PNP: two cards

Today I just wanted to show you two cards that I made.

For my mother's day card (for those wondering: the writing is in Dutch), I started by drawing the pattern underneath in dark and light green hues. Then I added the ombre birds and punched little white hearts to glue onto them. I just needed one more element for the writing, so I chose two of the blue hues to make the banners. Hope my mom will like it, we'll find out tomorrow :).

The next one is a birthday card I made for a friend some time ago. I've drawn the patterns on the banners since I couldn't find a pattern I liked in my paper stash. It's a simple card, but I like the look of the different patterns together.

 

Happy Saturday!

Love, Birgit 

PNP: fabric baskets

As promised, one of the things I have made lately: fabric baskets.
I made these to organise my stash of tights, especially the navy and black ones, because it is so hard to see the difference between both. Now that problem is solved!
The baskets are just made from a circle and a rectangle, sewn together.
You can find a good tutorial here, on Pippijoe. I used exactly the same method. For the label, I used pieces of fake leather I have laying around. Just cut a rectangle, and then cut out a smaller rectangle. Sew it onto the basket, leaving one side open, so you can slide in your label.

Hope you like it! :)
Love, Birgit

I won!

It has been an awful long time since I've written anything here, shame on me!
I have been working on a few things, and some of them are finished, so hopefully I will get them on here soon.
But today, I am so happy that I just had to share this with you.
Last month Elle Belgium had this contest where you could win these cute little bags that Marc Jacobs designed for his collaboration with Coca-Cola Light, and... I won one of them!! I can't believe it, I am so happy! I really love this little bag! Yay! So, thank you Elle Belgium!!

Happy birthday to me!

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Yay! I'm turning 21 today! I feel so grown-up now haha.
I'm also finally finished with exams, so I'm going to make time to post new things! I already failed my 365 challenge, due to the exams, if I may say... I'll just do my best to draw more than I did last year then (think I already succeeded there haha).
I hope everyone has such a blast as I do today!
I'll be posting soon!
x Birgit

365 challenge - week 1

I know we already the second week of the year, so I'm a bit late with posting these... It doesn't mean I have already given up, not at all! But I have exams now, so unfortunately blogging is not really a priority at the moment.
Here are the first of my drawings (01/01 - 06/01), I don't think they are all equally good, but well, it's the progress and the effort that counts! And it is quite hard to be inspired every day... As you might notice, there is one missing, but that was a birthday card that I made, so that one will come up in another post probably :)
What I have learned so far: my lines are too soft, I had to darken the pictures to make the drawings more visible... And my paper is too big for the scanner, which is why there are dark sides to the picture. Need to work on that. And maybe next time add a frame to the pictures, to make them more visible on my white background on the blog, or adjust the blog lay-out, that is also a possibility haha. Well, I hope you like them.

Love, Birgit 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A new year, a new challenge...

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The new year is almost there, so time for resolutions!
Elsie from A Beautiful Mess inspired me to do a 365-challenge. For 365 days I am going to try to make a drawing every day, see how far I get! I will make a weekly round-up of all my drawings.
I also want to sew at least one thing a month, I love sewing, but I make too little time to do it, so this year, let's give it a shot!
Are you challenging yourself?

Merry Christmas!

 

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