Birthday card

Today I made a birthday card for my nan that will go with the altered spoon.

The background is a spellbinders embossing folder that is edged with spun sugar. I then cut and edged again with spun sugar a label shape and stamped the sentiment.

The leaves are from the spellbinders foliage die and the flowers are made from the free die from the latest tattered lace magazine. I was quite pleased as I've never been that great at making flowers. I then matted and layered it on to gold mirri and then pink card.

The insert was made with craft artist with the roses digikit. I tend to make all my inserts in craft artist as they come out beautifully and the sentiment was found on the Crafts U Print.

Altered art or just stirring!

Well this weekend I made an altered wooden spoon, this will be a birthday present for my nan next month who will be 84. She has everything that she wants and always likes my makes, I thought this would be something no-one else will get her.

I used a bog standard wooden spoon and dyed it with Peacock Feathers distress ink straight from the stamp pad using cut 'n' dry foam, it was then given a few coats of spray varnish to seal.

First I wrapped the handle with lace ribbon and the edge of the bowl of the spoon with light green organza ribbon in a ruffle effect. I made the flower using the Create and Craft free members gift from a few months back that was from Craftwork Cards.

The with love label came from a Hunkydory kit and is hot glued on with a button and a bow. I used satin ribbon on the back to form a loop for hanging and put a small butterfly topper on the back of the bowl of the spoon.

 

I also made a rosette pumpkin for a swap I'm doing but it is awful! The less said about that the better!

Still under the weather

Another slow crafting week for me, still under the weather from this flipping cold! I did manage to get a Christmas card done on Saturday. I was watching Phil Martin on Create and Craft TV and he was demonstrating his new stamp sets and made a half embossed card with his new bauble stamps. I like the idea so had a go with my own stash......love Phil's stamps but saving my pennies for the NEC next month! Here is my take on his card:

I stamped the stocking with clear ink then covered in primary red embossing powder.....note to self.....need more Christmas metallic embossing powder....... I then half embossed the card with my Spellbinders dotted embossing folder. I stamped the snowflakes on with Red Brick distress ink on the non embossed side. I added some dark red satin ribbon, the top of the stocking was coloured with a zig glue pen and white glitter added, this was then mounted and stuck on the card. For the sentiment I cut 2 mats and rounded the corners and added a peel off. I will need to get some Christmas sentiment stamps when I am at the NEC I think.

Most of Sunday was spent like this:


Curled up on the sofa, being lazy with Dobs!

Gaptastic cowl finished at last!

Well not much crafting from me this week as I've picked up a bout of lurgie that is doing the rounds at work.

I finished knitting up my Gaptastic cowl last week but had to wait for a sewing needle I bought to arrive to sew it up which I did on Sunday.

I am happy with it despite my miserable looking face, I put that down to the lurgie! The pattern is on Ravelry or if you're not a member it can be found here

My version is knit in James C Brett Marble Chunky in the grey colourway. I did not knit mine in the round as the thought of hundreds of stitches filled me with dread! So mine was knit flat with 48 stitches (I think). If I were to knit this again I think I would cast on less as its a bit wide.

Its a very monotonous knit, but something easily done watching the telly and does knit up quick in the chunky yarn. I ended up using a ball and a half for this knit. Its very warm and snugly!