Female Ingenuity at it's best?

I was surfing the net the other night and visited one of my all time favorite blogs, Becca's Amazing Paper Grace (if you haven't checked out her site you just HAVE to, she is an amazing lady with an amazing talent), anyways, she had made her own peg board bow maker which makes tying professional looking bows a breeze!! Apparently I'm a little behind with this knowledge, but once I saw Becca use her bow maker I just had to have one NOW!!

Mind you this was at about 10 o'clock last night, and with Bunnings closed I had to use my female ingenuity, and I came up with this.

Very rudimentary but it works!! Ok, so the pencils wobble around a little bit and transfer tape isn't overly sticky to keep the pencils straight but it did the job :)

Hubby now has the measurements needed to make me my own peg board bow maker.

I'll post an update when he's finished it.

Cheers for now,

shell xoxo

One page wonder!

Ok, I'm on a roll today!! Here's a file I made on Gazza and I'm calling the one page wonder. The pictures above are in back-to-front order but you get the idea:) I cut the circle and the score lines out on my Gazelle and then using a combination of mountain and valley folds created this little gift box. The best part is NO GLUE NEEDED!! Imagine the ways you could embellish this little beauty! Once again, if you'd like a WPC file of this then just leave a comment and then email me and I'll get it off to you ASAP.

Thanks for looking!!

shell xoxo

Butterfly treat box

Here's a cute little treat box I've been working on today. It was my dad's wedding on Saturday and unfortunately I was too sick to attend because of a migraine, but hubby bought me home a little bonbonierrie (SP?) and I just knew I had to make it!! I'm going to be using these as little treat boxes for everyone who makes a purchase from De-Signs Made By Me! at the Paperific Expo that's on at the Melbourne Show Grounds April 1st-3rd. So make sure you drop on by and say hello, you might just end up walking away with a Gazelle!!! OHHHHHH!!!! for those of you interested the price of a Gazelle has come way down and Alisa now has them at the UNBELIEVABLE price of ONLY $650 (plus P&H if needed). I am so not happy Jan considering I paid $890 for my pink baby. You can check out Alisa's website for more info.

Cheers,

shell xoxo

P.S. if you'd like this file in WPC format just email me after leaving a comment and I'll shoot it off to you asap :)

Ladybug wishes

Here's another card I did this week. My son has yet another 6th birthday party to go to this weekend (He has a better social life than me!!) and this little girl loves ladybugs. The card is a file I downloaded from a very talented lady called Monica. You can find her wonderful cutting files here. All her files are gorgeous and sooooo detailed and they cut beautifully on gazza.

The lady bugs were simply cut from cardstock and the red bits coated with a big dollop of crystal effects. Soooo cute! I loved the way they turned out.

I also have to thank Alex, another gazza addict, for her fabulous vine cutting file :) The flowers were just cut out and shaped with an embossing tool.

Have a great day!

shell xoxo

Wedding Card

Here's the card I made for my dad's wedding next weekend. The colour scheme is gold and his wife to be loves butterflies.

Everything here was cut out on Gazza, including the printed and cut Mr & Mrs label. I used a cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder as well.

Have a great day,

shell xoxo

My first real creation since Christmas!!

Here's my first real card creation since before Christmas! A little girl from my sons year level was having a 6th birthday party and she loves butterflies, so I came up with this little creation. I really like cards that go off the edges like the wings and the scalloped edged. Everything you see here was cut on my trusty Gazelle, except for the prima flower.

Cheers,

shell xoxo