Showing posts with label handmade gift bags. Show all posts
Showing posts with label handmade gift bags. Show all posts

Friday 30 September 2016

Wedding Shutter Card.


I have to say this rather elaborate card and it's gift bag took up all my free time for over  a week.
Making all the panels for this card seem to take an age,
An old school friend asked me to make this card for an up and coming family wedding, 
The brief for the card was:  one red rose, shamrock , 4 bees and  cupcakes.
(For a closer look at this photo click on the photo.)


Lots of layering, heat embossing, hot foiling, punching and die cutting in this card.

The 3D elements on this card, meant it required something deeper and more robust than a standard envelope.



So I created this wedding handbag from pearly card for the card to be delivered in. 
I confess,, it took about 3 attempts for me to get this just right.
The closure on this bag is a very strong, rare earth magnets  concealed in the liner of the bag.

Wednesday 27 July 2011

Jelly Bean Cone

Here is a little project that made me late for school one day last week.
I woke up with this idea in my head and just had to try it before I forgot it.
I rushed off to my craftroom and began drawing up my cone template. 
Having finished my template and checking it was going work, I realised I had about 2 minutes to get to work. Fortunately I only live a few minutes from where I work so I wasn't that late.
later in the day I cut  loads of cones and began Stampin them with the jelly beans using the jelly bean stamp in the Something Sweet stamp set from S.U.with  Ruby Red, Old Olive,Elegant Eggplant , Daffodil Delight and Pumpkin Pie ink pads.

I started by inking up the stamp in ruby red ink and stamping  the cone three times without
 re inking the stamp, which I think adds more tones and depth to the project.
 I repeated this process with the olive the pumpkin ink.
The yellow I only stamped once as the colour is to pale to  do 2nd generation stamping,  but the purple I stamped  three or four times without re inking and the results were pleasing each time.
Sometimes I stamped onto my work pad  before stamping my project just to get rid of the excess ink from the stamp.



 I glued two layers of tissue paper to the back with a glue stick.







When the glue had dried I applied strong double sided tape along the edge marked score line  matched up the pointed end and stuck the two edges together.
Then trimmed  the tissue paper into shape.

I then made a second white cone , slightly shorter and placed it inside to neaten up the inside.
 I then filled each one with jelly beans, tied each one with a ribbon, labelled them and gave them to the children as an end of year, happy holiday gift.
They loved them.

Saturday 20 November 2010

Gift bags

Two cute little gift bags using stampin' up's paper several circle punches and the lace edge punch, a white gel pen and a little co-ordinating bow.