Recent Posts Tagged With 'crafts'

• Christmas Wreath Cards with Cricut and Design Studio

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 20:47 in crafts, cards

  Here is a Christmas card I made for another card swap. Actually I made 6 the same, but forgot to take a photo of them all together. I really wanted to use a leafy wreath and I didn't have the Joys of the Season Christmas cartridge for my Cricut so I...

• Twisted Pyramage Card Using One of My Own Photos

  Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 19:17 in crafts, cards

  I made this card recently for our local vet as thanks for her saving Bell, one of our little dogs. I created it using a free program called Inkscape and downloaded a how to tutorial from here. You will need to join this ukscrappers to download the t...

• Birthday Card for My 10 Year Old Princess!

  Posted on Thursday August 27th, 2009 at 22:00 in crafts, cards, cricut cuttlebug

  My not so little baby has recently turned 10. To celebrate her entering into the double digits I made her a BIG card, It is 12" high. When I took DD's photo with her big card it was only then we realised her top was almost identical in colour and des...

• My First Attempt at Making A Chain Maille Bracelet

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 22:11 in gifts, crafts, beading jewellery

  I have had my eye on this Chain Maille bracelet since the launch of the Make Jewellery magazine online party in April and I have finally finished my version. I have never attempted chain maille jewellery before so I printed out the instructions and t...

• Cuttlebug Die and Embossing Folders Storage - Look What I Found!

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 00:16 in crafts, cricut cuttlebug

  Now that my buttons seem to be organized and under control I am moving onto sorting and organizing other things. I am more likely to use things that are easily accessible and quick to find and if it looks good, even better!Amongst some old boxes I fo...

• Button Crafting - Is it a Necklace, a Belt or a Bracelet?

  Posted on Sunday May 24th, 2009 at 21:42 in gifts, crafts

  If you have been following my blog you will know I have just a few(wink wink) buttons! So I decided to actually use some of my buttons rather than just play with them LOL! I also entered this into a challenge on the Crafts Beautiful forum for the lau...

• Bind-it-all Special Secrets Notebook

  Posted on Wednesday May 20th, 2009 at 21:23 in gifts, crafts

  Here is a notebook that I made for my DD. Her favourite colour is turquoise. This is a special book for her to write all the things she wants to as she grows from a young girl into a young lady.The notebook is covered in chinese brocade fabric. The...

• Buttons, Buttons, Buttons! Sorting, Organizing and Storage

  Posted on Thursday May 7th, 2009 at 20:57 in crafts, sewing, tutorials

  Well as I have mentioned previously I have been busy sorting and organizing in my crafts and sewing room. I have waaaayyyy too many buttons than I will probably ever use, but at least I can always find something suitable for whatever I am working on!...

• Fun Easter Crafts Projects

  Posted on Wednesday April 8th, 2009 at 22:02 in holidays, crafts, kids projects

  Some of you may remember these sweet little chicks we made last Easter. I still have them sitting on my computer desk just because they make me smile!Then there are my freebie Easter printables, just click on the pictures and then save to your comput...

• Travelling ATC's in my ATC Suitcase!

  Posted on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 06:51 in crafts, cards

  Here is a little suitcase I made to store and display ATC's sent to me from around the world. ATC's are Artist Trading Cards that are miniature pieces of art that you make and swap with others. They are so much fun to collect and it is a lovely way ...

• Gold and Blue Male Birthday Card

  Posted on Saturday October 25th, 2008 at 10:55 in crafts, cards

  DH commissioned me to make a card for one of his mates as his birthday is coming up. He wanted something like the pink and chocolate card I made, but obviously suitable for a man. So this is the finished card after DH chose the colours and the sta...

• Pink and Chocolate Flourish Card

  Posted on Wednesday October 8th, 2008 at 07:16 in crafts

  Here is a card I made using paper sent to me in a RAK from Creations By Copse. I stamped a flourish from Kaisercraft around the border of the base card and used old paper distress embossing powder so it would match the colour on the patterned paper....

• Wedding Anniversary Card

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 08:03 in crafts

  Here is a card I entered in the Wedding anniversary card challenge over on the Crafts Beautiful forum, it is also the card I will be giving my husband for our anniversary. I am a bit late in posting this as I didn't want to risk DH seeing it here, bu...

• Kids Crafty Birthday Party

  Posted on Monday September 1st, 2008 at 04:47 in crafts, kids projects

  It was my DD 9th birthday recently and she decided she wanted to have a craft party. So I thought I would share with you a few things we did. It all began with the invitations, which my daughter proudly designed and assembled by herself. The inside ...

• Plagarism and Blogging

  Posted on Monday August 25th, 2008 at 19:57 in crafts, tutorials, miscellaneous

  To those of you that subscribe to my blog or are regular readers, there will be a few changes happening in the near future. I have had to change the feeds back to partial feeds again due to some of my blog content being stolen. This person has direc...

• Busy Busy Busy! Bookmark & ATC' Swaps

  Posted on Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 02:24 in crafts, swaps

  There has been so much going on around here, that I have not been able to keep things up to date here. I have been sewing, crafting as well as trying to continue with sorting my craft area. Not always easy when you have a house to clean and hungry mo...

• Christmas Tag

  Posted on Monday June 2nd, 2008 at 09:29 in holidays, crafts, competitions

  Caardvarks is having a challenge to make a tag inspired by a month of the year. Thanks Lauren for sharing the link.Here is my tag inspired by December.Christmas is a busy time of shopping for gifts and also for those of you lucky enough it may also s...

• Cards Using Swiss Dots Embossing Folder and Cuttlebug

  Posted on Saturday May 31st, 2008 at 00:48 in crafts, tutorials

  Now that these cards have been given away I can now post them here. They are both constructed in basically the same way. This is a run down of how I made them.Using my Cuttlebug and the Swiss Dots embossing folder I ran the cardstock through the mach...