Red & Black

The creativity continues...

Colourful!!!

Blues, oranges and yellows - had so much fun making this necklace!

Beads Glorious Beads

About four weeks ago I stumbled upong paper beads (yet again on Pinterest). I stared intently at the photos, visited the websites, watched youtube clips, rolled up my sleeves, fished out my paper supplies, located a skewer and glue and then set forth to create my first paper bead.

Now I have a large jar full of misfits (for want of a better word) and a full on addiction to creating jewelery from paper beads as the photos below will attest...

The misfit jar (all beads that haven't been used for 'something' end up displayed here - you never know when they might come in handy for a new design

Earrings with matching necklace below

The necklace that matches the earrings above

The first piece of recycled jewelery created with pages from an atlas

My paper stash has grown dramatically as has my toothpick and skewer horde, the kitchen table is overrun with paints, jewelery findings, jars, buttons, glues, beads, paper beads,... I'm sure you get the picture! I couldn't be happier!

As promised

Project Life pockets filled with scrapbooking papers and other items I've been collecting, alas no photos yet but never fear they will be added through the reminder of the month!

Note quite as colourful as the first but this page is probably more complete
(but by no means finished yet as I want to add some journaling to it)

And finally some backgrounds I've cut out from an educational prospectus which I intend to scatter into other layouts as time goes by.  

I haven't used any of Becky Higgins cards as I've not yet found the funds to purchase a kit (and they're not yet on sale here in NZ) but the minute I do I'll post pictures of them!

Another Decorated Container

Another container I had the desire to recover with patterned card/paper. 

This one has an empty port bottle inside it though, I'm still unsure what I will be doing with the bottle - I have thought about using the theme of my favourite songs performed by Sting which the crowd sang along to at the Mission Estate Winery concert  in 2011 - Mesage in a bottle.

I'll be sure to post the results when I make up my mind and decorate it.

Decorated Pen & Pencil Container

I have had my pens sitting in this container for a little while now and today I finally decided how I wanted to decorate it