It's all in the presentation...

So I made a pouch and a box for the card and gift from yesterday's post.

I am very happy that my first attempt at a draw string worked out !!! I glimmer misted using a chipboard from Lindy's stamp gang; added some beads, a strap and the draw strings. She is not a girlie girl, so I kept it simple....made a flower to put on the matching gift box...Fun !!!

Picture this..

Hello, how is everyone today ? It's funny how things happen; the day I received these beautiful G45 Communiqué papers that I won  from the extremely generous Alda at the Flying Unicorn, hubby asked me to make a card for his best friend's daughter's Birthday saying she loves photography....

Well, was I a happy card maker !

I prepared my cardboard with paint, inka-gold and gold embossing; I painted and embossed the

 K and Co. Chipboard.

Sprayed my flower with gold GM, added metal leaves...

This is the pull out tag... cool eyes huh ?, crimped the film strip, inked, stamped, embossed, added

inka-gold...and used this gorgeous button my girlfriend sent me...

And on the inside...isn't this flower scrumptious...I just love it...Embossed the HB...

And her name on hanging film strips...you know, like in a darkroom...

Best part ? Hubby, who finds I put too much on most of my cards, LOVED it !!!

oh, and this is one of her gifts...an antique camera lighter, isn't that the coolest; she doesn't smoke, but I am sure she will love it...

Bye, have a fabulous week-end !!! xoxooxox

And a few more altered boxes...

I figured since I had my x-mas goodies out, I would alter a few more boxes for the challenge over at Bellas. All the information is in my previous post if you want to come and join in the fun !!

For this one I made my 3-d tree, added a star, and a ribbon on the side; I love how the ribbon matches beautifully with the paper....

For this one I added gold rub and buff all over; made a criss cross pattern with my double sided tape to apply my glitters, dollar store pearls, an embossed flower and a glittered center !!!

Bye for now,  xoxoox

Getting ready for Christmas...

Hi Peeps, I had a dollar store wooden box, and I decided to alter it for the
 challenge going on at Bella Creations,  l'art transformé group.

Alter bags and boxes for the Christmas season; this is the randomly drawn prize...Yummy!!

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I painted it red, added glitter, used mod podge to adhere tissue paper,( adhering it just right so the button would be in the middle of the bow), took off the wooden knob and replaced it with this gorgeous button, exchanged the rope for this ribbon, added some gold stickers.

I has a lovely rounded shape. Hubby loved it, so his mom's x-mas gift ( money) will be tucked in there.

Come and join us, there are many other challenges going on at the same time....xoxoox

She has not a care in the world!

I received this image as a freebie in my Stampington and Co. mag a while back and finally got around to using her.

Water colored the image, added a touch of glitter, framed her in flower soft...Applied her to a french music sheet, then to this gorgeous fabric...

Added mica powders to my flowers, creating that lovely duo colored shimmer, a few feathers as my foliage, pretty ribbon, a nice big bow,  and Voila.

 It reminded me of how much fun I used to have swinging as a child; going as high as the swing would go, then jumping off...competing to see who would jump the furthest ....

Linking up to...you guessed it ...Flying Unicorn...Who, BTW, are having a month long sale, 13% off your whole order...

Thanks for peeking !

L'amour de la Bicyclette

Happy Sunday everyone. My big brother Paul is having a Birthday in a few weeks. His top three passions are Music, Plants ( he is an horticulturist), and Cycling ( he goes on cycling trips in South America and the US).

As I was flipping through my papers, I came across this one from Donna Salazar that had all 3 elements.
It took off from there...

Then I added a Crafty Individuals image "Journey - Seek always"; I thought that was very appropriate for my brother, glittered with 3 colors, my Québec stamp that I love so much, also from CI, antique Bicycle tag, some frayed fabric for the base, and VOILA...xooxox

Le Mannequin et ses accessoires...

Hello, 

I am linking this to the Flying Unicorn, " anything but a LO challenge ", as well as "Anything but a card" at the Fashionable Stamping blog.

All these beautiful stamps are from Crafty Individuals.

Thanks for peeking...xoxoxo and have a fab week-end !!


I am also linking to Pink Saturday...its not a challenge site, but a site to share our love of "PINK"...