Barbie Doll

Did a bit of book folding while away over Christmas and am slowly getting them done
This is one of my dolls

 I measured and cut the book
Can't remember how many folds  there was

Fold is made by bringing top right hand corner down to left ,but by just folding to the column of lines

 Should form a fold like this

 

The barbie doll was chopped of  just below the waist  and made a  paper mache bodice. It is best to decorate the doll before gluing her to the dress I then put crochet lace around bodice and a bit of ribbon and a pink rose in middle

 I then adhered pink roses onto her dress

and some little pearl bows to her hair


doing her hair was a mission there is so much of it

                                                                                               

                                                                                              

 

 

Book Folding

I do not usually go into such detail blogging my craft but this is to give a couple of ladies an idea of how I did it

As I can't always find hard covered books I have been making my own with cardboard.
Sometimes as with this one I added extra panels to strengthen it
Scored two lines to form the spine
Covered  the outside with wallpaper
Wallpaper is good as it is strong and if you are cheeky like me you can go to your local wallpaper shop and get the sample books when the lines are deleted
And its good for the grand kids, save's our good papers

Back view
Don't worry about the creases as shown here they flatten out when book is closed
I have used double sided tape to adhere wallpaper  and you need to adhere one front first ,then the spine then the other front like covering school books OR you end up with a bit of a mess

Before  I adhered my inside wallpaper I adhered lace to the card board
one side looks a bit messy as I made a wee boob

 Next comes the fun bit
I Used a book that the page was 20 cm marked down 10 cm from top

I then cut it across
Some patterns tell you to do 100 folds but I didn't feel it was enough so instead of  ripping off the cut pieces from the spine I left it so I could fold more if needed
I did

Take the top Right hand corner and fold it to the left but only go the  column

So it should look like this

This is how it will look all folded

Position "vase" then adhered to book
This is how it looks from top

This is the Bottom

This is standing

 This is the book decorated
I forgot to take a picture of the flowers
All of them were made by me three different shapes and they all have a pearl in the centre
The ribbon is purely for decoration the book keeps it's shape by gluing the first and last pages to the wallpaper

Not too sure if I will put the extra flowers on the bottom










The actual folding of the book took about ten - fifteen minutes The decorating took a couple of days
But I enjoyed doing it and will be doing more

A twirl

Just love this image and have been meaning to do something with it for ages

Backing paper from my stash (was actually looking for something else ) with a strip of orange, as near to the orange in the backing paper

Adhered to purple card then onto a white base card

Die cut image with the cuttlebug distress inked the edges

                                  Sentiment done on the computer 

                                Am entering into these challenges
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New Year

  Wow 2018 is here

🚌  Been away in our bus to the lake for Christmas and New Year had a good time  a bit boozy at times but very relaxing and as usual it was nice catching up with the crowd we hang around with at Christmas We sneaked away for a couple of days in between Christmas and new year to catch our breath and dry out a bit
As I was unable to fish I took half my craft room along (not really it would fill the bus) and where we go at the lake there is no electricity I found and bought a battery operated glue gun was so excited that I could do gluing while away ....no such luck  😒 it wouldn't get hot enough to melt the glue.
I took my trusty Cuttle Bug and some dies with me so I managed to get some book folding, colouring images,and some flowers made. Robin told me we have an inverter in the bus so I will be able to take the glue gun with me.....could of told me sooner     😞      
But at least I did manage to get some crafting done now I just have to go put it all together 💮 ✂

CAS

Now this is a new concept for me I usually do lots on a card but have been asked to do some simple Christmas cards and as I have a new Christmas die or two thought it would be a good way to show them off
So I adhered red card to a white base card cut the ornament (the new one) and greeting with the cuttle bug adhered to white card then adhered to the red card and that was it done, quick and easy but...
I am sitting here thinking it's so plain guess I will show it to my friend before making her some more
I was inspired by the bakers twine and the CAS theme

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Lady

This Card has been done for The Tuesday Morning Sketches rather like doing these challenges as I feel the sketch kick starts you and I have needed a bit of that lately

 I adhered ribbon around black card and adhered to white base card, printed off the lady cut it into a oval with the cuttle bug then cut the black shiny back with a Nellie Snellon die, adhered to card cut a white flourish and four layers of a flower distress inked the edges with black soot put the flower together and put a black flat bead in the centre

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Christmas Cat

Well this is the last of the grandchildren's Christmas cards and I have done it for the Tuesday Morning Sketch challenge

Paw Print backing paper is from my stash adhered it to black card then onto white base card adhered ribbon, printed the image adhered it to black scallop oval cut on the cuttle bug, stars are peel offs  adhered little bow








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