Happy Birthday Elaine!

Elaine and Robert spent a weekend with us recently and we took a bike ride into the Rendlesham Forest. We were fascinated but all the mushrooms we saw and so I thought it would make a good theme for a birthday card for Elaine.

Patterned papers - Basic Grey - Oxford

Cardstock - Bazzill

Ribbon - Hobbycraft

Punches - Fiskers

Rub-on greeting - Making Memories

Stamps - Lili of the Valley

Pens - Promarkers

Other - gems, perfect pearls, chalk ink.

The mushroom is Amanita muscaria  known as Fly Agaric.  They are beautiful but Deadly poisonous.

Remembering a lovely weekend,

Happy Birthday Elaine!

Celebration Blog Hop

The creative and very busy Sandie - Itchifiners blog asked me to take part in her first anniversary (Blogaversary!) blog hop. I'm thrilled to be asked and pleased to take part. I made this layout to include in the celebrations.  The photo shows my daughter Catherine, at home a few days after her 19th birthday earlier this year.

If taking part in the blog hop you should have arrived here from the talented Den's blog - Den's Crafty Diary. If not head back to Sandie's blog to start from the beginning. When you are done here please head off to see what the creative Ruth has to show you on her blog Everyday Life of a Suburban SAHM.

The letter you need to collect from my blog is the letter:

About my layout

Items used:

Inspiration from the work of Georgia Keays

Papers - Crate, Neighbourhood collection and Emma's Shoppe collection

Cardstock - Bazzill

Punches - Stampin' Up and Fiskers

Alphabet Stickers - Sassafras pink glitter cardstock and American Crafts rootbeer foam thickers

Other - chalk inks,buttons, thread, ribbon, lace ans paper roses.

Thanks you for looking and please leave a message.

Poinsettia Gift Box

Here is the poinsettia gift box class from Sunday's Your Creations The Big Event Crop, designed and taught by Karen Leonard.

The box and lid are both made by folding squares of paper. In this case we used a whole 12 x 12" sheet of Echo Park - Everybody Loves Christmas, 'Christmas Words' paper and a 11 3/4 x 11 3/4"sheet of Bazzill.

I had made boxes this way before but it was fun to relearn this skill and be shown this neat floral decoration for the lid using ribbon, a 12 x 2" strip of  bright stripes (reverse side) paper (trimmed along both edges with the Fiskars threading water punch) and a doiley. The poinsettia was made in three layers cut from templates, lots of curling, scrunching and inking, then glued together with 3D double-sided foam pads. The centre of the flower is a pearl button and a clear gem.

Thanks Karen, I enjoyed making this box and I have the perfect wrapping for one of my Christmas gifts. I'm sure I will be making more of these too.