A Quick New Home card for a fella

Needed a New Home card (for a fella) quickly so popped into my craft room this evening & came up with this

I love the background paper - it's from the Green Stack by DCWV that I got from Australia.

I tried the flower soft that my Mum sent over for me - thanks Mum :-) but kept everything else very simple - just stamping!

I used my nesties for the matting.

A spot of beading .................

Love making these necklaces - they all turn out so different!

Green & silver

Multicoloured with black wire

Love these beads that I picked up in Australia - love the shape & colours :-)

Revealed The Art Work!

Look back at the pieces of felt I made in the last post .....

This is the resulting art work!

I added some knots on the trunk & veins on the leaves using thread 

Going back to my roots now!!

I used different coloured threads for the veins to give depth

and just attached them to give movement

More of my felting pieces

These are the next 2 pieces of felt that I made on the second workshop I attended.

Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo before cutting into this piece!

It is autumnal colours

This is the piece I made last week. Only managed one piece this week as I took Sophia & Calvin with me - too much talking *giggle* & it was hard work for Sophia & there was a programme on the telly that she wanted to watch so we left a little early *bless her*

We all enjoyed it though :-)

This is a close up of the felted design

It is amazing what you can do with carded wool, water & soap!!

Copics Blog Candy

This is my entry for the Crafty Goings On Copics Blog Candy

Apologies to Karen for not being able to link properly when I posted before - Mr Blogger was playing up! so please disregard the first.

I used copics to colour the image when I was round at Maddys for a crafty session a while ago

I used Stickles clear rock candy around the ruffles of the dress

I used my nesties for the matting & the stamp was the free one from Craft Stamper magazine stamped onto the scalloped punched circle

I added a heart charm tied with ribbon and 3 buttons to finish.

Felting Workshop

These are the first pieces of felt that I made in the Felting Workshop that I've joined.

I've spent 3 great Thursday evenings making felt in great company :-) the 2 girls that run it are very talented craft people :-)

These pieces are actually purple, yellow & turquoise! but again the camera doesn't pick up the purple colour.

Well blogger is playing up & I can't upload any more photo's at the moment :-(     
will blog again later .....................

New Home card

My niece has just moved into her new flat so I made a new home card for her to celebrate.

I used the American Craft papers - just love the colours :-)

I used my Nestabilities to cut the scalloped circle mounts that frame the Paper Artsy birdcage, which I stamped onto the pink patterned paper.

The Home sentiment is on of my old favourites :-)

The future sentiment is also Paper Artsy treated in the same way.

I cut the branch & leaf motifs from the 12x12 paper (which you can see layered underneath uncut) & popped them over the top - they are not fully glued down so give a bit of dimension to the card.

The birdcage is 'hung' with a large pear brad & blooms finish off the card.

Hope she likes it!