Further Crop Sample

Another sample for our Church crop on 9th March. 
This time I used the February sketch over at My Creative Sketches :-
http://mycreativesketches.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/february-sketch.html
































Again leaf sprays were done using Kaisercraft wooden spray as template

Flowers cut from papers

Stamped swirl done using Bo Bunny Sophie stamp set
   Title done using square letter wooden stamps

 

 



Church Crop Samples

Following my surgery not felt up to doing much crafting however this week my enthusiasm has returned and i've been working on some samples for our Church's crop on 9th March.

The kit i've put together is using papers from Bo Bunny's Sophie Collection.

The first layout I've done I based on the sketch 85 over at Sketchabilities
http://sketchabilities.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/sketch-85design-team-reveal.html

Leaf sprays were done by drawing around a Kaisercraft wooden spray and then cutting out, inking edges with Adirondack dye ink - currant

Stamped sprays were done using Bo Bunny Sophie stamp set

Blue circles were from a punch

Flowers cut from one of the papers

Title done using wooden letter stamps

 

Close up of parts of layouts :-

 

Silver Wedding Card

Seems ages since I looked at the blog, unfortunately I've been laid up for a few weeks following major surgery for breast cancer, I was diagnosed on Christmas Eve and went in for surgery on 17/1/13 so everythings been a bit hectic,  feeling a little more like myself now so as its some friends silver wedding this week thought I would make them a card.

I've based on this weeks sketch over at Sketch n Stash
http://sketchandstashchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/challenge-106.html







 

Everything came from my stash :-

Paper from Craft Creations

Silver Mirri Card

Decoupage - House Mouse Designs by Joanna Sheen

Cotton Lace

 

 



 





 

 

First Scrapbooking of 2013

Well Christmas is over, the decorations all packed away and the house cleaned (well sort of) time to get back to crafting.

Its our first scrapbook crop of 2013 at Church on 12th Jan so thought I had better get started on the samples.
The kit this month contains papers from Kaisercraft Periwinkle collection, matching cardstock and Kaisercraft Pearls.

I have made 3 layouts from the kit
 
The first one I did  following a design in the Kaisercraft magazine, the photo is my twin daughters on their 21st birthday last year.
Additional items used were distress tool and distress ink


 
 


















The second layout was done using sketch 241 over at Creative Scrappers
http://creativescrappers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/sketch-241.html

Additional items used were a circle template, dotty stencil, flower and letter stamps and distress ink

The photo is of my daughter and our boxer dog Brandy who was just 3 months old at the time, at Dovedale, Derbyshire, December 2012

 

 

The third layout I designed myself wanted to bring my love of patchwork into my scrapbooking so used traditional hexagon shapes with faux stitching. 

Additional items used were hexagon templates and black fine liner pen

The photo is of my eldest daughter and her fiance at Hampton Court, January 2012

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Bunting

A friend at work asked if I could make her some bunting for her daughter and niece's bedrooms, she had seen a picture of what she wanted, not something I have done before so after some investigation and pondering here is what I came up with.

The patterned fabrics were strengthend with heavy weight vilene and then bondawebbed onto the felt, stitched with decorative stitch and then cut out with pinking shears.  The letters were then attached to the binding strip and then decorated with hearts and buttons.

Much to say she loved them.

Very Proud Mummy

This weekend saw the culmination of 4 years hard work, my eldest Daughter's Graduation.
She graduated with an honours degree for secondary teaching design and technology at Edgehill University Ormskirk.

We had a wonderful day celebrating as it was her birthday the same day and this week she landed her first teaching job starting in January.

Laura

Proud Mum with Laura

 

This is the congratulations card I made her, created using a Nitwits collection and done on an easel, she was very pleased with it.

 

 

Christmas Tree Festival

This weekend it is the Christmas Tree Festival at our Church (New Parks Methodist).  The theme is christmas customs around the world and I picked to do Germany, after googling for information this is what i came up with

 

Christmas Eve is the most important time of the Christmas season for families. The wonderful tradition of the Christmas tree, which started in Germany, is the heart of the celebration. Grown-ups decorate the evergreen tree with beautiful ornaments of glass and carved wood, silver stars, and strings of lights. A golden angel is placed at the very top of the tree.

Under the Christmas tree, the family arranges a manger scene to depict the stable that Jesus was born in. Parents may also pile presents from the Christ Child beneath the Christmas tree's richly decorated boughs. Just after dark, a bell rings, and the excited children run into the room to see the beautiful lighted tree in all its glory. The family members exchange gifts, recite poems, and sing Christmas carols. Then everyone enjoys a Christmas feast of roast goose, turkey, or duck.

In some parts of Germany, families still follow an old tradition. The children leave their shoes outside the front door. These shoes are filled with carrots and hay to feed St. Nicholas' horse as he rides by. If the children were good all year, St. Nicholas leaves apples, nuts, and candy for them.

and this is my tree

 

 

We also have on display different nativity scenes and for this i have made a wall hanging

the pictures were done on my embroidery machine and the quilting done by hand