Just Believe

I made this little set for a work colleague whose birthday I missed - in truth I didn't know it was her birthday so this had to be made in a hurry to give her the following day! For the card I used two stamps from Just Believe inked with Certainly Celery and the smaller stamp stamped off to give a shadowy effect. Three flowers from the Boho Blossoms punch in Daffodil Delight and a tiny Certainly Celery butterfly, from Beautiful Wings Embosslits die, were added along with a sentiment from Happiest Birthday Wishes and then matted onto a piece of Certainly Celery cardstock. A length of So Saffron Taffeta ribbon was tied around and knotted before layering onto a card blank. I added a few Basic Pearls to finish the card. The Mini Milk Carton was made using the die and the same stamps and ribbon used for the card, with the addition of some stamps from Tiny Tags punched with the Jewelry Tag punch. I made the card below from a reject but can't for the life of me remember why I rejected it!!

Same idea but this time it was matted onto Certainly Celery DSP, with Old Olive Narrow Taffeta ribbon and just a couple of white butterflies.

More Matching Sets!

Some more matching sets I have made for some friends at work. We only buy each other small gifts but I think even the smallest gift can be made to look lovely by it's packaging. Here I have used a selection of the Mocha Morning Speciality DSP along with Basic Black, Basic Gray, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla and Crumb Cake cardstock and ribbon. The hexagonal box is made with the Mini Milk Carton die and I used the square punches for the decorative side panels - it holds a pot of 'Body Souffle' (sounds good enough to eat doesn't it?). The small box is yet more of the single chocolate boxes and the side DSP panels are punched with the smaller of the square punches and the top with the Scallop Square punch. I made a very simple matching card to complete the set, with the sentiment from Petite Pairs either silver or gold embossed. All finished off with either Basic Pearls or Basic Rhinestones.

I've had a very busy day crafting trying to finish all the things I needed to do for the last day of term tomorrow. Every year I say I will start these things in plenty of time - why don't I ever do it???

I'm really hoping we don't wake up to the snow that's forecast for tomorrow - so fingers crossed :0)