Hi  Everyone

I was looking at my previous blogs and came across one of my first blogs where I had entered a competition at the A Vintage Journey.

So I decided to check this website out again and discovered a wonderful site which I had forgotten all about. 

This months Challenge is "Box It Up" where the instructions are: 

Perhaps you will make a trunk or suitcase, 

some kind of package to hold a gift, 

or maybe make a card or journal page showing presents.

So this 'Card In A Box' is my entry for this competition. 

It is a Card in a Box - it looks like a Box but is actually a card. 

 The box is made with pink cardstock but is covered with  Stamperia Shabby Roses paper.  The box inside is made of the Stamperia Paper which has been folded in a corrugated manner and pieced together.  The inside of the box has been decorated with 49 & Market flowers and accessories I have cut from the Stamperia paper pad.  The inside of the card/box is decorated with a lace pocket with the Stamperia envelope tucked inside.  The envelope allows you to write that important little message to the one you love.

I hope you like this box and don't forget to jump over and look at all the wonderful entries for the different challenges I have entered with this beautiful project.

A Vintage Journey - Box it Up

Get Creative Challenges - Anything Goes
Mix It Up Challenge - Anything Goes
Love To Craft Challenge - Anything Goes
Love To Scrap - Anything Goes

Hatbox Card

Hi Everyone

After a busy busy week looking after our three beautiful grandchildren, going places, doing things and generally having a wonderful time I decided it was time to get into my Craft Room.

All the cards in this collection were created with a selection of  paper from Stamperia (Ceremony).

Card 1 - Hatbox Card

Card 2 - Feathers

Card 3 - Flowers

Other supplies I used are: 

• American Craft Cards and envelope pack - white  (7"x5") as the base for each of my cards. 
• Modelling paste / Ribbon / lace / baby pearls
• Roses  / Stamperia Paper (Celebration) / die cuts

If you would like to get the full instructions on how to make this card please contact me at Glenda's Shabby Creations.

Make Today Count

Hi Everyone

This layout is the layout you do when you don't want to add flowers

Once again I used 49 & Market paper (Sweet Reflections - Singing the Blues paper). 

First I ripped the flower off the page and then turned the page around so that ripped part was on the bottom. 

In line with the photo I wanted to show the earth tones on the bottom of the page - this was done with corrugated cardboard and lots of hessian.  

I gave the page some texture with the wonder stencil from Darkroom Door along with a little stamping of stitching across the back. 

Behind the photo I have used Tim Holtz paper to cut strips and die cut shapes.  To finish it all off I added the little badge and some metal shapes like the car and arrow. 

Traveling Little Boy Blue

I love making pages for my grandchildren and I use the pages I make to highlight the little rascal my Grandson is growing up to be.
This page I am entering into the July Scrap The Boys Challenge
Go and check out the wonderful blogspot that I found - it has some wonderful inspirational pages

I have used paper from 49 & Market and then sprayed with a pale blue and used a travel stamp to highlight the theme of the page. 

The Flowers are also 49 & Market which have been highlighted with a little blue ink. 

The accessories I have used all have that the travel theme with the compass, bicycle and little car. 

This has been a joy to make and came together very easy - I think it is mainly because of the inspiration in the photo. 

Friends Forever

Hi Everyone

With Mother's Day on my mind I thought I would put together a page representing the love of motherhood. 

Although my mother has now passed this photo reminds me of the close friendship we had, and the close friendship I now have with my daughter and I hope that this friendship will continue forward with her child. 

For this page I used 49 & Market paper Sweet Reflections pack and I used the Reminiscene paper. which I ripped down one side and turned it around to add more flowers down the side.  

Of course no layout wouldn't be complete without lots of lace and a pretty doily. 

The flowers I used are a mixture of 49 & Market flowers and Little Birdie - I wanted small ones to just complete the page off. 

Sweet Memory - Exploding Card

Hi

I decided to make an exploding card for my Mother-In-Law for Mother's Day. 

 

As you can see the card is filled with lots of flowers, butterflies and roses but to top it all off is the 3D bicycle sitting in the middle of the card. 

The top of the box has little pieces of embroidery floss sitting under fussy cut flowers.   The little flowers at the top of the 'Sweet Memory' words are all hand made. The side of the box has fussy cut flowers on both the top of the box and the bottom of the box.  

The bicycle is a die cut which I cut twice.  The actual die has a basket of flowers on the back and a string of balloons on the front.  I cut these off and decided to create two little boxes which I filled with handmade flowers.   

The exploding card has two flaps - the bottom flap is decorated with small doily which was coloured with matching ink and then with fussy cuts flowers. 

The top flaps are all decorated differently and you can see the photos of the four flaps below.  

 

Lest We Forget

Hi
This is a layout that I just had to create on Anzac Day - it is a layout remembering the men and women who went to War so that we can live safely  in this wonderful country. 


For those of you who do not understand the meaning of Anzac - it is a national day of remembrance in Australia and New Zealand that commemorates all Australians and New Zealanders "who served and died in all wars, conflicts, and peacekeeping operations" and "the contribution and suffering of all those who have served".

Once again this page was done with 49 & Market paper  (Live Life to the Fullest)

I also used a selection of other paper strips which worked well together to highlight the yellow and red sprays and inks I used. 

The Poppies (the symbol of ANZAC Day) were purchased from our local returned servicemen's stall where they sell badges and poppies to help raise funds for the  returning service men and ladies. 

The most important part of the whole page is the picture - this is of my husband's Grandfather - Wilfred Wright.  Wilfred served serviced proudly in the New Zealand Army during the First World War and went on to re-inlisting again in the Second World Ward but worked with the Army in New Zealand rather than going overseas again. 

Lest We Forget

Baby Bunny Girl

                                   

Hi Everyone

This month the More Than Words Challenge is all about Baby and Pastels.

This month I decided to add an extra little touch to my entry

I have added the Easter flavour to my layout. 

The paper I used was 49 and Market Paper - Island Paradise range and the sheet I used as Tropical Oasis.  I also used the Wander Aimlessly sheet from the Captured Adventures range. 

The background is done with the reverse side of the Captured Adventures paper - Wander Aimlessly. 

The Island Paradise paper, Tropical Oasis is used to fussy cut the flowers to use as decoration to the page. 

As you can see from the picture below I have inked the background and used a stencil to give the paper some depth. 

Both the stencil and the flowers I used are from Little Birdie in conjunction with 49 & Market Laser Cuts and the fussy cutting from the other paper. 

Red Lips

Red Lips

When creating a page sometimes the photo just talks to you - this is what happened in this case,

I just loved the photo but realised that it needed something to make it pop. So in Photoshop I changed the lovely ladies lips to RED which certainly did the trick. 

Then I had to work out how to complement the picture with the background and flowers. 

First, using modelling paste I stencilled on writing - in line with the era of the photo.  The hardest part, and it did take some thinking about, it was the stamping around the background.  What stamps would best highlight the photo.  Lucky for me my good friend Dina was on hand with her trusty bible wrap which I used in both black and red to stamp around the back. 

The rest of the background is made up of lace, feathers, pearls, tulle and some die-cuts.  

Although the layout took me almost two days to put together I think the outcome was talks for itself, a beautiful, stylish and elegant backdrop for a beautiful photo. 

Red Bunny Ears

Don't you just love Easter

Not only do you get to eat gilt free chocolate (if the egg is broken the calories have escaped) but I also get the opportunity to put together inspiring layouts like this one. 

I have used Little Birdie flowers some of which the I left the cream but the rest I coloured with Red Spray.

The use of the cream ribbon and thin pearl threads just bring it all together.

I used a brick stencil and used Cadence modelling paste to give the background some texture and depth. 

I do hope you like my little Red Bunny Ears  

Happy Easter Everyone 

Teaching in Toowoomba

I had a busy couple of days getting all the kits ready for the class I took at Toowoomba last Saturday with The Vintage Chicks Club.  The photos show first the filling all the kits of the little pieces of die cuts, straws, ribbon and feathers.  This photo shows all the kits ready to be packed and taken to Toowoomba for the class. 









This photo shows each kit presented for the participants of the class - don't forget Easter is just around the corner so a little surprise of Easter eggs and a Chicken helps make the day go sweeter.



We had a wonderful day in Toowoomba last Saturday when I taught a class to a wonderful bunch of ladies. It was all about shabby chic where we made and decorated a box and then decorated a card to go in the box.









This is the beautiful box where the lovely ladies sew taught first how to make the box with a matching lid. How to decorate the sides and the top. We learnt how to make the shabby flowers from scratch  the ladies learnt to distress and ink and all the little secrets to putting the box together.













After the box was completed we moved to decorating the card with the beautiful raised bird cage, a little piece of ribbon and not to forget the muslin. 

These are some of the beautiful ladies working their way through the project. 

I just wish to thank everyone who attended and I look forward to working for you again in the future. 

Pretty In Yellow

This page is made from  49 & Market paper and flowers with a little bit of stencilling and stamping across the background. 

The side was highlighted with the pretty lace along the side of the picture and  I also tucked a little piece in behind the beautiful picture. 

The flowers I used were also from 49 & Market along with the wording and the picture of the bird. 

Always Be Happy

 Once again I am entering the 

 More Than Words February Challenge

I really love entering this competition as it make me think of what the photo means to me and how I can create a layout that will enhance the photo and make it almost pop of the page. 

I hope you like this layout of a special little girl who just loves swinging on the swing in the park. 

She reminds us always to "Always Be Happy"

I have used both 49 & Market papers and flowers with a few other flowers that I have had in my stash for a number of years.
Before I started layering the photo, muslim and flowers I first used some Candence paste coloured Sage to put some texture on the background of the page.

I then used thick string to attach the photo to the Layered Embellishments from 49 & Market of the tree branches.  I then used more embellishments in the way of the butterflies and some of the little flowers.

I hope you like my layout - I really love working with all the beautiful flowers, papers and embellishments from 49 & Market.