More demo...

...items.

I mentioned a while ago that I had been asked to make some demo pieces for Helen's shop, Craftily Creative - it's the place I attend a crop every other Thursday.

Helen wanted a selection of sample items that she could display around the shop to show customers the variety of things that can be made with cardmaking/scrapbooking stash. I have already done the Girlie friendship journal that has been posted on here. I also did a boyish brag wallet that I forgot to take pics of (I will try to remember tomorrow when I go to drop off the latest items).

With Autumn hitting us hard & fast it brings home the fact that Christmas is not far away and preceeding that there will be the school & church bazaars...

I decided to make something that would be quick and easy and not very expensive - ideal for these events. I have made a notelet wallet.
This really is very easy to do and when I get a spare moment I will try to make one taking pics at each stage of construction. The wallet is a sheet of A4 card (I used white 290 weight), scored and folded to create the pockets to hold the notelets. A bit of gold card and some Christmas paper decorate the front and some pretty striped ribbon holds it all together.
The envelopes were shop bought (there are so many places where you can get good quality ones at very little cost, it wasn't worth the effort of making them from scratch) and decorated with seasonal peel-offs. The notelets were created from smooth white card - A5 folded in half - and again decorated with Christmas paper and straight border peel-offs. My set can be used as thank you notes after Christmas but any theme could be used.

The second item in this post is a pretty BIA bound mini-album.
I have only photographed the outside as the inside is just plain white bazzill pages that the owner could decorate however they want. The frame effect was adapted from a class project created by Annette West/Voodoo Vixen (link to the right at the top of my fav blogs). The frame is ideal for decorating - I have used a piece of a paper doily, hand made paper roses, paper rose buds and some ribbon, along with some nested punched ovals that a title can be added to.

I hope Helen is pleased with them.............................