A LITTLE BIT OF QUIRKINESS!

I thought I would share these quirky sheep with you (expecially you Robyn!!). My daughter brought them in Burra. They are an outdoor garden decoration made from old corrogated iron fences! The head is an attatched piece to the body along with two little legs. Bottle top lids have been used for the eyes. There is a wooden stake at the back of the sheep that goes into the ground. Such a simple thing but looks great.

MORE CHRISTMAS IN JULY

Last week I made two iris folded christmas cards. These are a quick easy card technique, that look quite effective. I have used a red card, and embossed a piece of white card with the cuttlebug folder snowflakes and inked it in gold. For the iris folding I have only used two different papers, just alternating them, with a gold sparkly piece of card stock in the centre. Around the edge of the white cardstock I used a green holly border sticker.

For the bauble card I used five different pink papers with a sparkly pink for the centre as well as the hanger on the top. To add sparkle to the card I have added a clear border and matching corners and merry christmas greeting. For a hanger I used the same border sticker with some pink organza ribbon.

I hope you enjoyed looking at a little bit of "quirkeness" and some christmas cards. Happy crafting.

Debbie

            CHRISTMAS IN JULY

I thought it appropriate, as it is so cold in Adelaide at the moment, to share with you some Christmas in July projects that I have done. At least if I start now I might have enough things done by christmas time!!

Both of these cards are done from a kit that makes 6 cards that I sell. The cream card front is a die cut, so all the beautiful fine snowflakes have already been cut out. This has to be a bonus! I have cut some red card stock on an angle and double side taped it to a green card, the card front is then attatched to the card. The white poinsetia is a 3d piece that I have cut out and attatched with silicone to give it the depth. To finish the card of I have added a red holly border and glued two of the snowflakes to the red cardstock. A quick and easy card.

This card is done in a similar way, but attatching red card stock behind the cut out section of the cream card front. This is then mounted onto a green card. The flowers are done in the same way. I have attatched a small red star border around the flowers, and a glittery gold star in each corner. I used red and light green diamentes on the bauble section.

The two applique/stitchery hangers are quick easy projects that are good for Christmas presents, decorations or even a chris kringle present. I have used cream homespun for both the centre panels, and blanket stitched around the applique pieces. For the writing I have used sparkly gold thread. I stitched the pieces together with iron on pellon in between to give them some body. I stitched gold ribbon to them to use as hangers. Once the pieces were turned in the right way I top stitched a 1/4" away from the edges to give them a nice finish.

So that is my Christmas in july edition! I am trying out some new designs, so will share them with you when they are finished.
At the moment the weather in Adelaide is perfect to be in the warm crafting, so enjoy.

Debbie

IT'S BEEN A WHILE !!

Hi everyone, Sorry I havn't updated the blog, but things have been busy, and I have spent time trying to fix up a few things with the blog site, but am not getting anywhere fast!! People are telling me they are leaving comments but I am not receiving them, and cant seem to fix the problem, so if anyone has a suggestion, all suggestions greatly appreciated!!

Thought I would share with you some stitching that I am doing at the moment. It will eventually be a little house to keep all of my embroidery projects in (should probably realistically be the size of a 3 foot room!!).

I am enjoying this piece, and it is
rather challenging as the majority of it
is done in a single strand of thread.
Each side and end of the house has a
different design, this one has the
crinoline lady, with windows that have
different flowers around them.
Along the ground are watering cans,
flower pots, a barrel and lots more
flowers,  The lid of the house opens
and there is pockets etc inside the house for all my sewing bits 'n' pieces.
It should be lovely when it is finished, but is certainly a long term project!



I thought I would share with you a card that I made for for a lovely friend of mine, Leanne, for her birthday.
Hopefully she enjoyed it as much as I did making it.

I used a cream piece of 12" cardstock and cut it 4" wide by the width, then made 3 folds at 4" intervals. The right hand side fold was folded down first, with the left hand one on the top. With this one though I folded the top right hand corner inside the card, double side taping it down. I then cut the aqua paper triangle for the front of the card and also the inside square. I used a flower template to trace of two flowers from some plain aqua paper. I attatched these together with a button. I tied knots in the threads of the button. Before attatching the flower I double sided some organza ribbon along the back of the card and across the front triangle of the card. This is then tied to close the card. I used glue to attatch the flower to the front of the card, and curled the petals of the top flower. I used rub ons on cream cardstock and then mounted this onto the same aqua card that the flowers were made from. Of course I had to add some bling to the front of the card!!
For the inside of the card, I made a pocket from the aqua fancy paper. I then made some cream tags with slightly smaller ones in the plain aqua paper attatched ontop. I then used rubons and diamentes to decorate these, with some ribbon threaded through the top. Around the edges of the other two sections I used a white velvet border that I inked in aqua. On the left hand side I used a few white flower rub ons, with of course some diamentes!! For the middle section I used a journalling tag that I had.
I hoped you enjoyed looking at these two new things. I will try and blog a bit more regularly!! Even if I find the whole computer thingy a bit frustrating and daunting!!
Happy crafting everyone.
Debbie