Novoletne voščilnice

Tole zadnje leto je minilo neverjetno hitro. Ob službi, študiju, materinstvu, partnerstvu, gospodinjstvu in vseh ostalih nujnih opravilih sem uspela ustvariti kar nekaj stvari, čeprav še zdaleč ne toliko, kot sem si zadala in kot bi si želela. Pa vendar, v moji delavnici je nastalo kar nekaj lepih izdelkov. Na nekaj od teh sem celo zelo ponosna in so mi resnično všeč. Za veliko izdelkov pa si rečem, kot ponavadi, da bi lahko bilo še malo boljše. To pride na vrsto spet drugo leto - učenje novega, predvsem pa nadgradnja že pridobljenega znanja. To želim tudi vam: da bi se kaj novega naučili in se še izboljšali v tistem, kar že znate.

Tudi voščilnic mi letos ni uspelo izdelati toliko, kot sem želela. Tule jih je nekaj na ogled:

Pa upam, da se na skok v novo leto pripravljajte v miru!

Paper Baby Shoes

Hello!


http://www.cuteasafox.com/2010/04/paper-baby-shoe-template-with-download.html
My dear friend Neva gave birth to her first child three days ago, cute little boy Anej. I wanted to make a really nice and special card for her. I print some patterns and ideas from the internet when I run into something I like... put prints into file and then usually forget about it. I found the pattern for those cute baby shoes yesterday and I decided to try to make a pair... it is, of course, quite addictive thing so I made 3 pairs instead of one. I'm going to put in little scroll with message - one for the parents and the other one for the baby. (If anyone knows who the author of this pattern is, please let me know, I want to give him/her a credit.)

I will need the second pair soon, when my first nephew is born. The new member of our family is due at the end of July and we are all hardly waiting for him to join us. I'll be on vacation at that time, so I have to figure out a way how to send those shoes to them at the right time.

The third pair will stay at home for now. I've already chosen a nice flower patterned paper in pink to make another pair, really girly one. I'll keep them like decoration, they are so cute!

Have a nice time!

Weekend Sketch Challenge #76

This is my first time participating in a challenge. Laurie (Just Give Me Stamps) is hosting Weekend Sketch Challenge and I love the layout she made. Since I had to make a birthday card and had no ideas what to do, I used her layout. I am quite sure the receiver will like the worn out style of it.
As a small gift, I included two bookmarks in the same style.

Have a wonderful day!

Easter Eggs Paper Basket

I'm home alone again. Nina went to the seaside with her father on Friday and won't be back till late evening. I cooked a ham but we haven't made any eggs yet. I'm waiting for her as I am not in the mood for making Easter eggs alone... and she was really looking forward to do special ones this year. We are going to have lunch with my parents and my brother (and maybe his girlfirend - have I mentioned I am going to become an aunt in a few months???) tomorrow and since we always exchange some eggs on that day, I made some small paper baskets. They are big enough to hold one egg. I used K&Company and BasicGrey paper and embelished them with paper flowers, buttons, rhinestones and ribbon.

Happy Easter, everyone! Hope you are having a wonderful day.

I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

Time for some poetry :). Spring with warm temperatures and buds and flowers all around inspired me to make this file box. And while I was gluing the flowers on it I remembered the poem we had to learn by heart in English class in school... years ago. I tried to recite it while I was gluing but I forgot few lines, so I just had to find it and read it again. Here it is - to refresh my memory and perhaps yours as well :).



DAFFODILS
by William Wordsworth
(1770-1850)

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.


Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.


The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed---and gazed---but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:


For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.


WELCOME SPRING!

Scrap Paper Holder - Tutorial

I made similar scrap paper holder few days ago. I just love it because it's nice and practical and you can put it anywhere you want. When I do cards or scrapbooking, there are always some pieces of paper left... with this holder I can have them all in one place instead of having them all over my working table. Since I promised a friend who visited me the other day that I will put a quick tutorial on my blog, here it is.










You can make it in different sizes - my basic cardboard sizes are:
14 x 10 cm for the back,
14 x 3 cm for the bottom and
14 x 7 cm for the front.
Cut the cardboard pieces and glue them to the back of the desired pattern paper - make sure you leave some space between them. Trim the paper about 2 cm around and trim the corners. Fold the edges and glue them down.























Cut the piece of coordinating paper that is a few millimeters smaller than the "core" you have in front of you and glue it down so you cover the edges. With you scoring tool, gently rub in the space you left between cardboard and try to put it into the final shape.























Now cut the paper for the side parts. I wanted the upper part of the holder to be wider than the bottom, so I first cut 6.5 cm long strip of pattern paper, cut it in half and marked 3 cm for the bottom (as that is the size of my bottom cardboard part as well), and 5 cm for the top. You want to get an isosceles trapezoid. On the sides with equeal lenght (in my case the 6.5 cm side) leave 1 cm for fold which you will glue down. (See the pics bellow, I can't tell that better). I distressed the back side of the trapezoids before I glued them as they were just too white for my quite dark background paper.

































And that's about it. Of course you can embelish it as you want.


















And finally, put some scrap papers in it. I'm going to make a bigger one and fix it on the wall to keep the bills that need to be payed in it. You can use it for other things as well, it's up to you.








Now I dare you to make your own and show it to me! :)

Scrapbook Album For Nina

I'm going to make a scrapbook album for Nina with some of my favorite photos of her. I bought blank Maya Road 20x20 cm album with 8 pages which is going to be just perfect. I finished the first page today... guess it's done for now...

Box, Pendant, Picture and More Pendants

Yesterday I was in Velenje meeting with the girls from our creativity group. It was great to see them again and we had a wonderful time together. We had a "How to make a book" workshop and then watched photos from Rusia. In the meantime we ate a lot of delicious home made food and I learned how to make a wire pendants. I had to try that today and of course I didn't have just the right wire, but with some things from my stash they turned out quite ok. Oh, and we had two great swaps yesterday as well - scrapbook pages for memory books and 8th March swap. I got this cute picture, made of air dry clay (thanks Marta!):

And this is what I've made for our swap (cardboard box decorated with decorative paper K&Company and some ribbon with polymer clay pendant in it):















These are the two pendants I managed to made today (Natka, thanks for the instructions!). Yesterday I am going to the city to buy some more apropriate wire.
























Thanks for the lovely day, girls!

What My Mom Got

One of my toughest yearly "obligations" is picking up a present for my mom's birthday. It's so hard to give something to a person that actually has everything already. Their house is full of potted flowers, so that's out of the question. Clothes are out of the question, too. Accessories... well, maybe, but used too often. Home decorations... nah, they have too many. Last year my brother and I gave her a painting she wanted for some time. A year before coupons for beauty treatments in a saloon. This year I was not running around the stores like I usually do every year. I bought tickets for opera (which were later sold out, so it turned out to be a really good gift) and we went to see Carmen together. Nina, mom and me. She loved it and she loved the fact that we went together. I also made a small scrapbook album with Nina's pics and I am not sure what she was more happy to get, the ticket or the booklet. Since taking pictures in the opera house is not allowed, I can't show you pics from there. So here are few pics of my little album. The tittle is: My Nina.