Folded bookmark

 

Turn a folded bookmark into a little gift for someone in your life

My children have made these in school before - ones with big googly eyes and jagged teeth making them look like monsters! I love making little gifts for people and these are great bookmarks to make and could be made to go with a gift voucher or book gift or on their own if you are sending just a card. I've made some with just patterned paper and some I have then decorated up to look like animals.

I have used an old stamp set from Stampin up called Playful Pals as they were designed to go with triangular boxes - absolutely perfect for this project. However if you don't have this set you could just draw features for your bookmarks or use other stamp sets you have. I have also done some with googly eyes - particularly the penguin as my son loves penguins and googly eyes!

They can be made with a piece of 6 x 6 paper or card which means if you have any favourite papers that you do not want to use or give away - just make yourself a quick bookmark to mark the pages of your favourite craft book or magazine.

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Envelope Book

 

Make a book from envelopes that can hold your keepsakes or favourite memories

By making a book from envelopes you create pages of little pockets. These pocket books can be used for memories, recipes, collectors cards or even tokens and vouchers. You can use pre-made envelopes or make your own. The size of your book depends on the size of your envelope and how many envelopes you use.

I saw one of these many years ago and have been keen to make one since. I wanted to make a holiday book as I keep all my tickets and leaflets etc from each day that I am on holiday so when I get home I can turn them into a scrapbook. So this is my attempt at an envelope book. I will talk you through how to make my holiday memories envelope book using the pre-bought envelopes, but will give you instructions on how to adjust the sizes depending on your own size envelopes. I will then show you how I made a Christmas book out of envelopes I have made using my WeR Memory Keepers envelope punch board.

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Large Picture card

 

Create a really simple card using just one large image

Whilst tidying my study recently, I found a couple of books with fairly large images in them. Therefore today's blog is to show you a really simple card that can be made using just one of these images.

The images I used are from 'The Little Book of Pampered Paws by Hunkydory. The images are 15 cm high by 10 . 5 cm wide. I chose a really simple design for this card as the pictures are so pretty - which is probably why I bought the books in the first place :) You can decorate with as much extra detail as you wish or could even 3d decoupage the picture using the duplicate images from the book. 

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Beach Hut gift box

 

How to use Lawn Fawns Scalloped Treat Box and Beach Hut add on dies to create a fab little gift box

I absolutely love beach huts and being by the sea. So when I was rummaging through my dies to see what I could make this week, I stumbled across these dies, that I haven't used yet, and thought what a perfect project. Children about to go back to school and the weather has started to get a little colder, so why not build your own little beach hut as a reminder of the sunnier times.

It just takes lots of little bits of coloured card and a bit of patience to cut out all the die pieces. Then it's just a case of gluing it all together. Quite straight forward and simple and once built you can fill with treats or just build to create a sunny display.

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