i haven't been as busy with my spinning wheel as i had hoped to be - mostly because i ran out of fiber and can't afford to buy more since i'm still paying off the wheel itself - that doesn't really make sense, right...?
anyway - i got an order for a custom made leporello-book (which was picked up yesterday - i'll show some pictures soon) which means i can order myself some nice and soft and gorgeous merino to get spinning again...
due to the arrival of my spinning wheel i packed up my papercrafting supplies - just a little - so they wouldn't keep sliding off my desk and the toppling piles around it. but the inks and papers came out again really soon because i had some cardmaking and the aforementioned leporello-book to do.
first i made a card for my cousin who got married:
i just loved how it turned out! the colours, the ink-splotches (Tim Holtz - wrinkle free distress technique), the butterflies... it's a shaker-card with glass seed beads in matching colours. i didn't even know exactly what the colour scheme of the wedding would be and yet i managed to pick the cardstock to exactly match the ribbons on the flowers and the bridesmaids' dresses...
then i made a birthday card for my aunt:
this has to be one of my favourite cards to date. i went with the same colours as the wedding card - since i had those out already and i loved them so much - i also used some of the butterflies i had left. i followed one of the don't-know-how-many tutorials on "pop up flower card" on you-tube - don't know which one exactly - they are all pretty much the same as far as the result is concerned. (professionality and degree of being-annoying can vary wildly.) i love how the front for the card really only came together after the flower on the inside was done already. the flower petals on the front are actually leftovers from making the pop up flower; i thought i could just as well put them to good use...
the leporello-book was ordered as a birthday gift - along with a matching card.
it's a tri-fold card with a floating sun on the acetate front. this is the back of it:
the whole project had a sun, moon & stars - day & night theme - i thought the butterfly and moth worked well for that. there are a lot of those in the book too... here's a sneak peek:
edit: you can find a post about this book here. xxx