AmiraInOz

Hello everyone, Im so exciting to be back and crafting on the design team after being away all year. When I saw the beautiful papers that Aunty Vera had chosen as November's theme I knew I just had to squeeze in some time to come up with a worthy project for our Australiana theme this month. Using the beautiful papers from the Sunburnt Country collection by Couture Creations, I have come up with an accordion booklet that allows you to utilise both sides of the paper instead of always having to chose one or the other. To decorate the inside of the booklet, I used the cut apart pages from 'Sunburnt Country' as well as some ephemera from Kaisercraft's Open Road 2018 collection which I am slowly running out of. When you open the booklet, this is what you see    You can then pull the pages out to the right to see one side that is wonderfully decorated with ephemera that evokes Aussie nostalgia. And when you pull the booklet to th...

Welcome back everyone, I have a wonderful project for you today :) Lets make a Lumaire!! I started off using this beautiful paper from  Echo Park's Oh Holy Night Collection Kit Here are the sizes you are going to need : 8 x Pattern paper @ 2.25"W X 3.75"H  4 x vellum @ 1.75" W x 3" H 1 x pattern paper @ 3 1/8" x 3 1/8" (this is for the base) Also cut 2 X cereal boxes (glue them together) @ 3 1/8" x 3 1/8" 1  X Pattern paper @ 2.25" W x 2.5" H ( this is for the lid) The 8 pieces of pattern paper will form the walls of your lumaire. Each wall has a sandwich of vellum in between 2 pieces of pattern paper. To be able to see the tea light flickering, you will need to cut a window out of the paper and replace it with the vellum. I chose this rectangle die - 1.25" W X 2.5" H to cut the middle out of my papers ( frame on far left has already been sandwiched with vellum). ...

Hi Everyone, I am a bit of a magpie on my morning walks- I tend to pic up things that catch my eye. On any given day, this can range from feathers to flowers to leaves.   have been known to come back with pieces of furniture too LOL- you know what they say- one person's track is another person's treasure.  I wonder what that says about hoarders- they always see the beauty in everything and thus nothing is ever trash? I picked up a few items this morning that I thought would be lovely to incorporate into my Aussie pocket TN. I have feathers, leaves ... Flowers.... These I dried by zapping momentarily in the microwave. I show you the result of the zapped flowers from this morning's collection compared to flowers I had picked up earlier in the week and are just left on my desk waiting to be pressed. I am working on a flower drying experiment which I hope to share with you so please stay tuned for that. I am also reaching for my ...