Mmmmmmm cookies for Easter!

Another food centred IBFD DT post, choccies again!

I've copied this box from one I won in a raffle, made by the wonderful and talented Carol V. It's a very simple design, but quite effective. I've filled it with a little bag of chocolate chips and a chocolate chip cookie recipe, hence the cookie digi on the front! The cookie has a bite out of it, so I just layered up a couple to cover up the bite marks so that it looks like a cookie stack. 

The cookies are Promarkered with a touch of brown stickles (loving my new brown stickles!) for sparkle, and the flower is another of my homemade ones, I've got a huge box of them to use up, so expect to see lots more.

I thought this might be a more grown up take on giving chocolate for Easter. For Christmas I made notebooks for my children's teachers, this year they may all be getting cookie ingredients!!!! 

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

I <3 Promarkers- Easter

Papertake- Anything goes

OLLCB- Happy Easter

One Stitch at a Time- Something 3D

Choccies on a tag

I quite liking tags. For special presents and special people. I think this one might be for my friend whose birthday is very soon (and who doesn't read my blog, so it's OK), and who has a very big heart and deserves a special tag on her birthday pressie. She's also someone who will appreciate that it is a special tag and that I've made it for her.

I Brake for Digis choocy box coloured with Copics, a gorgeous Nesties tag base and some of my flowers that I'm now addicted to making and putting on everything. Don't worry, I'll run out of steam on them soon enough!

The pearls are a from a pearl making pen of my mate Michelle's.....think they might be on my wish list......

Teatime

I'm a fan of the brighter than bright colour scheme, but occasionally something more subtle strikes me.

This is actually mounted onto a scalloped white card, but the sun was so bright when I took the picture, it's all but disappeared. Wait a flippin' minute- did I just type "the sun was so bright"???? In the UK? I may have to have a lie down to recover......

Image is from Lili of the Valley and is Promarkered. The bottom half of the brown background is embossed with cute little spots, and I made all the flowers myself, yippee!

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Lili of the Valley Challenge blog- sketch
Papertake- trio-tastic (3 flowers)
Stamp something- sweet (cupcake)

Two girls

I wasn't in the mood yesterday, I had a migraine and then a fuzzy head and although I wanted to create something, I wasn't up to lots of colouring or Promarkering. Sitting at my desk I came across these IBFD images that I'd started to cut out...... lightbulb moment!

No colouring! Well, just a little, ickle bit of Cool Grey 1 to shade the dresses. The girlies are cut out and decoupaged up twice- once for the dresses and once for the parasol and hat.

I added lots of clear stickles on to the dresses for a bit, well, a lot of added sparkle, and red for the flower.

The poppies are made using the technique in the post below this one, and they inspired the red polka dot ribbon. All in all, I'm rather chuffed with my no colouring card!

Scrunched flowers- how to.......

I've spent the day making flowers, and I've had loads of people ask me how they're made. I can't claim any credit for these at all, there are loads of tutorials on You Tube and on lots and lots of other papercrafting blogs. I'd made a slightly different version before, but my crafting mate Kay showed Michelle and I how to make them this way a couple of weeks back.

Warning- they're addictive!.........and if you're coming to the Midlands Docrafts meet, don't read any further, as it'll ruin my demo on the day, lol!

1. Punch out 5 or 6 scalloped circles. I used a 1 3/4" Stampin' Up punch. I'm using cream copier paper here, nothing too thick.

2. Spray each punched circle a couple of times with water. You're aiming for damp rather than soggy.

3. Now the controversial bit.... scrunch each circle up  completely. No need for any uniformity, just scrunch away.

4. Now flatten out each circle and layer them up on top of each other. Try to overlap the scallops, but don't worry about it too much.

5. Poke a hole in the centre of the stack of circles. Be careful, the paper tears easily once it's wet.

6. Push a brad through the hole and open it out on the back. For this version of the flower, I've used up some mini heart shaped brads that I had lying around.

Turn over the flower.

7. Scrunch the first layer of the flower up around the head of the brad. Scrunch quite tight, you can always loosen it out later on.

8. Carry on scrunching each layer up in turn in a random way.

9. Once you've scrunched them all up, gently tease the petals open slightly until you're happy with the result.

10. You can have the flower as open or closed as you require. I've added a dab or two of stickles for glittery shine.

These are only scrunched up slightly, and I've added some stamens (and used matching brads, cos they're on show, lol). There are loads of variations.

Enjoy!