Among the Wildflowers and Teacups

 Here's a little ring-bound ephemera holder made using the Among the Wildflowers and Teacups digital kit from Bee Happy Stationery. 

The little mouse on the cover is one of the cute images from the kit, as is the lavender and the tea set. The corner pieces are die cut and the book rings are decorated with ribbons and lace and a ribbon rose. I've made a coordinating spine dangle from yellow, pink, turquoise and white beads and a lobster clasp.

The pages are folded in half and edged with blue card folded over the open end, punched to fit the book rings and strengthened with hole reinforcers I've inked in pink. 

The pages are a mixture of papers from the kit and plain cream paper. The images are so pretty that I've left some of the kit papers as they are and just added wooden buttons and some of the cut out images from the kit here and there.

All the pages are trimmed with lace or ribbon and embellished with little beaded dangles in coordinating colours.

The kit is full of lovely little envelopes, which I've used to store the ephemera from the kit, which includes seed packet designs, tickets, tags and invitations featuring wildflowers, bees or the animals depicted on the pages.

This will be a handy way of storing various bits of ephemera for later use. 

Here's a quick flip through and details of where to purchase the kit:  

Rust and Revolutions Folio

 I've been working with the Rust and Revolutions kit from Bee Happy Stationery to make this steampunk style folio. The papers are beautiful, lots of script, clocks and gears, not to mention the characters themselves. I've made lots of tucks and pockets from the elements included in the kit and cut sections of the pages to form a couple of waterfalls.

Here's a link to the kit in Bee Happy Stationery's Ko-fi shop. Use code BHS to get a discount.

Gilded Peacock Journal

 This is a flip through of a journal I've made for the Bee Happy Stationery design team, using the beautiful Gilded Peacock kit. The kit is available from Bee Happy Stationery's Ko-fi store

I love the rich colours and jewel tones. This really is a gorgeous kit to work with.

Envelope Flip Folio

Here's my second Design Team project using the gorgeous Bunny Spring Meadow kit from Bee Happy Stationery. The meadow backgrounds are so pretty, and I love the beautiful bunnies with their flower crowns.

The folio itself is made from four envelopes of varying sizes glued on alternate sides of the base envelope, making five in total. I've trimmed the tops of the flap envelopes to make pockets for the pretty journalling cards in the kit. The top envelope is held closed with a velcro dot.

Double Vision cards

It's been such a long time since I posted (hangs head in shame) but I've just joined Bee Happy Stationery's Design Team and I've been having fun playing with the gorgeous Bunny Spring Meadow digital junk journal kit. If you know me you know I can't resist a bunny, but for my first makes with the kit I've concentrated on the gorgeous meadow background pages. We've sown our front garden, which is really steep, with a wild flower meadow mix and the poppies have been glorious even in the wet weather we've had this week. 

I'm loving the soft colours, wildflowers and butterflies as well as the cute farm and countryside animals in the kit and I've used just one of the beautiful meadow papers to make two "Double Vision" cards.  This is a simple but effective technique, where the page is cut into strips and these are adhered to the card base alternately flat and raised on sticky pads. 

There are loads of instruction videos to show exactly how to do it. My tips: keep the strips in order as you cut them so you don't get in a muddle, and glue the flat ones first, using the ones that will be raised up as spacers to keep it even, then go back and add the sticky pads. Then I used stamps from my stash to add a sentiment and decorated with butterfly stickers and some teeny tiny Fimo butterflies that were supposed to be for nail art.

I was having so much fun raising parts of the design that I also created a card from another element of the kit, a page of faux postage stamps with the cutest little sheep, to make a third card. I raised three of the stamps and added a sheep motif from the kit.

I now need to do justice to the other elements of the kit, including some darling little bunnies! You'll find the full Bunny Spring Meadow kit in Bee Happy Stationery's Ko-fi shop and you can use code BHS for a discount.

Bee Journal

I've used the Jenndi Bee-utiful digital kit from Patreon.com/melodimade to make this cute little journal. It's nice to be back to bright colours after all the Christmas crafting! 

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Cat Mini Journal

 A little journal I've made with the Jenndi Purrfection digital kit from Patreon.com/melodimade . It's such a lovely kit I'll be making a larger journal with it too.

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