Happy 70th Birthday Mom!!

Happy Birthday Mom!

Hope you have a lovely day :)

Here are all the crafty things I got up to for my mom's birthday.

Firstly I decorated an album

It comes already pink with the edges already shaped I just added decorations, photos, ink, paints, stamping etc etc. I also used quite a few mediums with stencils etc. to get different effects, I tied it all together with ribbons.

 Next I decorated this cake shaped box - the lid comes off so I could put some presents inside. I painted it with gesso and then sprayed on Dylusions in hindsight the gesso was probably a bad idea as the Dylusions rub off quite a bit but I got there in the end with a little distress as well. I then cut out some butterflies on the cricut and stuck them on as well as some butterfly stickers I had. I used a silver pen to go round the bottom of each layer and then I added spots of glitter all over.

Then there's the card.....which is texture paste over a splodgeaway owl stencil and then covered with distress inks. Then I cut a 70 out of coloured paper on the cricut and stuck it on.

Then I made a cake - it's a coffee cake with coffee flavoured butter cream on the inside. Then I iced it and decorated with butterflies and a 70 and some shimmer powder.

This was a little Christmas scrapbook I made for my nan and grandad a couple of years ago.....

I seem to be getting back in to scrapbooking lately as I hadn't found time to do any for ages.....and now I've done a few pages in a matter of weeks. Here is one I finished the other day......I was keen to stop just using rectangular photos and so I cut out the photos and I think it looks pretty good. I also used two of the free stamps from Craft Stamper magazine......I just recently got hold of a couple of back issues........I love this magazine as it really shows you new techniques and is inspiring and I read my copies over and over again......needless to say I finally submitted and bought a subscription...

The brown shell stamps are Paper Artsy and I added a few other embellishments. I used distress stains on the chipboard shape and then stamped on the "Seaside fresh air" stamp which again is Paper Artsy. Oh and I almost forgot I used a paint dabber to replace the sea that I chopped off the original photo and stamped on the spiral background (from Lindsay Mason)

 

Here is a scrapbook page......I was pretty pleased with how this turned out.....I punched around the edge of the page courtesy of Martha Stewart.....and distressed around the edge of the photo to make it look more like a daydream

I was inspired to be creative today by QVC's craft day.....

Here is a scrapbook page I made; which I was pretty pleased with. I got to use one of my new Stampotique stamps, and finally did some scrapbooking which I haven't done any of for ages. I used a lid to create the circles with paint which I thought gave a really good effect