RobsCreations

I liked the idea of creating tea/tisane bag holder cards very much  🍵🍪  With the cold season approaching, hot beverages will be a constant presence in my days and I'd love to receive a card like this! You can create the pocket with specific die cuts or, as I did, with the envelope punch board , and close the pocket's flaps with whatever thread, twine or bow you have at home. You can line the inside of the pocket with a nice paper, and add as many decorations as possible :-)

I have mixed two techniques in order to obtain different patterns , one on the inside of the soap bar and one on the top. Here you have the links to the original videos showing the techniques: 1)  Tilted tiger stripe swirl 2) Multi-mica Taiwan swirl Since  I run out of castor oil,  I had to modify the recipe shown in video 1) as follows  😅 Recipe (slow moving trace): Olive oil (pomace)  70% Coconut oil  22.25% Palm oil (organic)  7.75% 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:   O range  EO ...

I've been dying to buy some of the Hero Arts color  layering  sets since months. Each set includes layering stamps and a matching 4-i nk cube pack, especially created by Hero Arts artists  (see   HERE  for the color layering guide).    Here you have a table with some considerations about buying in U.S. or in EU if you are a EU-based customer... Comparative table a) U.S.A EU (multiple retailers) EU (single retailer) Color layering bundles (stamps + inks) b) c) Available Not always available Not always available Color layering bundles (stamps + inks + dies) b) c) Available Not always available Not always available Separate materials (stamps and inks) Available Available * Partly available Prices Fair More expensive than in US More expensive than in US Custom fees To be paid NONE NONE ...

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To cut a long story short, last August I've participated to a design competition for soap moulds organized by the fantastic  The Soap Kitchen  on-line store and I won  (see Facebook  and  Twitter )! My designs have been transformed into real moulds after a process including 3D printing of the models, silicon mould creation, resin forma production and final creation of the plastic moulds (production and manufacturing have been done at The Soap Kitchen, THANK YOU Colin and the whole team). Moulds are made from food grade PETG and each cavity of the set measures approximately  75 mm x 50 mm x 25 mm . If you need more details on the moulds, including how to use them, you can find them  HERE When I was preparing the sketches for the competition I gave each single mould a name (see picture ⇩), but they are sold as a set under the name of Four Seasons   I have been looking forward to testing this set and here...

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...

I want to publicly thank my friend Diane for having published on her blog a post about RobsCreations! She interviewed me and asked questions about my blog, how it started and why, where my interest for crafting and hand-made things comes from and more...you can find my all answers (both in French and English) HERE