Mini Shadow Box

Hey everybody, just a quick showcase on a few projects I completed. As I mentioned before I recycle whenever I can so here is my latest recycled project.  Over Christmas I bought some decorations and when I saw this box I knew I would make a project with it.  Here is a picture of the box and the type of decoration that came with it.

Here is the project that I completed:-

I painted the box with white acrylic paint and when dry painted again with white crackle paint.  I used paper from the Printery Collection to line the box. The items in the box came from my stash with the exception of the little white hat that I bought at a baby kiosk. 

Altered Egg Carton

Happy Easter everybody!!  I am proud to have made pickled fish for the second time in my life :-).  Back home my mom is the pickle fish maker - she makes 3 bowls -1 for her and my dad, 1 for me and my family and 1 for my sister and her family. Since I am in Dubai I have been pressurised by my daughters to make some.  So I have made again, according to my mom's recipe and it tastes great - thank you Mom! Further to that the Easter bunny sent word that he will be coming around on Sunday! Who says you cannot celebrate Easter in the United Arab Emirates :-).

I made this Easter gift for my youngest daughter.  It was inspired by a fellow You Tuber - Juliana (IluvVintageScrap).  Of course I added my own twist.  Enjoy!

Altered Straw Hats

I love altering items!  Here are 3 hats ranging in various sizes.

I used lace, ribbon,  roses, sunflowers, pot purri and pearls to decorate.

Awesome News

Hey everybody, hope everybody is having a happy scrappin time - Its Saturday yay!!!  Saturdays are for lazing around, no deadlines and no worries AND Saturdays are also for blissful scrapping.  Right now my daughters are out swimming, hubby is taking a nap and I was scrappin away on one of my projects for the design team.

Yes yes yes - I made the Paper Lane Design Team!!! I am over the moon and am excited for the year ahead.  Paper Lane is the first and largest scrapbooking store in the UAE. They offer a wide range of imported acid and lignin-free materials for scrapbooking and paper crafting.They have a wide variety of the greatest and latest collection of well known and top manufactureres. Here is the link to their store http://www.dubaiscrapbookstore.com and here is the link to their blog http://www.paperlane.blogspot.com.

The other members have awesome talent and I hope to learn new techniques from them and to share my own.  Each one of us have a different niche and we look forward to sharing our talent and teaching those who wish to learn and more to their already developing talent.

I might have some other good news soon so watch this blog!!!  Remember I make mini albums on order and they are all an original unique work of art - no album is the same.  I tailor to your unique requirements, theme and colour schemes. So drop me a email ladies and lets create an awesome album to store your most precious memories.

Pin Cushion, Message in a Bottle and a Card

Hey everybody, here are some images of the pin cushion, message in a bottle and a envelope with a cute pink card I made from some paper scraps, left over material and lace. Enjoy!

Pin Cushion

I took an abandoned (grin) matching cup and saucer and stuffed the inside of the cup with the stuffing of a discarded pillow. I measured a square of pink silk to stuff the stuffing in; formed a ball and secured it with an elastic band. Next I covered the silk with some matching lace and pushed it as deep as possible into the cup.  I glued pearls around the rim of the cup and secured a matching bow just above the ear. Next I decorated with artificial flowers from my stash and puts some pins for display.

Message in a bottle

Used an empty olive oil bottle, decorated with pink roses, rose paper, pearls, ribbon and a charm. Inside the bottle is a poem tied with silk ribbon,some rose petals and a string of pearls.

It is easy to recycle; think about uses before you throw something away

Card

Made the flowers with 3 difference round shapes using 3 matching papers. Matted pink striped paper on silver card. Matted a pink strip on the bottom of the card and added some small bling rounds.  I typed the sentiment on the shape on my computer and matted on thick white card stock.