Nature notes notebook

Here is a little notebook I made last night.
I wanted a book to write notes on what u saw, where and what month for my photography so I can go back next year looking for similar birds or flowers etc.
I made the cover with patterned paper, the words on my cricut machine but drawn with the cricut gels pens rather than cut, and the birds are stamping up punches. I then laminated the covers and bound the pages using my bind-it-all. The month flower stamps and the lines are also Stampin up.

A card for a friend

Here is a card I made for my friend Rel who sent me a wonderful card recently to showcase her new toy, a cricut! Check out her blog on my bloglist to see the card she made while you are there check out her lastest scrapbooking pages, they are very nice.

A couple of remakes

Here are a couple of remakes, the first one is the barrel of monkeys card idea. After a challenge with Sharlene to make one of these, she blitz me completely and I ws so impressed with her creation that I have tried this one based on hers... I still had trouble making a barrel though, she made it look easy!
The next is a remake of my wedding owl card as the first was snapped up by a lady at work.... this time I have made the bowtie whiteand givent he owls some beaks..

Wedding birds and wedding owls

And the final creations of the night (it's almost 1am so the night is over officially and my pillow is looking rather apealing!)....

Here are some wedding owls all dressed up for their big day, both the top hat, bow tie and flower hair piece are made from the little heart of the owl punch.....









And some wedding birds with the groom about to kiss the bride!

Wine glass charm kit -gift

When shopping on the weekend I found a wine glass charm kit where you get all the parts you need and then thread the beads and charms to make 6 wine glass charms. Here is a gift box I came up with to show them off and turn into the perfect gift box package... Sorry about the photo, the acetate lid always seems to reflect in the photo... The bird and butterfly are on a band which is on the outside of the box helping to keep the lid securley on the box... Rather cute, I am hoping the shop has a sale sometime so I can buy more of the charm kits as could be quite popular for gifts...

scrapbook page

I recently puchased a small scrapbook, for pages a little bigger than 6inch square.... I am tempted to buy one with more pages but wanted to see how I would get on making designs for smaller than the standard 12x12 pages... So here is a page I put together tonight, it'scertainly easier to put together a smaller page... Not sure if you can see into the photo, my precious budgie, kiwi. I took this photo last Christmas with my camera remote function...

Bouquet of flowers made with bird punch

Here is a bouquet of flowers made with the stems from the stampin up bird punch and the flowers are made fromthe birds wings..... last card for tonight as it is getting late.....

Bird with love - another take on birds making a heart

Here is another take on the card I made yesterday with the bird making a heart with the leaves, this time two birds making the heart.... I wish I had a little 'with love' stamp......

bird with love

And the last creation for tonight, I tried to make a heart from the leaf/stem from the bird punch, it kinda looks like a heart, I may try one again tomorrow night.....

New Bird Punch

Another few creations of the night... using my new bird punch, just delightful!

Inspired by Nature

With such stormy weather it's been a great start to a creative weekend, I have managed to knit 2 scarves and make 12 cards so far!

Here I have used my new stampset - Inspired by nature....