So's arts and crafts

Hello all, today I revisited an older project...the hand drawn cupcake blueprint image inspired by one of Tim Holtz's blueprint stamps. It is part of a gift I made for a "sweets crafter" :) friend of mine. Here it is: Inside I made a large vertical pocket for the recipes to be tucked in. I used aquarelle pencils to color the cupcake to strengthen the idea of a quick sketch. Size: A5

Hello all, For today's post I prepared my latest wooden box project. Actually it is a special order for a friend. She asked for a box that would have on the lid the biggest possible red flower...very red in fact...:) So, I started by making the center flower from handmade paper. For the petals, I used the peony template from  Martha Stewart's website . The tough part was to obtain the bright red I needed...I started with am mate red acrylic paint which became orange when diluted with water...:D. So, after the petal dried, I colored them one by one, on both sides, with a red aquarelle pencil. After this new coat of paint dried again, I still hadn't  the red I wanted, so I applied one last coat of food dye. The making of this flower took me a week in total. I used punches for the rest of the flowers, so they were a lot easier to make. To color the cream and yellow ones I used chalks. Here are some photos with details of the box:  For the s...

Hello, While searching the internet for some birthday related digi stamps, I stumbled upon Tim Holtz's blueprint stamps  My favorite is the cupcake...:) and since I was in a hurry to make the card (the pack from overseas would have arrived too late) I tried to draw the cupcake myself. Here's how the card turned out: To color the cupcake, I used aquarelle pencils, and the background is a free digital paper from Far Far Hill . Enjoy!

Hello, Let me show you one of my latest cards ... It was a special order for the first birthday of a sweet little boy. For this card I used some tissue paper (transferred on freezer paper to give it strength) as background, and one of the dozens of  Precious Moments images which can be found over the Internet as card topper. I colored the little boy in an airplane digi stamp, with Copic markers, and mounted it on the card with double sided foam sticky tape. To give the background an old card look, I used some aquarelle pencils and stamp ink on the edges. Card size: 10x15 cm

Hello, It's been some time since my last post...but this doesn't mean I haven't done anything. Stamperia  has some great wood mounted rubber stamps, which now can be bought in the hobby shops from Timisoara. Here's a  small card I made using my latest acquisition...:) So, the little girl is the stamp from Stamperia, colored with watercolor pencils. I also used some dies from Sizzix for the card blank and for the tag  I used as a background for the stamped image. With so many bright colors(maybe I've gone a bit overboard with it...:)) ) , it's impossible for Spring not to come...am I right?