Cute little note holder

A while back i bought some wooden plaques made from MDF to make some bedroom signs for my neices. I still have a couple lying around so i came up with a cute little note holder for in Lili's bedroom.  What do you think?...

 It was easy to do i just took me about half an hour

 The cute bird stickers are from accessorize

If you want to make one you will need..

• a wooden plaque (or you could use really stiff card)
• 3 wooden pegs
• spray paint
• a piece of scrapbook paper and a small piece of co-ordinating card
• stickers
• ribbon
• a 2" punch
• double sided tape

1. spray paint your pegs and leave to dry
2. Cover one side of your plaque with scrapbook paper
3. Punch 3 circles out of your co-ordinating card
4. cover your pegs on the 2 straight sides with ribbon using double sided tape.
5. attach one punched circle to the front of each peg and add a sticker.
6. attach the peg to the bottom of the board using glue or dounble sided tape
7. repeat woth the other 2 pegs
8. stick a piece of ribbon near the top of the board and add some stickers
9. stick a hanging piece of ribbon in a hoop shape to the back and then cover the back of the board with scrapbook paper to hide the ribbon.

How to dress up chocolate and bottle gifts

This weekend it was my father in laws birthday.  We got him a few bits and bobs and then as stocking fillers i bought a bottle of red wine he likes and a big bar of chocolate off Lili.  I decided to jazz up the wine and chocolate by using scrapbook paper,ribbon and a wooden heart. This is how it came out....

 I added scrapbook paper,ribbon,stickers and card onto a sandwich bag and worte on Happy Birthday with a gel pen.

 I painted a wooden heart white and then wrote Grandad and added a sticker to make the tag and i wrapped the chocolate in co-ordinating scrapbook paper to match the bag.

 I used another sandwich bag and co-ordinating paper to wrap the wine and then tied a matching ribbon around to keep the bag in place.

One boring gift made special :-)

Simple bookmark and a big Thankyou

First of all i need to say a really big thankyou to Shirl over on vintageseamuse for the gorgeous bloggy love swap parcel she sent me.  I adore all the items and when i get a minute i will take some pics and do a proper post on it but while you are waiting for that why don't you pop over to Shirl's blog and say hello.  She is very talented and i am so lucky to have been paired with her for the swap.


Now secondly i wanted to share a really simple project with you.  Me and Mr G love reading and for one of his valentines pressies i wanted to make him a bookmark.  I have made wooden bookmarks before but these all look a bit girly so i thought i would make a card one instead.  I started with a card luggage tag (i bought a pack of 10 for £1.20 in Tesco's)

 Then i used double sided tape to stick one side of the luggage tag all over (once i had removed the string) then i placed the luggage tag onto the reverse of a piece of patterned background card and then cut around the edge.  I then did the same on the back of the tag.  Then i punched a hole in the top and fed some ribbon through.  I then used stickers to apply the text.  This is the front....

 and this is the back....

This is such a simple project and turns out better than i thought it would.  I'm now going to make some more the rest of my family.

Birthday card and ticket holder

Yesterday was my sister's birthday and i made her this card.  One of the presents i had bought her was tickets to a spa.  The envelope they came in was plain so i made a little holder to present them in:-

I haven't done much paper crafting recently - unless you count the 155 wedding invitations i have just done for my brother lol!