Just a very quick post before heading off on my holliers to show you my 3rd DT make for the By the Cute and Girly "In the Garden" challenge this month.
I have covered a brown kraft notebook with fabric, stamped the images on calico, decorated the pencil to match and added some embellies. The "garden journal" lettering is a bit of freehand embroidery and the calico patches are machine sewn on to the notebook. Strange to say this is the first time I have used my sewing machine on paper-its usually occupied with fabric. The bookmark is a length of ric rac trimming with a bead sitting on top of the knot. Crochet flowers and bee are my own.
If you would like to enter the "In the Garden" challenge with your crafty make details are HERE. Lots of prizes and Guest DT spots to be won.
Bye for now!
Geraldine x
First let me apologise - there is something wrong with Blogger and I've not been able to leave comments on most blogs I've visited in the past week. I have managed to leave 2 comments as gerslittlesnippets and 1 "anonymus" after logging into my gmail account over and over again! Don't you just HATE technology sometimes!
Now on to prettier things: June is the month for weddings and here is one of the easel wedding cards I've made.
The paper is Love Letters (Trimcraft), Wild Orchid Crafts flowers and pearl sprays, MS lattice heart punch, butterflies and embroidered heart are my own makes. Putting this in for the following challenges:
Digidoodleshop - Weddings
Pollycraft Monday Love and Marriage
Thank you
Ger x
The image is "Spring Strawberries" from Spesch stamps and I've coloured the white Poppy's cabin doily with a green inkpad and used a small part of another doily for the fence. The flower is made from hessian spread with PVA glue to strengthen it, then coloured with glimmer mists, let dry and cut up with the TH Tattered flowers die. A lot of dirty fingers after that bit of work!
There is still plenty of time, over 3 weeks, to get creating and enter your crafty makes for the "In the Garden" challenge. Lots of prizes to be won ie gift vouchers from Simon Says Stamp and Joanna Sheen, a selection of goodies including doilys from Poppy's Cabin, digi images from Spesch Designer Stamps and Guest designer places.....
This card/invitation suits the Digital Tuesday "In the Garden/Outdoors" challenge.
Geraldine x
Its the start of June and time for a new challenge at the By the Cute and Girly Challenge blog. This month's my turn to host and I have chosen "In the Garden" as the month's theme in the hope that we will get some sunny days and be able to sit outside and enjoy ourselves. You can enter as often as you like, but it must be a different craft each time. There are 4 great prizes to be won
A $20 Gift Certificate from Simon Says Stamp
A £10 Gift Certificate from Joanna Sheen
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Three digi images from Spesch Designer Stamps
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A prize package from Poppy's Cabin; lace, doilys,ribbon, charms...
So here is my 1st DT project which is also my 1st ever scrapbooking layout. It features Mitzi, my mother's little pom posing in her back garden in the summer of 2002. My mother and Mitzi are no longer with us but I have 100's of photo's of the garden and Mitzi looking as if she is in charge of everything!
The background paper is Websters Pages and I used an EK succes punch and some of my snippets. Why not get going with some of your own garden-inspired makes this weekend and enter the BTC&G "In the Garden" challenge? There are 2 or 3 Guest Designer places on offer as well as the prizes.
Geraldine
I have covered a brown kraft notebook with fabric, stamped the images on calico, decorated the pencil to match and added some embellies. The "garden journal" lettering is a bit of freehand embroidery and the calico patches are machine sewn on to the notebook. Strange to say this is the first time I have used my sewing machine on paper-its usually occupied with fabric. The bookmark is a length of ric rac trimming with a bead sitting on top of the knot. Crochet flowers and bee are my own.
