Lunar eclipse inspired journal and trinket box

Not too long ago I joined a star swap, and my partner had different requests. I loved the swap and my partner, we had such great communication.

She told me she wanted to make a visual journal so I made her a journal. This is the first journal I have made but I'm pretty happy about it. I used some night sky fabric to cover the book and punched a lot of holes in the fake leather I bought a while back, those wholes was time consuming but I loved it. I added some beads to the spine but I forgot to take a picture before I sent the book.

I also made her a trinket box with her name and filled it with 100 lucky starts (I counted them 4 times) and one larger painted star. The trinket box sadly got broken in the mail but she managed to fix it.

Glitter Christmas Animals

This is an old project, it was made for a challenge at craftster in November. I have to try and upload stuff quicker to my blog, just in case my PC decides to die, it shouldn't because it's almost new but who knows.

The challenge was to make something out of paper, and there was three different templates to use, I chose the animals.

- First I had to blow up the small animals, print them out and cut them out in cardboard.
- Decoupage on all the paper, it was all gift wrapping paper.
- Then I used glitter glue and added the sparkling effect to the animals
- Some of the animals have a little lace and a button decorating them even further

And here are my beloved big animals:

Octopus: It's 26 cm (10.2") tall and 44 cm (17.3") wide

Giraffe: It's 48 cm (18.9") tall and 11 cm (4.3") wide

Koala: It's 19 cm (7.5") tall and 15 cm (5.9") wide

Elephant: It's 33 cm (13") wide and 28 cm (11") tall

Squirrel: It's 22 cm (8.7") wide and 18 cm (7.1") tall