3d bird houses..final part

And here are the final bird houses...

The tempting turquoise house is Helene's and the old olive house is Sue's, both are wonderful and the final house is so saffron and I made it using a slightly different template as I didn't make mine yesterday.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing our 3d project.

Thank you for visiting, until next time Happy crafting Dawn x

3d bird houses..

The bird house with the tempting turquoise roof belongs to Ali and just like her it is bold and bright...lovely.

The bird house with the old olive roof was made by Coll, I have added a close up of her flowers as I think they are gorgeous and show her hidden talents off very well, the added touch of the Robin is great!

3d bird houses..

This beautiful bird house belongs to Marg...who you can only see the back of in the photo.

Bird House workshop....

Thank you ladies....Well, we had a wonderful time yesterday at the Bird house workshop. I had a group of eight lovely ladies who came to make a 3d bird house. We used the papers from the sweet pea paper stack along with the wonderful two step bird punch to decorate, we also made these wonderful 3d flowers, everyone had a fantastic time and the afternoon flew past but, for once I remembered the camera so here are some pictures... The spotty roof house was made by Kelly.

Thank you to all who were happy to share the photo of their bird house. (In my usual way you will see a couple of photos on a post until I finally find out how to add more without it going wrong)

Happy birthday...

This was the card I made for my friends birthday a couple of days ago...

I used pink passion as a square card base and then layered some paper from the bubbles born to shop paper pad, over the whole base. I cut a strip of pink passion card and punched it using my martha stewart loop punch and added this to the right hand side, with a tiny strip of the paper from the first layer on top. I die cut my favourite flower from whisper white and two pinks and inked all the pieces with pink passion, I shaped them before sticking with glue gel, and popping a couple leaves in behind. The greeting is from a little claire stamp set, stamped onto whisper white and mounted onto pink passion with foam pads. Another simple card. Thanks for looking, happy crafting Dawn x

Last couple of pages...

The last couple of pages I'm going to show you are more beach photo's but this time there are a couple of me, this is rare, very rare, I actually don't like having my photo taken (I guess that's because I always look rubbish, or I'm very self critical) but I must admit these are not to bad, maybe the back ground is "right" for me or it's just they are not to close!!

Again decorated using the same stamp sets to keep it simple, the ribbon you can see is tied to the rings of the book. There are lots more pages in this book but I don't feel I know you well enough to bore you with those. I added about 60 photo's in total and decorated each page quite simply using only two stamp sets so as not to add to much fuss, after choosing my photo's and printing them I managed to put the whole thing together in an afternoon. You can add as much detail as you want to your mini books to suit your own taste, I like things that are simple!

Thank you for looking, happy crafting Dawn x

Mini book photo's

The next couple of pictures are of the beach area on Hannafore side of Looe, we were aloud to walk our dogs on this beach so we spent lots of time walking around this area. The view is towards St Georges Island and when the tide went out we walked quite a way towards it, although you couldn't walk all the way and apparently no dogs are allowed on the island anyway.

My son with one of the many pieces of drift wood that he found on the beach, he loves anything like that! And more pictures of our dogs (yeah I know, you've seen enough of them now, I will try not to add any more, sorry)

The pages were decorated with stampin' up's circle circus stamp set and bird on a branch stamp set. I added hand written text around the edges of the photo's on some pages, I also added buttons and pieces of ribbon as embellishments.

Until next time, happy crafting and thanks for looking Dawn x

Holiday photo's

The photo's on the left page are the view we had looking out of the french doors from our bedroom, and yes even though it was April we had glorious sunshine every morning. I would get up before everyone else make a hot chocolate and sit at our table wrapped up warm (it was cold but it was beautiful and perfectly quiet) and watch the sun coming towards me across the sea, with my two dogs near my feet. Our apartment had a private decked area with a low wall all around and locking gate so perfect for the dogs to get some fresh air.

The pictures on the right hand page are of our two beautiful dogs having their breakfast on the decked area. They are alaskan malamute dogs, we have a girl and a boy, they are not related and no we don't breed them, they are purely our pets!! They are the most loving dogs, although large in size they are big softies really, weighing in around 40 kilo's each and possibly not quite fully grown, the girl is happy sitting on your feet, the boy will on occasion try and sit on your lap mmm need I say more!!

On board journal

I have finally got round to putting my holiday photos into a mini book. I used the Stampin' Up! on board journal, the spiral bound book comes with 20 pages and at approx 5 inch square this is a lovely size book and I thoroughly enjoyed assembling it. I painted the book covers with "eco green crafts" paint in clam shell, these paints are lovely, I painted two coats to give a dense coverage over the cardboard colour of the book. I printed my photos so that I could get two on a page, it was difficult to choose from the photos which ones to print and which ones not to so, this way I could use more.

As you can see by the title we went to Looe, one of my all time favourite places. We have been to Looe many times and always find something new to see and do. My ideal holiday is some where you can get to and then leave your car and walk everywhere you want to go, yeah I guess I'm into walking holidays and with our two wonderful dogs this is perfect for them! (I don't think my teenage daughter feels the same...but with a friend along for the break she had lots of fun to) With my limited computer skills I still can't work out how to add several photo's without them all being muddled up or not straight so I will add more pages soon.

Thanks for looking, happy crafting Dawn x

Pretty birthday card

Hi, well I have been busy making Christmas cards and because its only August you will have to wait to see some of those designs!!

Today I have made a birthday card and here it is......

I used rose red as my card base and then stuck on paper from the sweet pea paper stack, I adore these papers, the strip of paper near the bottom is the reverse of the butterfly design paper, I then die cut a flower (this is a favourite of mine at the moment) from whisper white, pumpkin pie and summer sun card with a touch of glossy black, I inked all the pieces with rose red ink before assembling them. I used the 2 step bird punch to add the branches behind the flower. Lastly I printed a greeting on the computer and layered it with matching paper also inked with rose red. I made a coordinating deep envelope using paper from the stack to add the finishing touch, a simple yet, I think pretty card. I hope you like it, until next time, Happy crafting Dawn x