Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Other stuff

This week it is my daughter-in-law's birthday. They came for dinner last night and we gave her this card to celebrate.

The card is made from brown card. The top layer was stamped with a couple of darkroom Door stamps using sepia ink. Used distress inks in pinks to colour the card then edged with vintage Photo. The underneath layer is pink stamped with a word stamp from the same set in sepia, as is the sentiment, but this was stamped with a Gina K Best Wishes sentiment.

The roses are made from cream paper and spritzed with glimmer mist.

Finished off with the cream ribbon and a bow.


This frame was made for Mum. I had a wooden frame from IKEA that I painted black then did a crackled effect using PVA glue and a creamy coloured paint.

The flowers were made from pale pink paper then spritzed with a pale pink glimmer mist. The leaves were cut with a Cheery Lynn die from pale green paper, then spritzed with green, which also made the curl a little.

The frame was just the right size for the photo of the great grandchildren in Australia!


I saw this idea for a tealight candle holder in a magazine recently and thought I would try it out. I had some memory glass that I stamped with embossing ink using a crackle stamp from Tanda Stamps, then embossed with gold and heat set.

I used copper tape to edge the top of the glass sides then used the tape to fix the sides together in a square. I glued the sides to the bottom, then covered with the copper tape.

It looks very effective with a tealight candle in it! I have entered this in Crafty Hazelnut's C hristcmas Challenge. - Whatever lights your candle!

5 comments:

Zoechaos said...

Hi Janet

All settled now and playing catch up. See you have a fab new toy and have been putting it to good effect. Love your calender tags they are a great idea. Tea light holder is brilliant, great for those warm evenings sitting outside and needing to discourage buzzies XOXO Zoe

Hetty said...

Thank you, Janet, for your lovely compiment on my blog: http://crafchaos.blogspot.com

Joy said...

Hi Janet, what lovely makes, great idea using memory glass for your tea light holder xx

Hazel said...

Lovely crafting - love the tealight candle holder - very stylish and creative - - thanks for joining in my CHNC challenge 46 (please put a link in your post) - hope to see you again soon. x

Hazel said...

Thanks for linking x