Creating With Wendy

Tim Holtz Tag / Card holder  Have you all seen those glorious 'huge' Tim Holtz ETCETERA Tags...oh my! they are wonderful. I am going to be playing/experimenting on the medium size tag which measures 12 inches by 6 1/2 inches...and I plan to have fun!!! I wanted to make a tag card holder. Something that would look pretty and be useful as well. A place to store my handmade cards, something inspirational ! What I Used: *Tim Holtz Etcetera Medium sized tag *Maggie Holmes Handwritten patterned paper *Kaisercraft Flora Daisy Die  *Glue *Edge Distressing tool (my supplies) *a piece of cardboard 10 1/2 inches by 5 1/2 inches (my supplies to make a small box) *white gesso for edges of tag *Kaisercraft DIY Flora Daisy Die Set *extra bit'n'pieces you have laying around for decorations  To start, I made the box which is going to fit on the bottom of the thickboard tag. I used a piece of teal coloured cardboard 10 1/2 inches long by 5 1/2 inches high...

Greeting Cards Welcome everyone to a brand New Year 2020!. I hope you all have a lovely Christmas and I'd like to wish you all many many blessings in 2020. At the start of every year, I like to get a 'jump' on my Happy Mail items and cards. I usually make about ten but they always seem to go so fast. You'd think I'd know to make more but hey,...I still haven't learnt!...LOL LOL... So, my first project for Aunty Vera this month is making some handmade cards that I can send in with my happy mail parcels. I wanted colour and circles!  What I Used: *Jane Davenport 'Colour is Hapiness"Stamp Set *White pre-folded cards *Tim Holtz Distress Archival Ink Set   -(fossiled amber, pickled raspberry, barn door and spiced marmalade) *a black marker *a white signo marker *a small 'Hello' stamp from my supplies *and some strips of masking tape for borders *a circle dabber *Black Stazon Ink To start I ripped some strips...

Christmas Journal Hello Everyone, hoping you are all getting into the Christmas Spirit.  After watching and helping (slightly) Sammy, my grandson, create and make his Christmas projects for Aunty Vera this month; I just couldn't help myself and could no longer stay in the background and NOT make something from this months items from Aunty Vera. So, there was a little of the gorgeous papers left from Echo Park A Cosy Christmas Collection and I just had to make myself a personal junk journal out of it....and also score another point for "Santa"...lol lol ! I wanted a simple put together journal so I used a rather large yellow envelope that I purchased at a 'cheapo' / discount store near where I live. The envelope size is 13 inches by 9 inches. I measured out the center and marked a half an inch either side which gave me an inch spine for my journal. I appologise for not taking any progress photos as this project was a very spur of the mome...

Sammy's Christmas Diorama This is the final Christmas craft Sammy has for the month...and my word, he thoroughly enjoyed himself with creating this Christmas Diorama. He used the hot glue gun by himself, he raided my supplies and he just went for it. I must appologise, I really forgot to take a few process photos of him crafting this...but I will give you an overall run-down of his process.  Sammy chose a patterned paper of the sleds from Echo Parks A Cosy Christmas and I measured and cut it to size of the bottom of the box. I then showed Sammy how to put the box on it's side and glue it into the box lid (which we used as a base). Then Sammy went to town and started hot gluing all his elements on to the box. He used plastic pine branches, a reindeer ornament and a tin soldier from my supplies as well as some festive ribbon and a few glittered flowers.  I wasn't too sure if he planned where to put the pieces but I think in the end it worked out for him...