Lace Book

One of my books that will soon be for sale : ) I am really proud of this one.
cover type: patterned paper with lace
cover size:10,5x14 cm
sheets:120
type of paper: white, smooth, 80 gsm
type of binding: chain stitch binding

I hope you like it <3

After loong break caused by university and absolutely no free time I'm finally back here. And, with new creations of course <3 I will try to upload some of them here for sure : )
How have you been? Christmas is coming and I am working on my shop at DaWanda site so I can open sales before christmas (who knows, maybe christmas fever will help me sell some of my notebooks?). When shop will be officially opened I will provide here all the info : )

Here is my latest creation I am extremely proud of, moleskine styled notebook. It's 19x10,5 cm big and it's cover is made from faux beige leather.

Butterfly Book

Newest notebook I created. I was really eager about finishing this project. It's the first one (I plan to make more with different types of butterflies and various sizes). It's A7 sized, 90 pages. I'm really proud of this one : )
I am really satisfied with effect, especially with gentle ombre effect on wings, I was worried colors will get lost on the way completely.

Thank you for reading! <3

Plushie octopus

Lately I was palying around with felt and felt plushies and this is my newest creation. I'm really satisfied with how it turned out : ) I think I will make more of those (maybe in different sizes?)  In future, when I get better in making them I might consider selling some ^u^ Maybe not only octopuses though : D
Sicne most templates I'm using are selfmade I might prepare some and upload here later.
I hope you like it and thank you for reading!

Wonderland matchbox set

Lately I wanted to find template for matchboxes since I had none at home. Accidentally I ran into this tutorial: http://blog.swap-bot.com/rachels-matchbox-template/
I absolutely loved the idea of envelope-style matchboxes and I already have small collection of them : )
I decided to share my favourite creation here - Wonderland matchbox set.
Set includes:
 - envelope-style matchbox outside wrap from black cardboard and elements of scrapbooking paper
 - inside drawer from black cardboard with tiny ribbon loop for easier using
 - 18-paged miniature book 35 x 48 mm
The box is exactly matchbox sized.

  Here are some detail photos of whole set. Since box small and flap closing box doesn't like to stay closed original artist suggested to use some kind of tying for it - in my case black ribbon. To make sure it will stay in place I made two small vertical cuts in the back and put ribbon through. To give it more finished look I added little spades symbol : ) Another trick I learned while making this project which you can see on bottle - transparent tracing paper with varnish create wonderful transparency. I love how this part turned out really much <3 I'm sure I will use this idea in many other occasions. At first this set was supposed to include only box but my bookbinding syndrome woke up so since then book seemed obligatory xD
I hope you like that project, I really loved making it a lot. I plan to make bigger sized boxes like that as cigarette box for my friends, we will see how this will turn out : )

Thank you for reading! 

Varnished paper stars

Lately I got addicted to folding paper stars and was considering using them for decorating books. Popped paper stars are fragile though and would immediately flattened down for sure, losing their pretty shape. Then I found this tutorial http://myntkat.deviantart.com/art/How-to-varnish-paperstars-108357944 about using varnish on paper stars to be able to use them as jewelery. I was bit afraid of trying it, since all liquid acrylic varnish I used so far were always sticky and got easily dirty. I bought new one specially for that purpose though, Soluble Varnish Gloss by Daler&Rowney. And I must say, I loved the effect! I really reccomend this varnish for glossing any crafts, they really become nice and glossy, and in case of my paper stars - keep shape perfectly. Here is effect of this little experiment:

Only disadvantage is that paper becomes darker, as you can see on second photo - varnished stars are on right, more glossy but also varnish leaves paper with bit 'wet' feeling. They look more like candy now XD

All in all it's really great method to keep your stars or any other fragile paper crafts in shape. I'm not sure if it will be enough to use them as book cover decoration, but I already planned making some earrings with them : )
Thank you for reading!

Rainbow Dream

Long time no see, since I was spending time with my beloved Eyslyn (http://raspberrydeer.blogspot.de) <3 As I was in her place I bought lots of accessories for my crafting, I will show some photos of them soon.

Here is my latest creation, Rainbow collection <3 I decided to make book with rainbow pages, and then used scraps of paper to create paper stars I filled IKEA bottle with. It was really lots of fun, especially making paper stars was really relaxing. Some of them are made by Eyslyn too P: Lollipop by Manufaktura Cukierków, handmade sweet manufacture located in Warsaw <3
Rainbow Book is 10,5x14 cm, 100 pages, coptic stitched.
Rainbow Jar contains around 100 paper stars in rainbow colors.
Thank you for reading!

Miniature book pendant

Miniature book pendant - 25x35 mm : ) Paper cover decorated with lace and wooden heart. I plan on making more of those, with different designs and sizes. I wanted to make necklaces and phone straps out of them : ) They are really fun to do, I will for sure upload more after I will get them done <3

Storage chest makeover

Lately I really wanted to change a bit my way of storing my crafting resources and I found old (bought around 10 years ago) Ikea's mini chest of drawers I had in my room and it ended long ago in storage. Since Whole chest was pretty dirty from paints, glue etc. (as a kid I was really messy with such stuff) I decided to do makeover to renew it and give it a new life. I'm really satisfied with how it turned out lik. Unfortunately paper I used to cover main part of the chest was bit too thin and wrinkled a bit but trees cover it well enough : ) At first I wanted to give a little label for every drawer with its contains but I decided I prefer in unlabelled (in case I would simply change its' purpose).

 Decorated with wrapping paper, patterned scrapbook paper, brown paper, buttons, beads, coins and  bows

I stupidly didn't make 'before' photo (my chest looked much worse XD) but I took photo from here: http://www.myfloor.pl/jubileuszowa-kolekcja-mebli-z-okazji-50-lat-wspolpracy-ikea-z-polska,592,artykul.html

What is actually funny, it's not that easy to find photos of it since they are no longer available in IKEA shops. There are different versions of it, with different size/amount of drawers : )

This was really great fun and took me around 5-6 hours (together with all wood glue drying)

I hope you like it looks and I encourage to try doing it by yourself! It's really great and relaxing fun, and it's really pleasant to look on it <3

Favourite Decorations

Collection of my most favourite decorations I use (mostly for decoration book covers)
From top left corner:
 - My collection of buttons. I absolutely love to use them, in every shape, size, color or type. Just all buttons are my biggest love <3
 - Brads and rhinestones. I don't use them in some scary amount, just as some gentle finishing touch.
 - Ribbons and laces. I have whole box of them, packed together wrapped on small pieces of old boxes to keep them untangled and sorted : )
 - Coins. As a kid I collected lots of different coins, from different years countries etc. My father traveled a lot back then and gave me all little change he came back with. They are just perfect decoration, especially to give your work some little vintage touch.

I use lots of different decorations too, like stamps, die-cuts, tags, felt cut-outs etc. Those 4 are probably most favourite ones : )
Generally, for decorating you can use everything as long as it looks good : ) I love to experiment with some old not needed anymore things too <3

Cupcake pincushions

Cupcake pincushions based on the tutorial i found on Pinterest (http://www.madebymarzipan.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/cupcake-pincushion_01.png but I modified it to my own needs)
I usually just save tutorials and never do anything with them, but this time I decided to try it out and I made those 3 cuties : )
Biggest one - blue+pink+white is for my grandma, yellow+beige+white is for my bff Eyslyn (http://raspberrydeer.blogspot.com) and pink+light yellow+beige is for me : ) I really love hoiw they turned out, they are pretty tiny though P:
I rarely craft something else than books and boxes but this project was really fun <3

Birdcage Book

Birdcage coptic stiched book for my best friend in the world Eyslyn (http://raspberrydeer.blogspot.com)
Paper patterned cover decorated with blue birdcage, self painted butterfly, old Polish, American and African coins as well as bows, buttons, rhinestones etc. I hope you like it deer <3
UPDATE: I changed photos to better quality ones, so the design is presented in much better way : )

Hello World

Welcome to my new blog <3 I decided to finall create one which I will update in some decent regularity, so here I am : )  I will mostly present my crafts and drawings, but also some inspirations and some other things I found worth to share.
So, hello and see you later around here I hope : )