3D Thursday Home Decor Box Frame with Kusudama Flowers

 

Remember this Delightfully Detailed & Twinkle Twinkle Box Frame home decor project we made earlier in the year...

And remember this one it then inspired... by my SU! upline, Julie ... using Garden Impressions, Festive Farmhouse and Delightfully Detailed...

Well Hilda merged the 2...and made this for a special friend...

Didn't she do an absolutely  wonderful job.... thanks for sharing with me Hilda... and allowing me to share on here...

Home Sweet Home Beautiful Banner

Here is a Falling in Love  Home Sweet Home banner that has proven to be very popular in my classes this month...

Original idea being a Happy Mother's Day banner ... but quickly becoming one to adorn our own homes!!! LOL...   Followed by craft space decoration... gifts for new baby girls... Congratulations, Happy Birthday and oh... even one for Mother's Day after all!!!!

Want to make your own? I have a Beautiful Banners Kit in the Mail option with full instructions for you... Please contact me here...

I used the somewhat overlooked gem of a stamp set in the Annual Catalogue...called Beautiful Banners (available in Wood and Clear Mount)

With co-ordinating dies, Banners Framelits...

Along with the perfect alphabet to simply make banners for any occasion... Layered Letters

And finished off simply with Lace Doilies, Falling in Love embellishments , 1/4" Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon and a tassle from the Cupcakes & Carousels embellishment pack

 

Simply sweet! 

Though 2 things I will change when I make another one... and I told everyone to change as they made theirs...

(1) Leave a wider gap between the words when I assemble the banner!

(2) Stamp the letters central in the banner area as intended... I had left room for the half doilies at the top...

PS Yes my supersized clock is over 2 foot in diameter.... so it is a decent sized banner!

Home Sweet Home Church with Stained Glass Window

Just found the photos of my little church with its stained glass window... I thought I had shared this ages ago... but apparently not!

So without further ado... here it is...

The stained glass window is actually the fancy stocking (from the Hang Your Stocking stamp set) stamped onto a vellum panel and then coloured on the reverse using Sharpie (permanent) markers.

It works so well as there are 2 little window dies in the Home Sweet Home set that cut the holes for both the top arched window and the bottom rectangular window. Then you have 2 more little dies that cut the window frames that are stuck around the holes.

And the spire... less said the better! It worked ... but it was tricky... so a re-think/re-design/template is required before I would run this in classes... and I made it too tall when I created it too!! But I think you get the idea...

And yet again... I have used the Halloween Speciality papers for those lovely stones/bricks...

Autumn Winter Catalogue live soon! And major video Spoilers!

1st September sees the go-live of this year's Autumn Winter Catalogue... full to the brim of new products for Christmas, Autumn and Halloween... and some great new All Occasion ones too...

There are a number of ways you can see the catalogue...
(1) The on-line pdf version will be released here at 1am UK time on 1st September (this Thursday!)
(2) Come and collect a hard copy from my Launch & Grand Sale events. So much to show you!

Mon 5th September 10-12am 

Wednesday 7th September 1-3pm

(3) Come to a September Christmas Cardmaking or Project Life/BYOP Class. Dates here.
(4) Request a postal hard copy if you can't make my Launch/Class dates ...

But in the meantime... Stampin Up! have provided us with some wonderful videos of up and coming products... so if you can't wait till Thursday... here you go!

And 3 of my favourites... Just click on the picture to go and see the products in the video... the first 2 videos are just 3-4 minutes (and for those of you that know me and my attitude to watching videos... yes even I have managed to watch them!!) The last one is somewhat longer (13mins) as it shows you how to make the project too

Oh how me is this!!!!?
Make tiny houses using the Home Sweet Home Stamp Set. Stamp on cards or memory keeping pages. Or combine it with the Sweet Home Framelits Dies to create 3D packaging or home décor! Learn how you can combine these products to make fun projects all year long.

Create custom tags for gift giving using the Here’s to Cheers Stamp Set. Combine it with the Cheerful Tags Thinlits Dies for simple crafting! Learn how you can combine these products for quick tags.

Decorate your mantelpiece with festive trees and seasonal decorations. This kit makes three trees in two sizes—one 13" (33 cm) tall, two 11" (27.9 cm) tall—each individually trimmed with handmade ornaments. See for yourself how kits make for easy creativity!