Goodbye school

After the concert, we wanted the girls to have a break before they started new school next year. As 30 Nov was their last day, we arranged for them to give "Thank You tags" to their teachers for all the love they had received throughout the year.

We incorporated the girls' painting into the tags as background and bling them up to be hung as decor.

For BbC's teachers

For Ms E's teacher

All the frills that defines ms E.

And the roses, crystals and blings.

BbC is more eclectic, with a mishmash of bright little things.

and heavy on textures, and shapes and touch.

Dream and soar

Today is my niece Giselle's birthday and I was reminded of  a photo that I took at baby Charis' first birthday. We had lots of balloons and both Elpis and Giselle took a photo together. I had an empty box that held a mini diary I own, and I could not resist altering it into this.

I did not have any Prima flowers on hand when I made this, so I had to handmake my own roses from the remainder paper. I use some Kaisercraft Timeless paper on this, and used the scraps to make the roses and leaves, punch the butterflies; oh and that little mini clockface in the bottom corner? yes that's from scraps too.



 Close up so you can see it's really from scrap Timeless paper. And yes the twirlies too. I had to Helmar 450 everything down. My best friend!

materials : Kaisercraft paper and stamps, Tim holtz tickets, washi masking tape, ribbon, transparency.

Memories in a book

I did this as I wanted to gift something to my wonderful sister-in-law Caroline and also partly as a challenge to myself to produce a mini that would be both experimental in the use of materials and mediums. Made 99% from Kaisercraft's range of products, I did this over a few nights and was very happy with the end results.  Do let me know what you think.





Made in the style of travel tabs and journal books.





Paints, blending, stamping, stickles, dimensional paints, handrawing, punching





Painted edges, punched decorative edges, hand-drawn and glitterised rainbow





Flap and folder page.





Hidden pockets all open.





 Photo layering of colored on black/white, finished with clear crackle paint, burnished with Dimensional paint on the edges, and rubbed with rock candy stickles, and popped with pop dots. I wanted the make the photo have a magical feel that Disney always wanted to give.




 Stamping with crackle paint.


 
How it looks, upright. Tabs and all.

There's always time to love.

Although it is only the start of the month, almost everyone I know have their time centred around two issues. General Elections, and Semestral Assessments.  For me, I am reminded that life goes on after all and so I made a little reminder of what is important to me. Here is my clock made from Kaisercraft papers, some stamping, punches, spray and glitter!

Spend that extra time with your loved ones and remember, there's Always Time for Love, Hug, Kisses.