Birthday Smash

Basic Ingredients

I have never done this before and I am not sure I have got the true meaning of a Stash Book down here but it's my version.  I found it hard to break away from the Scrapbooking regime and found having a more random approach quite a challenge but I worked fast and didn't give myself to much time to think which helped a bit.  I found the ideas for these online, I had not heard of them before so it shows how I am out of touch with what's trending right now :-(

I was very spoilt this year for my birthday and had some beautiful cards and gifts from family and friends.   The gifts came in such lovely bags and had my favourite thing right now, Owls on so I "deconstructed" them to make the papers for this book.  Gift bags make the covers, envelopes are reused to make pockets, elements from the left over bags cut out to use as embellishments and the ribbon handles are also used in the book.

Stash used

Birthday Gift bags, cards and tags

sticky tape, binding rings, ribbons, card stock, Tim Holtz dies, Cropodile, chip board, googly eyes

Photo's

K & Co Neopolitan Stickers

I won't bore you with all the details just let the photo's speak for me

thanks for looking

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Quotations mini book

Nestabilities mini album I made as an alternative to a Birthday Card for my friend.

Used:

Plain cardstock

patterned paper Basic Grey

Cuttlebug folders

Nellie Snellen Frame Die

Paper and fabric flowers

Binding ring

eyelets

Cropodile

Ribbons

Colourbox Eye chalks

Blending tool and foam

Grungeboard die cut shapes

Brads

Finishing touches

Its the final countdown now so time to put together some finishing touches to presents you have made. Boxes are essentials for those little extras to go in. Here in my previous post is a good easy way to make some, the folded corner as opposed to the cut one makes for a slightly stronger box.

I got these cute clear baubles and flat photo Christmas Tree ornaments, (I made some last year) as a keepsake of Noah as he grows to add to my tree each year. You can put 2 photo's in each so as the turn you see 2 different pictures. In the baubles I added some Christmas confetti and I have written the date on the back of the photo's too. Great for the family and Grandma's as a stocking filler.

Place Settings and Friends Cards

I wanted to make some of the cups like Donna had done on Cricut forums but not as cards so I designed a cut file to make them into place names and menu cards. I hope you like them. I have not done them to suit a table theme as they will be for tea-time so a variety of colours suit, with the Christmas Crackers it makes a more fun table, had they been for dinner I would have made them the same to co-ordinate with my table,

I made them with a tab and slot so it would make them stand better. The menu ones have the work cut from the front layer for the names I did cut out letters and stuck them on after. Here is the CUT FILE if you want to have a go with the pattern I made.

The papers are Dovecraft, I added some pompoms to look like marshmallows on some of them and used glitter and flakes for "sprinkles". The menu ones have a printed menu inside made in "MS Word" and cut out

I have finished my cards but I couldn't resist making a few more just in case I forgot anyone, its always good to have some spares. The papers are Forever Friends with matching Double Sided card stock, some mirror board and punched snowflakes. I used a free embossing board gift from a magazine to make the greetings.

Finished Advent Calender

I am posting the finished Advent Calender as finally the extra embellishments have arrived. I ordered them from one company but they never got here so had to re-order from another one :-(

I have used Eskimo Kisses Chipboards to match the papers to finish it. I haven't added much more as I didn't want to add ribbons which would get dusty over time and the chipboards are delightful enough as they are. All I have added is a few gems for sparkle. The handles were made with beads and fine wire, and the numbers cut on my cricut. This was a kit advent but I am sure you could make it from scratch on the cricut. Details in the previous post

Hope you like it

Here is a few tags I made also last night for my parcels, cut with Nestabilities, Cricut and Cuttlebug and embossed and glittered