Trio of birthday cards

Hi all, well good laid plans and all that somehow seem to never come together in my house lol. The joys of a chest infection and lack of mojo after Christmas meant I wasn't spending much time in my craft room :-(
But the good news is I have now learnt to follow a pattern in crochet lol. Will add a pic of current project at the end of this post.
So onto my cards and I really enjoyed making these and getting inky.
First thing was to stamp the cats (MFT 'Catitude') onto some card with Versafine black onyx ink and heat emboss with clear embossing powder and also onto some masking paper. Once stamped image covered with masking paper ( joys of fussy cutting ) this is where the fun begins. I just picked a selection of my fave distress inks and covered up the whole card using a applicator tool and foam pads and then added some droplets of water. I then peeled the masking paper off ( see pic ) and coloured my cats with Copics.


I used MFT tiny hearts background stamp and the same distress inks to create another layer behind the main image and die-cut them at a angle using the new MFT wonky stitched rectangles which i am totally in love with


The happy birthday dies used are from Clearly Besotted


Distress inks used were Wilted Violet, Peacock feathers, Picked raspberry and mustard seed


I can't make my mind up which one is my favourite. Think I like them all :-)
So am back in my craft room and also completing my current blanket which I came across on Facebook. It's called a C2c or Corner to corner and is made up of squares. I'm currently following a pattern to get a geometric shape at the end. Will keep you updated of my progress.



Happy crafting everyone x

Cushion cover for my mum

Hi all, well this is my first blog post of 2016 and I hope you all had a great time celebrating and welcoming in the New Year. It's my birthday New Years Eve and we had spent the day in Weymouth getting rather wet and cold so it was good to have a early night which was a first in 23 years. Sure sign I am getting old lol.
Anyway was itching to do a crochet cushion cover after my friend Sandra made one and told me it was easy!
Luckily for me it was easy once I had unpicked it several times and Sandra sorted it out when it started to go wonky lol



This is the back of the cushion and I was chuffed to have lined it up when I crocheted it shut


I literally finished it the night before she came down for Christmas as I had picked up a larger cushion base than intended. But she loved it so that was all that matters though she has asked for a matching one. I told her yes she can but not until Christmas 2016 ;-)
Right off to try and make some birthday cards before I am back at work on Monday, happy crafting all x

My beloved Sam

Well it's certainly windy outside today and heavy rains are forecast all day. My heart goes out to those affected by the floods and make me grateful for my dry house.
I attended another Felting workshop run by the talented Joan Prowse who did a special master class for us all on request.
We all brought a photo of our chosen model and of course I had to choose Sam. Still miss him loads :-(



So first off all we had to create the basic shape of the head and start to build layers up. So grateful that Joan was on hand with expert tips and advice as really wanted to do justice to this


And this is the final version of my felted Sam. I even incorporated some of Sam's hair in his face to make it more special. Just need to go and get it framed now so I can have him near me at all times


And these were all the completed projects. What a amazing and talented bunch of ladies and also friends :-)


So if you fancy learning something new for 2016 I would highly recommend dry felting. I started out with a small flower and now the world is my oyster. Though as hubby says not another hobby lol

Craft retreat

Hi all, well me and the lovely Sandra went away to a craft retreat in Brixham in November


and had a fab weekend with lots of crafting and good company and this is what we made.




















Everyone's finished projects


Really good to make different items and to meet new people. Now I need to remember to blog more as it's a great way to record my makes. Hope you all had a good Christmas x

Happy Birthday Ginny

Hi all, this Is a card I made for the lovely Ginny whose birthday was yesterday and you can find her blog here




Ingredients used -

Penny Black stamp 'gifts for you' coloured with copics
First Edition 'New leaf' design papers
C.C.Designs sentiment stamps
Kort & Godt pearls

Today is also World card making day so I hope you have a day full of craft. Thanks for the get well wishes re back, it's a lot better thanks x

Love you to bits!

Hi all, well time to sneak in a card i started to make yesterday and finished today. Had to have some time off work due to a bad back and slowly getting back into some crafting but taking it steady.
Anyway this is a card for my hubby to say thanks as he kindly took me to the Westpoint craft show on Sunday as a surprise. Only a quick trip around but still managed to snag some fab new stamps among some other bits and this is one of them.



Ingredients used -

Visible Image - 'Zombie Brian' stamp coloured with copics
Lawn Fawn - 'Polka in the dark' design paper
AnnaMarie Designs black card blank
Ribbon and heart clip from stash

A few cards I have made

Well I went back to work after the summer holidays and strange enough I seem to have a shortage of time again :-(
But anyway here are some cards i have made recently









Hope you are enjoying the weekend x