Vintage Envelope

Back of the envelope with the flap down.

Front of the envelope.

Front with the flap unfolded.

Back with the flap unfolded.

Close up of the flap.

Another piece made entirely from scraps.

Faux Ticket Strip

A faux ticket strip made from a strip of cardboard and text book paper.

Close up of the last two tickets.

Close up of the next two tickets.

Close up of the first two tickets.

A quick and easy make whilst 'virtually' being in a training session.

Another Tag Pocket

This time I didn't use any scraps, I used one of my new paper pads.

That's why they are in 'panels' as opposed to lots of different pieces joined together.

View of the back when fully opened.

Fully opened - view of the front with the tags out the pockets.

I made the tags from the off cuts of the papers so I still managed to use up some scraps.

12 x 12 Paper Pad

Loved the 6 x 6 so much, got the 12 x 12 as well.

The 6 x 6 against the 12 x 12.

Some of the inside pages for comparison.

Can't wait to use them both.

Tag Pockets from Scraps

I've been playing with my pieces of scraps again today.  To try and use some of them up I made a pocket holder and some tags.

This is the back when closed.

Opened out fully - view of the back.

Fully opened - view of the inside with the tags in place.

Fully opened - view of the inside with the tags taken out.

And finally with the front flap folded up.

I'm really enjoying using up my scraps.

Purchases from the Range

We had to have a 'necessary' visit to the Range today as the dining room handle door mechanism jammed and the door was stuck shut, so we had to go and get a new part to fix it.

I went for a wonder around the craft section and these just 'fell' into our basket. Well if we were going out, I had to make it worthwhile been has we had to queue to get in.

Vintage Style Tags

A couple more vintage style tags using up my scraps.

6 x 6 Paper Pads

I came across these two pads of paper from watching some youtube videos, and decided I needed to buy them.

They actually do co-ordinate really well together.

The Eastern Opulence pad, on the left has 50 one sided pages and they all have foil on them, they are lush. So lush in fact that I have ordered the 12 x 12 pad now too.

The Arts and Crafts pad on the right is on a linen type of paper. It looks like canvas.  Again it's gorgeous and there are 25 different patterns, each single sided, but I can't find it in 12 x 12.

The colours on the EO pad are really bright and vivid and the tones in the A&C pad are more muted.  They really do compliment each other.

Bright Set of Tags

Been playing with some brighter paints from Dina & Dyan to create these backgrounds.

Painted the chipboard pieces with black gesso.

Covered them with a layer of gloss varnish to brighten them up.

And finally I used dimensional paint to create the dots on the chipboard pieces.

Abyssimo Style Abstract

Modelling paste anchored down with cotton scrim.

Once dry, edges cut off and tidied up.

Colour pallet chosen.

Paint applied. 

I wanted mine to be bright, bold and vivid.

There is a FREE tutorial by Abyssimo here which I followed to create the above.

Large Boho Style Tags

Painted tags with various colours of decoart metallic paints.

Added black modelling paste through a stencil.

Close ups of the metallics.

Foiled dots added, treasure gold to tone down the black paste and a fabric trim.

Tasselled ribbon and fabric trim added.  I didn't want to cover up too much of the metallics.

Boho Style Tassels

Love how these turned out.