Dutch Flowers Notebook and Card - Spellbloggers

Well, hello there! - how are you?

Welcome to another Spellblogging Saturday!

Here's what I've been making this week - I broke open one of my newest Spellbinders die sets - well, eventually you do have to stop just looking, and open up the package, don't you? haha

This one is the sweetest little set of rather funky flowers and a little butterfly - two of my favourite kinds of embellishments, so what's not to love?

I don't think my photos do the die cuts justice really, as the embossing on the flowers and the butterfly wings is really pretty.

Anyhoos, I mentioned to a friend that some really dull, really cheap little notebooks are very easy and quick to pretty up for a tiny cute gift, or maybe to make and sell at table-top sales, school bazaars etc and I thought the best way would be to find the ones I have stashed away and actually do a sample.

Here's how my notebook started out.  It's about 5x19cm and I think they cost about 10p each

Having cut a strip of Kraft card the right size to wrap around the notebook, I used strong glue to stick it in place. First adhering the back of the book in place, then using a bone folder to make the creases on the spine before gluing that and the front cover of the book into the card wrap.  

I matted a piece of white corrugated card onto black card and then onto the notebook

The die set I've used to decorate the book is this one:

Dutch Flowers Die D-Lites Etched Dies (Spellbinders)

 To finish I added some ribbon to keep the book closed, but tbh that was just a bit of extra, necessary frippery, it didn't need it.  But I do like a bit of ribbon.

Then I thought I'd make a matching card, just because I could.

I just used a piece of old wet-wipe to rub ink over a piece of white card, matted onto black then Kraft and added this panel to a plain white card blank

Using the same coloured card as before I cut some more flowers and another butterfly to decorate it.  This time I didn't stick everything down as firmly as I wanted the wings and the leaves to stand out a bit - I love sticky out, dimensional bits on cards, but you wouldn't want that on a notebook as they'd get ripped off in no time!

I added some little black gems to the flowers (which don't really show up in the photos 😠), some ribbon and a triple bow.

That's it, a cute little notebook and a card,  all done!  I hope you like them

 

Thanks for visiting, if you click on This Link  you'll find yourself at the Spellbinders store and you can get your hands on this cute little die set too!

Happy Crafting

 

Treemendous Funky Fun

Today it's my turn to load up my idea for Amanda's challenge over on the Get Funky blog.
Amanda thinks that

Christmas is ALL About the Kids

so that's what her challenge is about - just making things especially with children in mind. 
 I think she's wrong though hehe, I think Christmas is about ME mwahahaha hehehe.  I hope the Big Man has read my letter - as top of the list is an iPad Mini and I'm not sure they are going to be very easy to source in time to be under our tree on Christmas morning :O 

Anyway, back to the business of the day.  I hummed and hahhed for a long while thinking about something I could do for this one - and then found myself back in Primary Teacher mode and came up with something the kids could help with, and made this:

 I used one of the Spellbinders Scalloped Circles die sets and my Cuttlebug  to make mine, but any circles would be fine - and so would cutting out circles with scissors - and it doesn't matter if they are a bit wonky because that just adds to the charm.  If you want to be really boring about it - think not only cutting skills, but all the geometry,using a compass to draw the circles - or finding lots of different sized circular objects to draw around and then the sorting into size order ready to assemble...and how do you make the cone at the top - or a star shape.  And how can I make this piece of wire into a spiral?

Funky Hand papers are the perfect material to use for a project like this - you can print off extras if you need them and just use the designs you want. 

I used one of the fabulous Christmas downloads for this one - it's the  "Christmas Tree" collection and you can find it HERE. 

You can find out how I made this over on the Get Funky blog today

 

Click on Funky Hand to visit the shop and see all the other wonderful collections Anice has produced this year.

I'm planning a blue, white and silver themed tree this year - though I might change the silver for copper.... Just thinking that a few of these made from  the Winter Wonderland collection might look fab sitting on the hearth to match up with the colours on the tree ;)

That's my crafty offering for today, I hope you like it
Don't forget to visit Get Funky to see what other members of the DT have been sharing so far - and it's only the 1st November, so plenty more ideas to come - and it would be great if you joined in too :)

Thanks for looking


Join in with "a Card a Day Blogging" by leaving a message here on my blog, or by linking up with our Facebook group