Magic wands with owls

I liked so much Susan's magic wands at the Country View Crafts that I decided to make some for my nephews. I asked the boys about the colours and the embellishments and they chose the brown-gold combo with owls.

So I took my glue gun, my chopsticks from the kitchen drawer, a few owl charms and some rope to make these.

Here are two photos where you can see the wands/chopsticks before the painting.

As you can see, I made two with skulls but not for my nephews.

Here I put a layer of gesso on them. Later I gessoed the owls as well because they were too shiny.

The wands after the brown painting, the gilding and the sealing. 

Thank so much for stopping by!!!

Greeting card with Harry Potter - Card with the wizard of Penny Black

The Penny Black Wizard stamp is so useful if you want to please Harry Potter fan boys. I have two nephews - a brown and a blonde - who love Harry.

So I had to adapt the colouring to the boys' hairs, this is why I have a blonde and a brown-haired wizard card.

Greeting card with a wizard boy

Let me show you my latest make, a card with a little wizard boy who totally looks like Harry Potter. The stamp is from Penny Black.

Since in my family there are many Harry Potter fans, I'm sure this stamp will be very popular.

Wand box alteration - Luna Lovegood's wand

Let me show you my latest make, an altered wand box. For Christmas my daughter got a Luna Lovegood wand from the Santa. But since Santa didn't want to spend a lot of money he ordered the wand from China ;-) The wand in the box was a perfect replica, it was made from resin (the same material you can have in the official shops) but the the box was a bit cheap-looking with a huge Made in China logo, though a sturdy one.

So here is what I made:

And here is how it looked like before:

I altered it the same way how I prepared my wooden cheese box in November. But there were two exceptions: 1. here I  used black DecoArt Americana Chalky Finish paint and 2. I used black crepe paper instead of napkin paper.

Here are some photos about the process:

Here is my magical wand box in Luna's style :-)

It was a real success!!! I can't tell you how my daughter loved it!!! Yippee!!!

For this I used two dies from Tim Holtz:

Sizzix Bigz Die, Crescent Moon&Stars (658716) - just the stars

Sizzix Movers&Shapers Die, Mini Owl&Crescent Moon (658725) - just the moon

Warner Bros Studio - Harry Potter

I've just returned from an exciting one-week holiday in London. Although for me it was not the first time being or living in London but it was the absolute first time for my daughter and luckily she, just like me, loved the city.

Unfortunately, I can't show you guys all the pictures I have made and I can't share with you all the experiences we had but believe me, it was totally awesome. We went twice to theaters (Charlie and the chocolate factory, Lion king), we visited the Tower and the China Town, we showed Eszter the Parliament, the Westminster Abbey, the Buckingham Palace, the Harrods, the Hamleys etc., we fed parakeets, tits and squirrels by hand in Hyde Park and... we went to the Warner Bros Studio to see all the Harry Potter's scenes, costumes, props and visual effects. It was amazing and we didn't want to leave but we had to catch our special Harry Potter bus.

So I would like to show you some of my photos from the Harry Potter Studio Tour.

I'm still in Hungary but I'm sure if I return to Luxembourg I will make London and/or Harry Potter themed creations.


P.S. Have you ever tasted the every flavour beans? I've just tasted the booger and canned dog food, yuck! But the baby wipes, toothpaste and lawn clippings were quite okay :-)

Inspired by bottles - Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans jar

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The first challenge theme of the new year was chosen by the lovely Brenda: Inspired by bottles. As you can see, here on my blog the most popular post is the "Jar for the Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans". But I had made this just before I have found the Sizzix Big Shot and the Sizzix dies.

So I decided to make a new version with Sizzix. This was a Christmas present for a friend of my daughter who is reading the Harry Potter books nowadays.

For this I used an empty and cleaned horseradish jar.

And a Sizzix Framelits Die, Wrappers by Paula Pascual (658613).

I cut out the scalloped band from yellow cardstock.

Then the cover from green cardstock. This part went to the  small dots embossing folder by Rachael Bright (655838).

The Bertie Bott's text was printed and not stamped. Then I cut out with scalloped circle.

I glued the yellow part to the jar with Glue Dots.

But after I glued the other part with just a simple glue for papers.

To the backside I also wrote a Honeyduke text and I cut it out from a smaller Framelits Die, Scallop Circle (657552).

I painted the lid with a green acrylic paint, for this you need a really good quality acrylic paint. I painted the lid without a primer but it's better to use one.

At the end I tied a polka dot yellow ribbon around the top.

Ouups, one more thing! I covered the printed text with Micro Glaze. Many times I had the experience that my printed texts were blurred because I printed with ink-jet printer. This is a great product to protect the text. I used Judikins Microglaze but I think Tim Holtz Distress Glaze is perfect too.

I filled my jar with Jelly Beans from The Jelly Bean Factory. In the Luxembourgish Little Britain shop I got this. But you can buy beans from Jelly Belly too, they still produce the weird flavours like ear wax, soap, dirt, vomit etc.  :-)

So please join the challenge of the Country View Crafts and show us your fabulous ideas. You can also win a £20 voucher!

Jar for the Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans

This was made for a Harry Potter fan schoolgirl as a Christmas present. Because you have to know that lately it’s very hard to find the “real” Bertie Bott’s sweets. And if you  happen to come across it, you will realize immediately that you have to pay a lot of money to have a teensy-weensy pocket.

And by the way, I’m sure that most of the little ones don’t have the courage to taste a vomit, a rotten egg or a booger flavour “candy”. I also bet that even we, adults are not brave enough to put these yucky taste into our mouths. 

In case that I’m wrong I have bought a tiny pocket marked HARRY POTTER - BERTIE BOTT’S EVERY FLAVOUR BEANS which supposedly contains the flavours I have just mentioned and many more besides: soap, earwax, sausage, black pepper and so on.

In case that I’m right, I prepared this special candy jar. For this I have used an empty jam jar and I have made a label in one of the text editors with the sign: Bertie Bott’s Every Falvour Beans. I printed the label, I cut it out and I glued on the jar.


I have painted four coats of green on the lid with imitating the same green you can see on the shelves of the Honeyduke Sweetshop. In the end I added two coats of lacquer as well. 

After the first coat of paint

The lacquer is drying

I have bought a box with 36 yummy tastes from the same company - JELLY BELLY - that also produces Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans. 

So I just filled up the jar with those candies, I tied a yellow ribbon under the lid and voilà it looks like a candy jar from the Honeydukes Sweetshop.

Some interesting details about the Jelly Belly Beans:

• the Jelly Belly beans are gluten and nut free 
• they sell sugar free beans too
• one jelly bean is 4 calories
• the Jelly Belly beans were the favourites of Ronald Reagan

My other blogpost on this subjects:

Alternative party bag