Hi, I'm Kat and I live in Melbourne with my three boys who very graciously put up with my craft addiction. I'm now blogging over at craftaholickat.blogspot.com.au. Please swing by and say hello.
It’s my friend Janet’s birthday on Tuesday so this weekend I made her a small present - an hour basket. I have seen heaps of beautiful variations of this basket on instagram and have been wanting to give it go. For Janet’s basket I used a super funny yoga frog fabric I found in Spotlight.
I can’t even look at this fabric without having a little chuckle. Janet
and I are both Body Balance instructors and often find ourselves in
these poses. Though, these frogs are much more flexible than me! I
lined the basket with some tone-on-tone green plus fabric I picked up
from GJ’s Discount Fabrics and used a matching grey print for the
handles.
For this card I made a collage-inpsired large letter ‘J’ using a whole lot of different mixed media. I started by drawing the shape on a peice of scrap cardstock and covering it with a collage a fabric triangles leftover from a sewing project. I sealed the fabric with a few coats of mod podge and then cut out the shape once dry. I then embellished the J with a collage of differnt materials; pearls, rhinestones, ribbon, coils of jewlery wire, tulle, raffia, metallic embroidery thread, buttons and glitter tape.
I mounted the J on a background of patterend paper from the Kaisercraft Kaleidoscope collection using foam tape. The background was cut a little smaller than the card base to create a silver frame around the J. The sentiment was created using stickers from my stash.
For this card I played along with the Scrapbook Fantasies weekly inspiration challenge which was to use something transparent (http://www.scrapbookfantasies.com.au/blog/2015/05/11/weekly-inspiration-challenge-192015/) I created the transparent card front by running a peice of clear plastic (a binder cover) through my Big Shot with a Kaisercraft embossing folder. I also included a semi transparent butterfly made using an inticate Kaisercraft die.
Now that I have the cards sorted I just need to decide what to fill the birthday basket with :)