Make My Day~Keep in Touch~

Well last time I was here I made a little box and I decided to buy some index cards to put in it only I bought the size that was slightly bigger then the box and I actually had the smaller ones to start with. I decided to keep these index cards and decorate them for you to have.

I've seen a lot of rubber stamp crafty things lately where people have just randomly stamped on a sheet etc... and I thought it looked great so I of course wanted to try it! Well I've decided I'm not good at it at all as I started by stamping everywhere to stop myself being fussy with it but in the end I ended up fussy trying to fill in spaces only to make a complete mess in the process. So despite my mishaps they do still look good but just don't expect them to be perfect.

I was going to use my rings to attach the whole lot together but then decided not to as you may have a better way of storing them yourself. I have included 2 pieces of white card in between all the 27! sheets (apparantly Mc needs a card of its own!).

 

I have rounded the edges of course as I think it adds a little something.

 

As always if you would like these

Don't forget to shout

'Make My Day'

in the comment section!

 

Good Luck!

This is on its way to
Almonda

Make My Day~Telephone Box~

This weekend I went to the supermarket and decided to check out the craft section in the store next to it... it is great having this store on my door step but also quite dangerous as I can't help but pop in to look and on occasions buy something. I saw this Wellington Bear Decoupage set and decided I loved the theme of it so bought it (I have been lusting after this bear and Boofle for some time but have never bought anything until now).

 

I was originally going to make greeting cards out of all the images which I actually started doing but then suddenly remembered that I had really wanted to alter a box so I pulled this box out....

and got to work creating this....

Its lovely and simple but it looks great don't you think? I thought this would look amazing as an address/phone box with indexed cards but of course you may have other ideas when seeing it.

 

By the way I have been having problems with items I post coming back to me and other such problems so I would appreciate people stopping by to let me know that they have received what I have sent (as most don't). Thanks in advance.

 

So if you would like this box

why not shout

make my day

in the comment section

Good Luck!

This is on its way...
Andra

Make My Day ~Heart Attack~

It is so tempting to continue posting supplies on here as work is just super exhausting plus I've started making my Christmas postcards which I've only got a couple more to make. Still I'm determined to try and post as much of my handmade items on here as I'm making quite a dent in my stash as I had hoped to do which will mean one day that I can buy even more (even though there are times I can't help but thankfully its not paper).

Anyway on my strawberries and buttercups blog I did a blog post about a recent envelope/postcard exchange and someone asked how I made my origami hearts. I later did a post on all the different videos I've used on You Tube which made me think I could make a handful and offer them to you... well the handful turned in to 20 and I could honestly as always have carried on as its so therapeutic making these and they are so easy too.

You can use these hearts in so many different ways...
to decorate envelopes
letters,
turn them into bookmarks,
greeting cards
postcards....
I'm sure you'll think of something great to do with them...

 

If you would like these

Why not shout

Make My Day

in the comment section

Good Luck!

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Selene

Make My Day~Secret Letter 1~Flowers, Lace and Parties~

Here is another letter and this one it completely decorated by me and I had so much fun doing it. I don't know why but I've been thinking buntings and doyles lately and since Spring is in the air once again I thought this was the prefect theme to use.

Doesn't spring put a wonderful spring in your steps, like someone playing music in the background for you to dance to, the flowers are growing, the buntings coming out for weddings and parties but of course there are those little grey days too....  Well its how I feel anyway!

I have decorated an envelope as you can see but I won't be using it to post your letter as it won't fit! I can only fold the sheet in half but for some reason I never thought that would be a problem so I'm including that in with the letter and if I feel up to it I will make a new one otherwise you will except the oh so attractive brown envelope. Ah well its better then no envelope right?

If you would like to have this letter

Please comment with

'Make My Day'

Remember if you receive this letter you can write a letter to the owner of it

or if you feel they aren't quite what you wanted then

why not send them a little postcard in exchange for it.

Hopefully though you'll have gained a new friend.

This is on its way!

Make My Day~Secret Letter 1~ Swirls and Curls~

You're probably tired of seeing that same post about me asking you to e-mail your letters to me to get creative with and offer on here but finally after many hiccups with my laptop I was able to print them off and have some fun.

This one the owner of this letter created the paper themselves with the option of a blank one incase I wanted it to be entirely my work but nope I thought as this is your letter I should offer it as it is but with a little touch up from me, hopefully you don't feel I spoilt it. With the letters I received I would have loved to have been able to decorate the paper first and then printed on it but as I don't have microsoft word I had to print it first and then decorate as I couldn't arrange the way I wanted the words etc... to be. I also don't have the fonts that you used and I wanted to keep that as it reflects your personality.

You don't even need to guess that the distress ink touches are what I added, also I stamped and coloured the last image. The purple flower I'd actually coloured with the combination of purple and white but when it came to the last one I blindly coloured the wrong petal which resulted in me having to colour the whole thing. I used pro markers which are streak free but I personally find they bleed too much so I feel quite disappointed about that as I can't colour as freely as I'd hoped to. I also decorated the envelope which you can see the front and back of in the first two photos.

If you would like to have this letter

Please comment  with

'Make My Day'

Remember if you receive this letter you can write a letter to the owner of it

or if you feel they aren't quite what you wanted then

why not send them a little postcard in exchange for it.

Hopefully though you'll have gained a new friend.

A name has been choosen but thats a surprise too!

~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!

This is on its way to
Shannah

Make My Day... Turn Back The Hands Of Time or....

...use the key to unlock the door to the furture ATC...

I had something part made last week and tried to complete it today but my heart wasn't in it so I gave up and decided to do this ATC project that I'd seen years ago and wanted to make but no one ever created a swap on it in the yahoo groups I was in. So today was my day to create this 4 piece ATC to create one big image. I love how it turned out but I'm going to one day make another where each ATC is something on its own too. This was my first time doing it so I just wanted to experiment freely plus I have an awful cold where I can't concentrate so it wouldn't have been much fun.

I used yellow, orange and green distress ink

Paper Artsy stamps

and

Cherry Pie Stamps

which I stamped in black.

I did one sheet in brown but it was just too dark for my liking

and liked the softness of this one.

I coloured some of the stamped images in with pro markers

and went around 2 images in gold and silver gel pens.

By the way the colour of these are a little more brighter then what it looks like in my photos.

Oh! I almost forgot to tell you to write
 make my day in your diary
starting from next weekend for a whole week
to celebrate the 1st birthday of my blog
I'll be having a giveaway everyday!

I'll have holidays at that time
which is why I haven't organised it sooner
as I should hopefully get my mind organised
in getting things prepared
but also I'm hoping for a couple of snow days off to craft!
Wishful thinking I know
 but who knows as we have a visit from Mr Snow today
and he maybe around for a while.

I will be giving away handmade items, craft and stationery supplies
so keep your eyes wide open.

For now though lets focus on these ATCs
If you would like them
Why not shout
Make My Day
in the comments section.

Good Luck!

This is on its way to
Olivia

Make My Day ~Swing is my Thing~

I've always said that you can recommend themes and things for me to try and make but sometimes it means waiting a little while for me to get my thoughts together or to be able to actually find something to create the theme which is what happened in this situation when...

suggested I do a swing theme. I had so many ideas but I just couldn't get the supplies together but eventually everything fell into place and I created this...

After my 2 hoops projects I had this one left over looking for a home...
I then came across an ebay listing for musical paper finally and bought some...
also after many months of looking for a swing image I came across this one...
I printed it out,
it was too small
too blurred
what to do?
In the end I cut around the image,
drew around it on pearlised paper
stapled 3 different colours together in varies places
and cut around it again
and this is what I did with it!
I then added buttons,
wire and stars...
the wires horrible!
 I really must keep an eye out for some that slight thicker
as my other gold one was much easier to work with.
I hope you like what the end result is.

If you do
why not shout
make my day
in the comment section!

This is on its way....

Make My Day~Recipe for Love~

Apparently Love involves

Lacey Silk Underwear

Good Music

and Sparkle

so what better things to craft with!

I bought a new gadget yesterday so had to use it

(I'll be crafting about said gadget on my other blog tomorrow)

I cut two hearts out and stitched them on top of each other

which is an idea I've seen but never tried and I think it looks good.

What do you think? 

I had to do something different with the ribbon so came up with

the rippling idea but I don't know if I like it...

If you would like this card

why don't you shout

Make My Day

in the comment section!

This is on its way to Lou La La

Make My Day....Born To Be British!

I have a giveaway currently going on at my burst of bubbles blog offering these salt and pepper shakers which I actually really like but won't be keeping as the shop I bought them from have so many fun different ones that I want to buy them all and I really can't afford to start another collection can I?

Whilst wrapping those I was thinking about this idea that I came across and really wanted to try but also thinking about making the children at work some Christmas cards out of another idea I saw but don't have a link for. It was using Japanese paper to make baubles and stuck on to white card... it looked so effective.... That resulted in me creating these...

I ended up making a set of 3 using paper, rubber stamp and thread.

Isn't it annoying that after you've created something all these ideas come flooding to you. With this one instead of the black outline I wish I'd done a wiggly one to match a telephone wire. We have a cordless one now but I've always loved the idea of twirling my finger in the coils.. I'm glad I thought to use the rubber stamp numbers to match the dial.

I remade this one and like it so much better.

This one was actually the first one I made, with this one I wish I'd made the border like a postage stamp but I'd already completed this one and had nearly finished the telephone box when I thought of the idea.

As for the paper if I'd plan this through it would have been so much nicer to have printed off some union jacks instead but I guess it had to be red to match all the redness of all things British. Even though I've had a good whinge I absolutely love how they have all turned out and for a first attempt. I will definately be making many more of these... hopefully very soon!

If you would like these

Shout

Make My Day

in the comments section!

(Frames will be included)

You can also take part in the salt and pepper giveaway too.

This is on its way to
Papered Thoughts

Make My Day....Air Mail Postcard...

Firstly Welcome to all the new followers and I want to apologise for there being nothing to claim when you came by from swap- bot but  finally here I am with another opportunity to have your day made or someone elses... This week the sun has been shinning, the birds have been singing and I can't help but think of birds of all kinds so I decided that this was such a fantastic opportunity to get my creative juices flowing.

One of the bird images that I love is bird sitting on electricity cables, these are usually black silhouettes of birds but as black is a colour I don't have much of in my paper collection I decided to be bold and colourful as usual

I started by selecting my background paper, I then attempted to draw the birds myself but I just couldn't get the size of them right because they were either too small or two big. Thankfully my brain was working for once and I thought to use my rubberstamps of birds. I drew around the edge of the birds I wanted to use and stamped those on to paper and cut them out. I used black felt tip for the lines one this one...

and brown on this one... I choose the colour of the birds bassed on the colours I could see on the background paper. It needed a little something more so I used some postage stamp stickers around the edges. I finished it off with the postmark....

I did try decorating the backs of the postcards but it didn't look nice so I backed both the postcards on to coloured card which you can see a thin border around the edges of.

I had intended on making 4 of these but my sister turned up to go shopping so I only managed to make these 2 and decided I really need to post something as things have been too quiet here but life has been hectic with so much going on.

If you would like these postcards for yourself or a friend/family member

remember to shout

make my day

in the comment section so that I can tell the difference between who would like it

and who is leaving a comment

Here are some other things that I have made using these birds...

One last thing could you maybe help me with one of my next items for make my day in telling me some way of saying Sorry

This postcard is on its way to
Jo-anne

Make My Day...Wishing Spring was in the Air...

I think I have a craft supply eating monster in my room... no not me! I'm serious, every time I put something down and look for it I can't find it and I've got about 2 strands of hair left on my head... of course I woke up this morning to find those so called missing items so I guess the monster coughed them up. Now I need it to cough up my nieces cooking set that I bought her but nope not for the pair of us to cook with but so I can use her rolling pin on my fimo that I had hoped to craft with for today... grr... please turn up soon where ever you are.

I want to say thank you to all of you so far who have claimed my items as you've got my craft juices flowing again which is a good thing but also a bad thing in that I now keep seeing craft things that I supposedly need. In many cases I haven't bought anything (yeah!) but in some I have (oops!).... one of the things I did buy yesterday was some decoupage craft sheets. I've always loved decoupage but found them such a pain to cut out so I could seriously kiss the guy/girl who invented the pre cut stuff... it makes life much more simple. The problem with the other not precut sheets was that they were the most ridiculous designs with little strands of hair to cut around or the the streams of a flower were just straight lines... I'll stop waffling and show you what you can shout make my day for....

This sheet gives you the chance to make 2 cards so I made the other one too to show you what you can do with exactly the same equipement but in a different style. This one I did make first but decided to give you the chance to receive the one above. I'll send this one to a friend whose birthday I forgot... terrible I know!

This is probably the typical style someone else would have done this but they would have maybe have added the greeting card underneath the picture.

This is now on its way to a child on