CHA-cha-CHA

welcome gypsies and happy CHA week! 

for those of you that are new to the caravan, CHA stands for Craft & Hobby Association and this week in IL is the summer show. all this week companies will be sneak peeking their new products, bloggers will be frantically typing their reviews, and many of us will be strutting our stuff - showing off our projects for our design teams.

as a very proud member of authentique's design team, i got to send a big box of projects to the show. and this week i'll be featuring them here on the blog!

*** CHA-cha-CHA CONTEST ALERT ***

visit the caravan and leave a comment to get entered in a fabulous drawing! 

the more you visit and comment, the more chances you have to win!

the prize package includes 6x6 authentique paper bundles and some nifty extras to inspire your own creations! 

the winner will be announced on july 22!

so are you ready gypsies? then away we go!

the book of faeries

a fairy sighs in a secret garden, tucked away

 with trinkets and keepsakes and stolen treasures.

kept company by forest friends

knowing someone somewhere says "yes, i believe in faeries!"

~  materials  ~

"lively" paper collection - authentique

paper mache book box

tiny treasures from tim holtz, maya road, and marion smith for prima

authentique march sketch challenge

welcome back gypsies. authentique's newest sketch challenge is up and running and i wanted to share my entry. but first the sketch - flowers, scallop trim, flowers. i decided that a card doesn't have to be flat at all though and like a true gypsy, made up my own rules.

and now the project

i have to admit i was inspired by "the secret world of arriety" on this one.

all of the elements from the sketch are featured - dimensional flowers and teeny wee penants, and it's hard to see but there is a double scallop trim around the inside of the box. then i added tiny little trinkets and set it all on a tiny spool wrapped in lace trim and metal edging around the bottom.

i hope you are inspired to try your hand at a tiny wish box instead of a card for your next occasion. 

materials

"celebrate" collection - authentique

configurations insert

little bits of this and that

fairy dust

Random Elements

I love using random little things, and turning them into something special. Today's project started as a plain little birdhouse from Michael's that cost a whole dollar. Add a paper scrap left over from a minibook class, some bits of greenery left over from a school project, some pebbles stolen from the neighbor's yard (shhh don't tell), a twig and some Ranger Walnut Stain, and we have a fabulous tiny house. It could be for a fairy, a pixie, a teeny weeny house sprite - who knows