Exeter Craft Fair.

I took my daughter's and a friend to a craft show.

What a lovely sunday we had, I always go the first day, but it was so quiet and we got to do loads of tutorials.

Two were just cardmaking but my 9 year old wanted to make these.

We started with a painted heart plaque.

You drew a circle for a head added to for ears and one for a muzzel.

The used stippling to fill it all in.

It was such fun.

The last night a friend of my kids came round to play, I say play because what else do you call to 15 year olds using dusting brushes and stamps. Want to see what we were copying?

This is the one the nice lady on Inkylicious made for me.

The ones my kids made.

 

I did love the stamps she had on sale, very pretty,

I will have to buy more as we used some at home but you need the grasses to do this.

Finally some stickers I bought that I made a mini book from.

I use this cheat so much.

Take 7 cards. Add glue to the bottom inside and punch the open edge to make a pocket once you add it onto the coil.

Canvas Board for thick book covers.

This is not the right size but it's the same make.

I got some that was 12cm by 17cm.

And it's Hardboard, but best of all....

I can cinch it.

You need to wiggle it a bit to punch but it does go through and won't break the punch.

I did make 3 books but gone now, I used it as covers for my smash books,

Cost was £1.99 from "the works" who always seem to have a sale on.

Have another pack left so think I will make another one just so I can take a photo and post it tomorrow to show and tell.

A5 Smash Style Book.

I had another go.

Grabbed a load of Envelopes and layered 3 in a row.

Made a lovely pocket just by folding an A4 in half and adding glue at the bottom.

Just added loads of my spare papers.

Found some thick card added that too.

Still looked bear so added the tabs again.



Travel Smash Book Mini Album

This is my version of a smash book.

I just stuck all the bits of card and envelopes I could find together in piles.

The envelopes were too wide so I used the card as a guide and folded and glued the bottoms, leaving the flap to open.

I cut some sections of Cardstock and folded in half and glued on as tabs.



Cupcakes anyone

I went to the Craft Fair last month.

This was one sheet of A4 cardstock I got in a mix and match box of Kanban,

Could decide how to use it then realised you can make a C6 Envelope out of the cardstock.

I used my Enveloper to make it.

The bit of 9cm wide card was enough to make a topper, the greeting was a Hero stamp too.

Must do this more often as I like things that match.

This is the finished mini book.

This is how I finished my mini.

Looks slightly different now.
Each pocket has a tag inside.

I used my Martha Stewart Punch.

I folded a strip of paper in half and punched the design, then glued on strip onto each page edge,

Added ribbon and some black card.

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I love the contrast of white and green card.

The black is just tucked into the stripes as I only added the thinnest stripe of glue at the fold.

Passionatelyartistic are having a Blog Party.

Photo's of how to make a quick mini.

Sorry not been able to add the photo's from my last post till now.

This is the first page.

With an envelope glued to the left hand side.

The first page is folded and on the left.

Glue another page onto the envelope.

The envelope is open at the top.

This is all the pages with envelopes glue between and on both ends.

All the spines are in the middle.

My card stock is cut at about 1cm taller than my pages.

It's double the width and an extra 1cm for a spine.

You just glue the envelopes to the cover.