Latest Quirky Crafts Challenge

Time for another challenge over at Quirky Crafts, this time our lovely Cazzy has set us a recipe that initially filled me with horror! Sewing - not my strongest skill I have to say, but as she wanted lace and buttons and stitching (real or faux) I decided to take the bull by horns and create something fabric as you can see below.

I used my Sizzix primitive heart dies to cut out two large hearts and sew them back to back with the lace in between. Not the easiest thing especially round the top and then made things a whole lot more difficult because I left the gap for stuffing on the pointed end which meant trying to sew it all together on the outside - not fun! Thank goodness for nimble-fingered seamstress friends to help finish it off before it got thrown round the kitchen.

Next time I leave the gap down the long side, and yes there will be a next time as I want to make a few to create a decorative hanging for my new craft room.

Hope this hasn't put you off joining in our challenge - the other ladies were much more sensible and used paper lace and faux stitching..................but then when did I ever do anything the easy way!

Latest Quirky Crafts Challenge

Challenge Number 34 - Deanne's last sketch for our challenge blog, so I thought I would try and do it justice by attempting my first scrapbook page and here it is:

Using a photo of my Phil which was taken at an evening to celebrate a friend's birthday a few years ago. I have chosen autumn colours as her birthday is in October and used my lovely brown and bronze and red papers from Dovecraft that I picked up as a bargain.

Hope you like it and I hope it inspires you to have a go at our challenge too.

Thanks for stopping by to have a look.

Sunday Sketch & Stamp #36

I don't know how they manage to keep coming up with new and interesting sketches on SS&S but they do and they're great and this week is no exception. I make a fab Christmas card using this sketch then realised that for once it had no stamping on it as I had used some of the Nitwits die-cut images. It's not very often that my creations have no stamping on whatsoever, but it's typical that when you have to for a challenge there is none to be seen!

So I had another go with a stamped Anya image that I received in an image swap (possibly even from Maggie Bob?) The papers are from the Craftwork Cards goody bag I picked up at Stamperama - what you can see is that they are all pearlescent and lush.

The image is coloured using my new Promarkers and as you can tell I am still getting to grips with them.

Anyway enough waffling - thanks for looking.

Been having a go at making and decorating cupcakes. Bought these gorgeous pink spotty cases in Waitrose and coloured the icing with a handfull of raspberries from the garden.

Need to get a large star nozzle - not this half star that came in the icing pack, and definately need to practice icing, it was not supposed to be so wiggly!!