Phoenix Inspirations

Only a week to go and it will be Chocolate - oops I mean Easter Day! Here is a project that I have been working on today It's a little birdhouse and Easter card. The bird house is made from half an A4 sheet of Baja Breeze card stock, some Always Artichoke put through the Scallop Edge punch and the roof was made using Crumb Cake. The little chick was made using Summer Sun card and he started off by being cut from the 2 Step Bird punch. The tiny flowers are from the Boho Blossoms punch. Pretty much the same was used for the matching card - I just added some stamping with the big stamp from Simply Said. So my title said 'Easter Challenges' and I am entering my birdhouse and card into the following challenges:- SIMPLY STAMPIN' CHALLENGE  - Easter & CRAFT YOUR DAYS AWAY  - Easter I have some exciting things to show during the week ahead in connection with my workshop on 3D Flowers - hope you can join me - bye for now - Jacqueline xx.

Hello every one, how are you doing? Good I hope. The other day I was browsing round one of the shops in my hometown of Malvern and I came across a multi-pack of note books for not much money. Hmmmm thinks I - I can do something with these. So I did - I decorated the cover of each little note book and tried to make them all  different . I know there are four bird houses (I just LOVE that Stampin' Up punch)but they are each a bit different. Here are some closer views These are now ready to be packed up and priced all ready for the big fair at the weekend - more on that story later! Hope you like these - it would be really good to have a comment, I'm feeling a little lonely at the moment. See you soon - Jacqueline xx.

Does anyone remember that song back in 1990? Yikes - that's 20 years ago! Moving swiftly on........ Birdhouses - that was the theme for my workshop yesterday morning and we made these cute little boxes: I followed a tutorial from a blog I follow, you might like to take a look here  . We had a great time making these and I awarded the prize for the challenge I had set them back in March. First prize went to Viji. I also set them another challenge - a box - they will have to alter it in the colours 'Black & Red'. If you pop back here in a couple of days I may have one to show you. But for now I will leave you with some more pics of my birdhouses - see you soon - Jacqueline xx.