Button frame

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For James' birthday present I wanted to decorate a photo frame for him. I bought three so that I could do another couple of ideas too. This post is one of those other ideas.

Here is what the original frame looked like.

I took everything out of the frame and painted it brown.

Then I covered it in buttons from the Elzybells Colour Co-ordinates button collection in Chocholate Brownie. I wish I had got more of these button collections when Elzybells was still open. They have a great variety in them.

It's not often I start off with a project idea and it turns out exactly as I had imagined, but this one did.

Speaking of James though, he is now out of hospital. He came out on Wednesday, with a lovely bright green cast on. Thank you for everyone that left comments wishing him well. I passed them on to him and we both really appreciated them.

Corsets

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This is another scheduled post. These three corsets were printed ready to make a second card using the CPS sketch that I used last week. I ended up not making that card, so I used them to make this quick and simple card. I added a sentiment which I recently got in a set from a magazine. I'm not sure on the details of the set, but I will update this post when I get them. It looked a little bare so I added a purple outline around the whole card to finish off.

Happy birthday James!

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Today is James' birthday, and as this is a scheduled post I don't have any more news about his foot. So I'm just going to share his birthday card. I wanted to make him something based on Star Wars so I did a quick search for something to used. The only stamps I found were rubber ones, and I didn't have time to wait for an order to arrive. Then I came across this site which has a few templates for Star Wars themed snowflakes. They looked like something a bit different to use on a card, so I tried to choose the simplest one, since it was my first try. I used the storm trooper one and made it into a circle easel card.

I had a problem sticking it down though so I didn't like how it ended up looking. I decided to retry it, and this time made it bigger, which meant I could add more of the details. It ended up being too big for a card, so I made it into something for him to stick on his wall. Here is the second attempt.

Aliens

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Before I get to today's card I have some news to share. On Friday night James and I went to a friends house for a party. While we were there James broke two bones in his foot. He is currently in hospital, and it's looking like he will be in until Tuesday. It means he will be in the hospital for his birthday, which is on Monday. I am trying to get in for visiting times as often as I can, which means I'm not going to have much time for making anything. I have a couple of cards ready to post though so my blog shouldn't be too quiet. So, on with the card. I used a couple of Dustin Pike stamps to make this scene. It's a pretty simple card, but I like how it turned out.

Fight Like a Girl

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I challenged myself to use some digi's which I haven't used yet. I printed a few pages off, but decided to start by using this image and sentiment from Squigglefly.

Superheroes

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I made this card for this weeks CPS sketch challenge. Their challenge blog can be found here. These characters from My Grafico instantly popped into my head when I saw the sketch so I had to use them.