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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

G45 Ladies Diary Card

Hullo! Just a quick little something today! :)

A simple card:

with a slot for holding some gift vouchers or some money for your lady to go shopping...

And a little how-to:

Monday, August 6, 2012

This Shop is Not on Orchard Road

Hello! Thank you to all the lovely ladies who came and spent their day with us working hard at this class:

(please pardon the photo quality - camera phone lah)

Antique Store... which we built from cardboard

I hope you all had fun building your antique store and enjoyed 'playing' with it at home and putting in all the little bits of furniture and things.

These are my favourite bits:

The store window...handstamped...

the doorknob with hanging sign...

the sales counter inside with shelves on the wall....

the slightly functioning clock (the pendulum swings)

The pile of mail sitting on the counter...

and my most most most favourite of all....a little 'bell' to ring for service.

Thank you again everybody for your enthusiasm and effort - thank you for letting me indulge in such flights of fancy!

Friday, August 3, 2012

Look Ma, No (G45) Pattern Paper!

Once in a while its fun to give things a little twist, just to get the mojo going. So, for this month's Graphic45 project I decided to 'make things difficult' for myself and not rely on any pattern paper for my project, and see what I could make if I just stuck to using Graphic45 Staples - a bit like having just bread for lunch?....or rice if you're Asian... (writing while hungry....can you tell?)

Here's what I made:

It's a little sketchbook made from the Graphic45 kraft envelope album. And I used lots of Graphic45 staples (but I cheated a bit and stamped images from the Olde Curiosity Shoppe Cling 2 set)

The inside is suitably empty. With kraft cardstock pasted onto the envelope surfaces for better drawing.

All in all, I must say I really like how this adventure turned out - it's making me love those Graphic45 staples even more! What can I say? I love 'bread' - especially when it's 'crusty' like this:

I think I could eat it all the time!...maybe with a little ham and cheese now and then eh? ;) ....apologies....this food metaphor is getting a bit out of hand.

Anyway, just in case you wanna have a go, here's a little step-by-step: