Swaps and news

I moved to a new house with the kiddies one month ago and wow, it feels good to have our own home !! After more than 7 months living in my parents place in France, we can finally open our luggages for real ! And now that I can have a serious workshop, I'm going to craft the way I was used to do. For now I am installing things and my brother is helping me for building some furnitures, DIY !!

Below are the latest things I did before moving, the two are swaps at the group Ink the edges,

the first one is an altered shabby tag with its coordinate bag. I wanted to do something elegant and think about a dress made from paper and lace =)

And for the second one Debbie got the nice idea to make altered trim,it's really fun to do and the possibilities are without limits! It's also a good way to have your very own trim and saving on money.

                   Also I altered a wine wooden box to store my lace because it's a happy mess, my cat Marquise seems to like it =)

I'm late late late on videos!! So many things to do!!

Wish you a good summer, may the inspiration be with you!

Peter Rabbit tag book

I did a swap time ago at Ink the Edges, a forum owns by my friend Debbie. It was about making a tag with a character from Peter Rabbit, I choose Benjamin Bunny for my part, we were four participants so each one had to make the same tag x the number of participants. But why? Because Debbie got the great idea to compose a book for each one with our tags, and you obtain a cute and unique Peter Rabbit tag book!

Here you can see it in pictures, Debbie did a great work with the assembling and cover, and also added our names!!

And Debbie also sent me some beautiful goodies! ^^

Thank you dear!!

Latest projects

Not productive as before but I did some things for Easter (yes yes I'm late to talk about it!!) and other things. Right now I enjoy to work with fabric and lace, I got a stock of antique french lace and it's just a pleasure to use it !

I am not just doing personal things but work on a stock for the shop I have just opened on Zibbet!

Hoping it's going to work well, it's about handmade items and lolita fashion mostly =)

I'll be back on the subject but for now there is the pictures of my latest things:

Altered cardboard egg:

The first time I altered an egg and I like it, wanted to try for a while.

An altered egg box, first try too, a mix of vintage and shabby:

And with the part of the carboard egg I cut, I did a spring configuration to fix on a wall:

And here is a fabric and lace vintage book, I like how it turned and the messy aspect =)

And for finish I made a book to store my lace pages, the pages inside are not all from me, just two of them, the other ones are from my friends Debbie and Terry and the chunky charms made by Debbie too.

I want to do another book like this with pages from other artists so swaps are welcome !

Pages from friends:

Graphic 45 Design Team Audition 2015

Time is come for the design team call ! During the past years I was looking at the beautiful projects made by creative artists, and this year I said "why not trying ?" I see this opportunity to challenge myself first because Graphic 45 and their gorgeous papers give us the chance to let our imagination fly without limits. To be a member of the design team sounds like a dream at the idea to play with those papers and it's a big boost in the creativity sense and ideas. Just the idea to participate to the contest is something exciting and a very good experience !

So here are my four projects for the design team call :

Gazebo using "Secret Garden" line

Jewlery box using "Couture" line

Pincushion using "Couture" line

Inivitation card using "Time to Celebrate" line 

News, swaps and minis WIP

It's been a while I didn't post here, I am not very active at the moment, personal things happened and I was really depressed (and still). Anyway I try to change my mind and to be back on the craft trail. You can see a big change on the blog layout, a cleaning and update was necessary, and it's more easy to navigate like this with the links !

I am also working on sewing items and accessories, I want to open a new shop soon under the name "Atelier Dolly". It will be about a mix of shabby and decora styles, all about bags, outfits and more. It's time for me to get in business again with new ideas and concepts. It's my dream to live from this after all. I give 3 years to myself for the business to work well, so let's do it and see.

I have received some swaps I was in on the past three months, it was about different things like stick pins, lace pages, altered composition book, tag, ATC, charms and needle book :

I have to do a video about them, I'm so late on doing videos with all what happened !!
I signed for more swaps at our lovely group Ink the Edges, so a Halloween domino book, an altered tassel spool and a tea book and mini are coming !

And now a little talk about my minis in progress.

Still working on this one for Lori, it's a mix of everything but the main theme is about Beauty, I used mainly digital stuff and two different paper stacks for it. It's half done, but here is a preview:

And I have to finish this paper bag Halloween mini too, I started it on the past year and Hallow eve is coming :

Many projects are in wip but each thing one by one for now =)

March DT project for ThePieceByPiece

For this month I wanted to do something different from what I usually do, as I use a lot of pastel and white tones. So my choice gone on a skinny mini using the Typography paper from G45, this line is just perfect as a combination with the gorgeous Venetian black trims who was waiting to be use! The perfect wedding with the vintage look of the paper design! This kind of album is really easy to do and you can just play along with the layout and use lace as a belly pockets or for ornate the paper ones. And it's a compact album, easy to store!

Here are the pictures of the pages:

And here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QjnOy8zKfU