Hello my Blogging family and friends. Well amost at the end of the week. For me it seems to have gone so quickly, mind you I have been really engaged working at the computer this week on a couple of really interesting projects for work.
A quick posting today and it's a Video Posting. I hope you enjoy the attached video.
The main ingredients I used to make this project are:
Hello how are you today. It's hard to believe that it is already the first day of February already. I hope I find you well and enjoying the start of your weekend.
I have a project to share with you today. Something I made for my Grandson Harrison. It is another Bird House and Photo Album. I have photos as well as a video clip to show you.
Here we go with the Bird House itself. I'll add the papers I used to cover the chipboard in the list of ingredients. The main papers are from Simple Stories and Bo Bunny. I also used some Kaisercraft Base Coat papers.
Here is a closer view of the front. I used Jute twine for the top of the deck and on the front I used a chipboard anchor which I distressed with some silver and bronze Adirondack ink.
The back of the Bird House remains fairly simple. The roof is covered with the Kaisercraft paper.
By lifting the roof you access the album inside the house.
Here is the album outside of the Bird House.
The album I covered with some Graphic 45 paper and some more of the Bo Bunny paper. I cut some strips using a Tim Holtz vintage lace die to join the edges. I made a hole in the tops of the album and used some navy cord I had in my sewing basket as the tie mechanism.
Inside the album I used a MME paper pad. I can't think of the name off-hand but I will find it and place it in my ingredients list.
The album is made of 6 pages that look like boats, I decided to decorate them as the first six winners of the 2013 Boxing Day Sydney to Hobart yacht race. Tags then sit inside them and it is on the tags that you stick your photos, journals etc.
Inside the front cover I made a pocket with a tag which on one side I wrote a message to Harrison with a photo I had of him on the other side.
The larger Tags are folded in half and have four spaces to stick larger photos. The smaller tags are double sided and allow for journalling space or smaller images.
This boat was Wild Oats.
The next boat is Perpetual Loyal and you can see how I decorated the tags using the MME papers.
On the Ragamuffin boat I added another couple of photos of Harrison, this time I used some Cricket stickers and a photo of him playing cricket.
These may not be in order but you get the idea.
The last one of the six with the tags open for you to see.
and back to the house again. I wanted to show you the acrylic on the sides and under the deck. Underneath the acrylic is sand - yes real sand and some sea shells.
You can also see the wooden perch that I had made locally by someone who has a lathe. The Life belt I made using white and red card from my scraps. I used a Copic marker to distress the white colour a little. Then I added some red and white Bakers Twine around the edges.
OK that's all the photos. I also made a video clip of the project and I link that here if you'd like to have a look.
Here are some of the main ingredients I used to make this project:
Hi everyone, I hope this blog finds you well. I promised to let you see the project that I made for Tiffany's birthday - also a Bird House, but a very different style. Again HUGE thanks to Laura Denison for the idea and Inspiration.
Here it is. A Wonderful Bird House. Made using chipboard and covered in Graphic 45 Secret Garden Papers.
I have heaps of photos to show you as well as a couple of videos.
Again, the little peg at the front was made by a local carpenter who is very skilled on the lathe, he made a few for me.
I took a few pictures of the outside of the Bird House to give you an idea of how I decorated it. These purple flowers were taken from a very cheap artificial flower that I found at Spotlight which looks much better once it is broken apart.
You get a great view of the fabulous G45 paper here. The pink flowers I made using quilling techniques, the Orange large flower was a Petaloo pack where you can make flowers from a small kit.
I used an old whale of a punch flower and some Spellbinders Foliage leaves, and the Anemone Flower Topper die S5-067.
I photographed four of the five tags that go inside the bird house. There is a huge amount of "real estate" for photos. These fold in half and slot inside the house.
Another of the tags shown open.
I used some of the spare pieces of paper I have in my stash.
I used a mixture of flowers that I made and others that were shop bought. Organza ribbon added a nice touch to each of the tags.
Another view of the bird House. The fence I made using Lollipop sticks which I painted white using Kaisercraft white paint. I also added a little more chipboard across the sticks which I glued to the Lollipop sticks to keep them in place.
Here are the videos I also said I would show you: The first is a brief introduction and the second is longer and shows more detail.
The main ingredients that I used to make this project are:
