~Make My Day Birthday Bash 1~Storm Cloud Envelopes~

Well its now the time to have the last bite of the cake,

the last sip of the juice

the last nibble of the crumbs

and to begin tidying up...

Its been a great week celebrating with you

and I hope that you've all been able to shout for an item as I've tried to post something different.

At least you know that I'll continue to try and post something every week for you to try and get but for today I've create this....

I looked up some videos on youtube for different ways to use my distress inks, one of the ideas was to use a water brush to blend the colours together... I bought a brush and decided to try it out and it didn't work... boo! Still it means that you get these much darker stormy sky type of envelopes. There are 4 square envelopes but I can't tell if I've photographed one of them twice or if they are different but look quite similar so I haven't added it in... I'm going to have  to have another look to see what I've done. If they do look similar, I'll blend another colour into it. I will also include plain white address labels too incase you decide to post something in them.

If you would like these envelopes

Why not shout

Make My Day

in the comment section!

Good Luck!

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Shannah

~Make My Day Birthday Bash 1~ I Love To Be Within Nature~

On Monday I went to a store near my house with a craft section and came across the Tulip Essential Range which I absolutely loved... I almost bought the mini version of these premade but they were small and not worth the price but I really liked them so in the end I decided to buy this set as my Forever Friends one was the same thing and it was definately worth the money.

It was a pain messing around with all the foam but I love how they turned out and almost gave them away without doing anything to them but I had to and this is what I came up with....

I've used origami paper as these images have such an oriental feel to them, ribbon, mulberry paper, gems and buttons. I had to keep it simple as they images are quite big and if I did more to it they would have been lost.

If you would like these

why don't shout

Make My Day

in the comment section!

Good Luck!

This is on its way to

Caddi

Make My Day....Dance with me!....

I've spent another great Saturday afternoon crafting and here's what I've come up with for make my day... I hope you like it enough to try and claim it for yourself.

I started with this picture which is from the internet but I don't know which website as someone sent me it. I then choose the backing paper to go with the image...

I think she looks quite blokish... which put me off a little but her dress was so inspiring.

I did get all my lace ribbons out but it just felt like they weren't right despite her dress over flowing with it. I remembered I had a pack full of about a million doyles so used that and like it so much more.

I then got a needle and wound the wire around it to create this springy effect. The beads are some that I've had for a long time and got through a swap and they fitted in perfectly.

Finally this flower... I sat for far too long wondering what to put in this corner, I tried paper flowers, words etc... but then I decided to continue with wire and made this flower. I've never made flowers like this before so it took a lot of attempts but finally with the help of a needle I created this. I'm really pleased with it and it doesn't put me off that the petals are different sizes.

The idea of make my day is to comment that you'd like the postcard... start with make my day, that way I can tell the difference between the person claiming it or just commenting. If a lot of you comment that you'd like one of my items then I'll use a name generator. I will let whoever gets it know on a Monday evening (evening in the UK that is). Remember you can claim for someone else if you want me to send whatever to them...

Some other ways that I have used wire... these photos are of ATCs (Artistic Trading Cards)

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Make My Day....Only time will tell!

Well since many of you voted that you'd share your address with me and would take part in claiming whatever I make... I decided to get crafty today and get the ball rolling.

 The idea of make my day is to comment that you'd like the postcard... start with make my day, that way I can tell the difference between the person claiming it or just commenting. If a lot of you comment that you'd like one of my items then I'll use a name generater doda.  I will let whoever gets it know on a Monday evening (evening in the UK that is). Remember you can claim for someone else if you want me to send whatever to them...

 So this time I've started with a postcard which actually turned out to be quite a pain since I decided to use a stamp but only half the image came up but I only had that one piece of coloured card. I tried maybe 5 times more to just get the text on the background right and in the end I gave up and stuck with this one so I hope whoever receives it isn't to critical of my mess. For me though its more or less how I wanted it.

This is the front which I used white card, text stamp (which I can never tell which way up it should be), a paperartsy flower stamp and the clocks are from Cherry Pie Art Stamps. The colours are distress inks and water colour pencil crayons.

The back which isn't yet complete as I need to find a black pen from somewhere.

Here are some more images

I wish I had a stamp of a face as it would have looked great having half the face on this part of the card with the clocks.

The reason I want the face in the other photo is because of the man in this one. Doesn't he look a bit creepy.

If you have any suggestions of themes I can try creating with, just go to my sub headings under my banner, click on Make My Day and leave your suggestions in a comment there.

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