Altered Fairy Tin

Hi all, its been a couple of weeks since I have had a chance to post anything, its been a little crazy around here with my youngest writing her final exams for Grade 12 as well as the fact that we are planning on moving into Johannesburg which is about a 2 hour drive from where we are now, so it makes looking for a new home quite a challenge. However I have been crafting in between and look forward to sharing my new projects with you. In the meantime though I thought I would share a project I did a little while ago for Fabscraps, but wasn't allowed to post as they were publishing it in our South African scrap magazine called Scrap Affairs.

I used one of those Maya Road tins that you used to get chipboard pieces in I think (I have had it for awhile) I painted it with black gesso and added lots of texture with texture paste,micro beads etc. I used the Fabscraps Floral Dreams Collection papers, I fussy cut out loads of the vines and flowers from the papers as well as the fairy. I layered them on top of each other and used foam tape to lift some of the pieces. I painted and textured the chipboard lattice pieces and attached them to the sides of the tin. The tin stands on 2 spools which I painted and covered with some of the papers too.

Heres a look at the back of the tin.

This pic is taken at an angle so you can see a little of the dimension.

                                                      A closer look at the top of the tin.

 I have a tutorial on how I altered the tin and all the materials etc. that I used if you are interested leave me a comment and I will mail it to you.
Till next time, J

Shabby Rose Tag

Last post for today I promise, we have once again (big sigh) been having trouble with our internet being incredibly slow which makes uploading (or downloading) anything a nightmare, so today it seems to be co-operating which is why I am posting all my projects quickly.

Here is a tag that I made using the Shabby Rose collection by Fabscraps again (we get 2 sheets of each of the papers in our design team boxes but I went out and bought I few more sheets of each as soon as they hit my local scrapbook store) I just love these papers.

Its just a simple quick tag that I made I intend to use it in a mini album I am making (yes I know ANOTHER mini album, but I really just cant help myself these days).

I distressed and aged a chipboard key that we got in our DT pack and added some lace and roses from my stash, the hinge I cut from the paper and then added a metal corner to the top which I also painted a bit, you can find the full tutorial on Fabscraps blog - lovefromfabscraps.blogspot.co.za

Mother Earth collection Card

Here are some pics of a card I made for one of my design team projects, Im not particularly fond of making cards, I think its because I am always making them in a rush either for someone else who just 'quickly' needs a card or for myself because I forgot to buy one!
But I must say I rather enjoyed making this one, I even made the flowers on the card!

Now I must say I think the papers had alot to do with my enjoyment in making this card, these are some of the papers from Fabscraps Mother Earth collection and I just loved the faded backgrounds and then the reds and greens of the berrys! 

Can you believe with all the boxes of flowers that I have in my stash I just couldnt find anything to work with the card, so I decided to make my own flower, I layered a flat black flower behind it and then a vine die cut and a small doiley from my stash.

Once again if you would like to see the full tutorial with all the products,measurements etc you can find it on Fabscraps blog.

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An Altered Embroidery Hoop

Found some embroidery hoops on sale when I was out shopping with my sister in law, so of course I had to buy a few. I used one small one on a canvas and then decided to alter these two to hang on the wall of my craft room. The photo is one of my favourites of my kids taken in 2014.

I used the Fabscraps Shabby Rose collection papers and some flowers I had in my stash. There is a full tutorial on Fabscraps blog - lovefromfabscraps.blogspot.co.za

A Travel Folio using the Fabscraps Journey in Time collection.
This was one of my DT projects for Fabscraps, I love making mini albums and this one really was fun to make. My daughter has already claimed it as hers and plans to use it for her matric vacation photos.

This is the back of the album and I apologise for the pics being up side down but my lap top is giving me endless problems and really wont allow me to rotate any of my photos!

and then here are a few photos of the little embellishments that I used in the album

You can find the full tutorial for this album on Fabscraps blog

lovefromfabscraps.blogspot.co.za and type in Travel Folio and hopefully it will take you to the full tutorial.