A Handcrafted Christmas Gift

Hi Blogging Beauties,

Thanks for stopping by.

Over Christmas I made three hand-crafted gifts to give.  Only one of which I remembered to photograph (I am so sad about that) but it was such a busy lead up and often I was finishing the gift on the day I needed it!!  

This was a plain sketch book that I covered for my cousin Danika.  She is an artist in her spare time.  I have one of her beautiful drawings framed and hanging in my hallway.  We had her for "Kris Kringle" and I bought her some perfume, but I wanted to get her something "arty".  I wasnt sure on the products she used so I ended up buying her this blank sketch book.  Then I decorated the cover.

 I entitled the book Dreams, Doodles and Designs.  I hoped that would allow her the freedom to use the book as she wished.

The main paper covering the whole page is from the DCWV "The Mariposa Stack"  All the other papers are Kaisercraft and collectables (the cut-outs) from the "Sweet Nothings" collection.

This is an old Prima butterfly I have had in my stash and a gem stone swirl.

I have been keeping very busy.  After the cleaning of the craft room Ben and I have been inspired to continue our clean.  We rearranged all the furniture in the lounge room and have ordered two recliners that we will pick up in a few weeks.  I am looking forward to getting my pregnant body in one of those!!  I took a few boxes and bags to St Vincent de Paul's today and we are loving how good it feels to clean out some clutter!

I have my candy all ready to draw out...think I might do that tomorrow!

Hope you had a lovely day.

Take care,

Alicia xx

A few recent creations...

Hi Blogging Beauties,

I have a few creations to share today.

A lady at the market asked me to decorate some notebooks for her as Christmas presents.  (How organised is she!!) She wanted to have the first initial of each girl on the front cover.  Three are for girls around the age of 5 or 6 - they are the pink ones and one is for a girl aged 11 - that is the white one.

I wanted to enter these journals in the Ribbon Carousel Sparkle and Bling challenge you have to use ribbon and sparkle or bling.

Also I coloured an image at the Mad for Marker's conference in all greys.

This was one of the demonstrations we had.

Some of you expressed interest in seeing what we coloured.

I have put the image on a card (kept it pretty simple) for my sister who wants the card for our cousin.

I was happy with how the image came out.

I used the colours C-0, C-1, C-3, C-5, C-7.


I would like to enter this card in Scrapbook Sisters - Anything Goes

Also I have a new corner punch and I am obsessed with rounding off the corners now.

Can you tell!!

I love the rounded corner look!

Life is busy as usual.  I am stepping up the tutoring from next week with two new students so am busy preparing for that.  I hope you are having a great week.

Thanks so much for visiting.

Alicia xx

Altered Notebooks and Candy!!

Hi Blogging Beauties,

I altered these notebooks awhile ago to give to some kids that I love.

I thought they turned out pretty cute.  I havent given the pink butterfly one away yet.

I also made another bookmark for Jack...

I have some candy on this post here.

All you have to do is a leave a comment to enter and be a follower.

It is that easy!

Have a lovely Sunday and thanks for stopping by.

Alicia xx