My Nesties Storage book

My Knight in Shining Armour.........

Helped me go from the above

to

This!

My Nesties storage book.

My Knight in Shining Armour is Calv who when he heard of my problem - solved it for me :-) 

I had finally got round to making my Nestibilities storage book & had covered the front & back covers then tried to use my Bind it All. I have an original blue Bind it All & had used official Zutter covers which I assumed (wrongly) would fit into my Bind it All. So I had my covers all ready for their binding but DISASTER!!

The covers wouldn't fit into the Bind it All!!!

After asking fellow crafters I found out that I wasn't alone with the problem & that was why Zutter had brought out the new Pink version of the Bind it All which addressed the problem. Not very helpful for those of us with the original!

So Calv came to the rescue & lent me his Pink (which is now white story here) Bind it All 

& SUCESS!!

I used the Zutter pages in black & then cut

Magnetic photo paper for the interleaves to 'stick' the nestibility dies onto.

I used some brown paper along three sides which overlap the pages as extra insurance when carrying my book around - I'd hate to lose any of my Nesties!!

This shows the book closed.

I used the Zutter Perfect Closure fastener. It has a real leather strap which I left plain but could have coloured.

I embellished the binding with beads ribbons & bits (you may recognise the keys from an earlier post :-)

The buttons were special, sent by a fellow crafter friend & the nail heads are one of my lastest purchases. The letters were cut on my Big Shot, it's the Go Slim alphabet & mounted on matts cut using of course my Nesties :-)

So I can now carry around my Nesties in a nice compact form instead of all the plastic packaging - I'm sure you agree that it looks prettier :-)

Bookmark & Serendipity frame

It was my turn to set the member challenge over on Charmed Craft talk forum So the challenges I set were to make seredipity paper & use it in a project of your choice to include blooms & a charm, and to make a usable bookmark to include ribbons & buttons.



So this is how my frame started out..................



Blooms & a charm .........................



More blooms & charms ..............................



Serendipity paper covering the frame ..............



Pearl accents .....................................


The bookmark



To include ribbon & buttons..............



Buttons from my button collection ..................



The body of the bookmark is made from 2 strips of plain ribbon which I stamped with stazon ink. The top attached to a buckle decorated with lace & beads attached. The bottom is knotted with a large covered bead above the buttons.



I decorated the top with beads, lace & a buckle.

There are some lovely makes for the challenge - do pop over for a look .....................

Jewellery making

I've been under the weather for a few days & confined to bed. As with most crafters couldn't just lie there so got out my beading stuff & maanaged to make some bracelets & necklaces for pressies. The bracelets are knitted wire & the necklaces crocheted. Aren't they effective? My friends daughter showed me how to make the knitted bracelet & I found the crocheted necklace instructions on YouTube at Aunties Beads whilst amusing myself surfing the net.



And here are sneak peaks of a couple of other necklaces .............................. don't want to give the whole game away as they are for presents & people may peak! :-)



Using black wire ........................................



And silver wire & a mixture of chunkier beads for this one ....................

Something slightly different today

Well today I've had fun using alcohol inks, dominoes, beads & bits to make brooches. These are dinky small dominoes that I found in a charity shop :-)



The back of the domino.



This is another, slightly different, just a stamp on the alcohol inked background.