A mini house for a huge celebration!

This is another catch up post, blogging something I made early last week. This is a gift I made for my Friends Petra and Peter who had a massive party at the weekend to celebrate their House's 105th Birthday.
I wasn't able to go as I got flu :-( but loads of people did. About 200!

I decided to make a gift box in the shape of a house and fill it with some mini scrapbook albums. I made the base shape of the house in 2 pieces tracing around a square Nestie to make the roof shape then scored, folded it and then stuck it all together. I cut some grass freehand and stuck it around the base of the house.
A door was cut from Burgundy card and layered up with foam pads and a brad for a handle. I then added Basic Grey stickers to the door. The flowers were stuck onto some climbing leaves cut with a Fiskars border punch and embellished with pearls.

I cut a Fiskars border to add to the roof on the side of the house, added a window cut from Nesties and another Fiskars border for a window box was filled with more leaves and flowers. Flowers were dotted around the grass.

I cut a piece of card for the roof which was scored and folded and edged with the border punch. I stuck it down at the back to make a hinged roof and added velcro to the front top to close the box. I added Petra and Peter's initials to the back of the box in a Nesties panel.

I then made 3 mini albums with my Bind it all to add to the box to record the 105th Birthday of the house.
All papers used were K+Co and the letters are Basic Grey and K+Co.
I love how this Project turned out and wish I could have given it to Petra and Peter on Saturday but they will receive it today.
Hope you all had a lovely weekend.
Jane
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And the award for the best dressed Post-it note goes to.....

I woke up very early today after going to sleep very late, thought I might manage a lie in but nevermind!
I checked blogger while still in bed and saw the Polkadoodles posting for the new challenge.
My Craft desk is in my bedroom and all the leftover bits from yesterday's project starting waving at me!


The Challenge this week is to make a gift. I had seen this idea a while ago somewhere in Blogland so have adapted it a teeny bit. I cut 2 chipboard squares with my Nesties and covered them with Polkadoodles paper on both sides. Then I bound them with my Bind-it-all taped a pink Post-it pad inside and made a cute little topper from Polkadoodles offcuts.
This is the inside, I love those Polkadots and look, they match my pencil! How cool!

I intend to make a few more of these, I am always losing my post-it notes at work so hopefully this will make them a bit easier to find!

A Big Thank you to Funky Hand Anice

I made this card toniy ght as a symbolic Thank You to Anice the lovely and clever lady behind Funky Hand.
I made the card for Anice for the following 2 reasons....
1. For inspiring me to get hold of a Zutter Bind-it-all after seeing her demos on the Telly, I was scared I wouldn't be able to use it but after seeing the demos and she made it look so easy I went ahead and it is probably one of the most fun craft machines I now own!
2. For giving us a fabulous freebie download of some gorgeous papers on her new Challenge blog launching on the 1st of August. The colours are gorgeous and when printed on lightweight card the papers were great to work with.
These are my first mini books I made with the Bind-it-all and the freebie papers. I love them and they were so much fun to make!
They look so professional and it was hard to stop at just two! So once again, Thanks for the inspiration Anice and the lovely pressie of gorgeous papers.

Please go and check out Anice's blog and play along on the 1st, I think I am going to miss the first Challenge as I will be too busy that Weekend and the following days to make any cards but I will definitely be there for Challenge no2!

Jane
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