Welcome Lily

Great excitement in the family this morning, my Sister-in Law gave birth to their first child, my first niece this morning at 3.30. Her name is Lily Annabelle and both are doing well. Hope to see her this afternoon and will post a pic then.

WOYWW

I haven't had a chance to join in with this for ages so I know it's a bit late but at least I'm here. This is WOYWW which Julia hosts on her blog for all us nosey - sorry curious - crafters go to see what others get up to in their craft areas.

So here is a pic of what's on mine, unfortunately I had a bit of tidy up at the weekend as my usual push-back style had left me with about a quarter of my glass board to work in and even for me it was difficult.



I had been making a new baby card for a friend to give to her friend so there is the remnants of that making on the desk - ie baby stamps. Also been trying to start my Christmas cards and playing with my new Blue Moon Father Christmas to get some good ideas. You can also see on the left / middle of the photo (next to the cherry bakewell - which I have now demolished mmmmm) a wooden drawer which I am in the middle of decorating. I have one of those plyboard mini chest of drawers and am decorating each drawing individually to hopefully create a collage effect! - we'll see, but here is a close up of the drawer:


There is also a bead necklace that I bought in a sale - I don't like all the beads but have others I want to put on it their place - but it still sits there.

Thank you if you've taken the trouble to pop by and also if you've commented, I will pop by to as many as I can but it may take me a few days.

Latest Quirky Crafts Challenge

That time again - I can't believe that we're up to Challenge 36!

This time Caro has created her first sketch and it's a cracker. I love using sketches and this one is great fun to play with and very versatile too.

Here is the sketch:

and here is what I made of it:


Click here to see how the rest of the Design Team interpreted it.

I'm going.................

..........no not mad (I'm already there!)

I have managed to secure tickets for Pippa and me for the Paperartsy workshop with..........................



I can't believe we're going and that we're going to meet him and actually be taught by him too. I am sooooo excited but have to control myself as we have to wait until the end of Feb next year.

If you'd like to see what we'll be up to and what I'm getting so excited about check out this link here

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.