gift wrapping.... how we give self made pralines

Hello there...

we love to give self made gifts when we are visiting friends.
This time we love to make pralines on our own.

But before producing the pralines - i was thinking about the wrapping.

I decided to use Sizzix Thinlits Plus Die Set 8PK - Bag, Tall...

This is what you also need:
Sizzix Bigz Die - Garden Greens
Sizzix Accessory - Die Brush & Foam Pad for Wafer-Thin Dies
Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4PK - Speech Bubbles
Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit (White & Gray) (i took the beautiful butterfly out of it)
Breakfast-Bags

I took the brush to remove the small pieces out of the pattern - but i did not remove all.

I love the unfinished look...

I fixed the butterfly at the breakfast-bag...

Have a beautiful weekend, Stephanie

Make your own background.... {scrapbooking layout....}

Hello there...

upcoming saturday hubby and i celebrate our 17 anniversary.
We were sweet sixteen as we met, and now - 17 years later - there are still
butterflies in my stomach if look at him.... just as we were still 16...

Time to catch all the butterflies in one layout...

All you need:
Sizzix Sizzlits Decorative Strip Die - Butterfly Frenzy
Cardstock white (i cut it in half to cut the butterflies)
Patterned paper

I did not  pick out all the butterflies - i love the effect...

Have a great weekend filled with butterflies and love, Stephanie 

Color book organization

Happy Tuesday crafter , 

in this time when you return to school and working with books and papers I realized that they needed many bookmarks. 

I would like to colorful and different shapes so as to divide the pages for topics and make it more cheerful and fun.

This project can help you little order between the cards and rearrange your content, making the study and work more pleasant and very nice to see .

NECESSARY:

- Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit (White & Gray)

- Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4PK - Meadow Butterfly

- Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4PK - Candy Clouds

- Craft Asylum paper, home sweet home collection

- stick glue

- hot glue

- wooden craft sticks

A lovely week :))

Manuela

Pasticci di carta

*per i lettori italiani*

Buon martedì crafter,

in questo periodo in cui si torna a scuola e si lavora con libri e quaderni mi sono accorta di aver bisogno di tanti segnalibri.

Li desidero colorati e di forme diverse così da poter suddividere le pagine per argomenti e rendere tutto più allegro e divertente.

Il progetto di oggi può aiutarvi a fare un po' di ordine tra le carte e riorganizzare i vostri contenuti, rendendo lo studio e il lavoro più piacevoli e belli da vedere.

OCCORRENTE:

- Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit (White & Gray)

- Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4PK - Meadow Butterfly

- Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4PK - Candy Clouds

- carta Craft Asylum, home sweet home collection

- colla stick

- colla a caldo

- stecche di legno

Una buona settimana a tutti!

Manuela

Pasticci di Carta

Turbulence of butterflies - part 2

 Hello again, I'm starting to get excited about the Festival of Quilts - I hope you are too.

I have finished the little butterfly quilt that I started last week -

 

First of all I hand stitched the butterflies - because I had 5 hours travelling in one day so thought I would put the time to good use.

I wasn't sure what to do for the quilting - which is done by machine (as I don't have anymore long journeys planned), and then I thought of using the butterfly as a template to draw around to quilt -

 blue butterfly is the template, and I used an air erasable pen to draw around it -

 

I only used the large and medium butterflies as templates, and I spaced them in the blank areas of the quilt, and then shadow quilted around some of the fabric butterflies as well.

I like the back of the quilt too -

 and think I might make some cushions with just quilted butterflies.

I have started making another butterfly quilt and this time I'm going to fuse the butterflies in place, and then layer up the quilt and stitch around the butterflies as the quilting.

Meanwhile - I thought the butterfly die would make a nice decoration on a hairband for a baby - so with some white stretch lace, and my trusty Big Shot machine - http://www.sizzix.co.uk/product/660200/sizzix-big-shot-machine-only-white-gray  and the Echo Park Butterfly Trio Bigz die -http://www.sizzix.co.uk/product/660448/sizzix-bigz-die-butterfly-trio

I cut out 1 small and 1 medium butterfly from double sided fabric (I did this by fusing 2 layers of fabric together with heat and bond).

Then it's really easy to cut the stretch lace to the correct length - and pleat the ends, and overlap and then stitch -

Pin and then sittch the butterfly in place to conceal the join -



I stitched initially with back stitch and then added French knots to add texture to the centre.

I think I'm going to be making quite a few of these!

So that's all for this week - hope to see you next week at the Festival of Quilts -

there will be 3 of us demonstrating the Big Shot machines and Bigz dies -

I will be demonstrating with Lady Sew and Sew,

Beth will be with Cotton Patch and

Mandy will be with Abakhan

Hope to see you next week.

Angela



A turbulence of butterflies - baby quilt

 I'm not sure this is a correct name for a collection of butterflies but it got stuck in my head!

A friend has just had a baby girl, and so I thought I'd make a little quilt for her and, as I really like the new Echo Park range of dies, I decided to applique butterflies on it - and this view is where I started - and where the name turbulence originated.

Here is an image of the die that I have been using - Bigz die 660448

 

http://www.sizzix.co.uk/product/660448/sizzix-bigz-die-butterfly-trio and I used the Big Shot http://www.sizzix.co.uk/product/660200/sizzix-big-shot-machine-only-white-gray

 I decided not to use the butterfly body's to keep the design simple.

 I used Heat and Bond on the wrong side of the fabrics - which I liberated from my stash - which I applied before cutting out.

I then cut outs of all three sizes of butterflies, and just scattered them over the background fabric, which is a cream print, also from my stash.

then came the job of trying to arrange them - but not too much so that it remained quite an informal arrangement -

This was just a bit too rigid - too much of a straight line -

this was closer - but seemed a bit too wide - so it became this -

I think I'm happy with this now - so I have to fuse the butterflies onto the background and stitch them! Yes that's all and I was hoping to finish it today - not really realistic but I'll have a go. So next week will follow on with the stitching and quilting of this quilt - hopefully.

Until then - enjoy the school holidays, and get ready for Festival of Quilts - 2 weeks today - see you there.

Angela

 

 

Butterfly Garlands

Hello there,

today I want to invite you to our garden.

A few weeks ago I had shown you the small pins to decorate the notebooks for my workshop participants. That was not the only decoration. I had decorated our Pavilions also for the workshop, because the weather was so sunny and warm that we have bound the books in the garden.

The butterflies I punched out different colored cardstock and vellum and stitched together with a sewing machine. 

There are beautiful garlands emerged that blew in the wind. A few I put in the Pavilion and other garlands hung in the old apple trees. It looked really nice!

Have some Impressions!

I used my Big Shot and the SIZZIX BigZ Die - Layered Butterfly.

Have a lovely Weekend!

Annika

Thank You

Hello there,
sometimes I would like to say 'thank you' and I think a wonderful way to do this, is to sending a card.

The word 'Thanks' I've done with the watercolor technique.

Various stamp pads pressed on an acrylic block, sprayed with water and pressed the acrylic block on Watercolorpaper. Beautiful gradients arising therefrom and then I have punched he word 'Thanks'.

Inside the card I used colorful pink vellum.

The Backround ist made with my Big Shot and the Embossingfolder - Botany Decoration.

The wonderful butterflies are from Tim Holtz, SIZZIX BigZ Die - Butterfly Duo.

I hope you enjoy and wish you a lovely weekend!

Annika

Quick and Easy Candy Bag

Hello everybody,

I told you the last weeks how many friends are invited us to some birthday parties and I like to give them something that I made by myself. For the daughter of a special friend I made a little candy bag. 

Here is my list of supplies:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit #660515 and the included Bigz Die Essentials

Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing Folder - Candy Hearts #660477

a paper bag, some pieces of pretty paper and of course some candy ;)

I die cutted some of the flowers with the Bigz Die from the Big Shot Plus Starter Kit and attached them together with my stapler. With bending the wings of the butterfly and the leaves it became a little more depth. The paper bag got a little texture on the bottom with one of my favorite embossing folders! I love the pattern with the cute hearts. 

I filled it with a lot of candy, but you can also use other things like nailpolish, a little book, pens or other crafty things. :) Hope you like my little gift bag and wish you a beautiful weekend.

Have a nice day, xo Julia

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Hallo ihr Lieben,

diese Woche habe ich für euch eine kleine Idee für eine Süßigkeitentüte. Zum Geburtstag einer Freundin habe ich, für deren Tochter, eine kleine Überraschungstüte zusammen gestellt. Sie ist nämlich eine kleine Naschkatze. ;)

Materialliste:

Sizzix Big Shot Plus Starter Kit #660515 und die darin enthaltene Bigz Die Essentials

Sizzix Textured Impressions Embossing Folder - Candy Hearts #660477

eine Papertüte, hübsch gemustertes Papier und ein paar Süßigkeiten

Die Blümchen und den Schmetterling mit der Bigz Die und den gemusterten Papieren ausstanzen und mit einem Tacker zusammenheften. So ist alles schon locker, aber fällt nicht auseinander. Die Papiertüte bekommt mit dem Embossing Folder im unteren Bereich ein tolles Herzchenmuster (ich mag das total) und dann ist die Candy Bag eigentlich auch schon fertig. :) Mit doppelseitigem Klebeband habe ich mein Blümchengebilde an der Papiertüte befestigt.

Dieses Tütchen macht sich auch toll als Geschenktüte für Nagellack, kleine Bücher oder Stifte etc. Da könnt ihr eurer Fantasie freien Lauf lassen. Ich hoffe meine kleine Idee hat euch gefallen und wünsche euch ein tolles Wochenende. xo Julia