Kaisercraft Beyond the Page Storage Cupboard

I made this for my son after he asked me to make something for his "man cave" to keep his vape things in. Went a bit off beat and used tarot/playing cards to decorate it. I personally like the art work on the Rider Waite deck, but thought the colours might be a bit gaudy for my son, so I went on the hunt and found these lovely black and white cards. And just in case you're wondering, NO we are NOT satanists, and all those flatback pearls were individually stuck on, definitly a labour of love :) ...

Tarot/playing cards - Arcana, Dead on Paper
Flourish border (sides of card frames) - Dusty Attic fancy trim 6
Die cut on drawers and top - Spellbinders Flourish Trim
Paper lining - Kaiser Craft, Holy Night Star Paper
Gate die - Cheery Lynn, Wrought Iron window
Image in the Cabouchon was printed from the computer and is the Hermit from the Led Zepplin album The Four Symbols.
The quotes inside the "gates" were suggested by my Dad, from Dante's Devine Comedy which he read many years ago but still remembered there were some beautiful quotes to be had from there. So I had a look and decided to do the black gate as the descent into darkness and the white gate the ascent back into the light ...

 Thank you for looking, take care and keep smiling :)

Decoupage or Altered picture frame

I used to be on facebook for about 6 years and in that time made friends with several people across the world. One particular family I became very fond of and a member of this family has recently had life changing surgery, so as a reminder to her, that I still think about her I made her this picture, something she can look at when ever she feels a bit down and be either lifted by the sentiment or just the thought that someone on the otherside of the world that she has never met cares. After all we all need to feel loved and special sometimes ...

 The picture frame was just a plain wooden frame that I covered with some K and company paper. The sentiment is A Garden of Peace Frank Frankfort Moore. Printed on bazzill basics card with a light floral print (computer generated). The little birds started out plain white that I coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Markers. The flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts
Take care & Keep smiling :)

Altered Box - Black Butterfly

My friend was looking at a tissue box in a supermarket and said she wanted it because it had butterflies on it. I said I'll make you one, what colour would you like it (thinking of a rainbow of colours I could use) and then she said it ... black, silver, grey,white, glittery, sparkly, and can I have it to keep my colouring pencils in !!! UGH I'm no good with monochrome, but I said OK, and this is what I managed to come up with, a rather ornate pencil box hahahahaha ...

A5 Box by Candy box Crafts

 The box ( from Candy box Crafts) comes as a flat pack, as is fairly simple to assemble, all the pieces are numbered but there are no actual instructions.
I primed it first with black gesso and then black acrylic paint and then a final coat of DecoArt Glamour Dust Ultra fine Glitter paint - black.
The chipboard trellis is by Dusty Attic and painted with white gesso and then Platinum Tim Holtz Distress paint.
The butterflies on the sides and front are also chipboard by Dusty Attic again painted with white gesso and then with  DecoArt Glamour Dust Ultra fine Glitter paint - silver and Daler-Rowney graduate acrylic pearl white paint.
Thank you for looking and take care and keep smiling :)

Christmas Card for 2015

With one thing and another I didn't have time to make individual Christmas card this year so I went into mass production mode and got the dies out. Won't be doing an all white card again in a hurry, nightmare trying to keep them clean :)  ...

Dies used - 

Sue Wilson - Filigree Poinsettia and Trailing Ivy
Couture Creations - Tied Together
Memory box - Winterberry Sprig
Spellbinders - Ovals
Embossing Folder - Tied Together by Couture Creations
Thank you for looking, take care & keep smiling :)

Engagement Card or book - For my son Alex and Phoebe

(name) and (name)

Sitting in a tree,

K-I-S-S-I-N-G.

First comes love,

Then comes marriage,

Then comes baby

in a baby carriage.

This is the poem\song that inspired this card. I did intend just to make a simple open and shut card with my revised poem inside, but I started thinking and it kind of ran away with me. I had just got my Tim Holtz "Crazy Bird" rubber stamps (where I got the opening line for the revised poem) and thought it would be fun to use them for this card...

 If you want any details about stamps, dies, etc please feel free to email me for details.
Thank you for looking, and take care & keep smiling.

Altered Tin - H R Giger

I bought my son some different flavoured vaping liquids for his birthday and decided to make a gift box for them. I got slightly carried away and altered a tin ... as you do !!!

The tin I bought a long long time ago and it was pink and it did have a handle on it, but I didn't like it so I took it off and replaced it with a chain that I fixed on with screw brads (my Dremel came in handy for drilling the small holes for the brads to go through). I removed the paint from around the edges that wouldn't be covered with my Dremel, it gave it a nice satin look. I covered it first with Basic Grey Sugar Rush Fire Ball paper, and the images which are H R Giger's artwork were printed on to acetate. I made a bottle holder inside, and the bottles are held in place on the little shelf I made with cut down cocktail stick tubes ( I don't throw anything away, you never know when it'll come in handy! ) I won't bore you with any more details, as it's pretty much self explanatory.
Thank you for looking and keep smiling :)

Steam Punk Father's Day card 2015

ANOTHER Steam Punk card !!! Well I found a digi stamp on Pintrest and decided to do my interpretation of it. It didn't quite turn out as I intended, but I'm sure my Dad will like it :)  ...

The digi stamp I took inspiration from.

 The backing paper for both front and inside the card were made by me. I used the conceptual sketches from a computer game I played a few years ago - Syberia. The art work for that game is beautiful. I also used a German text I sourced from the internet, along with a antique page image (all can be found on my Pintrest page). To add a more aged look I used...
1. Tim Holtz distress ink pads - Antique linen and Frayed burlap
2. Tim Holtz Air spritzer with Antique linen and frayed burlap distress markers.
3. Basic Grey Flourish edge stamp with Crimson red Versafine ink pad.
4. The die cut corners on the front were achieved using Tim Holtz Alterations mixed media dies.
 The Penny Farthing was made using ...
1. The digi stamp as a template for the bicycle frame.
2. Tim Holtz Weathered Clock die. Coloured with Tim Holtz Brushed Pewter Distress paint and then using his spritzer air brush used different marker pens to get an aged metal patina effect.
3. The tire was die cut from Grand Nestabilities classic circles dies and coloured wih a black marker pen.
4. The cogs are Memory Box Gear Works die coloured with Tim Holtz metalic Distress paints
5. All pieces were cut from thick grey card.

The Dad label was made with Spellbinders Victorian tags and metal alphabet brads.
The metal tassel was hand made by me.

Inside the card the sentiments were computer generated and framed with Memory box Medium Steampunk pipes and connected using Memory Box small Steampunk pipes.

Thank you for popping by. Take care and Keep smiling :)

Steampunk Card

Bought lots and lots of crafty supplies from a craft fair back in March, one of them being this lovely stamp and though I'd give it the Steampunk treatment :)

Stamp - House of Zandra - "Safari Girl"
Backing Paper  - Creative Imaginations, Marah Johnson - "True"
Dies - Memory Box  - Steampunk Corner
           Cheery Lynn Designs  - Chicken wire
Flowers  - Mirri Satin card
                 EK Success Reto Flower punch
                 Nellie Snellen Floral punch - Stamen 1
                 Cuttlebug embossing folder - Diamond Plate
Sentiment - computer generated and gone over with Atyou Spica glitter pens

Take Care & Keep Smiling :)