Monday 24 June 2013

Nasty wool can be lovely too

You know that problem when something calls to you to buy it?  Well this ball of 'wool' is the nastiest quality in the universe, hasn't been within a hundred miles of a sheep and i'm fairly certain there's some wire wool spun in with it BUT the colours said I had to buy it.  Cheap as chips it was and a gigantic 250g ball to boot which further reflects the quality BUT I still really like it.
The colours shouldn't work right?  But i'm having fun crocheting a 'nothing' blanket in rows of doubles and trebles.  It's probably hideous to you, but it reminds me of a bizarre aran jumper than went wrong but is loved all the same.
Absolutely no idea how big it might get from one 250 ball.  I'm hoping a liberal dousing in softener will make it more cuddly once it's done.  Who cares if it ends up as a dog blanket, it's pleasing to my eye!

 

Sunday 16 June 2013

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day to all dad's!  Hope you've all enjoyed a great day and perhaps rounded it off with a nice spot of dinner at the local steak house - yum.
Made a card for my dad using this cool Alf & Beer stamp from Digi Stamp Boutique There were so many to choose from I had a hard time deciding but this fitted my requirements for both cards.  I shall be going back there for more though!
This one is for my dad.  Love the colours on this one.
 Made this one for my OH who is a bit of a John Smith's monster so was led by their colours.  

They both went down well anyway!  I'd like to enter both of these in the Here Come The Boys dotty challenge for the dotties around Alf.
Lisa
x

Saturday 8 June 2013

Rush rush

Phew it's been a busy week, and it's not letting up yet as i'm about to spend the weekend looking at residential care for a relative and writing a CV.  25 years since I wrote my last CV, methinks it's going to take a while to get into the groove again!

No time for crafting more's the pity, so I thought i'd share some pictures of the mother's day card I made for mum back in March.  I used Nitwit - Hello Sunshine collection which has such lovely colours and images.  Mum loved it by the way!

It was really easy to make and I had a great time.  The inside is decorated too:

 
Picture quality dreadful as always but I am getting better I promise teehee.  

Oh and here's doggie looking handsome:
xxx
 

Monday 3 June 2013

Peeking at the new christmas planners

OK so I was going to give you a peek at the new book style christmas planners i've been working on.....but my camera has decided otherwise.  It's not playing ball at all I shall have to get some super duper batteries and see if that's the problem.

It did let me take a couple of photos before refusing to work though.  This is the front of one of the planners, complete with binding holes on the left side.  They'll make a bit more sense when you can see the inside sections but essentially they will be planners for all those christmas lists and troublesome receipts and calendars and should last 3 years of use.

Here's the front


A close up of the sweet beaded front panel.  

This book has been made with Dovecraft Christmas Fancy papers and once the camera is my friend again will get some pictures done of the inside sections.  I promise you'll love them!  

xxx

Rays of Sunshine

Good morning it's a beautiful day here, makes me want to get all my crafting stash out and make something.  Hopefully i'll get some time.

Here's another I made with a completely free digi stamp.  I can't seem to find it on the net now - I downloaded it quite a while ago just hadn't got round to doing it. It's a fast and easy colour in job (needs to look a little like childish colouring I think as it's a childish looking house), bung on a button and bob's your uncle.  I put the beads on the end of the cord to make it look like sunrays teehee.


x

Sunday 2 June 2013

Colour

The thing I love most about a blog is the ability to whack everything in that you see or think or do or want.  It's not necessarily interesting to anyone else - but me.  So these are for me.

Inspiration.

Beeeeee

Isn't the web just brilliant?!  I found this sweet little bee as a digital stamp along with the sentiment free here: Free Bee Stamp  It was exactly what I needed for a 'leaving' card.  So simple and easy easy easy.  Love it.





There are so many legitimately free resources online for images and patterns an tutorials it's easy to spend all day just looking it all up - never mind actually making something with it!

Have a house full of children today and as they're not back to school until tuesday, I think I will just surrender to the fact the house will remain messy until AFTER my working week, rather than fight the tide this weekend.  Sometimes it's best just to enjoy the moment rather than stress about an imperfect untidy home.

Enjoy your sunday and hope it's as stress free as i'm making mine.

xxx

Saturday 1 June 2013

Lili of the Valley

Hi!  I've made a card for a good friend's birthday.  Have used a Lili of the Valley stamp and coloured with Promarkers.  The whole colouring thing is way harder than i'd imagined.....gonna have to practice heaps more at that!  


Am getting the hang of placement and matting and stiching and.....oh my a card can take hours of fluffy nonsense doing.

Made another card, coz i could, using just a tiny daisy punch and mucho mucho hours.  


Thanks for visiting me.

xxx