Sew Deco

Hi all,

This morning I was at my sewing group and today was "show and tell"!  We've recently decided, as a group, to do a little project every couple of months - we pick a word out of a hat and we all have to do a small art/journal quilt, based on this theme.

Our word this time was "DECO". To make things easy for myself I decided to reproduce a Deco ATC I made back in January.  Mmm, trickier than I thought - the difficult bit was resizing it - I had to put all my mathematical skills to the test and being a perfectionist Virgo I had to get it all EXACT! - fortunately though I did get my Maths 'O' Level 30 years ago and remembered just enough to figure it out.

Here's the (picture heavy) step-by-step ...

precise measuring!

the "red carpet"

lots of silver lame

the glamorous lady

      

It was all done with Bondaweb and straight stitching.  I used pelmet vilene as a base and the finished size is 12" x 18".

The deco lady was copied and resized from some wrapping paper and printed onto inkjet cotton fabric.

Finally, I blinged it up with tiny glass beads.  These were glued on individually, I was like Clarence the Cross-Eyed Lion by the time I'd finished.

showing the bling

more bling

     

Finished!

I'd like to enter her into two challenge:
Anything But a Card (a new challenge) - "Anything Goes, and
Let's Craft and Create - "Anything but a Card"

Thanks for sticking with me through this long post, see you all again soon.

Suze xx

Gingerbread Girl

Hello bloggers, 

I woke up last night and couldn't get back to sleep - guess what I started thinking about - "Brown & Pink" - this week's colour challenge over at Less is More.

Now, I like 'kraft and pink' - but 'brown & pink', I'm not really a brown person! So I lay awake for ages - thinking - and eventually it popped into my head - a gingerbread man! Well actually, I've gone for a lady - here she is ...

Brown felt cut with Sizzix Gingerbread Man die, pink glittery card, white glittery ribbon, border punch is EK Success and sentiment is Tim Holtz, stamped in Brilliance Pearlescent Orchid.

I'm also entering her into the Addicted to Stamps Challenge, which this week is "CAS Challenge #2". Why not pop over and give them your support - I'm sure you'll recognise some friendly 'faces'!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, thanks for popping in.

Suze xx

Hanging onto Summer

Hi everyone,

Well can you believe we are now into September. The shops are already full of cozy jumpers and boots which is just as well because the temperature here in the UK has certainly become cooler over the last few days.  You never know though, there's a slim chance we might get an indian summer yet!

Hanging onto the thought of summer I have a postcard for you today - it's for Challenge #73 over at Crafty Cardmakers - 6" x 4" Postcard with a Seaside theme ...

This challenge really had me stumped (which is why this is a last minute entry) but last night I decided to just have a play and here's the result ...

Background is watercolour pencils and distress inks, girl stamp is Dina Wakley, shell stamp is Hero Arts, then some doodling on top. (Think I need a bit more practice with my art journalling style!)

Okay dokes, that's it for now.

Wishing you all a lovely weekend.

Suze xx

Time to Relax

Hi Bloggers,

This week over at CASology, the cue card is ...

Now, I know we all find crafting very therapeutic and relaxing, but what else do we like to do - read a book; listen to music; sit and watch the telly whilst scoffing a large bar of chocolate (that's me); and some people like to do crosswords and word searches - so that's what I've decided to do for my card ....

I simply made a table in Word - as you can see, the main sentiment is printed in red, but if you want to play along, the other hidden words are "love, presents, cake, gifts, happy, celebrate, candles".

Just a bit of fun because I was in such a good mood after receiving these fabulously wonderful bookmarks and postcard from the lovely and super talented Valerie - thank you so much Valerie - I LOVE them!

Okay dokes, that's is for today (and in case any of you are wondering, I still haven't threaded up the sewing machine yet - I'm such a last minute Nellie!)

Thanks for popping in, see you all soon.

Suze xx

Sweet Sixteens

Hi everyone,

Another quickie from me today.

I've owned a Silhouette SD machine for nearly a year now and I'm ashamed to say I haven't really got to grips with it yet.  I've been told by Sue & Marie that it's really simple to use - maybe I'm just a technophobe or maybe I'm just thick! (no comments please Marie!).  

However, there does seem to be a lot more online tutorials available now - I just need to find the time to sit down and have a proper play.

Anyway, there's a new Silhouette/Cameo challenge on the go (The Cameo Spotlight) so I thought I'd give it a bash this week ...

one for a boy and one for a (not very girly) girl ...

Thankfully the CAS style fits in well with teenagers (and my abilities!).  Well, we've all got to start somewhere. Lol.

Okay, that's it, ta, ta for now, thanks for popping in.

Suze xx

Golden Wings

Good evening bloggers,

A quick post tonight with a very quick and easy card I've made for this week's Addicted to Stamps Challenge which is the colour GOLD.

I used a Sizzix/Hero Arts Stamp & Emboss set - stamped in Versamark and embossed in gold. Added some gold stickles to the butterfly, stuck on a couple of tiny SU embosslit butterflies and mounted onto some gold miri.

This card was so simple I almost feel like I'm cheating but I've very little card making time this week - I've a sewing assignment due in for my sewing class next week - I cut out the fabric yesterday but have yet to thread up the machine! Hopefully I'll have a wonderful masterpiece to show you in the coming week. Lol!!

Okay dokes, see you all later, thanks for popping in.

Suze xx

Fancy some Fab Candy

Hi fellow crafters,

The Craft Barn have posted some fab Candy today - all you have to do is become a follower (if you're not one already).

Go on, join in the fun - it won't cost you a penny/dime/cent .... !!

Suze xx