Completed chipboard purse

Woo finally got it finished today! So now im covered in dry glue and sawdust from sanding off the top edges but im over the moon with how great this has come out! Dont think im goignt o make another one in a hurry but im really hoping my mum likes it as it's going to be her belated birthday present, safer to hand deliver it a few months late than have it destroyed by the royal mail's clumsiness!

To make this i used: stitched effect purple glitter ribbon, old chipboard, mulberry paper, silkscreen printed cardstock, lots of super strong glue, double sided tape, a keyring and a variety of my OH's tools lol..... Guess i could enter this as a second entry for the arty girls challenge as it's made using the recycled chipboard also used on my little notebook! Anyway time to go deglue myself and my latop keyboard lol.....

chipboard purse

Just started working on my mums birthday present, ok her birthday was last weekend but as i don't see her till august i thought i'd make her something worth waiting that bit longer for.... i found this idea a few months agao whilst blog hopping on Yard sale kind of luck... it's a fab blog with oh so many fab ideas that i'd love to have a go at myself. I got so frustrated with the pieces of chipboard trying to get them all lined up that i decided to make the tag first lol as it was much simpler and didn't involve needing 3 hands to glue it together... the sentiment is pretty much true of many aspects of life throught the recent years for mum and i, so it seemed like a fab tag to have on the bag. As u can see the bag isn't too far from finished it just needs; some sanding down, the purple paper stuck round the top edge and some stitched ribbon to make the handles............. so another couple of hours and some cursing at it should be sufficient lol!