Handmade sketchbook using Craft Consortium Winter Woodland papers

Hello and welcome to my latest blog post. I am Katrina, The Fruit Pixies design elf.   I love my Art Journaling and needed a small journal or sketchbook for when I want to journal in front of the TV. Of course I could of bought myself one but it is much more fun to make one yourself!

I decided to cover my hand made Sketch book with the beautiful Craft Consortium Winter Woodland papers and could not resist adding the sweet squirrel, one of the collage pieces you also get with the papers, to the front.

 

For the pages of the sketch book I used watercolour paper which I folded into 3 polios and then stitched them to a sort of false spine.

 

I then made the cover out of stiff card and covered that with the beautiful Craft Consortium Winter Woodland papers.

 

The spine of my watercolour paper pages was then glued on to the spine of the cover.

 

Once it was all dry it was ready to go!

 

If you have any questions about the making of my journal you can ask here or you can contact me through out facebook page.

 

You can find the Craft Consortium Winter Woodland papers here -

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/craft-consortium-winter-woodland-collection-744-c.asp

 

Our facebook page here -

https://www.facebook.com/thefruitpixie/?fref=ts

I hope you enjoyed reading my post and will come back very soon to see what else I get up to with the beautiful things The Fruit Pixie sells.                                              Until then keep warm and safe, love Katrina 

Craft Consortium Winter woodland shadow box card

Hello and a very Happy New Year!! My name is Katrina and I am the Fruit Pixies design elf.     For my first project of the year I chose to work with the beautiful Craft Consortium Winter Woodland paper pad. To be honest with you I found it so distressing to cut this beautiful paper up, I just wanted to sit and look at it! But I took a deep breath and made my first cut!!!   There are so many wonderful seasonal papers in the pad and as you get with every Craft Consortium pad some of the papers have extra special finishes. You also always get some collage pieces to cut out too.     I used some of the collage pieces to make my shadow box card.

I cut the base of the card on my Silhouette Cameo and then used the lovely papers to make the card come to life.

 

The deer, robin,toadstools and acorn branch are some of the collage pieces in the paper pad

 

The paper at the back of the card is one of the beautiful shimmering papers, covered in ghostly pine trees in the mist.

 

The paper I used to cover the outside of the card is one of my favourite. A shimmer paper covered in pine cones. The reverse of the paper, again in a shimmer finish, is the opposite colour way, so gold pine cones on an off white background.

 

If you like me love your wildlife and the winter season then this pad is perfect for you. You won’t be disappointed I promise.

 

You can find the Craft Consortium Woodland Winter paper pad here in the shop -

http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/craft-consortium-paper-pad-winter-woodland-27414-p.asp

 

I hope you enjoyed your time hear and will come back very soon to see what other crafty ideas I come up with.

Until then keep warm and safe

                                        Love Katrina