Pin board - before & after

I had an old pin board/ notice board which was coming apart and didn't match my craft room, so I decided to alter it. It had very pretty material on it which I have kept for future projects

Pretty but I could see the potential! It's about 3ft x 2ft in size.

So I took it to pieces and used some hessian I have been itching to use for a while, got out my staple gun and some good old seam binder ribbon and after a flurry of activity came up with this.

But it's not meant to be bare, so I tried a few things out to make sure my little wooden pegs were strong enough...

And then I decided colour was the order of the day, so out came some of my more vibrant art work and voila - good old pin board works a treat!

The hessian background really makes the colours pop - and I couldn't leave my lil' gal out of the picture could I! It's perfect in my craft room and I get to show off some of my projects that are otherwise stuck in an art journal.

PS hope you like my art  :)  and here it is in the "Before" state!

card for Mum

Just a few updates on my projects. I made my Mum's birthday card to her taste  - I'm not particularly flowery myself, but she loves them and I enjoyed making this.

Very pretty My Minds Eye papers, Tim Holtz vellum, Prima flowers & leaves.

Also with my Silhouette Cameo, I designed and made an exploding box card for my friend who has had a beautiful baby girl - I already love her to bits!
I used Teresa Collins papers - gorgeous!

I played with my Silhouette Cameo to produce a card and box for my lovely Mum-in-Law to give to Cara for her 18th birthday - yes she's all grown up!

 I played around with the sizes and gave it 18 candles - why not.

Very dimensional!

I can't show everything I've made because somebody forgot to take photos of everything before she gave it all away ...
However, here's a card I created to go in Docrafts Creativity magazine.

for their Take a template feature.

Here's the inside.

This shows the dimension

I've made a start on Jenniebellie's Journal workshop and I had great fun doing it! I used 7Dots papers, gelatos, stencils, modelling paste, distress paints - let's say I threw loads of different mediums on there and the next step is to fold this up into a journal (if I can, it's very dimensional and I haven't finished with the butterflies yet!). I then need to upload my efforts onto her website, so I hope the next step goes to plan!

I'm loving the gelatos, they are really brilliant fun to work with.

Check out Jenniebellie's workshops on the link to the right ->

Apologies for not being around for a while, there are many reasons, (not all good), but I prefer to concentrate on the positive. 

So here's where I've been for most weekends and the summer hols

The lovely Yorkshire Dales!

I've still been creating, but not as much as I would have liked. Now I've got more time on my hands, I hope to rectify that little matter :0}