Hi there,
Today’s project is perfect for hanging in the nursery, but with a change of colour theme, it could work in any room to be honest. The project itself took me only 20 minutes to make, so you could even make a bunch of these and hang them together to make a mobile!
Recognise that fabulous ribbon? You may have seen it in the video for our current competition sponsored by MeiFlower. I think I am in love with this scalloped ribbon, its so delicious! To make the flower, I simply cut five identical lengths of ribbon, folded each one into a loop and punched a hole at the cut ends, and secured them all together with a brad. Next, fan out the ribbons evenly to make a flower shape. To add a bit of sparkle, I’ve added a gem onto the brad, which looks amazing in the sunlight.
The cord that I have used is also from MeiFlower. I’ve been using this cord for ages to make little tiny silver bows on my cards and scrapbook pages, but its also great for putting along the edge of your cards, adding to tags, to gift bags and boxes, and for little projects like this using beads. I love the way it looks when the light catches it.
And the daisy charm on the end….I’ll give you one guess where I got that from!
Be sure to enter our Meiflower competition and you could have fun playing with Meiflower goodies too!
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It has been months, and the craft room still isn’t just right!
I know that it’ll never really be perfect, because a room that is used will never be pristine, but what i do mean is that I still have a few things in boxes (I SHALL empty these reaaaaallllly soon) and there are also things lurking in places that I no longer remember. Eeek! SO frustrating! I really need to make sure I label the storage boxes better.
Although its not perfect, I can still say with my hand on my heart that I LOVE my craft room.
A litte space. A haven. Somewhere that is MINE! An escape pod. I can paint it, decorate it, mould it to be what ever i want it to be! yippeeeee! 🙂 Creative freedom is bliss!
Before Christmas we took a trip to a craft store on the other side of London, and I picked up some Making Memories 8″ chipboard letters. I had never seen these before, but wanted to buy a million of them! Unfortunately, there were only a few left as they were in the bargain bucket, but I was thrilled to find the last ‘L’.
BING!! light bulb! I knew that this was going to make its way onto my craft room wall.
I found them this weekend when I was pulling my glue gun out of a cardboard box (oh my goodness, it took me ages to find it), and about 10 minutes later, with the help of some Black soot distress ink, my chipboard pieces were black, and became another part of my craft room that i just love!
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Look!
The first week we went to the ‘Baby Days’ meeting, we were able to make a footprint cast using salt dough. I had been wanting to make a footprint cast, and had originally thought about buying polymer clay to do it, and then {surprise, surprise} never got round to doing it. Why didn’t I think of salt dough? Easy peasy!
The ladies at the Baby Days meeting had dough already made up, and even fired it so it was ready for collection the next week. I was soo chuffed!
So this is little Piper’s footsies at 4 weeks and 1 day. I contemplated painting it white with some gesso, but i didn’t want the paint to cover over the texture of the footprint, because all those little creases are far to cute to cover over. I managed to pick up this frame in ikea a few months ago, and by a pure luck, it fits perfectly. This is going onto the nursery wall with some other frames and stuff (…which I will be showing you as soon as I remember to take a photo of them.)
Get yourself into a creative mood and make some salt dough – recipe can be found here.
Have a great day!
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