A lovely day!

I have had a busy few weeks with work and crafting. I made this lunchbag from a pattern in last months Patchwork magazine, it was very quick once I got it all cut out. The fabric was some I have had for ages and didn't know what to do with it. I couldn't find a big button that looked right so I made one out of felt and beads and I am really pleased with how it turned out.

I am at the moment doing some cross stitch and knitting and making cards so very busy but enjoying doing things I haven't done for ages.

Today I have spent the day in the garden with my eldest grandaughter, we had a lovely day watching our chickens and cleaning up leaves, we walked down the road to see baby lambs and the swans and there were some lovely daffodils it  feels like spring is really on the way.

Well hopefully I will blog sooner next time

Happy crafting

Another very windy day!

 Our poor chickens can barely stand up, it is so funny to see them staggering against the wind.

 My friend Eileen has been over to craft today and in between bacon sandwiches, cups of tea and cupcakes she found time to make a Valentines card for her hubbie!
The cards above are both stamped images coloured in with promarkers, the top one is a papermania stamp from their woodland series and the second one is a 'lili of the valley' stamp they are a delight to colour in and always look effective.

Well I think I might go and do some knitting before tea, back to work tomorrow after five days off

happy crafting

Twice in one day!

This is not the best photo but this is a card I made with 'Orla Keilly' wrapping paper and Craftwork cards card candi on the cards for headlights, I used one side of the paper for the background then cut out two different lots of cars and decoupaged individual cars on top, I think they have turned ot really well and they are quite cheap as you can get a lot of cards out of one sheet of wrapping paper which was £1.50.

A Winnie the Pooh day!!

Hello everyone

It is a very windy day here and it has rained for most of the day!! I went to Manchester yesterday to the 'Stitch and Creative Crafts show' with my daughter Alex we had a lovely day but it was tiring especially getting about and carry our heavy bags of goodies we bought at the show! It was a nice show to walk around and we managed to see most things without a crush as can sometimes happen. We were disappointed though that there weren't any Sizzix Eclips cartridges to purchase in fact we didn't even see any for the Cricut machine. There were a lot of stalls that had Cuttlebug machines and Big Shot machines but we didn't see one electronic machine.
We both mainly purchased card stock and  silver mirri card, we both purchased some of the lili of the valley Cute squares which are lovely big toppers for cards, The pictures here show a starbucks tea tin altered with some EK success paper that I got from the NEC in November it was in a large roll, I had thre co-ordinated sheets, this tin is now perfect to store my Lili if the valley squares.
We also bought some kanban die cuts and kanban stamps and stocked up on glue pens etc. We even got time to venture into the centre of Manchester to have a wander but our bags were to heavy so we had some food then sat at the station waiting for our train home.

So now I have lots of new goodies to play with

Happy Crafting

January has been a busy crafting month for me, I have been doing lots of cards because my daughter and I want to find a craft fair to sell at in the Spring. I personally love doing female birthday cards and am having to steer myself to make some male cards and do some anniversary, get well cards etc, as I feel I need a good variety to interest people, my daughter has made a lot of childrens cards.

Mine are a variety of rubber stamping, decoupage and using my Big Shot and my Eclips, I have also altered  a selection of note books.

The knitted cupcake was what I made for a secret santa present at work, I knitted it then sewed on beads and sequins and some ricrac then placed it in a cupcake frill I got from a supermarket. I then tied it up in irredescant cellophane. I was really pleased with the results and now have to get round to making up the other nine I have knitted.

On Friday my daughter and I are going to the creative stitch and craft show in Manchester so I am looking forward to seeing some demonstrations of new products.

I will hopefully get round to photographing some more cards this week and will put them on the blog

Happy crafting

Happy New Year!

I can't believe it is already New Years eve, Christmas went so fast. I  was at work on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we were very busy as the sale started.

I ordered a lot of new sizzix embossing folders and Sizzix dies from the Sizzix website on boxing day and they arrived yesterday. So I have lots of new dies to play with. I did manage to make about 45 Christmas cards and have been doing some knitting but apart from that I haven't done much crafting in the last couple of weeks. I hope to get some cards done this week.

I do wish everyone a happy and healthy prosperous new year.

happy crafting