Mini album, stack the deck principle

Hello everyone,

 I want to finally share this mini album I have been making . It took me quite some time because blue is not really my colour  to work with . But the person I made it for loves blue and butterflies . So this is the resultof my efforts :

The album is made with 6 standard size white envelopes  (6 by 2,8 inches or 15 by 11 cm ) and according to the stack the deck principle ( Laura Dennison from The Paper Trail ) . I have used a brown ink pad to distress the edges and I have used my Rose punch , little butterfly punch , border punches , my butterfly die from Cottage Cutz  , my MFT Flourish die , my Quinn Flourish from Memory Box ( thank you Kathy for your information !  Another package is on its way ! ),  lace and ribbon , pearls and rhinestones .


This is the cover seen from sideways : Some jewels and a little note  pad and a wooden heart . The cover is made from 3 peaces of strong package material ( boxes ) , cut to size , a little bigger than the envelopes .

 The lace ribbon is attached to a Journal note that I printed off the Internet and it can be taken out of the blossoms . I cut these blossoms out of...... wallpaper : 3 times to adhere with foam pads to get some dimension .















This is how my album looks when opened :

My first page :     Each pocket holds place for pictures as you will see in the next photo's                                                                                                                                       

 

 And the next pages :  with a crocheted flower, which reminds me I should make some more . There is place to hold some notelets .

 The left side opens up , and offers more place for pictures or journaling.

 It continues as followed:

 A small card made from Jane Shasky CD is tucked under a ribbon .

 Cottage Cutz butterflies , so nice to work with , very delicate .

And as you see each rounded flap is actually a take out card  for pictures

Each envelope also contains an extra mat, cut with decorative scissors.

 Self made stickpins and flowers with tiny beads .














My last page:

 Some extra details :

I hope you like it , if you find the time comments are very much appreciated , for my next post I will have some cat cards,  coloured sticker cards and  some small  pergamano try out ,thank very much for your  visit !

Goodnight to all of you , take care ,

Hugs, Rosa

From the heart of the garden

A warm Hello to all of you !

 So Winter has not forgotten us , and as I am no fan of it ( and as it also increases my chronic terrible nerve pains , I hope it will be over soon . In the mean time I 've tried to get some order in my small creative space and I also have made some cards .

I have bought the double paper craft CD ROM " from the heart of the garden " designs by Jane Shasky at www.joannasheen.com . This is so gorgeous ! I don't know which one to begin with , but I chose for the roses and heart . Excuse me , for the bad pictures, I can not get them any better , the lighting is very bad , although I've taken them out side ,the weather has been too dark weather , and I did not want to use flash.
This is how it looks when it 's open :

                                                      
                                                      
This is the front of the card .  I used some wire to " hang" the tin basket .                                                         

 

When the little butterfly is turned then the small card opens too:                                                                     

 When I make cards , I take some of them to my mother , she likes to hold them . And usually she does not want to let go . So I would like to share these pictures . My mother is declared demented, 1998, when she was 70 , ( it began silently- invisible  to the outside world when she was 65) I was forced to take her to the home in November 2007 ( we lived together ), she broke her heap in 2010 and stays in bed for the last two years now , she is 84 now . She still recognizes me very well .
This picture is taken about a month ago .

Now why isn't my mother grey ? Well she lost all of her hair in just about a week in 1993 ,probably due to some medication , and she did not want to have a biopsy done and so she has been waring a wig , and though we tried to go over to grey so often, but it just didn't work and so this colour suited her , me and the lady of the store . 


Then I chose this one : and made two cards keeping it simple as some of my friend likes it clean :

The front page again :












And nr 2 :

This tea-cup card , I made for another friend of mine :

with some tea sachets inside of the card .













Next up was a card for someone to give to her granddaughter, I had it in my 3 D stash for a while and used one of my lace border punches .

 And these next two came along by going through my stash :

Looking at these pictures of my cards I am in a summer mood already !!!
but here is one that coordinates with the current weather , and this is very like me : I love heat !

So sorry, I am short in my descriptions , but the pain is too severe to type much more .
Hugs,and take care ,

Rosa

Snowmen cards and cardholders

Hello everyone, its been quite a while again, but I had to wait until my glasses were made .

First I want to expess my deep sorrow for the family's of Newtown , so many lives that are damaged , again . It will take forever to live with the losses . I can only say that , in this unstabil world with people turning crazy, and violence around every corner , do enjoy the company of your loved ones at all times .

 I believe that the difficult times we are living in right now are the "hard times to go through " as the bible refers to at 2 Tim 3: 1-7 :

 

Online Bible

NEW WORLD TRANSLATION OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURES:

  ¹But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here.²For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, self‐assuming, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal,³having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self‐control, fierce, without love of goodness,⁴betrayers, headstrong, puffed up [with pride], lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God,⁵having a form of godly devotion but proving false to its power; and from these turn away.⁶For from these arise those men who slyly work their way into households and lead as their captives weak women loaded down with sins, led by various desires,⁷always learning and yet never able to come to an accurate knowledge of truth.

But I also believe three are better times  to come  . 
 I want to share some things I made in the last weeks ,  (except for when my glasses broke )  I 'm sorry for the poor quality of these pictures , I had to take several of them inside with flash .

I adhered this beautiuful backing paper to my card , but cut a window . The window closes by being held by the button  . To em bellish I used a die , cut with my double do , and somle rhinestones and a jewel hanger . Inside is a hand cut 3D image.

 Last week I got a present from someone , 3 small books with 3
D cutting files and also these 3D cutting labels : After I cut them , by hand , I inked the edges and embellished them a bit . A nice small gift , but much appreciated . I left some spaces blank to adjust to the occasion .

More snow men cards :

 And another window card , I cut out the area and adhered acylic sheet for the window , and used gold sticker lines on the acrylic to make the window . A 3D file and diecut swirl from MFT .

 

I also made  two gift sets : Two card holders with 4 cards , using my alphabet stamps and die cut machine. Each card is a single card that fits in the red die cut card holder that was cut with my die cuts and double do .

 I embellished the front cover more after I took the picture , but wasn't able to picture it again .

 My second set :

 As you see here I have spilled some ink , stamping the snowflake , it is very hard to stamp clearly , lying down , as I can not sit long enough .

The back of this card :

So this is it , I hope you enjoy you're holiday's and I hope to be back with some more paper crafts . A never ending card and a mini album are what I have in mind . Till then, take care ,

Hugs, Rosa