Birthday Gift Projects

For my friends birthday I made her an altered cigar box using Bo Bunny's Gabrielle Unwritten and Timepiece Villa collections.  I also made her a little journal that I altered from one I bought at the 99 cent store.  I used Graphic 45's French Country line and some kraft paper, and then some tags with Once Upon a Springtime and Secret Garden line.  I think she liked it, when she opened it she was saying "you didn't, no you didn't."  So I was happy :)

Here are pics -

The little inserts in the cigar box are from Prima printables.  I used my cricut for the butterflies and of course stickles and mists.  I dipped the rooster on the journal in my utee pot so he'd pop, my hubs said that would look better and it did :)  Flowers my stash, ribbon and distress inking for finishing touches.

I really need to be more diligent in my product listing.  I find it so tedious though, blah.  Gotta get with the program...

Bo Bunny Pieces

I did a few pieces for Bo Bunny's design team call and am really happy with how they came.  Bo Bunny has been a favorite of mine for many years now.  I have been waiting for this baby to open up and am over the moon that it finally did!  This is one of the paper lines that I hoard and have some that go back a few years.  I didn't see it written anywhere that we couldn't share our creations so I am going to here.

They asked for two layouts, two cards and one project of choice.  This was fun, but the trying part was the darn emailing!  When I'd click on the email link in their post Outlook Express would open which I don't use, so I right clicked on the email and copied and pasted.  Well, this is going to be hard to believe, but it put a misspelled addie in there, NO LIE!!  The next morning my hubby said it came back because you addressed it wrong.  I said that's not possible.  Well he resent it for me and I chalked it up to being up till one in the morning finishing the projects, taking the pics, uploading and sending.  Don't you know I check my sent folder yesterday and realize that a couple of my project pics are missing!  One whole card and a full pic of the my other card.  I do the very same thing, right click copied and paste and go downstairs.  Hubby says, your email came back, you spelled it wrong AGAIN!  I said no I didn't I am not crazy I copied and pasted!  Someone is putting the kibosh on me ;) but I won't let them win!

Anyway, here are pics of what I created.  The subjects are my son and granddaughters in the lo's, I made the chipboard fence with my cricut and cut out velum leaves with my punch and tattered floral die.  Bo Bunny makes it very easy to create!

Teacher's Gift

I made this altered cigar box and the little goodies inside for Santino's teacher.  I love the way it came.  The inspiration was from Janet Coulter who makes some of the most delightful little goodies!  Here's a link to her youtube channel, check her out you won't be disappointed -

Janet Coulter


I painted the cigar box and used some homemade texture paste with my own homemade mask made with my cricut.  Some tags and Prima printables that I had along with two pretty stick pins I made.  Hope you like -

The paper line was My Mind's Eye Lost and Found.  Love that paper! Ribbons and flowers from my stash, of course distress inking and misting. My cricut was used for cutting tags, bird cage,door, and little banner.  Obviously it's to look like a storefront.  I printed up the window pic after googling whimsical store windows and then store "name" on clear acetate that I've had forever.