Hello again everyone.
It's time for challenge 27 at
CRAFT Challenge. Only a few more weeks till Christmas, have you all finished your Christmas cards and gifts yet?
I've still quite a lot of cards to sort before then, need about 200 and only have 75 so far.
But now to the order of the week, at CRAFT Challenge this week's challenge is to make a Christmas gift. That should get our creative juices flowing, I would think.
Our sponsor this week is our very own
Eileen, aka Eiglas and she is donating a set of sentiment stamps.
Well here is my project for this challenge. It was a bit of a rush as I did not quite have a lot of time to do it in and nearly didn't manage to finish it in time, oops! Therefore made a quick candle just in case.
The candle is for my sister and brother-in-law and the little story book is for my nephew and niece. This is using a storybook template and stamps from
The Crafty Pad.
I used some Anita stamps for the candle.
Now for some images of the story book.
To make this little book I had to translate the text to Dutch as they are Dutch (like me). I had at an earlier time already stamped all the images and scanned them to allow me to resize them for whatever project I would want to use them for. I did however still need to pixel clean the scanned images.
Instead of using papers and put a card with stamp on it, I used scanned Forever Friends and Papermania Christmas papers that I resized to fit A5 card and superimposed the stamps or the text on that.
All that was then needed was to print it out, cut to size, colour the stamps and laminate to keep them as good as possible. This way it will also be possible to wipe the pages clean. Not a bad idea with a 1 and a 3 year old!
Next the pages were again cut to size and I used a binding machine to punch the holes and bind the little book.
Hope you like it (and more importantly they do). Thank you all for looking, all comments are very welcome and much appreciated.
Hope to see you all at CRAFT Challenge this week.
Love,
Jo.
