Blog Candy

Blog Candy to one over at http://stamping-fantasies.blogspot.com/2010/07/candy-to-be-wonfour-times-over.html

All you have to do is find out which city Brenda and her Husband are visiting on their holiday, she will leave a clue and a picture, which you can google.

1950s Apron

Well I spent the afternoon yesterday making this apron, its just a try out as I did not want to spend a lot of money just in case it did not turn out well, and guess what! it did not turn out the way it should. So on my notes I have made adjustments or I may need to look for another pattern, although I used gingham it could be to soft of a fabric. I will try again but I think I will use a better fabric.

Project Tuesday Lip Balm Holder

Inside of card is the holder for the lip balm.

Front of card.

Materials:-

card, patterned paper, flower stamp, stamp greeting, versa ink, glitter glue, gem ,ribbon.

June Challenge for Sir Stampalot/ Week 60 In the Garden

Hi everyone I got inspired this weekend by the new edition of Magnolia Ink Mag. Just wish I could afford all the nice stamps they do. This card is for my mum as it is her birthday next month. I shall also be putting this project in at http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.com/ and at http://justmagnolia.blogspot.com/

It would be nice to win something, but hey its still fun to create.

Ingredients :

Stamps; Tilda with puppy and rustic bench, Magnolia greeting, flower and leaf stamps

Inks; Versa fine sepia, and regular versa inks, Promarkers, Copics and gel pens.

Papers; K&CO, cardstock

Punches; 3 different size daisy punches, Martha Stewart fence and leaf twig.

Circle cut out using a Fiskers circle shape cutter.

The instructions for making the card was not very clear but I think I managed it OK. I used K & Co for the paper's, I cut the butterfly's out of the paper, and I punched the flowers from the paper too, the fence is a punch from Martha Stewart also the twig leave thingies. Its a kind of box card that does not open up, the back is decorated with the same papers with the greeting on top. Mum has 2 dogs so that made it easy to pick which stamp, Tilda with a puppy.I stamped the edge of the circle with some flower and leaf stamps also at the base of the fence, I used my chalks for the background of Tilda so as to cover the whiteness. I used some gems on the centre of the flowers I made and on the tag. I coloured Tilda with promarkers and some of the copics that I have, but I think I should have stuck to one kind, someone said you could mix the two but I am not so sure. If you look close enough you can see a side view of a butterfly to the left of Tilda

If you would like to order Magnolia Ink Magazine or the stamps you can get them here in the UK

from http://www.craftsulove.co.uk/magnolia.htm or from http://www.sirstampalot.co.uk/rubber-stamps.php

In the USA you can order fromhttp://www.magnoliastamps.us/

Hope you all had a nice Sunday, mine was quite a day to my self.

Recipe Box

About a month ago at Crafty Women we did a joint effort of making a recipe box, the idea was taken from a magazine, one of the ladies had her husband make the template for us, some of us had loop sided lids, I was one of them, but we went ahead and came up with different décor. As you can see I chose a Baking Tilda on a rolling pin. I chose blue to match my kitchen. I plan to make another one in the future, might make a nice Christmas gift.
I coloured my image with promarkers and copic pens, I used a glitter pen for the lace edge and a white pen for highlights, unfortunately my camera does not always pick this up.
Project Tuesday has a easy project so go over a check it out, I may make one, but I have so many things I want to do but not always the time. See you all again soon.

Tea and Cake

Just made this at lunch time, its a cupcake trinket box, my nearest thing for cake on this diet.

Inside the card bookmark

This is the inside of Angela and mine, the bookmark is the strip at the bottom. I plan on dressing mine up some more as there is a birthday coming up soon.

This one is of Robinah

Here is Tracie's

And this one is Denisa, she plans on giving it to her friend, I like the idea of putting a photo inside.

Scrapbook in a CD case

Inside the CD case.

This is the front of the one I did, below is one of Tracie's.

We shall be doing some more of these in July, I managed to find a web site to get these particular CDs, they are called calender CD. I managed to put two together for the bible student girls who are due to leave this month, the one I made a crafty women I gave to the other girl Violeta Pantekoska who comes from Macedonia. I think this is one project I will do often as it makes a nice gift.

Craft Group Projects

By Robinah Doolo, one of our bible students from Uganda

By Tracie Cole

By Denisa Horvathorva bible student from Czechoslovakia

By Eunice Jackson

By Angela Fairbard

On Saturday a bunch of us ladies did some crafting, we did the Project Tuesday card/bookmark greeting card, I am also showing the scrapbook in a CD case that that was done at Crafty Women with Annie Haffermann.

Bookmark Card

Here is Tracey nice floral card and sentiment, we had great fun just took most of the day to make while talking and having lunch together. we are looking forward to making more of these cards.


Here is this weeks Project Tuesday, made with my friend Tracey. Mine is the crazy Mexican dog, it is a Fathers Day card for my husband. For the fold we used a perforated blade so it will be easy to pull the bookmark from the card. Take alook at the other crafters and examples at http://www.sasprojecttuesday.blogspot.com

Project Tuesday- Spiral Pop Up Card

Well here is my attempt at this weeks project @ www.sasprojecttuesday.blogspot.com , I had already done Tilda but did not have a card in mind so I saved her for later so this project I thought would be good for to use, its someones birthday this weekend so helped to make a birthday with yummy sweet stuff to go on it. I did not have a punch for the spiral so I had to guess. The sentiment was done on the computer, would of like to use colour but ran out of ink.

Materials;

Stamps-Tilda, Ice cream cone

Card stock-Pink, Green

PP- Doodlebug design single scoop paper

Ink- Versa colour Lagoon blue

Nestabilities- Scallop oval

Ribbon, glue dots, PC for sentiment

Project Tuesday Altered Frame

This weeks http://www.sasprojecttuesday.blogspot.com/ is a altered frame, so this is one I have done that shows my husband and I together, the frame I had on hand does not have a flat frame so I could only put a few bits on, plus I did not want it to be too flowery as the frame is going to my husband office space. I was able to use what I had on hand, the frame idea makes a nice gift.

Allsorts Challenge week 45 " Rags to Riches"

The challenge from http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com is to alter or recycle something, so I am submitting my clipboard, you can get them cheap at the supermarkets, the particular store I went to had acrylic boards so there is no need to pre-paint the board, you can make it flat so as to use it or add embellishments to and display it. Makes a great gift.

Tilda sitting on a ice cream cone

This is a set of stamps I got at Sir Stampalot, I love Magnolia, so I have coloured this one up but yet to make a card for her, I love the copic markers that I bought too.

Scrapbooks

So here we have a couple of projects that I have been making for 2 of my boy's, this one is for my son who is doing catering. so far I only have 2 photos this one is the Christmas cake he made at college.

This one is for the oldest who went to Uganda last year, but I will have to re-order some pictures for his book as the ones I have are for a 12x12 lay out.

The travel book was started at the Crafty Women club and the project was taught by Annie Hafermann. I like scrapbooks more than cards, this year I intend to catch up on scrapbooking,
and to get back to quilting.

Project Tuesday: Flower pot card

• P/T card challenge, have not done many but I liked the idea, I wanted to use some new dies that I got they are from the Marianne Design. These dies cut out with a slit for ribbon to thread through I also have a border for ribbon too. Materials:

• card and pp
  
• ribbon
  
• brads
  
• greeting stamp
  
• punches, marianne cut out flower dies, sissix die for foilage
  

Baby brag book

This ABC is cute, you press a button and it lights up, if you look at the B that is lighted up, little welcome block on the corner there. Here is one of the pages with the shirt on.
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Yesterday I made one the girls a brag book for her new baby that she is having next month, hopefully she will get inspired to start her own book for her family, wished the supplies was around when my boy's was little. On one of the pages I put a little shirt that I made, Luca the dad is from the Islands, in the summer we see him dressed in shorts and his Hawaiian shirts, his saying is "you can take the boy from the Islands but you can't take the Island from the boy".

Project Tuesday Joy Fold Card

I used PT idea for my sister birthday card, but it will be late as her birthday was yesturday and its her youngest birthday to-day. Pauline and I are the same age for 2 days, tomorrow is my birthday.

Exploding scrap box

This months class project was a tutti fruitti exploding scrap box, so below is the mess, 3 ladies did the project. Here is Tracy with her box.
One of our bible students from Uganda, Robinah with her box, which she loved very much first time she has joined the class.

Angela one of our regular crafters, well done angela.

Cupcakes

Yummy cup cakes from Waitrose, Julio had this one and I had the lavender one, nice but expensieve.