Want to see something really scary...?

My very first Intarsia- made from copying a cross-stitch pattern in Crafts Beautiful.
Here it is - the jumper with the pumpkin pocket and matching cap I knitted for the Crafts Beautiful Forum Hallowe'en Challenge.
Not very scary?
My daughter thought it was scary.
"Don't make me wear it!" She begged. "The whole class will laugh at me!"
"Nonsense!" I said. "University students aren't like that. And if they do, it's just because they're jealous."
Teddy's scared though.
Look- he's trembling.
Boo-boo! bear!

Just when you thought it was safe...

And here is the prize I won from Ultramum for :

Jonathan's Alien Challenge.

Is that alien enough for ya?

Another Crafts Beautiful Forum Challenge!

Yay!

http://www.craftsbeautiful.com/ has its first ON-LINE CHRISTMAS PARTY with extra free downloads on 29-30 NOVEMBER, 2008. DON'T MISS IT!!!

Animal Sewing/Knitting Challenge

Here is the Cat I knitted while in Canada while riding shotgun in the car.
It's called Spot - naturally.
The mice are Ripley and Missy because we were watching the Incredible Mr. Ripley
and then The Missing while I was knitting them.
I smuggled them in pieces back through the customs and then did my Igor bit,
stitching them together for the Crafts Beautiful Forum Challenge.
And giving them !LIFE!
Good luck, me!
They are from a pattern in Knitting a few months ago.

Vintage Birthday Card

This is the card I made from Let's Make Cards Vintage Kit 18 for the CB Challenge on craftsbeautiful.com Forum in October.

There were some fab entries.

I made this for my cousin's birthday - and as she's called Rose the embellishments were highly appropriate!

I used the A4 support card in the pack as the base card, and punched out windows in a beige card for the centre, using the shapes as tags, and punched tiny envelopes from the papers to holdmore of the pictures.

The top picture shows the inside.



















This is the front.

I have made some folds on the right hand side for effect, and hung some tag on ribons.

The left has a panel cut from the kit's brown card.
and the paper buckle slides up and down.
the corners were in the kit too.

Apart from peel-offs everything came from the Kit -and I've masses left!

Well done, me!

Beady I's

More stuff wot I made from beads and things.
These very simple ear-rings are from pendant charms I bought in Hobbycraft a couple of years back.
They were near the button section and just begged to be made up into ear-rings.
I love red.

These green beads were also from Hobbycraft.
I was looking for some to match a necklace of a friend in Clydebank Writer's
who was off to a Big Do.
I had extra so I made this.
These pre-formed wires are so good!
I made this one at Waunifer in Wales .
I won a Crafty Break there from a Crafts Beautiful Giveaway in 2007.
I had a wonderful time away from everyone and just time all to myself in Duck Cottage- and crafting.
This set was a mixture of Fimo (lilac beads) made by me, and pink, pearl and clear glass (the rest).
I think it's lovely and subtle.
Clever me!

CHOKE ON IT!

I've just made these three choker necklaces.

The one above is crocheted from black/gold cord, threaded with a narrow yellow velvet ribbon, and hung with a glass bead.

This one is knotted and plaited embroidery skeins - orange, purple and blue threaded with tiny glass beads of the same three colours.

The third one is made from an off-cut of denim ( shortening legs of Daughter's jeans). I cut off the seams, took one half, slit it almost to the end, tied it in a knot (the way we used to do with bandages) and stuck on a silvery ear-ring and some pearly beads.

Fastened at the back with a punky safety pin!

Woof!

This is the card I enetered for Snaggles' "Barking Mad" competition, which I won. I was really proud of it.
The wee pooch (Baskerville) is in origami,and as you can see it's ona tri-fold card that I got from "Let's Make Cards" way back .

I also used the Dufex sheet I got from the prize to make the Twirlies (lower down).

So a great time was had by all.

PS- I would add bits and things to this blog (like pinkpuppy's who's very pretty blog I accessed from the Forum) but I'm afraid of pressing the wrong button and losing the lot!

So- not quite yet!

Board with Crafting?

I have a wee corner up the stairs full of good intentions and empty poly-pocket folders, so when one of the challenges on the Forum craftsbeautiful.com was a crafty noticeboard (to keep track of said challenges etc.)
I was wondering what to do for it and left it to the old subconscious...
Then I sort of sat bolt upright in bed the middle of the night -electric light bulb flashing overhead sort of thing - thinking of them!

I'm really chuffed with it. I made it out of a plastic-covered one, punched holes for hanging cord, made slits for post-it notebook, disks (yes I still use a floppy- I Write Stuff ) - the other one is this month's Freebie from Crafts Beautiful Magazine.
Because I couldn't find an appropriate calendar I got my husband to print one out on the pc, and attached it with a bulldog clip - otherwise the metal rings get in the way when writing on it.

The ATC is from Snaggles who recently set a challenge "barking Mad" which I won!

CD CASE

See what I mean about CDs.

Try to ignore the state of the living room behind. I generally do. Quite successfully. Harry says he simply does not know how I can possibly function in the midst of chaos.

"It's a gift," I said.

This was a year or so back and my hair is not what it could be. Nor is my face. the living room's the same though.

Look at the cards.

I have used Mameloks, T-bag folding, 3D decoupage, mulberry paper and stuff.

Have to stop now. Faulty Towers is on Sky . It's amazing how it's still so enjoyable even when we know most of the lines off by heart. BYE!

CHRISTMAS TWIRLIES

These three Twirlies were made from CDs (see previous post). One side has Dufex medallions cut from a sheet I got from Snaggles on the CB Forum as part of a prize.
The other has 3D decoupage push-outs from a book.
I have strung them with fishing line so that they will twirl on the tree -our tree is artificial with long wide-apart branches -and wound starry wire loosely around the line.
Finally I decorated them with diamonds, rubies, amythysts, acquamarines etc. etc. (yawn)
As you do.

They haven't posted quite the way I wished- I still can't get the hang of it and the "They" keeps jumping up the left hand side- but either I have a long life ahead of me, and plenty of time to learn, or I haven't and I'll have more serious things to concern me than toys and distractions, so I won't get too hung up on it. (ha! ha!)

You might guess which front goes with which back- it's by way of an initiative test.

Clue: It's the same colour star-wire on the same CD.



Another thing I can do is join them all as ONE BIG TWIRL.

I have a tall, thin window in the top hall that could do with a mobile, come Christmas.

Right. I'll post this now and see how it goes...

One Post at a Time

I'm doing one post at a time to familiarise myself with the excentricities of the blog. So far it seems I have to post my photies in reverse order. My son James helped me last night as everything was coming up underlined. Tonight it isn't- so that's anoher thing off my Ticklist of How To Do A Blog.

Here is a Birthday card I madefor a CB challenge for Courtney, who was 2 years old.
The Challenge was Courtneysmum's idea. I well remember the days when I was only known as Thingmy's Mum, too.

I used cut-outs from old Disney Books, and posted it to her - and hoped she liked it as much as I enjoyed making it.

DIG THIS!

I promised on the CB (craftsbeautiful.com) Forum that I would dig up my blog. I always meant to in the past but it was never a good day to do it. Tonight is not much better.

I'm still jet-lagged from my three-week holiday in Canada; I am run ragged trying to catch up with the CB challenges; at Salsa on Monday there were a couple of mino mishaps due to the fact that Harry and I had totally forgotten the steps and the rhythm - you're not supposed to move on the fourth beat- wasn't a lot better; in Guitar class last night I was playing all the right shapes but making all the wrong sounds.

And tonight at Digital Photography the Tutor actually dared to say that a cluttered PC desktop was sheer laziness (I didn't dare tell him it reflected the state of my living room) and slows up the works no end.

So tonight I cleared my desktop (not the living room) and I can't find a thing in my documents. Harry kindly helped me to limp onto my blog. Thanks to the helpful experiences on CB I've managed to get my photo in the right place (after a year, this is)
So now I'm going to post a few of my makes and get to my bed.

These are my own simple design – little flowery therapeutic makes from the leftovers of freebies from CrossStitcher. They printed my design a few months back and sent me some goodies.

The last one is carded-up with a CD as backing. I have lots of CDs I can use for crafting. It all comes from wasting a lot of time trying to copy my pictures onto a CD rather than a DVD Rom. It is not my fault. They’re the same shape, with a hole in the middle, and both have the letter “D” and “Rom” in them.