Card For the Special One

I made this card before Valentines Day last year for my very special one. It was difficult to take pictures of this card. I am not a card-maker as well as I am not professional photographer:) It can be better of course but it was made with really worm feelings.
Front side:

Back side:

I aged paper by putting it in coffee for a night. As a result the paper looks old, has burnt edges and as a bonus has wonderful coffee smell.

Travel book - Ukraine

Here are new pages for my travel book. This time they are related to my trip to Ukraine. I didn't bring too many tickets, brochures, etс this time so it's only five pages.

First page contains list of clothing I planned to take. I had very small suitcase filled up with gifts so need to be minimalist.

 Next two pages are about my #1 city in Ukraine - L'viv. This city is fantastic!

 Last two pages contain memories about road trip to Uzhgorod, Chernivtsi and road-trip:

Handmade valentines: make it by your own hands

St. Valentine's Day is on next Monday, but it's still more than enough time to create very special valentine for your very special one. Below you can find some ideas and "how to's".
First idea - box with the kiss. For the laziest ones. Take any nice small or big or even huge box. Decorate it with harts, or kisses. If you are the lazy champion, you can just buy nice red box, if not you can cut out hearts, flowers and kisses, buy a lot of small valentines and attach them to the box or buy ready heart shaped stickers and put them to the box

Thats all for this idea. After preparing your box you should come to you Valentine, open box, kiss the air in the box and quickly close it. Your present is ready:) Give it to your sweet hart.
Next idea - Be My Valentine garland:

Step by step instruction you  can find here.
Next idea - aromatic valentines made from salt dough.

 

 

To create such cute valentines we need:

- cup of flour

- 1/3 cap of salt

- 1/2 tbs of corn starch 

- hot water

- fragrance oil

- food color

Mix water and food color. Add water to mix of  starch, flour and salt. Brake dough with fragrance oil. Sculpture anything you like (for Valentines day it's probably should be hearts) and put it to the dry and warm place. Let them dry for couple days and then put them everywhere. 
I like pop-ups cards a lot. So here are couple ideas for them.

If you like these pop-ups you can find how to make them here. There were simple ones. The following requires a way more time and a little more skills but they are really gorgeous:

 

 

 

The templates for these cards you can find below. The larger size is available after click on the picture.

That's all for today. I'll continue tomorrow:)

Sources: www.zhenskayalogika.ru; cosmocricket.blogspot.com;  www.designspongeonline.com; http://aauumm.ru/post128809409/; robertsabuda.com; blogs.mail.ru

Mad Tea Party - Invitations

No tutorials or how to today. Cause couple days ago I and my really close friend had a Birthday, so we through a big celebration in Mad Tea Party style. So we need a crazy ones invitations for it. I decided to make them in tea pot shape and all they are different. Today I would like to show them to you:

 I downloaded templates in internet, cut them out and added some laces and flowers:

Paper Christmas Tree

Inspired by all unusual and creative trees I found on internet I decided to create one to bring Christmas spirit to my office. Here is the result:

If you like it here is step by step "how to".

Materials

1. Thin paper. I used the one that usually is put in the shopping bags in fancy stores and in the boxes with shoes:

2. Cone. I bought it in Michaels store but you can make one from thick paper or cardboard

3. Glue. I used glue gun

4. Spray paint (optional)

5. Garlands, ornaments, etc. (optional)

Step 1. Tear paper to make rectangle pieces

Step 2. Bend each piece and fold the corner like it shown on the picture below

Step 3. Attach each piece to the cone. Start from the bottom.

When you done you'll get something like this  

Like it? If so you are all set. If no - you can cover your tree with paint and add ornaments, garlands, snowflakes....I cover my tree with silver paint leaving the spots where we can see paper color and putted garland on it. 

That's all. Merry Christmas!