Altered Sunglasses – Aideen Fallon

Hey guys! Welcome to my altered sunglasses post-this is such an easy project anyone could give it a go.

I had spotted these designer sunglasses by Dolce & Gabanna online costing about $250 and thought I could make something similar! So I bought a coloured pair of sunnies in Penneys to makeover-I was hoping to get ones closer to the style of the D&G ones but no luck!
Using my E6000 glue from CardznScrapz I added resin flowers to the frames for a cute look. If you were someone who’s good at making little clay flowers you could make a fantastic pair inspired by the Dolce & Gabanna ones….
I hope you enjoyed this quick project!! Why not give your sunglasses a makeover and share some pics with us!

Aideen x

Clean and Simple Bon Voyage Card – Aideen Fallon

Hey guys so when it comes to crafting I am mostly a clean and simple kinda crafter. I am so in awe of people who add so many fabulous layers and details-I am always saying that I need to get more dimension on my projects so watch this space….

But for today I have a quick and simple Bon Voyage card to share! All I used was a Kraft card blank, some of the docrafts travel themed line ‘all aboard’ papers and paperclip with ribbon, then the chipboard sticker suitcase and ‘adventure awaits’ I received from my friend Emily.

I edged all the paper pieces with my Rusty keys ink by Ingvild Bolme for Prima.

I secured the ribbon to the paperclip using my Tim Holtz tiny attacher-one of my favourite tools!!

Then I adhered down the design paper and the notelet/paperclip using double sided tape.


I always add some extra glue to my chips even if they already have adhesive on them-currently this glue is my favourite from CardznScrapz


And that’s it-I think it’s cute!!


Of course you have to dress up the inside too so I added more of the design paper and another notelet for the sentiments to be written onto,


Thanks for popping by,

Aideen

Fun Mini Album – Aideen Fallon

Hello everyone!

Aideen here today to show you this fun mini and embellies from Scrapfellow.

I have quite a nice supply of scrapfellow chip embellies in my stash but this was my first time using one of their mini albums. I decided to work with their insta album and all you instagram users will recognise the camera shape as that used for the app. This is such a cute idea for an album shape and I really enjoyed doing it up.

So first I covered all the pages with Dear Lizzy for American crafts polka dot party! These cute pastel papers have gorgeous prints-I got my 6×6 pad from CardznScrapz.

Then I painted the edges of the pages with my Gold acrylic paint dabber by Ranger. The front page of the album is the die cut camera shape and using my dabber I stippled on the gold to give it a nice thick textured finish-it almost gives a gold leaf effect!

For the binding I used some Tim Holtz swivel clasps just to add a different fun element to the album. On the cover I have more chipboard embellies by Scrapfellow (love these!!!). So the speech bubble, the little heart and the arrow are all scrapfellow. I used some of my juniper paint dabber on the bubble and arrow. The small flower cluster is from a recent flower haul (see my YouTube channel for more flowery goodness).

Thanks for looking at my album and stop by scrapfellow to check out all their yummy chipboard goodies as well as a whole bunch of other goodies,

Aideen 🙂 x

Check it out!!

Our lovely design team member Aideen runs a lovely Facebook page with her friend Emily and it is full of lovely stuff. You can see the EALoves Facebook page here.

 

Well today they have some exciting news with the launch of their new website! Head on over and check it out and say hi – I hear there may be a little prize involved too! The website can be found HERE.

Best of luck ladies!!

Needle Felted Lamb

Hey guys, Aideen here today!

I got a fun craft book for Christmas from my brother and it has not only paper crafts but many others too! I really enjoy looking through craft books and seeing some projects I would like to try and one that I saw in the book was needle felting and in particular a needle felted lamb.

The video explains the story so please take a peep and enjoy… My first ever needle felt project-the little lamb.

Thanks for having a look,

Aideen

Altered Decopatch Impala

Altered Decopatch Impala by Aideen Fallon

So I spotted this Impala on cardznscrapz.com and had to buy him for my friend Emily as a present-she loves Nordic goodies and I thought I could alter him up to make him a really nice piece for her wall.

Isn’t he lovely-I was so excited to alter this guy and to hear what Emily thinks!!

So for the first step I painted him white all over with my paint dabber in snow cap. Then using music note tissue paper again from Cardznscrapz I covered just his head and ears using matte multi medium.

At this point I knew I was going to love this guy!

Next up I decided I would like to do something with the antlers or are they horns?? Anyways I applied mod podge all over them and coated them with glitter-I think you can see it in this pic.

Next up I asked my husband who is a carpenter to make me a mount board and again I gave it a coat of snow cap!!

Ok so the board is a little too plain as we need Mr Impala to stand out from the background-so I covered it with paper from this Kaisercraft base coat paper pad-again from CardznScrapz.

Also mounted things like this normally have a metal plaque-so hello Mr Tim Holtz-again I added snow cap to this metal word stick and then wiped it with a baby wipe so the paint was only left in the words to make them stand out.

And then it was just a matter of gluing it all together and I used E6000 (CardznScrapz) to adhere everything down. I also inked up the edges of the mount board with black just to give it more definition against Mr Impala. A Tim Holtz metal clip for a hanger and some ribbon from my stash and there you have him!!!

Christmas Shaker Box

Hi All,

We have Aideen here today to share a gorgeous Christmas project with you all….

So my decoration for today was inspired by Jim the gentleman crafters YouTube video see here. Jim makes an awesome shaker house in his videos and my version is a shaker window box.

I made a video for this tutorial so I hope you all enjoy-I am only a newbie to YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTduIqekE08

Thanks for watching and I hope you enjoy-please subscribe to my YouTube channel if you do,

Aideen x

Introducing our Design Team members

Hi Everybody,

Thank you for visiting our blog today. The last few days were really busy here. Crafting Ireland first ever crop was on last Saturday and then Issue 10 was out on Monday. We have already announced our very own Design Team and now we would like to show you all the inspirational work that each of the members had sent in to us.

So today it’s time to meet Aideen Fallon, a very talented crafter from Co. Galway, Ireland. We have known Aideen for a good while now, since she is very active in the Irish crafting community. She got published several times in crafting Ireland with her lovely cards and layouts. She runs her own swap page on facebook: Aideen’s Swaps! Have a look and join in if you like.

Aideen keeps her blog updated with all the fantastic creations that she makes, you can have a look here: Pieces by Aideen

We are all thrilled and excited that she join our Design Team and really looking forward to her inspirational work in the magazine.

Below you can find a variety of projects that show her talent:

Marine themed Configuration box

Altered book using The Olde Curiosity Shop papers from G45

Funky Baby Boy Album

Altered HOME utensil hanger

Never ending card using Prima papers

Layout in a frame using Bo Bunny Gabrielle papers

I hope that you enjoyed looking through some of Aideen’s beautiful projects. We are really excited that a fabulous crafter like Aideen is on our Team. We would like to thank Aideen that she is joining us on this  incredible crafty journey.

Thank you all for reading our blog today, we will be back tomorrow with introducing another member of our team.

Happy Crafting,

Crafting Ireland Team