Tag Challenge

The current Craft Stamper Challenge is a tag.  We had a colour choice of brown red and orange.  This is the one I did.....

And this is the one my Mum made.....

Curtains and tea sets

I don't think I  have shown this - it is the curtain I made for under the computer desk which is in the living room - as I store quite a bit of fabric underneath I thought this would look tidy - it is all attached with velcro at the top - sticky velcro on the desk and sew-on velcro on the curtain.... Tom thought it was a good idea when he came to fiddle about with my computer the other week.

I have also been out buying... how about this for a lovely tea set - four cups, four saucers and four plates.  Just right for tea and cupcakes.... let me know when you are visiting and I'll do some baking!! It's 1960s Staffordshire potteries Rudyard.

Roll Along

 

This is the card you have all been waiting for..... Davina's Roll Along Card for Card Club.....uses only ONE sheet of A4 card and fits into a DL envelope.

Instructions....

*Score the card at 4", cut the card at 8" and hang on to the piece you have left - this will be decorated to form the front.  Fold the card along the score line and set aside.  

*Use the smaller piece now...... Cut off half an inch on one of the short sides.  Use a half inch hole punch placed half an inch from the edge and punch two holes, use a craft knife to cut the channel for the coins.  

*Using black stazon - stamp an owl onto a piece of brown card, attach with a sticky dot to a 2p coin, then set aside for later.  

*Using three colours of distress inks (I used shabby shutters, peeled paint and spiced marmalade)  I stamped the leaf twice with each colour, starting with the light green, then the dark green and finally the orange.

  

*Use either orange or dark green to shade the edges of the card. 

*Lightly mark the position of the channel with a pencil on the folded card.

*Stamp Thinking of You (or any other sentiment you happen to have), so it will show under the channel, I also stamped some leaves too.

*Position the owl face down on the table, put the round sticky fixer in the middle of the 2p coin, place the channel over the sticky fixer (make sure at this point that the channel is cut wide enough for the coin to roll along) put the other 2p coin on top - turn over and check the owl rolls from side to side!
*Use sticky fixers double along the top edge of the small piece of card and along the sides and slightly above the channel - make sure it does not impede the 2p coin as it rolls along.  Position this on the front of your card.  

*Send to someone lovely!

Do you understand these instructions?  Would you like some more step by step photos?

craft Stamper Swap

Look what arrived in the post this morning!!!  How fabulous is this.  Many thanks to Mrs S Stokes for such a beautiful bookmark.

updating the blog.....

I need to put several projects on here that were done a while ago....

Last summer in Sheffield Central Library, as part of the Off the Shelf exhibition, there was a display of artists books.  I made a bamboo book - or bamboo yarn - about bamboo... here it is....

One of the members of knitting club had been knitting Clangers as a means of learning the craft - his daughter decided he should do a ''Clanger Nativity''  - I thought he needed some help as he only had the chance to knit two clangers before Christmas. Here they are checking out Streetmap.co.uk for details of their journey.  Three kings, a shepherd and a baby!

Doctor Who?

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These are the photos of the Dr Who cardi that I knitted for the entire Easter weekend back in April.   Modelled by Kezia... the cardi was for Lucy's 21st Birthday = she's president of the Dr Who society at St Andrews Uni.  This is the first time I have ever knitted anything without a proper pattern and I drafted all the little dalek motifs myself and tried them all before knitting them into the cardi. 

Craft Stamper challenge for September

In an effort to be a bit more creative my Mum and I decided to start entering some of the challenges in Craft Stamper Magazine. For the September magazine we had to make a book mark in certain colours and no larger than a certain size. I think the colours were sage green, mauve and pink. Each bookmark had to feature some stamping (cos it is for Craft Stamper Magazine) and neutral and black and white could also be added. This is the bookmark I made:



Here is the bookmark my mum made (she's 85 and doesn't do blogging!!)