Julie: Greeting cards with paper flowers + pins

Hello again.

My projects for this week follow on from my previous post here

do you remember the sandwich board cards I made a few weeks back using Pion papers? The ones with the cheeky quotes and matching step-by-step tutorial? Well, when I die-cut the apertures in the front, I held on to the sections that were removed and used them as a layer on some new collage-style scrappy cards:

Here's a better look at one poking out behind my card's focal image:

The lovely soft green of the Pion paper compliments the soft shades of the new mulberry paper flowers:

For my second card I used another die-cut from a Pion paper, this time in a shade of violet [the polka dot design below]: 

Which matched perfectly with some of the new decorative pins now in stock:
 

If you too save the leftovers from your die-cutting experiments to use again on new projects then you're welcome to join me on my blog all this week where I'm sharing recycling ideas.

Otherwise, I'll see you back here in a few weeks time with more of my 3DJean projects.

Julie

Jan: Tag you're .......IT

There's so many lovely things in the shop at the moment you'll be spoilt for choice. So I've chosen a few of my favourites to make this tag.

I've used the fabulous Pion papers to cover the tag and then I stamped a Lost Coast pencil border along one edge.

A pretty cabochon decorates the heart. There are so many to pick from I know it's hard to choose

 This butterfly is from one of the A4 tissue sheets which I mounted onto some card to strengthen it. The colours on these tissue sheets are so vibrant. The pins are from the Urban Hearts set.

There are lots of other things to tempt you in the shop so maybe you will find a few of your own favourites.

Fathers Day...

You've made the card and bought the gift...what you might need is something to put it in. These pillow boxes could be just the thing, they're just your regular pillow box but wrapped with a punched band and decorated with scraps of the lovely Pion papers..ideal for Dad stuff, not too fancy but still decorative.
I used the Hobby House Flourishes. ....cutting small pieces makes them go further.

You can find everything you need in the shop.....
Effie

XXX

A little bit of scrapbooking .I normally scrapbook 12x12 but had it in my head that I wanted to do some A4 sort of size for a change. It's a very old picture of Olivia when she was a baby , she used to just fall asleep anywhere. I have decided to make a few more at this size to use up all those old photo's you take and think i will scrap that sometime.   

I've used some of the lovely new pearls and pins from The Hobby House range that we are now stocking. Pop over to the shop as we have lots of them in lots of colours.

Julie: Vintage-style 'sandwich board' card

Hello again.

In my recent Design Team posts here, I seem to have taken it upon myself to promote the various unusual paper ranges Jean's shop specialises in ... and today's no different.

This time I've been working with Pion papers again, both for the patterned paper on the ouside of this card and also for the vintage image on the inside:

The vintage image was cut from this sheet called 'Romance - From Grandma's Attic':

The structure of this 'sandwich board' is something my fellow design team member Jan showed me which, in turn, she'd seen on someone else's blog ... and I've just adapted it here to suit the size and shape of the Pion image  Iwanted to use.

You can see better in this photo how it's constructed from a card base, with the fold at the top, and a hanging section slotted inside:

But, if you'd like clearer instructions than that I've created a fully illustrated tutorial which you can see in here on my personal blog.

Also, over the next few days on my blog I'll share 2 more examples of cards like this, made using Pion papers, Pion vintage images and a little splash of humour and you're welcome to drop by to see them.

See you next time.

Julie :-)

Picture Perfect!

I really do like these vintage portrait pictures...if you want to make traditional vintage projects or add a little humour these images are perfect.

adding a little colour with distress inks adds to the hand tinted photograph look.

she looks like one tough cookie!

and as for Algy... well you can make your own mind up!

The papers for making this little shrine are found here....

And the WINNER is

MATTIE

Well done Mattie , please can you email me your address so I can pop these lovely papers in the post to you. There might even be some extra's put in the box.