Collections - Pencil case with elastic band
Paint: Acrylic - Rose, White
         Tattered Angels - Glimmer Glam Heffalump
Dies: Marianne Design CR1212
         Die-namics - Scallop Ribbon
         Die-namics - Mini Royal Roses
         Memory Box - Vivienne Butterfly
         Memory Box - Darla Butterfly
         Joy - Vintage Borders 6002/0162
         Joy - Vintage Flourishes 6003/0014
         Joy - Vintage Flourishes 6003/0026
Stamps: SMP 016
Paper: BoBunny - Jazmyne Symmetry #12JS405
           Cre8tiv
Distress Ink: Jim Holtz - Walnut stain, tattered rose
Punch: Fiskars - small 6 petal flower
Copics: RV34, R56
Flowers: Roses Curly, Cherry Blooms, Ribbon Roses
Pearls: Style & Grace - 6mm Ivory Glass Pearls
Tea set: Ebay
Elastic: Pepperell - 1mm/.039in Stretch Magic
Miscellous: ribbon, jewellery pieces, flat back pearls, diamonties, cardstock

Now it's time to wrapped them up and put them in a place that I will remember again at Christmas time. Thanks for stopping by.

Digital Stamp Bird Cage Roses and blog hop

Digistamps4Joy's New Beginnings Blog Hop has just began. You start at DigitalStamp4joy original site and continue through until you end up at their new DigitalStamps4joy site. There is 8 fabulous sites to explore inbetween, all of them offering a blog hop prize, just for leaving a comment and becoming a follower. How easy is that?

You'll be able to pick up one of my own vouchers at one of the participating blog site. Now to find out which one has my voucher, you will have to join in the blog hop. Have Fun!!!

Introducing my new digital stamp called 'Bird Cage Roses' that will be available in my store soon. For now if your quick you'll be able to pick it up for free in the current round of the progressive challenges at Crafters Digital Arts Center. Details below. I designed this digital for my eldest daughter which adores all thing shabby chic. It was a little tricky to create the card without her seeing, but she took off early on the morning of her birthday and I was able to put it together before she returned.

The image was coloured with copic pens. I used a mask to create the white scroll in the background and sponged over it with lolly pink stamping ink. I also added the same sponging to one corner of the main image so that the stick on 'Happy Birthday' would stand out. The doily under the pretty little flower arrangement was lightly stained as well. I made a little stick pin for her and the butterfly was silver but I used a yellow/gold copic pen to give it the appearance of gold. Worked really well. The finishing touches are the simple bow with the long ends and the little group of pearls in 2 of the corners.

 

The inside was keep very simple with the paper I used doing most of the work for me. After scanning the front image I used it again inside on the side of the card where I placed a birthday verse.

Thanks for looking and don't forget to pick up the digital stamp 'Bird Cage Roses' and while your there join my own forum / group and if you going to check out the blog hop you'll want to join in Digital Stamps 4 Joys forum / group as well.

********************************************************************************* How does the CDAC Progressive Challenges work? The CDAC Progressive Challenge is a proactive freebie challenge. What that means is as long as you are proactive by making and submitting cards to this challenge you will continue to get freebies offered in a large variety of styles. These images are created by the artists that have groups here on CDAC and by those that participate in the CDAC drawing Challenges. This is a fun way to get and use fabulous images that will be offered during these challenges. You will have a full two week to enter the challenge, so not only will you get these images free (if you started with cdacpc1), but if you participate in each of the challenges during that series you will go into the drawing for the Grand Prize. EVERYONE that plays is a winner, because EVERYONE that plays earns the next challenges images for free. Repeat the process again, and you will receive the next freebies emailed to you again and so on and so on.....Come join in the fun and pick youself up some free images to play with, it only costs you $1 to buy into the challenge. *********************************************************************************

Easter Cross Card CDAC Embellishment challenge 19

Nana Vic's Digitals is proud to be hosting round 19 of the Embellishment Challenge. My digital line of stamps mainly centers around my 2 favourite seniors 'Nana Vic' and her good mate 'Mr Jones', however I do from time to time venture out of their world to create special stamps for different occasions. I am blessed to share with CDAC this new design especially created for this challenge, at the same time of creating this design I also put together a new 'Easter 1' word art sheet.

With Spring in the air and Easter so close, it's time to celebrate new beginnings. The embellishment challenge is to use flowers and lots of them. Your project is to include 2 or more flowers in any size or colour or medium.

'Easter Cross' and 'Easter Set 1' word art are both available now in my store. The 'Easter Cross' is also available for free for the next two weeks to all that join in the challenge at CDAC. So if you'd like to pick up the 'Easter Cross' for free considering joining a wonderful site that is always fun and a great place to hang out.

I coloured the cross twice and glued them back to back with a piece of string running between the two circles. I cut a larger circle in the front of my card and stitched the background paper inside and around the circle. The string I made sure that I caught in the stitching so that the cross part of the card can rotate. I used the circle that I cut out of the front as a border for the sentiment to be displayed on inside.

All the flowers are from my stash and the white netted one with the gold wire is an embellishment that my sister made for her daughters wedding. There was sugar coated almonds inbetween each of the folded petals, even tho I ate the almonds the flower I keep to use again. I created the arrangement around the white netted one and I also used 2 pin sticks that I'd made to add just a touch of bling.

Below is the inside of the card and I decided that I needed to keep it simple. The only embellishment is the stitching around the sentiment.

My good friend Carol also made a card for me using the 'Easter Cross' Please be sure to pop over to her blogsite and leave her some lov'n and to check out her details.

I am giving away $30 is Vouchers for 3 lucky winners in this challenge.

A random winner we receive a $10 voucher to spend in my store.

2 more winners will receive a $10 voucher chosen by myself and DT Ladies.

I look forward to seeing the wonderful designs that will come through from CDAC embellishment challenge.

I am also entering this card into the following challenges:

For Fun Challenges - Spring

The Pixie Cottage - Challenge #60 - Sketch and/or Easter

Simon Says - Anything Goes!!!!!

Tellen Place - 2 Embellishments

Catch the Bug - Anything Goes!

If the Shoe Fits - #69 BE Inspired Spring

Flourishes - #108 Timeless Tuesday Sew

Thank you all for looking.

Birthday Card for Tee

Sharon from my group up at CDAC (Crafters Digital Arts Center) came up with a wonderful idea, to create a Birthday card for our group members that wanted to be apart of the discussion exchange. Sharon is now called the 'Birthday Fairy' and does a fantastic job of organizing this diescussion. Theresa (aka Tee) is our first lady on our Birthday list and I'm delighted to have created a card for her.

I have used a digital that I created for my group as their Vickie Quickie weekend challenge called 'Lattice with Roses'. The work sheet that I put together for them includes this lattice rose corner as well as another corner without the roses, also the corners in plain without the lattice and lastly it has the little sections that can be used to create their own borders. Their challenge is to join the pieces to create their own unique frames using layers. This work sheet is available as a freebie for this week only. You might want to consider joining my group to grab it.

The layout was inspired by the gorgeous sketch found at Priscilla's Midnight Madness challenge. I have been so keen to use some of the pretty little rose flowers that I picked up last week at one of our local markets. Now to get this card in the post tomorrow as it's got a long way to travel. Below in the inside of the card.



The card info:

Digital 'Lattice with Roses' (not yet available but designed by me)

Sentiment designed on the computer

Copics: Lattice; YR31, YR24, E33, E13 Roses; E01, R20, R81, R83, R85 Leaves; YG03, YR63, Background; BG10, B000

Paper called BW Madeline - Wild Roses

Pearls, ribbon, flowers and cardstock from my stash.

I'm entering the following challenges:

Priscillastyles - Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #93

Woot! I'm so excited to receive this award from the team over at Midnight Madness.



Thank you for stopping by.

A card I made...

The challenge this week at For Fun Challenge   is:  Anything Plus- a paper clip or safety pin - can be a funky shape clip or a colored or regular safety pin - no stick pins please.

I decided to kill 3 birds with one stone when I created this card. I knew I would be using my lastest digi 'Nana Vic Daisy Chains', I needed to make a birthday card for my youngest daughter and to slip in a paper clip was easy to meet the requirement for the challenge.

 

My daughters favourite colour is yellow and has been ever since she was about 2 and baby blue was the perfect contrast colour. I used just one of each colour in normal card stock. I brought the yellow lace, packet of the half pearly things, the over sized paper clip and paper daisy-like flowers (Bella). As I was arranging the layout in the shop (in my head) I wanted the paper lemon flowers to be layered but they were just too dull. I thought to myself what would Granny Carol do and there it was on the counter blue glitter. The rest of the flowers were in my stock (I've got a whole draw full of flowers from my earlier crafting days).

The colouring of the digi is a mixed bag of what I have. 4 copic markers, my 36 Tombows and water colour pencils. Now I don't know if anyone else uses all 3 to colour there images but I think overall they came together. I printed the digi on water colour paper and I did get some bleeding but even that wasn't too bad as I used that effect (yep! I meant to do that...LOL) to add the greyish tones or shadowing. The copics didn't like the paper at all as I couldn't get the skin to blend and their faces are blotchy, ok so maybe I was going for a sunburnt look, another effect maybe. *Laughs*

Putting the card together is self explainitory by the images. Now I know that the paper makers out there would have you cut the paper to size and just stick the next paper on the top and if you wanted the same paper inside to put another piece but I just think it's a waste. So the yellow card stock is just a frame around the blue card stock and I have a huge piece of yellow stock left over (another card perhaps). I taught my girls this method of framing with their papers instead of just wasting paper by covering it up, I realize that it's more time consuming to do this but think of all the paper you save.

 I wanted to share with you the back. I thought I was making a fold card and this is how it was done by memory, I should have went and looked at a couple of tutorials to find out how they are done today. So my card is really a pop up card according to what I've read now. I've still got plenty of room above the tag sentiment to add my personal message and I'll put the words 'Happy 17th Birthday on the cover to fill in the space above the little girl.

I can't believe that 8 people of commented on the first image I posted in the wee hours of the morning and now I'm thinking that I've gone overboard with the text as I just added it tonight. *Shrugs* Maybe I'll get to a point where I can just post an image and not go into detail but for now I have time to write.

I've entered this card into the following Challenges:

For Fun Challenge ... Paper Clip 

Challenge #8 at Freshly Brewed Challenges... Anything Goes

CHALLENGE 19..Sew Many Challenges ... Anything Goes

Challenge 38 at Crafty Catz ... Let's Go Digital

Challenge #182 at Divas' Coffee Break Design ... Colour Combo 

How to go and catch up on my new followers =) and find some more yummy blog candy.