Birthday Flipbook

The first week of October is one of my friend's birthday.. Last year I sent her my first attempt of a pocket letter, which I shouldn't confess wasn't great..

This year I wanted to send her a flipbook.

 Which is all the craze at the moment in the world of crafting, snail mail.. I should confess I have been practising..

My friend loves the colour of turquoise / blue

 and dinos. 

The first thing I made was her birthday card...

I love how this turned out, so flaming cute!

Then I made a dinosaur bookmark and the flipbook.

This is how it turn out.

The front page had a pocket for the birthday card I sent and a tag flap housing the Dino paper clip..

                           

Inside on the first page I was another pocket, with paper I used to make the Flipbook and some Halloween embellishments I made inspired by Yenny @storytaleshop on Instagram..

The little envelopes on the pockets had some washi tape samples

Above is some of the embellishments I made , these are the ones I sent.

Middle page I sent some different colour beads. The next page I put some happy Dino stickers on and attached a tag flap with what I'm up to on!

Below are the goodies I sent her

Last year I sent her some dino stamped pictures and kept some for myself. But I never used them so I popped them into the Flipbook too. With some flowers I diecutted myself

Above is some of the other goodies I sent, one side had gems and the other side I sent some brown and gold Dino stickers.. I got those years ago at the Dorchester Poundland..

You can get a better look on my YouTube channel.

Please let me know what you think?

Little Flowers

Back in May while knitting the poppies.  I wondered what they may look like in different colour's!

So the next day I decided to have a day off from poppy making,  to experiment with 

different colours - also bright ones too!

Here are some of the colours!

I have been thinking about ways to use them, apart from the brooch like way! I firstly thought of putting one on a Alice band and another one or three on a bag. 
Maybe even a charm or Keyring! 


I have not yet had chance to experiment on my ideas.   Due to work and family stuff!
So some think for me work on in the next few weeks! 

Aunt's Birthday Card

At the end of February I started to plan and work out my Aunty's Birthday card.  I wanted to do a art deco style card, but at the time I could not find what I was looking for.  Until I went to Readicut, I found what I was looking for!  I made my order every think was going to plan til I had an email to say sorry we are having trouble with your order.  Later I found out they had trouble with getting stock, I ended up cancelling my order.  So back to square one I was - until I bought my fave magazine Lets Make cards . After reading the magazine cover to cover and writing down some webby sites to check out.

Working my down the list of webby site I made I came across one, that saved the day for me.  I joined and made an order up, about two days later the parcel came.... I was and still are thrilled to bits with the items I bought...  After making a cuppa tea I sat down and set to work on my Aunty's Birthday card..

I should say at this point that I could not find any art deco stuff.  I just hope she loves it still!

Anyway I got out my pastel cards plus envelopes and picked out pink. Has this is my aunts fave colour, then I pushed out the layers of the topper and the pink and black pieces to the boarded.  I then got out my double sided sticky pads, to help layer up the piece's of the topper...  Once I had finished that I then cut the pink strip along the bottom to size.  Then I stuck the topper on and the pink strip with the black one on top.  I knew I had some paper flowers so I got out a pink plus purple one and stuck them on with a pink gem stone that my aunty had bought me a while back. The last item I popped on the card was 'Happy Birthday' Not sure if you can see it very well as it is on the black strip!

Please find below picture!

I have to say I love this card, just got to work on my unlce's birthday card now! I will keep you all posted...

P.s: Please let me know what you think?

Mother's Day Card

After making sure I got mum her Mothers Day Gift, which you can read about on My Little Garden Heaven.  I knew I had enough time to plan and design my Mothers Day Card.  But bad luck hit me, I caught that flu/cold virus thing that is about at the moment.  So all I did was sleep which was just great as it was my week off work.  Once I got over the worst of the flu/cold, I thought if I did not start now I wont be making mum a card.  So I wrote down my ideas and drawn a template of how I wanted the card to look.  I knew I wanted to put the word 'Mum' in the top corner, then a flower somewhere in the middle and a doggie on the bottom.

Here is my template below.

Once I did my template I made sure I had the papers and materials.  After making sure I had every think I needed to make the card.  It was time to have fun and get creative, this is always the best bit. :-)

I got a piece of my white card stock out and cut a piece in half and then folded that piece in half, to make a small card.  Then I cut a triangle piece off the top of the opening side, then I put it to one side.  I then made the squares and the word 'MUM', I even cut the piece of backing paper out ready. I used my peel off marker pens (which I got for Christmas) to colour the word 'MUM'.  Then it was time to stick the backing paper onto the card and the finished squares onto the card. 

I had a template for a dog standing, so I modified him to be sitting down and covered him with pink paper then stuck him onto the card.  The only thing left to put on was the flower.  I went thorough all the colours I had starting with blue then trying the pinks and yellows, I went back to the blue one I started with.  So I stuck the blue flower on and popped a gem in the middle of it.

Pictures below!

If you have read my 'Mothers Day gift' posted, you would know how I got told I shouldn't have got her any think.  The same again I was told I shouldn't of got her a card.

I have to say mum loves her card! She is still making lovely comments about the card.

Birthday Card

 At the beginning of August I need to get/make my mum a birthday card.  I am a shamed to say in the past I have bought one.  But not this year! I was not going to spend of money on a card that did not have that personal touch.

Mum loved it and all my family and friends.

(note: the blanket that the card is on my mum made)

The flowers I got from my local haberdashery So'n'sews, a while back.