All buttoned up

Morning all,

Just a flying visit to show you one of the many projects i've been doing for the church bizzare - these are button badges:

I had so much fun making these - I did 4 in one night so you can see how easy they are really. I think my favourite is the little owl, but I have a major thing for owls at the moment - probably because they're such a big trend.

Anyway, must go to work and hopefully today I won't come back with another injury! its been a bad week so far. Wednesday I trapped my little finger in the shutters whilst closing up the house and its swollen, green and purple and frankly very ugly to look at..... but then to add to the multicoloured look I managed to maim both my hands and my left knee last night, when one of the paving slabs on the road I walk down to get home gave way as I walked over it and I went flying - there's now a massive hole were the slab should be, after it sank a good 6 inches and a nice big hole in my knee and both my palms too......

Maybe I should just stay in bed today? huh?

Have a good day whatever you do and hopefully you're all having a better week then me. Happy crafting!

Spooky goings on......

Things are about to go bump in the night at work, as we're almost into our Halloween week at the house!
We're busy designing a new 18th century inspired cellar of horror, with a highwayman, headless lady and not forgetting the guillotine and severed heads......... mwahahahahahah! *ehem* sorry, getting a bit carried away!

So onwards to todays post. This is one of three craft activities we will be doing; monster mask making! I've been messing with patterns and designs for a couple of weeks and the final collection is:

The pumpkin, bat, ghost and frankenstein....... hopefully the kids will enjoy making them. I've had great fun making up the samples but frankly I'm a big kid!

As everyone seems to be running halloween challenges at the moment, I'm entering these into the following: Everybody Art, Simon Says and Fussy and Fancy Fridays

I hope you all like and i'll be sure to give you a full blog of the site with images of our finished creation!

Take care everyone and happy crafting x

Second white on white card

Hi all,

Just to show you that i'm still alive and here I thought i'd just show you the second white on white card I made for my brother's friends who are twin's (the other being the post below).

I'm sorry i've not been around more but i'm up to my neck in job applications, halloween trails and crafts and not forgetting the church christmas bizarre - 2nd weekend of November! eeek!

Anyway.... I'll stop rambling now, the design is mildly tweeked from one i've shown you before so nothing really new to say.

Thanks for stopping by, i'll be back soon with some of the other project's i've been working on!

Take care and happy crafting!

Very Subtle Sparkle and Bling for Simon Says

Good Afternoon all,

Well today is cold and miserable and utterly uninspiring! Never mind hey? The card i'd like to share with you today is for my brother's best friend. She a twin so I need to get on and make the other card for the other sister too but before I do I wanted to show you my new white on white design.

To make this card I used a Nellie Snellen Die to cut the circle, I scored the lines on my hougie board, punched flowers in 2 sizes using woodware punches, cut leaves using a sizzix die and created butterflies with my MS punch. The flowers and leaves were all embossed using the flourish cuttlebug folder and everything was layerd up. The pearls are from stash and the glitter is star dust stickles.

I really like the effect of this one and I'm so glad that the white on white design is so versatile. This one I feel is going to be repeated!

I'm entering this for simon say's challenge of sparkle and bling - even if it is quite subtle!

Thanks for looking and Happy Crafting!

Sketch and Stash Challenge Card

Hello! now before we go any further are you sitting comfortably? well I hope you are as you may just faint in shock when I tell you i've made a card and it's one for a challenge! I know...... shocking.... lol!

So, to ease myself back in to the task of making challenge cards I decided to keep it nice and simple and Sketch and Stash provided the nicest layout to ease me back in, with the added challenge of 3 pattern papers and 3 embellishments. Only I clearly can't count as I managed to add 4 embellishments - although I did manage the 3 papers! success....sort of.

Anyway, this card is for my young cousins birthday and he (as well as his brother) take Tae Kwon Do lessons and are getting scarily good at it.....hmmm they'll be able to take me on soon :S anyway - when I saw this LOTV stamp I just had to get it and so this is the stamps first outing and I love this little guy!

The image is coloured with promarkers, the shapes are nesties dies. The papers are from a stampin up pad I have, the stars punched with an old woodware punch and the pips are from stash. The inside was also decorared with patterned paper and stars but I wrote it before I took pictures so I didn't photograph it for obvious reasons.

Anyway I hope you like it, thanks for popping by and happy crafting!

Strawberries Anyone?

Hi everyone! Well anyone fancy some strawberries? I know I do, but these one's aren't edible I'm afraid, although they have been making me hungry whilst I make them!

This is my latest beading project - strawberry earrings!

They've taken about 6 hours to make and were much more fiddly then the brooch I did last month, but still great fun and they never cease to put a smile on my face when I look at them. Now I want the matching necklace pattern but that's a wee bit expensive and I'm meant to be saving money at the moment, so I think it's going to be on the christmas wish list from my brothers (but who knows - if i'm bored and unemployed it may be purchased before to save me from loosing my marbles!)

Hope you like them! thanks for looking and happy crafting! x

Wedding Cake!

Morning all,

Now before you all jump to the wrong conclusion - no I'm not getting married, I'm still single thanks lol! This cake was a request by a colleague of my dad's who mum and I have made numerous birthday and graduation cakes for in the past. Her son is getting married on a budget this weekend and she asked mum if she could make the cake any cheaper than the ones in the shops - the other issue was it had to be a sponge cake! eek...... well mum's an ace when it comes to cakes (although she disagree's every time someone says that) and she said she'd try and make it all for under £100. Oh! and the theme was cream and gold :S seriously, not fun when it comes to decorating - I assure you.

Once again she came through- it came to £94 near enough with 3 flavours of sponge at the bride and grooms request:bottom-chocolate, middle-lemon, top-vanilla. And everything is cream and gold - even the wires!

 The cake in all its glory

 The top cakes flowers

 The middle cakes flowers

The bottom cakes flowers

The flowers are all made from Sugar Paste - so they're not edible but assuming they're looked after they should last forever. Now the reason i'm showing this off, other then i'm so proud of my mum - is that I made all the teeny tiny fantasy flowers whilst mum made the roses. Now please don't be fooled by the size of them - there is over 150 of them on all the cakes and they took me 7 hours in total to make. In the same amount of time mum had made the the first 3 layers of all the roses.

Anyway, I hope you like it - I do. Mum's freaking out because she doesn't think its proffessional enough *rolls eyes* but hey!

I'll be back next week with some cards and hopefully one of my other projects i'm working on too.

Take care and happy crafting!