Hi Everyone! It's Wednesday and I am back at work. Our house is bursting at the seams with presents that all need to be found homes and I am in the mood to organise and declutter so the Challenge theme this month at Amber Ink was perfect!
The Challenge theme is to create something that will help you or someone else become organised. The winner of the Challenge will receive a brand new digistamp set
! Take a look at the
challenge blog for some great projects from the other Torchbearers and details on how to enter!
I decorated an empty Travel sweets tin with
iPapers to keep some of my buttons in. I can see myself making some more of these in different colour ways, it was so much fun to make.
To decorate the tin, I first cut a circle from yellow card. I then cut a strip of yellow spotty Ipaper which I stuck over some pink flowery paper and die cut into a smaller circle. I stitched the edges and then stitched the smaller circle to the larger one before sticking to the tin lid.
I added buttons, butterflies punched from more Ipaper, felt embellishments and letter stickers to decorate the top of the lid.
I added paper strips along the edges of the lid and the side of the tin with some more stiching and a lovely gingham bow.
As a finishing touch, I added another circle of paper to line the tin and filled it with some buttons.
It's always very satisfying to create something useful from something that would usually be thrown away.
Make sure you go and check out the Projects created by the other Torchbearers, you are certain to find some inspiration if like me you are on a quest to be organised!
Have a great Wednesday!
Jane
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It was a real honour to carry the torch and I am now off to display my badge proudly on my blog. Make sure you hop over to Joey's and the other Torchbearers to congratulate and cheer them on their way as they prepare to run!
I treated myself to two new toys recently. A Dymo label maker with fancy fonts and a Sizzix XL suitcase die so I decided to play with both of them yesterday to make this Project. I first made the case, which was very quick to put together (as long as you remember to flip the patterned paper to cut the pieces so they face the right way!) I decorated the case with a Prima flower a Magnolia sentiment and a black bow.
I then decided that I wanted to fill it with something. I had the idea to make several little tags with different sentiments and images to fill the little case up.
I had so much fun printing and colouring the Bunnies and thinking up and making the sentiments and decorating the tags. Each one is different and they fit in the box perfectly.
I love this rich yellow paper combined with the gorgeous pink flowery design. It reminds me of spring and meadows full of flowers! I coloured the bunnies with my Promarkers and cut them out before adding them to a Nesties circle. I added a bit of real and fake stitching and a lovely felt flower was the perfect finishing touch.
I decided to make the sentiment stamp the focus of this card and printed it quite large onto a square of white textured card and then coloured it in with my Promarkers. I stitched the square onto the fabulous ipaper and then added a bunting digi image which I had coloured, cut out and covered in glossy accents. The finishing touch was three little gems in coordinating colours in the bottom right of the image panel.
The other talented ladies who will also be carrying the torch for Amberink in December are:
