Thursday 9 July 2020

Colleague's birthday

It's my colleague at work's birthday on Monday 13th July and as we are a relatively new team, we wanted to re-start the birthday celebrations which kinda ceased when we moved our offices in cottages to the new build premises then Covid-19 kicked in.  So hopefully this will be well received! 

Friday 3 July 2020

1st Commission Undertaken


Completed personalised card in slightly oversized hand crafted presentation box:


My colleague approached me whilst at work to see if I would mind making her a birthday card for her sister.  During lockdown, a lot of the usual non essential shops have been closed including card shops [all non-essential shops etc are to open in Scotland from 29th June 2020].  Liz had found it difficult to source an appropriate card for her sister.  I accepted the challenge and came up with the card as detailed below:

Started with the bee die and "brushing" out the pieces of the die cut:  


Putting together the contrasting layers of the bee die cut:

I didnt have a honeycomb embossing die or background die so used small a hexagon die and positioned to simulate a honeycomb:

The flat die cut flowers were cut and moulded into the roses as per the photo:

The handcrafted card presentation box: