It's a Creative World

12 days of Christmas- Home made gelli plate bunting

 Hi Debbie here with painted bunting for a Christmas present.

I used a home made gelli plate, here are the instructions, (please note leave out the alcohol and replace with glycerine)

I used bubble wrap and plastic aida for the texture.

I printed the photos using Picassa collage, its a great way of getting lots of small prints for projects like this.

I decided last minute I didn't like the blue so changed the circles to pink!

I have loved being part of the 12 days of Christmas, and hope you have seen lots to inspire you.

Debbie x

12 days of Christmas- Snowflake/book table decoration.

Hi Debbie here with an inexpensive table decoration for your Christmas table. My daughter got married last month and after making all the table decorations (here) I am missing having decorated books around, so I decided to make a Christmas version.

I used lots of cut out snowflakes using a sizzix die but I am sure that punched snowflakes would look just as good.

I kept to a vintagey colour scheme using a pale blue and text paper, and added lots of fine glitter glue (I bought an own brand glue similar to the fine glitter to get in stickles).

I made the 3D snowflakes by sticking 4 folded snowflakes together and then added glitter glue.

Thank you for looking at our 12 days of Christmas

Debbie x

Wedding table decorations

Hi Debbie here with (what I think is) a fairly unique table decoration. My daugher got married last month and the theme ended up being books, we all love books and reading so the tables were named with authors.

I hope you have enjoyed seeing these table decorations, thank you for stopping by Its a Creative World.

 

Debbie x

Wooden Trug

Debbie here with a transformed trug.

I found these ugly boxes at a local shop, I sanded the surfaces and painted with two coats of white emulsion paint.

 

I made my own texture paste and using a stencil made some texture hearts to decorate the trug.

Once dry I started covering the trug with acrylic paint mixed with water to give it a washed out effect.

 

I used more acrylic paint on the edges to give a slightly darker effect.

Thanks for stopping by its a Creative World.

Debbie x

Flickering Halloween Scene

Hello, Eleanor here, with a sheet of vellum and one of black cardstock, a black, plastic, square edged, slide in file clip, and battery operated tealights (3 pack from the pound shop).

Clips look like this:

I cut some images with the cricut, glued them onto a cardstock strip, which I then glued to one end of the vellum, sliding it into the file clip. To the other end of the vellum I added another cardstock strip, rolled the vellum over, and glued it to the flat base of the file clip, with just enough width to slip in the 3 tealights, like so:

With the lights off (perched on my latest reading pile):

and with the lights on (flutter your eyelashes and you'll see how the lights flicker, not bad for £1):

I'm going to make another, a Highland winter scene, watch this space...

Cheerio for now.

x

Notice board

Hi Debbie here with a notice board made with my very good friend Linda. We met through crafting and recently spent the day together making pickles, muffins and then a notice board.

 

Linda had a lovely piece of fabric and an mdf rectangle, we covered the board with some wadding and then used a staple gun to secure it around the edges.

Once the fabric was secure Linda found some contrasting ribbon, we measured carefully to make sure the ribbons were evenly spaced out.

 

The final touch was some little tacks to secure the ribbon. This is quick and easy to do and very effective.

Thanks for stopping by, and thanks Linda for not minding me taking photos xxx

Debbie x

 

Summer Holiday Fun

My friend's Daughter has always admired my configuration box and has wanted to do one for ages, so this Summer Holiday we decided she would make one.

 

Keira gathered all the "Bits and Bobs" she thought she might like to go in it.

 

and then set about creating a plan.

 The papers and embellishments were chosen and the configuration box assembled.

 

 Some close ups of the individual boxes

 

This was made as a present for Keira's Mum and each box represents something special.

Keira is 8, Mum was delighted with her present.  Keira is thinking about her next project.

Thanks for looking.  What have your children created this summer?

Lynne x

Decorated Board

Hi Lynne here

 

It was my friends' Birthday earlier this month and rather than make her a traditional card I decided to decorate a board.

I covered it in torn up old book papers and then added a wash of white to make the text blend in to the background more.

I've just discovered the new Pebeo Studio acrylics in irridescent colours. I used Violet Blue and Green yellow with Paper Artsy Bora Bora to add contrast. I tried using three irridescent but they "shouted" at each other.  The flat chalky finish of the Fresco paint was the perfect foil to the irridescent paints.

 

 

I then washed some white paint over the top.

 

 and stamped some images onto the board.

With a few painted highlights, some grunge paste with Treasure gold rubbed over it, some coco crackle and one of my favourite quotes it was finished

Thanks for visiting us. If you would like to share your creations inspired by us then you can post on our Facebook page.

 

Lynne x

Altered thimble house

I have had this thimble display case for a couple of years and decided it was time to alter it.

After two coats of white paint the dark brown wood was still showing through so I decided to go with a light blue colour.

I thought the wooden roof was particularly awful, so used it as a template to make a replacement chipboard roof.

I filled each section with a mixture of patterned papers ( a really good way of using up your scraps) and stamping.

The edges of the shelves were made using a border punch.

I haven't filled all of the sections but may add more as time goes on. The two characters are Milly Molly Mandy from one of my favourite books as a child, and Nurse Nancy from Twinkle magazine. I traced the images and coloured onto shrink plastic before shrinking with a heat gun.

I hope I have inspired you have a go at altering your own thimble display!

Thanks for stopping by It's a Creative World

Debbie xxx

House Warming Gift

I made use of my Citrasolv and my laser printer to make this house warming present for some lovely friends. The words are from a Jewish New Home blessing. I edged the cotton with a scrap of a lovely soft tweedy fabric and it is backed with an upholstery cream cotton fabric. 

I've been fighting with my sewing machine now for some time. I've had it for 25 years and whenever I make something it inevitably takes me much longer than it should due to all the stopping and starting and fiddling with settings.

My darling husband has just bought me a new machine which will arrive next week. So there may be some more sewing projects from me in the future. 

Watch this space.

Doda xxx