Something Useful!

Hi, Friday again. Do you feel like life is going to fast. This week has sailed by.
Firstly I just want to say a big thank you to all of The Gentry clients who bought a raffle ticket to win the Fathers Day card I made. We decided to raffle the card rather than auction it and it is only day one and many peeps have bought a ticket already so just in case any of them ever see this a REALLY big THANK YOU!
As I am still busy with new things I wanted to show you something different and something I'd never done before. These were mobiles, in fact I made three practically identical ones, for a mother and baby unit. They are all black and white as this is what newborns see and are stimulated by.

The dotty paper was from Daisy Bucket. I'ts not a company I see advertised anymore so maybe they no longer exist. I'd had the paper a long time! Everything else was made simply with black and white cardstock. The birds on the bird house were cut with an older Spellbinders die called Bird Flourishes. The circles, the stars and the butterflies were also Spellbinders dies. Everything else was cut from various cartridges on my Cricut. I attached all the elements with Papermania brads and twine. On the end of each element is a black and white bead to weight it down so it hangs straight. I attached all the pieces from the bottom of the bird house and then glued for extra hold inside before adding a roof with some polka dot ribbon already threaded through so the mobiles could be pinned to the ceiling above the babies cots.

 

 It was really just a case of alternating black and white across the elements. The patterns on the bird and the large swirls were done with a black Pro Marker. It was good to make something useful. Hope you like them. Back with something newly made over the weekend. Have a good one!
Michelle x.