Pretty Petal Pocket

Now Christmas is over and the presents unwrapped I can show you this that I made as a Secret Santa gift for my friend Lana.

The purse is made from one of Lauren Meader's Timeles Templates called Pretty Petal Pocket and I used Papertrey card and papers and a JustRite monogramme stamper for the detail. I filled it with some lovely Champney' body butters. Apart from the very wobbly stitching I liked how this turned out and I know I'll use this template again.

Dotty Melon Berry Purse

The challenge over at A Passion for Papertrey for this week is to use polka dots in your creation. I have been meaning to try out Lauren Meader's Purse-onality Clutch for ages and pulled out my Melon Berry cardstock and bits for mine.

I used vintage cream ink on my polka dots basics stamps and paired that up with lots of buttons, twine, ribbon and lace. I found a box of these Polish chocolates in my local supermarket and very yummy they are too - well I had to check one out before I packed the purse full of them didn't I ;)

Thanks for popping in and have a great week!

Timeless Template and Cards Gift

If you haven't yet checked out Lauren Meader's Timeless Templates for Papertrey Ink you should whizz over and take a peak. For only about £3 you can download great templates and then go check out Lauren's blog for shed loads of ideas on how to use them. The one I used here is called Music Makeover - for holding cd's but I used it to hold some cards as a birthday gift for the friend I made the fairy card for. I printed the template off onto Papertrey's cardstock and used some matching Papertrey papers and ribbon to it, also some SU hodgepodge hardware.

Here are two of the four cards I filled it with. On her blog Michelle Wooderson shows how to make a batch of cards using Papertrey stamps and accessories and I made a few of these for this and some for stock. Really pretty and quick to put together.