RobsCreations

I've been recently asked to make a special candle for twin babies. Considering my new found love for card making, I decided to create a matching card as well. But let's start from the candle... I haven't been making candles for a while now (it's a pain over summer time!!!) and needed to re-order raw materials and stuff to stock up! That was fun too! This is a ' pillar candle with chunks ' I've already talked about these candles over the blog ( HERE ), but let me remind you something: They are great because they use the good scent throw of the soy wax and the hardness of paraffin, basically the best qualities of both!!! If you want to see other examples of these candles follow  THIS LINK Gummy bears are made with soy wax too and you can find pictures of the silicon moulds I've used  HERE For the card, I've used baby design paper and recycled buttons, and a sentiment from the Mama Elephant Stamps - Labeled M

This is DOUBLE ELLE   Recipe: Olive oil (pomace)  26.50% Coconut oil  29.75% Palm oil (organic) 19.50% Canola oil  20 % Castor oil  4.25% Note that the palm oil I buy from  The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Scent:  Lemongrass + Lavender essential oils from CEVEN'Arome Colours : 1)  Chromium oxide green (hydrated) powder  2)  Ultramarine violet powder   Note: I've only used a pinch of ultramarine violet powder just to 'buffer' the yellowish colour that palm oil can sometime give to soaps Mineral pigments are from  The Soap Kitchen ...and some crystal

This is  SA VA GE LA UR EL   Recipe: Olive oil (pomace)  40% Coconut oil  25% Palm oil (organic)  20% Bay laurel berry oil 11 % Castor oil  4% Note that the palm oil I buy from  The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Bay laurel berry oil is from  A roma Z one Scent:  naturally coming from the bay laurel berry oil Colours : 1) arctic pearl metallic mica 2) silver grey metallic mica  All micas are from  The Soap Kitchen 2 days in the mould + 1 day as whole bar outside the mould before cutting!

This is the first of three short posts about the last soaps I made! This is GO LD EN CI TR US Recipe: Olive oil (pomace) 50% Coconut oil 25% Palm oil (organic) 20% Castor oil 5% Note that the palm oil I buy from The Soap Kitchen   'carries Organic Certification and comes from Columbia. It is not produced on land that has been taken from the Rain Forests, nor are there any Orangutangs made homeless. Our suppliers do use 'ethical' methods in their production (we have actually visited the site). Our Columbian suppliers are members of the RSPO (Round Table for Sustainable Production of   PalmOil).' Scent: grapefruit + tangerine EO from CEVEN'Aromes   Colours : 1) gold sparkle metallic mica + buttercup yellow mica 2) copper metallic mica + c lementine orange mica  and 3) deep bronze metallic mica  All micas are from  The Soap Kitchen 2 days in the mould + 2 days as whole bar outside the mould before cutting!

To cut a long story short, I recently bought 2 sets of Distress Crayons from Tim Holtz ( s e t # 1 and s e t # 3 ) but I haven't managed to make them work properly so far! Set #1 Set #3 Apparently these water-reactive pigment-based crayons really work well in other people's hand (even though I found many crafters complaining). I tried papers with different thickness...unfortunately, the only result I obtained every time I tried to move the colours around with water was to damage the paper... I might be short in patience but after 5 or 6 times I gave up and decided to use the crayons without water... I've first coloured two white Bristol card stock sheets (one horizontally and one transversely) like this I didn't like the childish look of the cards and decided to go for something more complex... For the card with the transverse pattern I put, at regular distance one from the other, stripes of washi tape. I've then dabbed in between

What to do with leftover craft paper?    Unique gift tags! Gather your punches, glitters, embellishments, stamps, embossing powders and anything else from your craft stash, and free your  creativity ! To shape the tags I've used an  Xcut die set including a small die (2.1 × 3.3 cm) and a medium one (3.3 × 4.9 cm)...then I've just unleashed my fantasy and used everything I had at my fingertips! 

Ok, let's be honest here: I've been waiting for this for weeks!!! I started working on fall's projects in mid-August ... you know, it was hot and sunny, and the only thing that relieved me from the heat was thinking about Autumn! I recently bought several interesting fall-themed items among which a set including Halloween stamps (from My Favourite Things ) and dies (from Die-namics ), 2 sets of Distress crayons (I'll dedicate a post to these special, yet debated crayons!!!) and few other things... That's what I came up with: a Halloween explosion box with an elegant look but with the traditional  trick (actually a treat ;-)) inside! Top view Outside of the box   Inside of the box   Details... I have created the white background by using a white Distress crayon I've coloured the monster's face with pastels Hand-drawn spider and cotton made spiderweb (spiderweb has been a brilliant suggestion of m