Banana Frog Blog

Anne Lawrence - December Guest Designer

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month we welcome the lovely Anne to our blog...

I'm a teacher by day, but an obsessive lover of all things crafty in my spare time.  Since discovering scrapbooking in 2008, I’ve experimented with many different crafts, but currently I’m mainly scrapping and sewing.  Having spent most of my life convinced that I couldn’t do anything creative, it’s been a real discovery to find how much I enjoy making things.  However, I now can’t remember what I used to do with my time!

I love the versatility of stamps, and I’ve had Banana Frog stamps since I first discovered the delights of shopping for craft supplies. 

Projects:

I started with the Scribble Flowers set, which I can see will have so many uses!  Especially for super quick little cards which can be whipped up in no time at all (perfect for me, as I always struggle with card making).  For this card, I just layered up some paper scraps, and stamped two sizes of flower on old book paper.  Layer it up, pop a brad in the centre, and easy peasy, it’s done.



As handy as quick cards are, I’m starting to feel Christmassy and I want to try my hand at making some decorations this year.  Although Scribble Flowers isn’t a set which might immediately make you feel festive, I think (hope) I’ve managed to create something Christmassy.

Using the two different sizes of one of the flowers, stamp onto some patterned paper – I used festive red and green polka dots.  Cut them out.

Layer up with a large flower, then a small flower, and glue in place (I would recommend using something like a pritt stick or a quickie glue pen rather than a tape like ATG which can tend to bung up your sewing machine). 

You could just use the layered flowers if your garland is going to hang against a surface like a wall.  If you are hanging it somewhere where the flowers could spin round and show the back, you could do what I did and make them two sided, using a punched out scalloped circle as the middle layer.  I make the flowers up in two different sizes.

Finally, run them through the sewing machine, leaving a gap between each one.

If you don’t have a sewing machine, you could easily stick ribbon or embroidery thread to the back of each flower to string them together.

 
 

Thank you Anne for two gorgeous but simple projects using one of my favourite sets!

Check back on the 20th to see some super festive projects from Anne. In the meantime, get ready for a big giveaway!

Mija Comstad - November Guest Designer Part 2

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month we are delighted to welcome Mija! Mija is from Sweden and you can see more of her beautiful creations on her blog. You can see Mija's first 3 projects here. We sent Mija the Christmas Elegance, FT Rosecube and Swirls stamps to play with and she has brought us another gorgeous project.

Mija has created a stylish winter layout using a tone on tone effect. It is just stunning.

For this wintery layout, Mija used the Christmas Elegance stamps. She created a background by clear, heat embossing the snowflake from the set and some masks before using Glimmer Mists and Distress Inks.

Mija also used Picket Fence Crackle Paint over the stamping to give a more snowy look.

Thanks Mija for the gorgeous creations you have shared with us.

Check back next month for more super projects from Anne Lawrence our December guest designer!

Mija Comstad - November Guest Designer

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month we are delighted to welcome Mija! Mija is from Sweden and you can see more of her beautiful creations on her blog. We sent Mija the Christmas Elegance, FT Rosecube and Swirls stamps to play with and she has brought us 3 gorgeous projects.

Mija says: "I'm a happy mother of three lovely teenaged daugthers, married to Hans since 1992. We have two poodle-girls and a gorgoeous cat and we all live in Halmstad in the south of Sweden.
I've been a scrapper since 2006 and I love it. Creating with stamps is always fun and inspiering - hope I manage to inspire YOU!"

There is no doubt that Mija's project will inspire. She has decided to get us all in the Christmas mood and made three vintage style cards.

 

The first card uses the tree and baubles from Christmas Elegance, while here second card highlights the simple elegance of Swirls (which are in the sale by the way!)

Mija's final card uses the FT Rosecube set, which is one of my favourite alphabets -grungy yet stylish!

Thanks Mija for showing us three stylish yet simple cards for Christmas, we can't wait to see more!

Check back on the 20th to see more projects from Mija.

Alison Drummond-Jones - October Guest Designer Pt 2

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month we welcome Alison. You can see Alison's first projects here.

And now, for some gorgeous new projects from Alison...

Hi again everyone!  I don't know about you, but I am very conscious that Christmas is now under two months away!  I am one of these strange creatures who likes making Christmas cards actually OVER the Christmas period, so I probably had at least half of them done by the middle of January.  Since then, though, there has been almost non-existent progress, so once Bev had sent me her lovely selection of stamps to create with this month, I knew it was overtime to redress the balance. 

I decided to showcase just a small selection of the myriad techniques that stamping utilises, and highlight this gorgeous set of stamps called Christmas Elegance. 

I have a particular thing about misting at the moment, so used a combination of misting, embossing and sewing on this first card.


The baubles were coloured in with Distress inks and then embossed with black to make them glossy.  I used red handmade textured paper which adds more dimension, but the shimmery texture is unfortunately lost in the photo. 

I see purple is quite a strong Christmas colour this year, and this next offering is like a blustery winter scene, using three different shades of Cosmic shimmers. 


I think certain peel-offs have their place (used judiciously!) and I have added some textured snow to this scene with buttons and white Stampendous snowflake peel-offs.  I used white dotty rub-ons around the border of the misted area to add contrast to the overall card.  I added Stickles to the tops of the buttons, which unfortunately doesn't translate here. 

There will always be a place for the traditional colours of red and green at Christmas. 


The small set of Budmo Jiggler stamps are perfect for adding a greeting with a bit of bling - by adding tiny daubs of Stickles, I think this card has achieved that retro, glamorous Hollywood look of days gone by!  The tiny red gems adhered to the stamped tree baubles were stuck on using Glossy Accents. I broke out my Marvy Le Plume pine green marker to add a border, which helps draw your eye into the card. 

And last but not least - I broke out my alcohol inks for this last card, which is another vision of purpleness.  This one is my favourite, especially being mounted onto a gold card, which I think adds extra sophistication!


I hate throwing things away, and love to recycle as much as possible.  I use leftover photographic printer paper (which has had images previously printed on it) and overcolour this with alcohol inks.  Using lighter shades of ink aren't successful here, as too much of the previous image shows through.  Being that my main aim is limiting wastage, I think I gain a lot of interest because the image also has an interesting gradient of colour showing through and it adds depth to the background.  I then overstamped with white brilliance ink for the branches and the snowflakes in dark purple.  There are an additional three layers on this card, with the mica shard, the greeting and the ribbon.  Lots of shiny shimmeriness on this Christmas offering, especially with the additional Stickles on the stamped snowflakes on the mica!

By having this one set of Christmas stamps, you can create a huge variety of different, elegant seasonal cards which will surely stand out from the crowd.  By also mixing techniques and using different materials, this can really give your creative process a boost when making a large amount of cards at a very busy time of year.  

It has been a real pleasure guesting this month and do feel free to drop by my blog  to see what else is occupying my creative energy!

Thanks Alison, for some fantastic Christmas ideas! I can't wait to try some of the techniques out.

Check back next month to see some super projects from our November guest designer.

Alison Drummond-Jones - October Guest Designer

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month we welcome Alison Drummond Jones...

Hi everyone - My name is Alison Drummond Jones and I live with my husband in the UK, though I am proud to say I am an Aussie - in my mind, still temporarily residing here after 17 years! 

I have now been crafting for over six years, and it has become a way of life, rather than just a hobby.  I mix between scrapbooking and card-making, depending on what time I have available, and try to do at least a little something creative every day.  Over the past few years, I have found my time clock has changed from being a night owl to a dawn sparrow and now mostly craft early in the morning before the day's work begins.

I am drawn to rich colours and a variety of textures, but for scrapbooking, the mood and feel of my project is inspired by the photograph and occasion.  I love incorporating lots of different materials and techniques on my pages and can't ever imagine getting bored with crafting - there are always new materials and products coming to the market to tempt me to explore the possibilities! 

Regarding my scrapbooking resume, I have designed for a scrapbooking magazine in the past, and have been a member of various design teams.  These days, I am content with teaching the occasional class as well as getting some projects completed for myself, which used to be a real luxury.  I have recently also joined a new monthly challenge website - Scrapology so come along and check it out! 

This has been a big week for me in terms of getting projects ready - I have also set the UK Scrappers challenge which went live on Monday, and a new challenge goes live at Scrapology this week, being the start of a new month.  

With all that activity, I decided it was essential to multi-task.  One of the lovely sets of stamps Bev sent me was Swirls and Butterflies.  What's not to love about this set? 

For my first project, I decided to create a layout and used the stamps to embellish a panoramic view. 




I really wanted to use some kind of glimmer mist or shimmery wash, but I only own two mists, neither in the colours I wanted.  So I mixed up some pastel Jo Sonja acrylic paint to a watery wash, and used the Ranger mini-mister to squirt onto the background. 

A very difficult layout to photograph, being a double, and full of painty effects.  However, I have done some close-ups: 




I used the largest swirl in the set to emulate the water.  I embossed the swirl with pink translucent embossing powder and painted over the top with a pinky yellowy wash, some Jo Sonja Opal Dust (which are the glittering holographic particles) and a shimmery orangy/pinky wash which glimmers.  It looks a bit of a mess in the close-up, but the effect is beautiful (in my opinion!) from normal viewing distance, as the purple sheen on the embossing powder still shines through.

I used a Rebekka Erickson "Fancy" Box Board alphabet, which I then painted with a wash of Jo Sonja pink and peach acrylic paints, to which I added a dollop of violet iridescent.  I then embossed over the top with pink translucent embossing powder, which gives a lovely lustre.  Straight on, the letters are a pearly pale yellowy/pinky cream, and at an angle, they are quite reddish!  Perfect for a sun setting.

I couldn't complete the layout without using some of those beautiful butterflies!  I embossed the butterfly straight onto the cardstock for no reason apart from working out my placement, and then I washed over the immediate area with some of those glimmer paints.  I then stamped out the butterflies in a pigment blue ink, heat dried and set, and then washed over the surface with some washed out glimmer pastel colours.  I stamped and embossed the butterfly "trails" onto recycled packaging, and attached everything onto the layout with acid free silicone glue.  I love the dimensionality of that stuff, but it needs a bit longer to dry! 

For my next project, I incorporated more traditional stamping techniques.

The timing was quite perfect for this next project, because I have a good friend's wedding coming up this weekend and of course, I needed to make a card.  This stamp set was just perfect! 

I cut a piece of robust cardstock just shy of the card blank and stamped the butterflies and swirls mostly around the edge.  The swirls look great stamped off the edge, and it looks as though I have created a border because I have joined up the images.  I then individually embossed each image with Stamp N Stuff White Pearls embossing powder, which gives a lovely sheen.  Once that was completed, I used my Tim Holtz foam ink blending tool and various colours of pigment ink from the Tsukinenko Twilight Brilliance ink pad and then heat set to dry.  Using pigment inks also gives the card a real shimmer. 


Here's a close up of the stamping.  With such a detailed background, I decided to just add a simple message with minimal embellishments to complete the card.  I decided which message I wanted to use, and then printed it out onto cardstock.  I then stamped the journalling spot around the message and cut it out.  A few gems to add sparkle, and a flower on some 3d foam, and the card was finished! 


The smallest butterfly placed on the flower was just the delicate finishing touch required. 

Here is the fully finished card - I hope you like it! 

I look forward to spending some more time with you on the 20th. Till then, happy stamping!

 

Thank you Ali for showing us your first projects, they are gorgeous. We look forward to seeing some more from Ali on the 20th!

Check back tomorrow for news of a big giveaway :)

 

Birgit Moosbauer - September Guest Designer - Part 2

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month we would like to welcome Birgit to the team. Check out the first projects that Birgit brought us here.

For her second projects Birgit has used the stamps to give a vintage feel to her projects.

Over to Birgit...

If you want to see more works of me then visit my Blog “magic scraps”
I had to work very much fun with these beautiful stamps. Well that’s all from me, I hope you have enjoyed my projects as much as I have enjoyed doing them.  A huge thanks to Bev for choosing me to be a guest designer, it’s been a real privilege.

Celebrate Today:

For this project, Birgit has used Sentimental Style and Totally Tropical. Birgit used buttergly shape as her main image and stamped it with the Totally Tropical swirl stamp. She used embossing to give a distressed crackle effect. The card greeting and frame were stamped on textured card and then popped on foam pads to give depth.

Deko Vintage:

For this fun home decor project Birgit has used the Scribble Flowers stamps.

Just a note tag:

Birgit has used the Sentimental Style set to provide her greeting on this tag. She has cut the words seperate to the journaling spot to add more depth.

Vintage photo tag:

Birgit has used the Scribble Flowers and Sentimental Style on her photo tag. She has used embossing to add a vintage feel.

 

Thank you Birgit for such gorgeous projects, they are inspiring.

Check back next month for another guest designer!

 

 

Birgit Moosbauer - September Guest Designer

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month we would like to welcome Birgit to the team. Over to Birgit...

My Name is Birgit Moosbauer and I live with my family in Germany. I have been scrapping for about five years and it is for me far more than a Hobby. This is my passion and I scrap every day. I love it that my family memories are noted. In real life I work in an office.

As much as I love my family and my job, in the evening when everyone is in bed I enjoy my passion to scrap! And if it is only ten minutes, I need a daily dose.

My style, I find very hard to describe, rather romantic or sensual. But sometimes something grabs me, and my addiction with acrylic colours leads to more funky fresh and wild designs!

If you want to see more works of me then visit my Blog “magic scraps”

I am very proud to be a guest designer for Banana Frog and hope you enjoy my work.

Gift tag happy birthday:

Banana Frog stamps:  Sentimental Style and Totally Tropical

For the Happy Birthday tag, Birgit stamped the background with the swirls from the Totally Tropical with a mustard ink. She stamped the large hibiscus flowers and cut them out. Her greeting is from the Sentimental Style set, which she cut out.

Gift tag happy days:

Banana Frog stamps: Sentimental Style and Totally Tropical

Birgit stamped and cut out the large hibiscus flowers and the label. She edged each with glitter to add texture and some sparkle :)

Gift tag thanks so much:

Banana Frog stamps: Sentimental Style and Totally Tropical

Birgit has stamped the background of the tag with the swirls from the Totally Tropical set and then used the damask label with her sentiment.

Layout Fernweh:

Banana Frog stamps: Sentimental Style and Totally Tropical

Birgit has stamped and cut out the damask label from the Sentimental Style and placed behind her photo's. She then stamped and cut out the corner hibiscus flourish and smaller hibiscus and placed around her page. Birgit also used the circle journaling spot from the Totally Tropical set as an accent.

Thank you so much Birgit for your gorgeous projects, can't wait to see more on the 20th!

 

Beki Norman - August Guest Designer, Part 2

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month we would like to welcome Beki to the team. Over to Beki...

I’m back with two more projects this time using, Totally Tropical and Cake Greetings (which are in the sale, even better excuse!!)

In September I’m starting a uni course so I started looking around for some cool new stationary but I was disappointed to find that some of the notebooks I liked were £8 or £9 each! Well I thought I could make my own for much less than that so here is how I did it.

You will need a cheap notepad, 3 sheets of plain card or paper (I used Kraft,) and a small scrap of card.  I also used a sheet of polypropelene to make some nice strong covers.

 

Using the three sheets of paper, stamp up some backgrounds, stamp one sheet double sided and two sheets single sided.  I used a blue ink pad and a watermark ink pad.

 

Take the journalling block stamp and stamp twice and cut out.  Stamp a title with the Steelfish Outline upper on some card and cut out.

 

 

Dismantle the notebook, throw away the front cover and keep the chipboard from the back cover.  Using the two single sided stamped sheets cover the chipboard.  Assemble the covers and pages, adding the plastic covers and bind using a Bind It All or bookrings.  Stick one of the journalling blocks to the front and add the title.  Stick the other to the back to write your details on.

 

 

 

The second project is a layout using the Cake Greetings set.  Bev’s timing was excellent as her sending me these stamps coincided with two Krispy Kreme shops opening in Bristol!! So it was an obvious choice to scrap my first experience of the yummy treats!!

 

I used the stamps to stamp and emboss some circles.

 

 

I also stamped, embossed and cut up the words of one of the phrases.

 

 

After working out the placement of my layout, I used the Firework stamps as a stitching template and stitched behind where some of the circles would go.  After stamping and piercing the fireworks I used colourful embroidery threads to stitch over the stamped image.  I then assembled the whole thing, popping some of the circles on foam pads for depth.  And finally added a title using the Steelfish Outline stamps, embossed with a shimmery purpke powder.

 

 

Well that’s all from me, I hope you have enjoyed my projects as much as I have enjoyed doing them.  A huge thanks to Bev for choosing me to be a guest designer, it’s been a real privilege.

 

Thank you for giving us some great ideas Beki, we have loved having you as a guest designer. Check back next month for more super projects from our September guest designer Birgit.

Beki Norman - August Guest Designer, Part 1

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month we would like to welcome Beki to the team. Over to Beki...

I’m 26 and live in Bristol.  I have been scrapping for about 5/6 years but have always been creative, studying art and textiles at school and I have a degree in Graphic Design.  I am about to return to uni to become a primary school teacher, which I am sure will test my creative skills on a daily basis, so I am currently making the most of the crafting time I have.  My first love is Scrapbooking but I love making mini books, home décor projects, altered items and the odd card, you can see my work on my blog www.beksynormz.blogspot.com. 

I would describe my style as bold and colourful but like to think that I am pretty versatile and do what ever is suitable for the photo/papers etc.  I love to experiment with new techniques and products and especially love it when I see new designs from Banana Frog.  I was absolutely thrilled to be chosen as a Guest Designer and hope you enjoy my projects.

 

I have been given the Cupcake Greetings, Tropical Taste and Shake Your Tail Feathers sets to create some lovely projects to inspire you this month.  Today I have two quickie projects for you and will be back later in the month with another.  Enjoy!

 

Project one:  Peacock Card

 

Using the Shake Your Tail Feathers Tadpole set.

 

Using shimmer mists, spray a mist of 3 different colours onto 3 pieces of paper, I chose Kraft but you can use any colour of your choice.  I used green, blue and purple mists as they are nice peacock colours.  Stamp and emboss the Peacock stamp onto each of the three colours.

 

Using the same colour powder, stamp and emboss another peacock onto the front of a card.

 

 

Choose one of your three coloured peacocks and cut the whole tail section from it.  Choose the next colour and cut out a section of the tail, omitting the three longest feathers.  Also cut the wing from this colour.  With the final colour, cut individually the three foremost feathers.

 

 

On the front of the card, layer up the cut out tail sections, curling some of the feathers around a pokey tool to give some dimension.  Finish off with a stamped greeting.

 

Project 2: Cake Decorations

 

As soon as I saw the Cupcake Greetings Stamps, I was inspired to create something that I could use as a quirky little decorations, at a surprise afternoon tea that I was planning for my sister’s 40^th (and by the time you will be reading this, it would have already happened yesterday, good job as she will read this!!)

 

For this you will need some plain white card, some cocktail sticks and your inks.

 

 

Stamp and cut pairs of circles.

 

 

Stamp and colour pairs of cupcakes, I gave mine a coat of glossy accents for a different texture.  Leave them to dry and cut out.

 

 

Sandwich a cocktail stick between each pair of circles using a good strong glue.

 

 

Using foam pads for dimension mount the cupcakes onto the circles.  Then, all you need to do is a spot of baking, pop the little sticks into the cakes and your tea party is good to go!

 

Thanks Beki for two super projects, I need some cakes for the cupcake decorations!

Check back on the 20th to see more from Beki.

Diane Ingram - July Guest Designer, Part 2

We had so many wonderful submissions for the 2010 Banana Frog design team that in addition to our amazing design team, each month we will have a guest designer showing you fantastic creations. The guest designer will have two days to show their lovely projects, 1st and 20th of the month.

This month's guest designer is Diane Ingram. I love how Diane uses a range of household items that you might not associate with crafting -and she definitely makes you look at your make up in a new light :) To see Diane's first projects using Banana Frog stamps, look here. Over again to Diane...

Well I am going to start my second spot with a confession ……… these are some of my absolute treasured photos and I am ashamed of the damage that I have allowed to happen to them. 

Some of the photo’s I have carried for over thirty years, and I very rarely leave  them behind. Each one is tied up with someone I love and a very special memory.  Sadly I no longer have some of my loved one’s but I do have the memories and these photo’s help keep them alive. (I love the African belief in people who have passed away live on whilst there are still people around to remember and speak their name. Death does not alter or end the life; it merely causes a change in its conditions).   

When the Take Note set arrived it gave me the inspiration to finally do something more meaningful with my precious little collection and preserve the memories behind them.  I have to be honest this is not a set I would have thought about purchasing. I love scrapbooking but never make enough time for it but the more I used this set the more I found different things I could do with it, it’s absolutely brilliant. As I mentioned in my last post I am staying true to the principles of my blog of keeping papercrafting affordable. The entire project is made up of things that can be found around the home.

Junk Mail Pocket Album

 

The ribbons were the only thing I used from my crafting stash but these could be replaced with wool, strips of fabric or even string would look quite trendy. The main album is made from junk mail envelopes and a 6p document folder.

I used various stationary papers to decorate the album (I loved Hannah’s post in June about using graph paper etc. on your projects) I too love working with these papers and the graph paper led the colour scheme for this project. I also used some coloured paper cut from a brochure. The ink is from water based brush markers (posh felt pens!) and some of the ink is from a Printer Cartridge refill kit.

Select envelopes that are the same size, trim off the top flaps and fold in half, Stick these back to back (I only stuck the top and bottom edges as I wanted to create an extra pocket for a journaling tag (scraps from the document folder, stamped with the largest journaling panel) in-between each section.

Create the cover by cutting a strip of the folder four times the width of the front flap. I also allowed a centimetre extra to make the cover larger than the inside wallets. It’s also important to allow a few millimetres for the spine; this will depend on the depth of your album.

Stick the ribbons round the envelope booklet. Fold the front cover and punch some holes to thread the ribbons through. Then stick the cover over the front and back flaps of the envelopes.

BUT….before you do this…..decorate all the elements first!!!  

I went to town with the stamps and the inks. I distressed some of the papers with the ink and my handmade daubers (details on my blog) and covered the inside of the envelopes. I washed the envelopes with diluted ink. Then stamped panels and background details with the Take Note set. 

 

I stamped extra journaling panels for the titles onto Invoice Pages, these are lovely light papers, which lent themselves to having the edges folded and curled. On some of the panels I inked a different colour on the back to create a contrasting look once curled.

The more I played with the stamps the more I saw the potential of these stunning designs. Inking with pens gave great versatility and meant details could be highlighted with different colours. Individual elements can be built up to create larger motifs and the little heart looks lovely stamped to create a flower.

Any print on the envelopes could be disguised with handmade paper flowers and tabs. Faux brads were punched from silver packaging.

For the front panel I just inked the scroll element and printed it back to back to frame the word “special” from the Retro Greetings set. I used clear nail varnish to protect the panel.

To create the decorative spine I masked off the opposite areas before using the large stamp.

As the album is not archival safe I scanned the originals and then stored them safely.  The copies are now in their pockets with the memory recorded on the hidden tag.

The PC printed tag sums up this little album

 

“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love,

 the things you are, the things you never want to lose.”

 

Decorative Ribbon

 

Well for my last project I have kept it short and sweet….. it’s not something new but it is something that I forget to do and I don’t know why as it’s so effective. I have spools and spools of plain ribbon and it looks so effective once it’s been stamped on.

My daughter recently bought my husband a soft toy meerkat…. great, it had a smoking jacket…. but SHOCK HORROR! it didn’t have a cravat and you couldn’t possibly have a meerkat without a cravat (apparently).  So it was amazing timing when I received the Funky Paisley set, perfect for creating a meerkat cravat.  I did have quite a play with different inks but quite honestly they all worked on satin ribbon, some bled a bit but gave darker results, some gave a crisper image but appeared paler (to be fair some of my pads are not new), I will put my test pieces on my blog for reference, (will also put a scanned image of a piece of graph paper on there as well in case you fancy having a play). www.justaddglueto.blogspot.com

So it just leaves me time to say a big thank you to Bev and Banana Frog for inviting me and sharing the stamps sets, I am still playing with them all and actually can’t wait to incorporate the Take Note set on a card.

Plus thanks to the lovely people who left me a comment and thank you for reading this and being patient…. I tend to waffle a lot!!

 

Anyway in the words of the great Two Ronnie’s it’s “Goodbye” from me……

and…..

                                                                 ……… from him”!

Thank you so much Diane for some fantastic projects. I absolutely love the mini-book you have made, gorgeous and also how you have used things from around your house -of course it doesn't mean we can't buy stash, we can just use it in other ways!

Check back next month for some wonderful projects by our next guest designer :)