daisy in pot

Hi Everyone
Hope you have had a good week.Thank you for the E-mails I have received welcoming me
back.
Today I have made a cute topper (very easy) again using shapes from Fairies and Friends,
Petite Fleur and All about Babies. If you dont have all these sets, try and use what you have.
You could use a tiny flower for the pot instead of the heart shape and a different shape for the
leaf i.e.perhaps a small petal or a different heart shape. You will be surprised what you can use
when you really study the shapes.


Cut  a piece of Willow spot paper 4.5cm x7.5cm. Then mat and layer onto dark green card 5cm x 8cm. This is the topper base.

Peel all the shapes onto coloured card and cut out.

Make the daisy flower using five white petals and a yellow circle for the middle.
Using the waste from the circle adhere each petal onto the sticky side of black waste(see instruction sheet).

To make up the flower pot trim the triangle  from the pointed end as per picture adding a black sticky line along the edge.Glue this to the topper and adhere the yellow mini heart in place.

Glue the green stalk coming out of the pot and adhere the green heart(leaf) in place.Now glue
the  finished daisy onto the stalk.

To make up the ladybug cut the red circle in half, add some small black peel off dots. Glue the
small black circle in place for the head. Finally glue the ladybug onto the side of pot adding the black waste from the antenae.

 Some people find cutting out the very small circles difficult, in this case you could use a black    
 flat backed pearl instead..

Hope you all enjoy making this little topper.

Be back soon for some more samples.

Bee Happy

Helen
x

little house in the forest

Hi Everyone

As promised my instructions (I hope you can understand them) for my little house in the forest.
Sometimes we have lots of bits left from the sets this is a way of using them up. I have used
Willow paper with spot and chalked around the edges with darker green chalk.
Most of the shapes are taken from Fairies and friends and The Bee set, I have only used one
shape from the All about Babies and if you dont have this set just use another small heart from
the Fairies and friends set for the smoke and perhaps a mini flower for the door, I  will leave the
decision to you.

Cut a piece of Willow spot  paper 65mm x 75mm matt this onto a piece of dark green card
measuring 70mm x 80mm.  This makes the topper base.

Peel off the shapes onto the coloured card and cut out. Build the house first by glueing the red
roof  cross over the honey pot shape. Glue the white daisy flower in the middle
of the two roof shapes where they join. Glue the chimney in place at the back of the roof. Glue the windows in place after using the black lines to make a criss cross design on each one.
Glue the door in place and trim the bottom.Add a dot from the sheet for the handle and add glue a small heart on the door (optional).

Make up the trees by trimming the tree trunk shapes as necessary and glue the flower shapes and
heart shapes on the top. Put the topper together using the pictures as your guide.Lastly glue
everything in place and  add six flowers as illustrated in the picture, adding a dot in
each flower centre and the heart smoke from the chimney.

You can make up a card to your own design or just use the topper in the centre of a card blank.        

Have a good week and I will be back soon with some more ideas.

Bee Happy

Helen
x

Back to Life!!!

Apologies for not blogging for so long but life in the Helidot house has been a bit fraught for the last year due to illness.
Hopefully now we are back on top of it I will be posting some new ideas, watch this space.

Bee Happy

xx

All about bee's

I thought I'd post a picture of some of the sample boards that go to shows with me so people can see the finished creations.

This board is from the All about bee's peel off set

 

This board is using the Bee sticker set

 

Don't forget there is also an easy step by step guide showing you how to use Helidot peel offs. It's that easy even kids can create cute little cards and projects using Helidot peels offs and stickers.

Step by step guide

All these can be bought from the website Helidot.com just click the link and voila you're in the shop.

Bee happy

Helen x

Workshop at the Craft Barn

The Craft Barn had a workshop last week using the lovely Helidot Bugs and Friends stamps set. The lovely Carole Staples decorated this box and isn't it just one of the cutest things ever!

You can purchase this gorgeous stamp set from our shop www.helidot.com for just £19.99

Bee happy

Crafting with the beautiful Sophie

I got to spend two wonderful days with my beautiful little grand daughter Sophie. I love it when she comes over as we get to spend quality time together crafting. We spent our first day creating with Helidot peel off's here she is crafting away

And here is one of her finished pieces

I think she's done a fantastic job so neat and proving that Helidot's peel offs are so easy even children can create fantastic cards too.

On our second day we finished off the dolls house that I've been loving repairing and bring back to life. Sophie had so much fun putting all the little bits of furniture back into their rightful places

Bee happy

Our Summer workshop in the Cabin

Here are some photos of our lovely weekend in July the weather was hot hot hot
and we were very comfortable with the air conditioning in the cabin.
It was a treat to be able to have all our meals in the garden. I would like to thank my lovely hubby for all his help along with my daughter Emma who as usual was a star, not forgetting my dear friend Jackie who always helps me on these special days we wouldn't do these days without them.    

Here are a couple of the cards that we made on the day...........

The snail was made from the Fairies and Friends set and the new BEE sticker set.

The hats and bags card was made from All About Babies.

I have used the Helidot papers on both cards......

I will post some more cards soon.

Bee happy