More Invitations

It is with huge disappointment that I tell you all that the invitations I cut out and posted to South Africa for my nieces 21st Burlesque theme party have still not arrived - 6 weeks and 2 days later. Its crunch time on getting these invites out so I have had to re-cut 30 invites with tags to start all over again. However this time I decided on a different pattern for the corset and keep in mind that I have only cut out the parts for each invitation and sending it on to Shanna to decorate and complete.

 This photo is without the tag inside it. She wants to have red or silver ribbon to lace up the corset but I have used black ribbon because I did not have enough red ribbon.

This is with the corset tag inside.

Thank you for looking

Swap Group in Australia

Challenge One: Memory boxes The challenge set was to make your interpretation of a memory/gift box. No theme This is what I came up with:

Second challenge: Thank you cards with a jungle theme We had to make 2 different Jungle themed thank you cards and this is mine:

Third challenge: Meander albums This was my challenge and my Mom had been visiting me and She really enjoyed making these albums. She had just returned home to South Africa so this was an emotional challenge for me. Anyway this is what I made:

Fourth Challenge: Dress form themed tags We had to make two different tags with a dress form theme. I decided to go with "Naughty and Nice" as my inspiration and here they are:

Fifth Challenge: Recycled items This challenge has just been set and its basically to make anything from anything recycled. I decided to use 3 different recycling items being: Toilet rolls - I made the pages of the albums with these Plastic shopping bags - The rose on the front is made from the plastic Soda cans - Tin embosses really well and its the label on the front of the album

Update on the Thank you tags

Well this will be the final post for my Nieces 21st Burlesque party for now. I was waiting for red rhinestones to come from Malaysia via Ebay and that also arrived this morning - with my stamps from the UK!! So I could finally complete the entire project, all I have to do now is box it up and post it off to South Africa tomorrow:

 I have added two little red rhinestones - just for that splash of colour. Hope you like!!The first picture shows without the red rhinestones and the second with - I really think it makes a big difference.

Well its been a huge task for me to do this project and I am really pleased with everything I have done, Just hope that my niece can see where I was going with all that I have made for her. Hold thumbs that it will all reach its destination in one piece and that all it will be what Shanna had in mind for her 21st.

See ya around!!

Burlesque

Hello there, to follow the last post I did, I have been working non-stop on making Thank you tags for my nieces 21st Birthday party and this has been a bigger job than I anticipated. However, its been heaps of fun!

As a reminder, Shanna decided on Burlesque as her theme and this has been an inspiration to me!!  I used the same design as I did for the tags challenge for the Swap Group in Australia! Cut out mannequins, made corsets and a skirt for each one as well. I stamped the mannequins with the Kaisercraft Script stamp and distressed it with Tim holtz Vintage photo ink. I did the same for the background of the stamp except I used the Kaisercraft music notes stamp and then stamped the feather over it and embossed with black embossing powder..A piece of black ribbon and 3 handmade red roses, black eyelit and a combination of red, black and silver ribbon completed the tags. However I still feel that it needs a splash of colour so I have ordered red rhinestones off ebay to place in the center of the circle on the feather. Just waiting for them to arrive to official complete them.

This what 90 handmade roses look like!! What was I thinking????