Butterfly Notebook

I have had my Zutter out this week to make a few little note pads that someone ordered for party bags, and while it was out I made this project using a couple of images from the Artistic Outpost sheet "Happiness".
This set of stamps are available from. I have also used various inks and glossy Accents to highlight some of the words on the quote. All of the items are available from HappyDaze.
There is also plenty of time to enter into the challenge this month which is to use your favourite crafting item or technique on a project. Full details of how to enter can be found HERE on the blog.

Home Again

I am now back from my travels to Egypt and ready to get back to doing "stuff". We had a fantastic couple of weeks, visted the pyramids in Cairo and then onto the Nile to visit the tombs. Valley of the kings was amazing but the highlight of the trip for me had to be Abu Simbel as it was so awe inspiring. We had a lovely cruise on the Nile and it was lovely to sit and watch the world float by.

Little Black Dress

Not a dress, but the challenge theme this month on the Happy daze Blog is the craft item you could not live without, in my case I cannot live without any of them, so I just dug through my wonderful stash from the happy daze shop and got to work.

This week I am still in love with the multi-medium and distress stain technique so I have made a little gift box using the stains, inks and medium to decorate it.

I co-ordinated the theme of the box to tie in with a pendant I have made using some the the charms and Tim Holtz ideology pieces for sale on the site.

First of all the box. I made the basic box using a box maker and a fairy sturdy card. I cut a piece of card to fit the lid, I first of all inked this using distress inks in chipped sapphire and spiced marmalade. I then choose my stamp. I have used the quote from the Artistic Outpost set Happiness. I put a small splodge of Multi medium onto my craft mat and then "inked up" the stamp with this before stamping it onto the inked square. I them heated this to dry it. Once dry I took my distress stain in dusty concord and applied this over the square of card ensuring that it had a good coverage. The multi medium resists the stain and the quote will show though in the distress ink colour, I love this bit, it's like magic.

I then glued the square to the lid of the box and inked the sides and cut edges of the square with the same distress inks and stain. I then thought it all looked a bit flat so I took my favourite stamp a basic crackle background (great for a filler), inked it up in the spice marmalade and randomly stamped it over the lid and sides.
The Pendant I have used one the large butterfly's as a base for this. (these are so popular that as soon as Moira gets them into stock they are all sold again, so do sign up for the email alerts to be informed when they come back into stock so you don't miss out as they are gorgeous)

I added a Tim Holtz Ideology cog to the centre of the butterfly and topped this off with a reclaimed watch cog from my personal stash. I then attached chain to the top parts of the butterfly, adding Tim Holtz Ideology cogs and game spinners as shown, using jump rings to join them all together to form an interesting and decorative chain for the butterfly. This was really quick to make but it looks so effective that it could have taken you hours.

All the DT members are trying on their little black dresses this month and as usual this is linked to the monthly challenge and you can find all the details of this here.

Domino Domination

For my Bubbly Funk Piece this week I have made a cute little domino brooch, to see all the details of it have a look here.