Fabric or Fibres

Plastic week one, Corrugated Card week two, Metal week three - bet everyone was wondering what 'material'  Zoe would come up with this week and here we are with Fabric or Fibres for the Challenge on Just for Fun.  Am sure peeps will find this a much easier one than the others were although "Metal" attracted lots of entries and we are all delighted with the entries we are getting.  Thank you one and all.

Here is mine - a bit of bleaching on stamped fabric:

As you can see the fabric has been stuck onto a piece of card (in my usual wonky fashion) and some of the threads I pulled out have been made into a tassel.

I have a lovely card - well I think it is lovely but maybe it won't show up on here, the material is gorgeous - that I once did with Paddy.

This is a padded card and I am sure we must have used Stuart Gill paints and that the fish was a stencil.  The material is very silky and it has a slub in it which looks like the movement of water with the splashes of green and blue paint I have used.

Do you remember the dumfing I was doing and how I used tiny bits to make squares into kites?  Well I still have those at home and so I am including them again in this post so I can send them off for swaps to Zoe and one has gone to Sam who is always sending me things.

Right off now, things to do and hope that lots of you will enter our Challenge with either Fibres or  Fabric, or maybe both.

WOYWW 112 and a Tip

Hi there fellow WOW'ers  who have come by here via The Stamping Ground - hope the weather has been kind to you for a few days - hurrah, we had some sun for a while.  By the heading I do not mean my room is a "tip" but lower down I have a tip for you with regards to your scoreboard.

Nothing crafty to show you, made a card on Sunday at Padgate (see post below) but forgot to take a photograph of it before I handed it over to Gill whose birthday it is on Saturday next.

Am on with a card for the other half at the moment which is what you can see on my desk.  Well you can see the stamps I am going to use and the bits of navy card cut out ready - all will be revealed when he gets it.  Have a little girl's card to do too and must get them both out of the way this week.  My desk has looked like this since yesterday around noon when we went to pick a friend up to take her out for the afternoon - would have been the full day but she had an opticians appointment.  Today we are off to see another friend in Liverpool so no crafting done again.

You see the red and cream boxes that look as if they are about to topple - well they are full of Paperartsy stamps.  To say I am a fan would not be far from the truth.  Love Leandra to bits (Mark's not bad either) and am gutted that I cannot go to the next ArtsyCrafty event at Warrington.

Here's a closeup of my MS scoring board.  Can you see the black line down it?  That was a tip I saw on someone's blog (can't remember who - or I would link it) - made a mark with a black Sharpie down the 9" crease (any would do) and when I want to do a diagonal (point to point) crease I just line it up here.  Isn't that a good idea!

Well, guess I had better leave you as there are lots of interesting desks for you to peek at over on Ms Dunnitt's blog (The Stamping Ground) and you never know, you might pick up a few more tips on the way.  Enjoy!

Enid's 21st

Actually Enid is a bit older than that - that is just me trying to be funny as this was her third party (Sunday) for her birthday and that night she was having more family going to see her so no doubt there would be a party atmosphere in the house.

This is the card I made for her:

This third party (I blogged one at Victoria Stampers and she had had one at the camping club which she belongs to) was at Padgate Crafters to which we both belong.  Here are a few photographs from this event - quite a few of us belong to both groups.

Blowing out the candles

Striking a Pose

and

the cake that tells a tale

and a good time was had by all.

Inch War

Not really, but I have been producing a good few inchies.  Hip was bothering me so I got up and did a bit of stamping to while away the time and take my mind off things.  Decided to join in an inchie swap on one of my groups and needed to produce twelve of the little blighters.

I always use mountboard for my inchies.  I just think it gives them a bit more substance - but if you do it always always remember to colour the sides as it looks unfinished if you leave a white edge to them.  You can't see it on these scans but some of them have Gold Dabber on the edges.  This comes out quite bubbly from my applicator (none of the others do) so when you heat it it sets lumpy and looks quite nice in this instance.

Off to a bad start with these (blame the ink):

Oops! Hadn't realised that last one was balancing on one knee but am leaving it there as there is another one coming up in a mo. Wasn't happy with these and so I did a couple more and eventually had twelve to send off:

Top one is just stamped in black and embossed, second one is coloured with Spun Sugar then butterfly is coloured with Twinkling H2o's, third one is Wild Honey and Tumbled Glass as is the fourth one.  All stamped in  black and embossed in clear.  I had used my Momento Black on the first lot but these were done in Archival Black which came out much better.

First one is coloured with Twinkling H2o's, second is Wild Honey and Tumbled Glass again third one Spun Sugar with Victorian Velvet on the edges and the last one is just Twinkling H2o's.

Last ones - all except third one coloured with Twinkling H2o's - that again, is Wild Honey and Tumbled Glass.

You will recognise two of them as coming from these images which I went on to use for cards:

Bonjour!

Material Girls Say "Metal" and Mine Is a Quickie

This week the Challenge over on Just for Fun is "Metal" and as I have been so busy this past couple of weeks I was kind of dreading having to get one of the many things I have to cover and getting my metal tools out (not that I don't "love" working with metal).  I kept staring around my craft room and putting it off and then when I was doing something else suddenly the 'lightbulb' went on and this is what I ended up with - using lots of my Timmy things.

I used one of those large round bezels with a loop at the top that I had not used and so I decided to put a watch face inside it and add some other bits of Ideology.  Then I wondered why I was using the front and not the back so it got stuck on the back with a cog and a clock hand.  Glued a keyhole on, dangled two whatsits (can't remember what they are called) from each loop and a key on the end - which is really the loop at the top.  Cannot decide what to put in the two "whatsit's names" yet but they don't look bad as they are for the time being.

Because the back is indented (remember I did mine back to front) it takes a pin back quite easily and there is no sticky out bit.  I am now hoping to get an attachment so I can also wear it as a pendant.  have some in gold but not in silver - trust my luck!

Anyway, hope you like my DT piece for JFF and look forward to seeing what you all come up with - do check out the great things the others on the Design Team have done, you will get inspired.

In the meantime Tuesday Throwdown are challenging you to use metal so am sending this over there too.

WOYWW 111

Gosh oh Golly - is it 111 already - doesn't seem like two minutes ago we were all Pif'ing over on The Stamping Ground..  Obviously if you don't know what I am on about by WOYWW or Pif'ing you need to pop over now to Julia's blog and back track to find out what Pif'ing is all about.

Thanks to all you lovely lovely folks out there who took the time to comment on my desk last week, sorry there is nothing really to show you this week.  A quite empty desk with just a bit of paper from which I have been cutting out photographs.

Yesterday, I went to a wedding (yes, Monday) where I spent most of the day with my lovely friend Jo, who most of you will know, and my other friends (equally lovely) - Jayne, Lynne and Enid.  The wedding was for the daughter of another friend, Mo (which is why we were all there).

We had a lovely day, despite all the rain (it bucketed down) and it was one of the best weddings I have been to in a long time.  A truly joyous occasion with a radiant bride.  I'll show you a couple of photographs but won't include the three pageboys and the little bridesmaid as I am always wary of putting kiddie photographs on my blog without the permission of the parents.

Steve & Ellie cutting the cake

Beautiful Bridesmaids

and to sign off

Radiant

Mrs Moyles ...

... is 90.

Actually that is Chas's Aunty Kay who will be 90 on Monday.  As she lives in Ireland we won't be helping her celebrate her birthday but plans are in place, so I believe, for her to have a 'bit of a knees up' with the family who live over there.

This is the card I made for her:

I decided I wanted it pink and brown and wanted to put things in its makeup which meant something to her.  The background is a map showing Castlerea, in the county of Rhoscommon, where she was born and brought up as a child, edged in gold mirror card to match the number ninety.  The three playing cards are to represent the game of Bridge which she used to play, along with her husband Joe, and later with her daughter Catherine, to a very high level.  

At the bottom the dictionary shows the word "Bridge" and there are two other dictionary pieces one to show "Shamrock" to wish her well and one to show "Nurse" because that was what she did before retiring.  In fact she did some of her nursing in the town where we live - at the hospital where I was admitted to in April.  I think she might find it has changed somewhat if she could see it now.

The flowers have tiny gold leaves attached to them and the wires that I cut off the leaves have been formed into loops and placed underneath the flowers.  It is a bit difficult to see them in the scan but there are three sets of them in total.  I thought this was a good way to recycle and one which I will use again as it does look quite nice.

Hopefully now, this card, in its hand-made box, is winging its way across the sea to Ireland (guess who is singing that song now) and will be with Aunty Kay on Monday in time for her birthday.

Happy Birthday!

And before I forget - thank you for following me to my new followers - and to my old ones for remaining with me.  It means a lot.