RIBBONS - A Curtain with a Difference!

When we moved to our new studio, we were so excited about our gorgeous windows!! So much light, sun and heat....yes heat!


So we thought we would create curtains with a difference rather than have ordinary boring curtains.


Using fabulous 10cm thick printed grosgrain ribbon, we stitched them in the centre of each strip, to the top of calico drops and loosely knotted them around the trods hung half-way up the window...


They look great closed and open and we can change the ribbon when we get bored!!


Easy and unique!!

TIP - look for remnants in clearance bins or on ebay...cheap and still unique!!

My Mother's Day Card

The challenge every year is to come up with a unique card - she's a really special Mum so the pressure is on!!

• Colour - is easy, she loves purple in all its shades!!


• Inspiration- we have great shapes in our range and what says 'I Love You' more than a heart right??

• Tools - heart shapes, little hole punch, fastener

• Method - this would have looked just as nice using all one colour but I wanted to mix it up:

- stack hearts together and punch through the bottom so the hole is in the same place. If you need to do 2 stacks, punch one stack and then place one punched shape over the un-punched stand and mark the position of the hole.

- use fastener to anchor them together

- Write your special message on the front...


....and all the reasons you love her on the inside!


Remember - you can do this with ANYTHING, regular cards, flowers ..the only limit is your imagination!!

Thumbs down to emailed Invitations!

Yeah to 'S' in the Sun Herald (19 April 2009) for giving a thumbs down to emailed invitations!

This is truly one of my pet peeves!!

Invitations don't need to be fancy or overdone but they should not be on email or sms either!!

If you are like me, you get hundreds of emails a day and deal with the most to least important and friend's emails tend to be in 'Group Later'...

I like to put an invite on the fridge or my notice board - printing off an email guarantees it to be banished to the bottom of my handbag! (yes people have sent me email invites in the past - hard to believe right?? they do apologise though...)

Beside the fact that it is bad manners not to send an invite!! If you are going to the trouble of organising a get together, an invitation is not that much extra effort! This is the role of the host! Just before you say anything I am not old-fashioned, i just have impeccible manners!!

Remember - you don't have to make them from scratch - there are some great fill-in invitations and kits that make it easy!!

Don't start me on placecards.......

what do you think?

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cheers

Nancy

Stylish Themes

The Challenge - red + weddings

The Element - 2-tone red flowers created using Paperado paper

The Result - co-ordinating album and invitation

The Method - using tones of red, little cutters, Kolo tape gun and a little imagination!

I am not a believer that everything has to be EXACTLY matching - I beleive in co-ordinating, which is what I did here.

The red 2-tone flowers are the key here I cut them out then built the invitation around them. I alternated the dark and light colour so that they all don't look the same.

The invitation is torn-edge card in a lux size, 115 x 185 mm, from Denmark. These paper, cards and envelopes are divine and print perfectly through the inkjet printer.

One of the gorgeous features of a Kolo product are the windows. I wanted the flowers to burst through the window so I had them overlapping with the edge of the window.

The flowers can be used on centre peices, place cards, order of service, thank you cards etc

This project was featured on the Koloist blog www.koloist.com/index.php/2009/04/15/ - visit this great site for true inspiration and creativity using Kolo albums.

Have Fun!