It’s hard to believe, that it’s nineteenth already! It’s that time of December when I start to think, that I’ve lost in some kind of time and space hole. Where is the time? Who stole all December? And how I could be late for God sake? I have so many things to catch up with! Dumpling are not ready yet, gingerbread cookies are not baked. It’s great that I have my windows clean at least!
I used to be late with sending cards. So, if you’re late to, maybe you will find my recipe for cards. You will need to have some cardstock for card base, and three kind of patterned paper. Piece of ribbon and some embelishment.
I cut patterned paper to shape of my card base. Other papers I cut to the same lenght, and I tear paper on the edges to the shorter width, just to have two rectangles – one smaller than the other. I stick them to the first one, I add piuece of ribbon horizontally. Then I add some embelishment at the right side – button, brad, or paper snowflake painted with Crackle paint. I glue it all to my card base. It’s almost done – you just have to write few sentences and warm wishes, put it to the envelope and send!

W czasie zajęć korzystam ze zrobionego w tym celu albumu – zawsze chciałam zrobić sobie album z kopert i właśnie nadarzyła sie okazja. Wpisy są dość osobiste, zatem pokazuję tylko okładkę :)

It’s long time since I had to go to chool at 1st Sptember. In spite of all in this season I feel this particular and pleasant nervousness and willingness to action and new challenges.
I want to go somewehere, to make something. To decorate first pages in notepads (did you make them too?), breathe those lovely smell of new books and crayons, pack things to pencil case and learn something new.
So when I noticed that Shimelle is organising her classes Learn something new everyday I make up my mind in one second.
During classes I’m using this album – I always wanted to make myself envelope album and here it is. My entries are rather personal, so I will show only album cover.

A przy okazji – praca przy zeszytach wre. Nie mieściły się w swojej kwaterze głównej, czyli przepastnej starej walizce!

And also – I’m organising Polish edition of Collate: Paper Collaboration. It is called Projekt: zeszyt, which means „Project: Exercise book”. Look, these are all pages which was sent – they started to come out from the old suitcase which I used to collect them!

…for those classic paper flowers I show on Craftypantki’s blog.

Recipe for that kind of flowers you can find at Craftypantki’s blog :)

I tył:

Całość na mosiężnym kółku:

I magiczna, roślinna zawartość:

After Nordstjerna’s „Insects” challenge on Craft Artwork I thought about my studies and botany. With Annar we exchanged e-mails and I was invited as guest designer to Craft Artwork blog. And we decided that next challenge theme will be herbariums. Look here, for other’s girls project. And here is mine – magical herbarium. I choose magic plants to my project. And I made it on tags which Pat gave me as a gift.

Są tylko małe zdjęcia – skrawki codzienności opisane czarnym cienkopisem. I więcej nic.

Prostota to dar.

I jeszcze cały grubasek z profilu.

Small pleasures are the best for big troubles. Maybe whole happy life is generally made of those tiny pleasant moments? People often underestimate those simple life pleasures – but I celebrate every moment. I don’t need exotic journeys and great adventures. My biggest dreams are simple, common things. I celebrate daily common life – and I still don’t have enough of it.
Funny sounds of my bike, when I go to work and its funny, pink bell. Cold Dharma’s nose on my knee and her sigh when she is finding proper position on couch. Collecting colourful leaves at the autumn and plants to my dry bouquets at summer. Tea from big mug and fragrance of tomatoes from my garden…
Some of those small life pleasures I kept in mini album – for later, for bad days.

Album was made with beer mats, old book pages, sprinkled with glimmer mistst using Holtz’s masks. I wanted it to be really simple – so there’s only title in etiquette at the front, piece of ribbon, string, one button, stamped dots, paper tape and belt made of ribbons, which will hold it together.
Inside there are only tiny photos and black pen journalling. And nothing more.

Simplicity is a gift.

Postanowiłam zrobić i wysłać również swojego motyla, potem jednak przyszło mi do głowy, że możemy zebrać i wysłać więcej prac – stąd zbiórka motyli na Craftypantkach – zajrzyjcie koniecznie tutaj, żeby zobaczyć, jakie piękne prace powstały dotychczas!

A wczoraj wreszcie i ja skończyłam swojego motyla – na którym ewidentnie widać, że byłam na warsztatach Finn :)

Jeśli jeszcze nie zrobiłyście motyli – a macie na to ochotę – zachęcam do wzięcia udziału w tym projekcie. Możecie wysyłać motyle do muzeum indywidualnie, lub przesłać je do mnie, wyruszą wtedy jedną paczką. Prace można wysyłać do 10 lipca, paczka wylatuje 18, a więc na pewno zdążycie :)
Zasady:

* Motyle nie mogą mierzyć więcej niż 8 na 10 cali (czyli 20,32×25,4 cm)
* Motyle mogą być zrobione z jakiegokolwiek materiału, jednak powinny być raczej płaskie.
* Nie używajcie brokatu do ozdabiania swoich motyli.
* Nie używajcie produktów spożywczych do ozdabiania motyli (produkty zbożowe, makaron, cukierki i inne odpadają)
* Dodatkowo fotografia motyla może zostać wysłana na adres: butterflyproject@hmh.org.

Muzeum zbiera motyle do 30 czerwca 2012 roku, wysyłając swoje prace pamiętajcie o dodaniu następujących informacji:
* imię i nazwisko,
* organizacja,
* Adres,
* e-mail
* całkowita liczba wysłanych motyli

Adres muzeum:
Holocaust Museum Houston
Butterfly Project
Education Department
5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX 77004
USA

Szczegółowe informacje na stronie muzeum, tutaj, lub pod adresem: butterflyproject@hmh.org

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It’s my creation for Butterfly project – you can find all details here. Post above is a Polish translation of  project rules. And in my work it’s really apparent that I was on Finnabair’s workshop :)

…z pięknym motylem (ten wykrojnik wynalazła dla mnie na zlocie Guriana – i wiem, że motyl jest oklepany, ale nic nie poradzę, podoba mi się bardzo :)

A jak zrobić takie kwiatki pokazuję u Craftypantek.

Card in white and ecru colours (those butterfly die to my Big Shot machine Guriana have found for me – I know it’s often used motive, but I don’t mind – I love it!).
And how to make those flowers – I show on Craftypantki’s blog.

She had to have Plum name – but they weren’t produce in that colour.

My dream come true. The world will be smaller now, journeys with our animals will be simplier, and some of my dreams will be easier to realize :) I’m so happy!

So, Everybode, it’s time to introduce – our Black Olive :)

Are they adorable?
I show how to make them on Craftypantki blog.