It's been a while!

Here's some of what I've been up to!
Firstly, I picked up some wallpaper offcuts from the local DIY store, including a disney princess border. I put one of them into a frame to go onto my 4 year old daughter's bedroom wall.

I also bought a cheap scrapbook from a pound shop - it looked a bit bland so I decorated it up and am going to work on filling it soon. Here's the cover:

And on a book-cover-designing kick, I designed the front cover of a notebook for my daughter as well. What little girl doesn't like, flowers, hearts, pink and GLITTER!!??

I also picked up my knit-sticks again, to make "Little Chuckles" from Issue 27 of Simply knitting Magazine. I have completed a bit more of this now, but here's an earlier WIP photo:

And finally...
Call it a commission if you will, except I'm not getting paid for it ;) My sister asked me to make a card for a 3 year old girl and I rustled up this!


Anyway, very sorry for not keeping up to date with this. I've been very busy with numerous swaps, mainly Blottedcopybook's Time for Tea swap and the Secret Easter Chick Swap Which is being run by the lovely Incy @Incywincystitches - both of which will be blogged after their intended recipients receive them!

I've been slacking, but not in the making dept...

Yeah, I've been slacking in updating this thing, but I have been semi-busy over the last few weeks too!

February 14th was of course Valentine's Day and I created this card for the boyfriend. It wasn't my best piece of work, but the whole thing was my own idea and everything except the backing paper on the inside was hand-drawn/coloured - so it was actually almost 100% handmade. I was pleased with it anyway and I got some pretty good feedback from it.















It was also my best friend's birthday on the 13th. I haven't actually given him this card yet, so I hope he doesn't read this regularly ;) Being a guy, this card took some thought but I really liked the outcome, I hope he does too.


I decided to make a donation to the Crafter...oo Comic Relief Shop at Folksy where all items are handmade by members of the Crafter...oo Craft Forums and all money made from the sales of these items goes to Comic Relief. The following submission was sold last week, but I shall be adding at least one more card to it in the near future, so watch this space!

Please check out the shop and donate to a very worthwhile cause!

Late start to the new year!

First off, Happy Birthday to my very lovely boyfriend, Iain. Here's the card I sent him.


I was in the middle of making him a crocheted cow toy as well, but only got this far:

[That's the head and snout, by the way!]

I also crocheted myself a bracelet - nothing special. Originally, i was following a pattern for some baby bootees but I realised it was going to be far too big, so I finished it there and Voila! A bracelet!


Now I'm concentrating on Valentine's projects and experimenting with heat embossing, stamping, etc. Here's some of the forementioned experiments:

Busy this time of year...

Firstly, a cute doggy and a new style of fold



And a more classic one

Create-a-calendar #1 - Jan and Feb

January


February

The one that wouldn't go to plan

I kept doing things wrong with this, but with a little determination, I finally managed to put it all right and here is the finished project

Some quick Christmas cards

The ex-DH wanted me to do some cards for some of his work colleagues. I had no idea what to do, but I hope he likes what I did come up with. I'm calling them "lazy cards" because all the bits came out of kits!

This one is one of my favourites. I LOVE how it turned out!


I wanted to do something original with this, so I layered up the parcels a bit with lots of sticky squares. I think it brought some life to the card!


Lastly - I designed a card for a friend for a secret swap - I wanted to make it personal to her, so I added her name and made it using her favourite colours.

Picking up some old crafts

I got sent a lovely crafty package as part of a swap I was involved in on Punkymoms which included some beautiful handmade knitting needles. I decided to pick up the sticks again last night, I haven't knitted for a while, but it's like riding a bike - so I found my old magazines and some scraps and began to make one of Alan Dart's farm animals. I got halfway through the body and put it down for a nap, but my DS decided to go through my bag and took it off the needles. I haven't inspected the damage yet, but I suspect I'm going to have to frog the whole lot and only work on it after the kids are in bed.

A long one today!

First off, some older stuff today.

A birthday card for my dads 64th birthday


A christmas card


Another christmas card made with a 'Me to you' craft set


Some WIP's - I'm not sure I like the gift one yet.


And just for funsies - my not-so-organised crafting area - it's a large under-stair cupboard which is doubling at the moment as a Christmas present hiding place, so it's rather more cramped than usual!
EIGHT drawers of stuff!


And a large box with all my plain cardstock and magazines - the plastic zip bag at the bottom currently has all my christmas papers and bits in it - I'm forever looking for them so I put them all together!


There you go, nice long entry for once!

Punk birthday card

A friend asked me to create a card for her sister's 15th birthday - the only idea she gave me, was that she liked "punk" stuff - so this is what I came up with.

The skull and checked paper was printed off from www.glogster.com and the toppers were just plain card/paper stock written on by hand with an embossing ink pen and black glitter embossing powder. I know it's a little wonky, but I think that adds to the effect!

I loved creating this project as I came up with the whole idea myself. I was duely informed that the recipient was very pleased with the card too - I love making people happy with my creations!