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Easel Drawer Box with Foamiran Flowers Hi friends sharing a project combining my love for handmade flowers, diecutting and 3 D projects- and Easel Card with Drawer Box. Easel Drawer Box I have used gorgeous Lemoncraft papers[from dear friend Lisa  ]and dozens of dies ;the exact names of which I have listed at the end of the post. Foamiran Flowers The butterfly in the photo above and the tiny bow in the photo below are clay embellishments made with air drying clay and  molds and jazzed up with microfine glitter[ from brand  dress my craft , crafters corner] DIY Clay Embellishments Since the theme at Cuttlebug mania includes bows I incorporated a variety of bows in this project. The top 2 corners of the easel card have paper bows from a Cottage Cutz die set, then there is a clay bow [ in photo above] and in the picture below is a dainty delicate bow die cut from foamiran. Foamiran Bow The shiny butterfly badge from Lemoncraft and is ...

Pop Up Book School Project           Hi friends, my daughter came home last week and said she had to make a "chart" for an English poem! I was quite perplexed  I must admit!           Education is rather progressive nowadays...her English teacher had assigned different poems to groups of children and each group had to creatively present the poem in class using  power point presentations,vocabulary quizzes  and pictorial charts. What a fun way to learn wont you agree...!!! My daughter's group was assigned the poem " The Old Wife and the Ghost " by James Reeves. Pop Up Book School Project            The theme was just perfect to make an Interactive book and so I encouraged my daughter to make a  pop up book. Our plans were rather grand to start with but oooh it was pretty time consuming  involving brainstorming what elements to make , what scenes to draw, working out...

Pop Up Box Card           Hi friends,I am sure you will agree that Pop Up Cards are very special cards not only because of the fun element but because they are flat folding and easy to mail. One problem with pop up card designing is to add that extra bit of oomph without adding bulky embellishments and dimensional flowers!           In this project I have used a variety of glitters and micro pearls to  jazz up my card without adding a lot of bulk to it. Micro Mini Pearls I used glossy accents and tacky glue to  add these teeny weeny micro pearls. They were  the perfect light weight embellishments to add that extra element of pizzaz to my Pop Up Card ! Pop Up Box Card I love to use glitter and I have used  rainbow glitter chunks to add  a shimmery sparkling dazzle !! Rainbow Glitter Chunks I used the dazzling rainbow glitter chunks on the cattail reeds, tiny flowers and around  the...

Handmade Note Holder Hi friends... in this era of high tech gadgets, I wonder how many of you are old school  like me and still use a pen and paper to make shopping lists and to do lists! I was heavily inspired by some of my favorite Challenges to make all the elements in this project. I altered the backside of a desktop calendar into a pretty note-holder for my kitchen! Altered Desktop Calendar A crafter recently asked [on facebook] about what can be done with paper scraps. I used to hoard scraps earlier but over time it grew ,took too much space and became rather overwhelming.  So now I dont let it grow too much. I keep a tray with scraps right on my craft table near my die cutting machine and whenever I am in the mood, I  die cut  favorite shapes from the scraps of leftover paper. Tackling Paper Scraps  I try to arrange my most used tiny die cuts in clear storage boxes or transparent plastic covers so that I can save time in a future proje...