A Book of Note

I recently made this little Book of Note for a swap challenge - it was so easy to make using my Bind It All that I think I'll make a few more, they are handy to keep by you for little presents.

Just for a while...

...I wont be here.  Going into hospital tomorrow for surgery and then have two weeks bed rest and a further 12 weeks on crutches so sitting at my craft desk wont be possible.  However I have a few posts pre-planned that will be appearing in my absence and this is a book that I altered over the past week - it kept me out of mischief and stopped me thinking about tomorrow too much.

It was Darren and Talya's birthdays on the 6th and they always take the girls out for a special day to celebrate.  This year they went to Gulliver's Land in Milton Keyne so I made a book of their day out.

Another Santa Request

I've now made a door hanger for Grace...

and a book for her present list...

so that's my littlies sorted.

Santa baby.......

...wont you come calling tonight!!!!

A door sign for Mya's bedroom...



and a book for her to write to Santa in - I did this last year too and will repeat for future years so Mya can look back over her childhood and see what she asked Santa for each year.

Now I have Gracie's to make......

watch this space.

Please Santa.....

I had this idea in December last year but it was a little bit too late so I stored the idea away for this year.  Of course I had to make 2 of these books, both inspired by the Forever Friends Bears.  Here are the covers of the 2 books which I bound using my Bind It All and I added the new Christmas ribbons from Crafty Ribbons and charms and beads from my stash.

Inside the cover I added a photo of each of the girls and as they are my little princesses I had to give them both a crown.  I designed the pages on my pc and the story so far reads

'Santa'  -  'I've been so good, I'd like a ......and....'

Lines have been included for the girls to add the details from their wish lists and there is even room to paste a picture of the item.

the story continues on the second page -

'I've seen this  - that looks so cute'

then on to the third page -

'and this is nice - if you have the room'

onto the next page and

'then there's this little list'

and on to the last page -

'Thank you Santa xxx'

Inside the back cover I had embossed a heart containing the word love and then cut these out and added the girls names.

on the back cover I have put the year as their mummy plans on saving these in the girls' memory boxes.  It will be nice for them to look back when they are grown up and remember their early Christmas' and to show these to their own children.

Angel

As one of my One World One Heart give aways I had offered a word book - using a word of the winner's choice. Ann/Ickle Haggis won the book and left the word to me so I chose a favourite of mine ANGEL. We all need an Angel at times. It was great fun to make and is now safely in Ann's hands.

for a Friend's birthday

I had a great time today meeting up with 8 of my crafty friends for one of their birthdays. We started the fun in a craft shop - lots of lovely stash to buy - and then went out for a meal together. As you probably realise from the book it was Andrea's birthday.

a name book I made for her using the FunkyHands cd

a ribbon box, from Crafty Ribbons , that I altered and embellished.


and finally my all-time favourite stamp on acrylic and glittered and embellished.

An Altered Book

I've had a little board book sitting on my desk for weeks, just waiting to be 'altered' so I thought I'd do it in the theme of the moment.

A Fairy Princess Castle for my Princess

I started this project with a "Beyond the Page" blank board book. I painted the boards using Rose Pink and Soft Green paints and accented them with White Gold paint. All the paints were by Craig & Rose and available in small jars from B & Q. I hadn't used this brand before and found it to be the nicest I'd tried so will be buying more, especially the metallic range.

The front cover was embellished with painted greenery and flowers and tiny vellum butterflies. When the book was completed I added lots of fibres to the book rings and 3 tags detailing what the book is about. I think I've gone a bit over the top with the fibres and am seriously thinking of removing some.
Inside the front cover I added some glittery butterflies and a Princess tag. Board two again had painted flowers and vellum butterflies and I added tiny pearls to the scalloped edge. I also drew in with glue and glamourdust the detailing to show through the door and windows of the front board.


Inside that board I added Mya's name from chipboard and again liberally dusted with glamourdust, which looks just like fairy dust. I then iserted 3 pages on both sides of which I placed photos of Mya at her uncle's wedding.

On the third board I made a tile design on the top of each turret using glue and glamour dust. Again added pearls along the scalloped edge and cut out from some DCWV paper "Once Upon a Time".

Once Upon a Time ribbons and a tag and butterfly were used on the back of the third board and three more pages were added with more photos from the wedding.

On the front of the back board I painted the roof of each turret in gold and scratched out tile details. I then cut the sprays of glittered flowers from some card I had and dusted the page with yet more glamour dust.

I hope my little grandaughter will treasure this momento of the day she was flower girl at her Uncle Perry's wedding. This was a real fun project.

Pressies - Part 3

This one is for the new in laws.

Pressies Part2

Here's the second pressie - it's for my new daughter-in-law and features very large tags. I've put quotes about marriage on the back of each tag.

Pressies - part1

I have the last Cosmic Cricket TSV and decidedto use some of it to make pressies for Chanukah. They were really easy to make, just a matter of covering chipboard and embellishing. I used photos from our younger son's wedding for the gifts and this first one is for my sister-in-law and features her four grandchildren.

For my friend Ann

it was her birthday this week and her daughter's wedding last month. So I altered a board book into a little wedding album for her. I couldn't get hold of any photos to put in it but she can have the fun of doing that.


















some of the pages inside the book, ready for her favourite photos.

this was fun to do and best of all - Ann loved it.

DREAM Book

I bought the boards for this book months ago, put them away, safely, in a drawer and promptly forgot all about them. Panic struck when I was looking for something else earlier this week and found them. But a few nights of burning the midnight oil and the book is complete ready for Perry and Sheryl's wedding. I have really enjoyed making this book and there is a lot of love in it, I hope they like it as much as I do.