Project Tuesday April 6th

Well this week our project was a diaper fold pocket. I had actually made one of these before but never quite so big or so detailed. You can check out the 'how to' and the other design team efforts for inspiration here. For this week here is my effort.

It turned out very bright and colourful again this week but this time it was thanks to the sheet of paper I chose from Imaginesce - one of the ones my daughter Jessica gave me a while back. I know we have had Mother's day here in the UK but we still have the US one to celebrate so this will be on it's way to mom sometime soon.

I decorated it up with die-cut flowers and leaves using an old Sizzix die - one that I've probably only ever used about once! I had the sewing machine out and was hankering to sew a bit of paper so I made the paper lace with a MS border punch and stitched it in place. I also stitched around the circle embellishment too. OOPS! I just noticed I missed out a button on one of the red flowers - or did it fall off? Got a memory like a sieve!

I used my trusty computer for the text - I do this when I'm in a hurry since it's quicker than digging for just the right stamps and ink and I used my nesty dies to cut out the hearts and circles.

Since I made it using a 12" x 12" piece of paper it turned out a pretty good size so I decided to fill it with a card making kit. I don't know if mom makes these up but I love to send these 'handmade' kits as gifts especially since I know she crafts. For extra fun I stitched on the patterned paper strips so mom could have a stitched effect on her finished cards. I also plan to make a Mother's Day card using the same supplies to provide inspiration for her by way of a sample.

These are some of the contents (I am still compiling the kit). I have included card blanks, envelopes, ribbon, patterned paper strips, paper lace, die-cut circles, flowers and leaves, buttons and text. If I can find some small foam pads I'll include those as well plus anything else I think might be nice to add. If she's lucky I might even squeeze a bit if chocolate in there - who knows.

It's always hard trying to think of something that will survive posting overseas but I think in a padded envelope this will do just fine.

Hope you join us for some crafting fun this week. I will be working on next week's project on Wednesday - my day off this week. Since joining the PT design team it has become my regular crafting day and I'm really enjoying that fact.