Craftroom Makeover - Part One

Colours make me happy!

I have been doing a tidy, organise and decorating of my craft space. After 2 and a half years of no planning and just happening, I decided it was time to get organised and sort out this area once and for all.

I don't know about you, but my space had turned into a mess. Piles of scrap cardstock everywhere, half finished projects and crafting items not in their place. It was making it hard to craft, harder to run classes and more importantly, it was making me unhappy. A couple of weeks ago I decided it was time for a change.

I chose a colour theme - my favourite, Bermuda Bay. I hunted around for some paint that matched, so I could get decorating.

Today's project is just one of the pieces I now have to decorate the room. It was a plain kraft box. I painted it my desired colour and then set about decorating.

Using the Butterflies Thinlits and some silver glimmer paper, I made the butterfly. The antennae are made from wire, two designer vintage buttons and rhinestones.

Today's blog post will be a featured project on Kylie Bertucci's Crazy Crafters Highlights  from 6.30pm AEDT. If you like my project, please follow the link and vote for me. Don't forget to check out the other amazing projects from crafters all over the world.


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Crazy Crafters June Blog Hop - Favourite New Product

 

 

Welcome to our June Blog Hop.

The new annual Stampin' Up! catalogue 2015-2016 started a few weeks ago so it is time for us to pick a favourite new products. With so many new stamp sets, pretty papers and other fun things to choose from, this was not an easy task. We hope you find great inspiration from the projects. Get your wish list ready!

 You may just be starting the blog hop here at my blog - Rosalie Desmond or may have come from the person previous to me in the list below. If you get off track at any time, the full line-up below will help you move along from blog to blog so you see all the projects.

One of my latest favourite product is the Expressions Naturals Elements (p. 160). To my surprise my favourite product is an embellishment! These guys are cute little wooden words. Each pack contains 15 pieces, 5 in each of the 3 designs. "Congrats", "Thanks", and "Celebrate". These 3D greetings can pretty much cover most occasions.

This month I have combined the blog hop theme of "Favourite product" with my need to make an engagement card for tonight. I didn't want to make the card too flowery or girlie, but elegant. So I decided to make a centre step card, and use black and white with some sliver.

The side panels are from a new DSP stack called Neutral Colour Collection (p. 144). It is a stack of 40 Sheets of DSP in a range of colours. The colour I choose for this card was silver. It does look a lot like grey in this picture but looks pretty amazing in real life.

To make the embellishment in the centre of the ribbon I used a button from "designer very vintage" (p. 161) and embossed it in silver. I then cut out a circle using the owl builder punch and added a rhinestone. Pretty simple and very different.

The greeting on the front of the card is from the expressions naturals elements, which are actually a wooden colour. I simply heat embossed it in silver to obtain the colour I was after.

Thanks for taking part in our blog hop, there are so many amazing ideas and inspiration you don't want to miss. Remember that currently you are at my blog - Rosalie Desmond, so check the blog hop line up list to see who is next in the list as you don't want to miss out on seeing one blog and the amazing inspiration.