A Crocheted Throw/Blanket for my Nephew

 

Today, I am sharing a crocheted throw/blanket I made earlier in the year
for one of my nephews who is a life long West Ham football supporter!

I used the lovely textured Textured Trebles stitch which I found HERE on

the 'Blossom Crochet' YouTube channel.

Rebekah’s tutorials are really easy to follow and she has lots of different

crochet stitches to share.

I started by deciding how wide I wanted the throw to be and using a

 6mm crochet hook I chained 120 stitches.

I then crocheted the two row repeat pattern until I reached the desired length.

I finished by crocheting a border of one row of double crochet, four rows of 
half trebles, one row of slip stitch and one row of half trebles.

I purchased the yarn from Hobbycraft

using 9 x 100g balls of Women's Institute Premium Acrylic
 5 in ‘Plum’ and 4 in 'Turquoise'

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My 'Inspiration Scribbler' card for Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog

 Today, I am sharing my 'Inspiration Scribbler' project, made for the
Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog which you can see HERE

The theme this month is 'Flowers'

The details of the current challenge can be found HERE

If you head over to the blog, you will find a free flower themed
sentiment to download.

The products I have used are:

Scribbles Designs  -  #619 Flower 2
Spellbinders Nestabilities - Rectangles and Deckled Edge Rectangles
Sentiment die - Brand unknown
Promarkers

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

Birthday Card for my Great Niece

 Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for my great niece.
She still very much likes playing tennis (along with other sports), so I was
pleased to find this image online to use.

After printing it onto white card, I used the square 'circle border'
die to cut it out and matted it to a pink card square.

I embossed the card base using the lattice embossing folder, and used
 3D foam to raise the tennis image on the card base.

Lastly, I printed the computer generated sentiment, die cut it with
the banner die and glued to a piece of pink card and cut a narrow
border freehand and added the number.

The products I have used are:

Crafters Companion Die'Sire Embossaliscious Embossing Folder - Lattice

Marianne Designs - Mini Numbers
Square 'Circle Border' & banner die - Brand unknown

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My 'Inspiration Scribbler' card for Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog

Today, I am sharing my 'Inspiration Scribbler' project, made for the
Scribbles Designs Challenge Blog which you can find HERE

The theme this month is 'Moustaches'

The details of the current challenge can be found HERE

I started by mat and layering the digi image onto black card.
Using my Scor-Buddy I embossed some lines onto the card base.
Using 3D foam I placed the image just over half way down the card base,
and then added the die-cut computer generated sentiment below it.

The products I have used are:
Scribbles Designs - #837 Movember Boys

Avery Elle - Simple Sentiment Dies

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

 

Female Birthday Card

Today I am sharing the card I made for my friend’s birthday
last week.

Using a piece of pink linen textured card, I embossed it with the 3D embossing
folder and cut to size.

 I then carefully moved a white ink pad across the embossed parts to catch the
edges of the petals.

I glued it directly onto the card base, and attached the die-cut computer
generated sentiment using 3d foam pads.

To finish, I added a few pearl gems.

The products I have used are:
Lisa Horton Crafts 3D embossing folder - Blooming Peony
Avery Elle - Simple Sentiment Dies

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Birthday Card for my Great Nephew

May and June are busy cardmaking months with five family birthdays!

Today, I am sharing the card I made for one of my great nephews. 
This year I decided to come away from the usual tractors and made
him a football themed card in West Ham colours who he likes.

I partly embossed the card base with the Crafters Companion Football
Crazy embossing folder, and then used my Hougie board to emboss two lines.

I found a free football image which I printed on blue lightweight card
to use as a backing paper, which I matted onto white card with
the edges coloured with a claret Promarker. I attached it to
the card base using 3D foam.

I used a football die on black card, glued it to
some white card and hand cut, and then die-cut the number
in claret card to mount on top of the football.

The sentiment is computer generated.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

A Gymnast Card for my 8 year old Great Niece

Today, I am sharing the birthday card I made for my great niece who
loves gymnastics. We also happen to share the same birthday!

I managed to find a free clipart image to print, which I mat 

and layered onto pink card. 

Using 3D foam pads I attached it to the embossed card
base, added the die-cut number and the printed sentiment.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x