Gingerbread house

Stamps: Gingerbread Man (Elzybells); Nordic Winter (WM)

Ink: Rhubarb Stalk (Memento)

Dies: pinking squares (WPlus9)

Finally!  This card has been haunting me for a few days now, but I have not managed to get 5 minutes time to make it happen.  And then when I do, Blogger conspires to defy me with its "server returns invalid response".  Grrrr.

 

Moving on...fairly simple front, not much to explain, but open it up &

 

 

TA-DAAA.  A gingerbread house for the man to live in.  House is made from a manila swing file, with scraps of red.  The roof is strips cut with scalloped scissors & edged with white gel pen. 

I was an engineer for 14 years before I had my children, so I find this sort of construction extremely satisfying.The concept came from a book I found in the library years ago: Paper Engineering for Pop-up Books and Cards by Mark Hiner which contains many fab ideas & techniques.

 

Linking to:

CAS-ual Fridays: CFC76 ~ Kraft On

CASology: Week 17 ~ Sugar

Gingerbread man bunting

Stamps: Little Pieces (SU); Gingerbread Man (Elzybells)

Ink: Versamark (Tsukineko)

Other: white embossing powder, white gel pen

Here is one of my favourite projects from a couple of Christmases ago, when this blog wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye.  I love gingham & kraft together, to me, it just screams Christmas.

 

It was very simple to make, triangles of red & gingham (a freebie from Activity Village), a circle punch & a pair of scissors.  Fussy cutting the gingerbread man was losing its appeal by the 50th one (I made a number of strings, packaged them & sold them at a craft fair..), but he is kinda cute.

 

When the triangles were assembled, I made a template & used my crop-a-dile to make sure the ribbon holes were in the same place on each one.

Linking to:
CAS-ual Fridays: CFC69 ~ Embossing

Simple scissor storage

Just a quickie today.  Old Nutella jar + garden string + paper = perfect place for all my scissors.

How many uses for a cat food box?

We have an elderly cat who is eating us out of house & home.  He is constantly crying for food.  We get through about 6 pouches a day.  That's more than 3 boxes a week.

Ergo, we have a lot of cat food boxes in the recycling.  Always.  So I have begun to appropriate them for my crafting.  It started when I needed a small box to display my cards for sale, but it seems their uses are endless.

Today's CFB (cat food box) was transformed from this:

to this:

a handy box for all my adhesives, sticky pads etc.

The exterior is wrapped in my favourite Kraft paper.  It takes a long piece to get all the way round, so wrapping paper is best.  Inside, I made simple panels using cereal box card & covered them in gingham paper downloaded from Activity Village.  Getting the panels to fit is quite time consuming & involves a bit of trial & error, but it does become easier with practise.  A simple band of gingham & a co-ordinating label ties it all together.