Granny's Photoalbum

What a challenge and treat! The Gingersnap Creations challenge for the Chestnut Theme Challenge is: Granny's Photoalbum which gave me another opportunity to create a little book (stab binding style) - a photoalbum. I enjoyed this one SOOOOO much

 

The front and back cover is corrugated card covered with BoBunny patterend paper. I decorated the cover page with stamps (Lily of the Valley), vintage button, lace and charm. The inside page are made from black card separated with traditional photoalbum paper which I rescued from a broken album ...

 

 The album tells the story of Grandparents, Sisters and Granchildren, hope you enjoy looking at the old photos ....

All images are from art-e-zine/Vintage Resources - Adopt an Ancestor. All words are printed and various embellishments (Victorian scraps, flower charm, old book page cutout, lace) added.

I hope you can join us at Gingersnap and show us your Granny's photoalbum, Petra.

Lilly, the Fairy of Enchantment

Lilly enchanted me ...

 

  

Supplies:

image: Michelle Perkett - paper: Kanban - colouring: Copics

ribbon, liquid pearls, Stickles

Martha Stewart edge punch

 

For more enchanted inspiration pop over to Vicki's 'Land of Fantasy' challenge, hope you can join us. Petra.

Origami Book Tag

A little tag of a different kind - an origami book tag ... for Tag Tuesday

 

It started with a 6"x6" 7Gypsies paper folded in a little book. It is always such good fun to make those ones, they look so cute and are so easy to create! I stamped one word on each of the pages (stamps: Lily of the Valley). The closure is a little velcro dot, small satin ribbon and a cute book owl (stamp: sorry, don't know the manufacturer). To turn it into a tag I added satin ribbon along the inside of the book spine. The size of the whole book is 3x2.5cm. Petra.

Happy Friday!

Ali made me very proud of my little frog scene, she included it into her 5 Friday Favourites today! It really made my day. Happy Friday to everyone and enjoy your weekend, Petra.

Supplies:

paper: crate paper, stamp: Lili of the Valley, Nestabilities

Experimental Frog Leap

with Gingersnap Creations for Once In A Blue Moon challenge: Things That Leap ... on Leap Day or all year round (lol)
Aren't they sweet ... and maybe a little bit creepy .... but they seem to be full of enthusiasm and determination to get the golden ball out of the pond, well, the pretend pond!
This is quite an old book I 'rescued' from a dump. The paper is wonderfully soft, mellow and aged and it was a joy to work with it. To alter the book I started cutting circles by hand creating a small basin just deep enough for the golden pearl/ball. The next step was to glue the pages together. Because I wanted the book to look like a book I did not glue the sides of the book but only the individual pages
For creating the leap scene I inked the background and surface with various distress inks and stamped the muslin pattern from Lost Coast Design. I cut out the frogs from a clipart image and glued it to the page. The big bolt letters are Sizzix diecuts also stamped with the muslin pattern.

Come and leap with us over at Gingersnap Creations, this is so much fun! Petra.

Land of Fantasy

A wonderful new challenge at the Cheerful Stamp Pad

Supplies:
image & sentiment: Michelle Perkett - paper: Pink Petticoat
ribbon, bling, paper flowers and some stitching
colouring: Copics

The card is not quite what I would usually do but it was great fun to use the stitching and do the colouring of the image and see it coming together.

Hope you can come and join us at the Cheerful Stamp Pad for the challenge, Petra.

Snow White

... without the dwarfs (lol) - vanilla sponge with strawberry jam and vanilla buttercream filling - a complete Snow White doll inside .... for a little girl to enjoy .... have a wonderful weekend, Petra.