So one of the things that I saw and absolutely fell in love was this wall decal someone had made and thought I’d give it a go as well.

It was a little tricky to make as each bird had to cut out individually at varying sizes, but it looks great and I am really happy with the way it turned out, it really makes the room come alive.

It has been so hard to maintain, I am offering all products at discounted prices!! So I can re-start with new products.

So here is how it will work:

Shop at The Shoppe

Checkout

I will send you the REAL price you will pay

And if you like the price (I am sure you will)

Then I will send out a Paypal Invoice

Be quick as some items will sell out fast.

Example:

All papers will be 65c each

Martha Stewart Punches $18.00

Stickers from 25c each

Copic Sketch Markers $7.00 (only stocked colours)

This Christmas gift holders were made for all the pre-school teachers at Willoughby Community Pre School.  I can’t thank the teachers enough for all they have done for Hugo’s growth and development.

So thank you Di, Libby, Jan and Helen in the Blue Room I am sure Hugo will miss you all immensely.

The stamp is a 4 separate Mo Manning digistamps.  This would be the first time I have ever used a digistamp but was very happy with the result.  The best thing about digistamps is that you can manipulate them to whatever size you like and line them up nicely and print out.  You can see on close up the each of the characters in time out it’s quite funny.

For colouring I used both copic sketch markers and prisma pencils.  I hadn’t used pencils before but they really do add more detail than just copic alone.

The copic were great fro blending shades of colours and the prisma pencils to add details like blush I thought was fantastic.

Inside I used Unity Stamp Co and Stampin Up! stamps and covered it with dazzling diamonds.

This box I made as a present for a little girls birthday.   The inspiration came from a friend who made something similar and I thought what a great idea.  Inside I filled it with lots of hair accessories, necklaces,  a little finger puppet Barbie doll and the crazy pink mobile phone and key toy I found at a kids shop.

The idea was to fill it with all sorts of little girls trinkets and they can keep the box to store all their favourite items.

It was a lot of fun to make and took me ages only because I kept wanting to try new products on it.  There was so many choices of what to use but I guess you can only use so much…***sigh***

The little dress came from Scrapware who purely make chipboard products and is a good old Aussie company too!   They come in a pack of 6 and is called dress garland and you can actually make a lovely banner with it as well.  Here is a image:

The bling heart was made from the I-rock tool and I used the flower stencil at an angle .  The tu-tu was made of organza ribbon cut and folded over as I didn’t have any tulle at the time and was sprayed with tattered angles glimmer mist in Pink SWAK.  This put a hint of tiny glittery speckles all over the chipboard, it was also used on the circle behind the “V” for Victoria.

I used the I-rock tool on the box sides as well, this created a textured and eye catching box.  I had a request from a customer to review the I-rock tool and I must admit at first I found it fiddly to use, but once you get the hang of it and I highly recommend the little jewel setting stix or a one of the glam rock packs as it has the stix in it and this really helped set the rocks in place.  Also you do need to be a little patient to get the tool hot otherwise you will find you need to go over them again.

I used the Martha Stewart Scoreboard to make the flower embellishment, the right tools always make lighter work and this is one tool I do love using as it makes your “beyond the page” project SO easy!

2 x Imaginary Friends by My Little Shoebox  12 “x 12″ papers, I-rock tool,  –rock flower stencil, Glam Rock Rhinestuds, GCD Studios – Glitzy Alphabets, 1 piece of the Dress Garland Chipboard, Vintage Distress Ink, Basics White Ribbon , Basic ribbon doilies – Basic Grey mine came from the Studio Calico Add On Kit Free Range, Happy Birthday Rub On – Imaginisce, tim holtz blending tool, Best Ever Glue- this stuff is awesome!!,  Glimmer Mist – Pink SWAK by Tattered Angels

**Please note not all the products are available at the shoppe but I do have the products (just no time to put them on as yet) so if you are interested in purchasing any of the items to make this box shoot me an email and I will endeavor to work out the pricing and availability for you***

My apologies for the Unity Stamp Co images on my website, as my images where linked to the Unity website (I know my own doing) and when they updated their website I lost all my images.  So I now have the tedious task of reloading each and every image.  (I have heaps of stamps images to load **sigh*** but I do love the Unity stamps they are so varied you will find one to suit your needs for sure).

I just had another friend who has had a little baby boy.  Babies are so cute, I wish they could stay that way forever.    So I decided to make a card using the paper piercing technique.  It certainly saves on colouring the image and with so many patterned papers to choose it was so much fun or you can use some of your off cuts as they are so tiny it really is a cost effective way of making a card.   I decided to use the “bouncy blue” stamp from Unity Stamp Co for this card and of course blue papers!!

Stamps:  Bouncy Blue – Unity Stamp Co, Nursery Necessities – Stampin Up! Paper/Cardstock:  Stampin Up! pacific point designer paper, pacific point smooth cardstock A4, Stamp Pads:  Classic Stamp pad – Pacific Point & Basic Black.  Other:  Basic Grey doily ribbons, royal blue grossgrain ribbon, Classic Circles Large die – Nestabilities.

Hi All,

It’s been a busy couple of weeks, my apologies for not updating my site.  We have been painting, changing room interiors so we can get our apartment on the market.  S0 if you looking to purchase a property in the St Leonards area give me a bell (wink wink), and on top of all that I had my son’s (Hugo) 4th Birthday party to organise.

Here are the goodie bags I made for is pirate themed birthday.  They are a little off centre as Hugo wanted to be involved every step of the way, it’s amazing a difference a year makes.  But were a hit with all the kids and I think the parents.

I was really happy with the way the turned out.  I used my martha stewart score board (which I have back in stock) to make the boxes (that was the hardest part, made easy with the score board), I highly recommend this it saved me so much time, as I didn’t have to measure each box individually.   The Martha Stewart Edger Punch  – Arch Lattice, Stampin Up Labels punch and scallop round nestabilities.

The stamp is from Unity Stamp Co – Pirate Madness which I had brought specially for Hugo’s birthday and used it on the cake, which was a pirate ship and the sales were done with patterned paper.

Now that the party is over, I am hoping to have more time to update my website as well as get more creative with some of the products I have.  I can’t wait to use some of the papers from Basic Grey I have just ordered.

]]> http://papercraftmagic.com.au/my-pirate-goodie-bags/feed/ 0 http://papercraftmagic.com.au/now-in-stock-i-rock-tool-and-suzi-blu-stamps/ http://papercraftmagic.com.au/now-in-stock-i-rock-tool-and-suzi-blu-stamps/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:10:05 +0000 joannafyma http://papercraftmagic.com.au/?p=563 Yes finally my order for the i-rock tool and Suzi Blu stamps have arrived. Visit the shoppe to place your order. Be quick as they are selling out super fast!!

Using the Free Range Add on… and more colour papers available on request.
I picked out the colors and background paper that I wanted to use. I used my Tim Holtz ruler and a pencil to draw even lines spaced an inch apart. Then I simply stamped across each line with this color ink
After the ink was dry, I used my white eraser to take erase the penciled lines

For the outside borders, I used different patterned paper from the kit with different techniques. I used one of my border edge punch, and the fun lace tape that is in the kit. I also love to wet down my papers to get them to mold how I would like them to when they dry, so I did that along the edge to show a little smidge of the patterned paper on the backside.

For the Flowers, I punched out circles using 3 different size circle punches starting with the 3 inch punch. Then I wet the paper to crinkle them up and stack them together. To finish off the flowers, I used the cute chipboard accent flowers with some jute to tie it all in together.

Thanks Kimberly for the beautiful layout that is sure to inspire.  Have fun

Love

Joanna

Features:

Take a walk down to the BACK 40 where you’ll find nature-inspired papers, embellishments and more, perfectly suited for fall. We’ve even thrown in an exclusive ruler stamp, perfect for back-to-school pages and whatever your creative mind conjures up.

Don’t forget these shop items:
Togetherness Ready-Set-Chip (Cosmo Cricket)
Max Font Stamps (American Crafts)
Small Receipt Holder (7gypsies)

Coordinates with the following:
Mists: Cornflower, Avocado, Buttermilk, Cream, Brown, Bronze, Plum
Ink: Rusty Hinge, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Chipped Sapphire, Spun Sugar, Frayed Burlap, Walnut Stain, Victorian Velvet, Crushed Olive, Pumice Stone, Scattered Straw, Antique Linen
Paint: Sable Brown, Traditional Tan, Yellow Pastel, Painterly Pink

complete kit contents:

Cardstock:
Coffee (American Crafts)
Vanilla (American Crafts)
Kraft (American Crafts)
Lily Pad (Bazzill)
Gulf (Bazzil)

Patterned Paper:
Pinwheels (Cosmo Cricket)
Making Plans (Cosmo Cricket)
Family Tree Die Cut(Jenni Bowlin)
Free Spirit (Sassafras)
Affection (Sassafras)
Pocahontas & Me (Sassafras)
Couturier (Studio Calico)
Down to Earth (Studio Calico)

Embellishments:
Glitter Alpha – Chartreuse (Sassafras)
Fairy Tales Chipboard Alpha (Cosmo Cricket)
Ornate Tags Mini Chipboard (Maya Road)
Indie Girl Banner Stickers (Sassafras)
Family Tree Journaling Cards (Jenni Bowlin)
Vellum Butterflies – Brown (Jenni Bowlin)
Border Stamp – Harper’s Ruler (Studio Calico)

I have been very very busy.  I attended Paperific for the first time.  Got lots of useful tips and tricks as well meant so good ol Aussie companies stocking some really cool things.  I am definitely going to order some.

I also completed my copic certification… yes it’s official I am a copic certified!! whoo hooo!!

There was so much information to take it, but best tip if you are starting out and have a hard time understanding light source, get  a piece of acetate and draw in the sun and the direction it hits on you stamped image.  Awesome it certainly helped me.

Now if you haven’t tried airbrushing with copics — YOU NEED TO it is awesome and it also saves your ink to colour large areas and not saturate but gives a nice even flow!!

Last but not least the Studio Calico Scrapbooking kit is due to arrive by the end of the week.  This kit is sooooooooo beautiful you will love it.  I will post more images of the kit in the next day or so.  But in the mean time check out the sneak peek in the store!

I have heaps more product to load and the I-rock is due any day now….yippeee finally!!

Have a great day and will keep you posted!!