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.

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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.

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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.

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Stitchy stitch - Lorna Bateman embroidery

Hi! I bought a kit to make an embroidery pincushion recently. I'd seen them online from a great shop on Folksy for Lorna Bateman Embroidery.  Her embroidery designs are gorgeous and the kits are brilliant.  
It only took a week of a few evening stitching hours to get the pincushion done, and that was pretty much from a standing embroidery start (it's got to be 25 years since I last embroidered as a child!)
I was thrilled with the result and have made lots of other pretty pieces since, including a card with the embroidery.  Here are my attempts.

 Such lovely colours.  The card was an experiment and i'm just making another having learnt from the first one....

 Thanks for looking.

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Christmas Planners 2013

I've been working on some new christmas planners for 2013.  Unbelievably, I started these on new years day and i've just managed to finish 5!!  So many distractions eh.  They actually don't take that long to do once the hard decisions have been made on the papers, but I do so like to faff around doing fluffy nonsensical fiddly bits.
Here's a few from this year.

Learnt so much from making the 2012 editions, so these are much better designed.   I'm working on some christmas planner books that will have sections and can last 3 years - will post pics when I finish them.

Lis
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Nitwits!

I really love working with Nitwit Collections images and designs the collections make it so so easy to make something special.  Have made this anniversary card for our neighbours on their first anniversary was so pleased with how it came out.

Here's the inside of the card.

Sorry about the quality of the pictures.  Have got to get much much better at this.
The card came out really well don't you think?
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