I set myself the challenge of making a 100% homemade birthday gift for one of my wonderful friends.
I started with some inspiration from pinterest and put together this fun button balloon card. I used blue striped paper to make some clouds and cream embroidery thread for the balloon string.
I am really happy with how this card came out. My only concern was that the buttons made it a little bit unstable so next time I will use thicker card or add an insert to make it more sturdy.
For the gift I thought I would experiment with some shrinkles to make a necklace. I bought some white shrinkles paper from hobby craft and cut out 3 triangles. The instructions said that it would shrink to 7 times the size so I made the triangles with sides of 7cm. I used a regular hole punch to make a hole in the 2 top corners.
I coloured in the triangles using red and blue fine liners. Once the shapes had been shrunk in the oven I found that the colours smudged so I coated the shapes using PVA glue to seal the colours and stop them transferring to clothing.
I added a silver chain and 2 links between each triangle. To join the chain together I used a small silver clasp.
I wanted to present the necklace is a fun way so made a box from red and blue striped card and used a piece of star card to make an inner.
I was so excited to give her the present and was really happy that she liked them!!
I'll be back soon with some more cards that I have made.
Happy Crafting! x
