Masculine Birthday Card

I made this card for a friend to give her partner last month.

He owns a cherry red guitar, so I chose the closest colour card to use.

I came across the idea on Pinterest last year, when I made cards 

for two of my nephew’s, which you can see HERE and HERE

The products I used are:-

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Circles

Stitched banner die - Brand unknown

Sentiment - Computer generated

 Challenges entered:-

Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Creative Moments - Anything Goes
The Paper Shelter - Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

A Hand Sanitiser Holder

Over the weekend, I came across a sewing pattern on YouTube to make a 

very useful hand sanitiser holder to attach to the inside or outside 

of a handbag, rucksack or belt.

I had some material leftover from the bag I made HERE, 

so thought I'd have a go at making the holder.

The pattern is Diane's design from Spencer Ogg

and can be found - HERE

Her YouTube instructions are easy to follow and the pattern can be 

adjusted to a larger or smaller size to hold glasses or lip balm.

I then realised I had enough material to make a matching face mask.

I'm sure I'll be making a few more of these which would make great gifts for
friends and family. They are also a great way of using up any leftover pieces
or scraps of material.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

Anniversary Card

Today's card is one a friend asked me to make 

for her recently. I went for a 'clean and simple' style of card.

Using snippets of blue pearlised card and plain white card, I die-cut 

the flowered heart onto a stitched square and glued it directly onto the 

ornate frame. I used 3D foam squares to raise the frame on the textured base card.

I placed diamante gems to the centre of the flowers, and then added

the sentiment.

Challenges entered:-

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Pixie's Snippets Playground #383 - Anything Goes
Love to Craft - Anything Goes
The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

My Time to Craft Challenge #437 - 'Summer Wedding'

A new challenge starts today over at My Time to Craft

where the theme this fortnight is 'Summer Wedding’

Here is my design team card...

All the details of the challenge can be found HERE

Since I don't have any weddings coming up to make a card for, I was lucky
enough to find this Hunkdory, Adorable Scorable set in my stash, called
The First Dance. It's from the Celebrations Collection and it allowed me 

to make a very quick and easy card. 

To finish, I added some home made card candi made from the sheet that 

the toppers were attached too and some gems.

Challenges entered:-
TTCRD - Anything Goes
Try it on a Tuesday - Summertime
Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Love to Craft - Anything Goes
The Creative Crafters - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

New Baby Card

Last month, a friend asked me if I could make her a card to welcome 

her new grandson and this is what I came up with, something

clean and simple.

The products I have used are:-

Spellbinders Nestabilities - Rectangles and Scalloped Rectangles

Crafts-Too A4 Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder Set - It's a Boy

Cuttlebug 3"x3" die - Baby #2

Docrafts Xcut Punch - Baby Feet

Sentiment - Computer generated

Challenges entered:-
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions
Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes

Thank you for visiting my blog today.

Janice x

A Vivien Project Bag

Today, I am sharing a Vivien Project Bag, which is one of the projects
 available to make on the online sewing course with Claire
at Beautiful Things Craft and Sewing Classes

This is a lovely drawstring, quilted bag designed for keeping knitting or 

crocheting projects in. When you pull on the drawstring, you can use

 the handles to carry the bag around.

It also has a very useful large zipped compartment inside,
which can be used as a divider to separate different projects.

It could easily be used as a wash bag too.

This is the second project I have made in the Silver Course, the first one,
a Travel Mug Bag can be found HERE

The outer fabric is a Rose and Hubble design - Tropical Lily on Black
which I purchased online from Fabric Love along with the green
cotton lining fabric.
The red cord is from The CheapShop in Tiptree, Essex

Claire's step by step video tutorials are really easy to follow, along

 with her written instructions.

In each group, there are six projects to make, as and when you want to.

I still have one more to make from the Bronze group, which is an envelope
backed and zipper tabbed cushion, but as we didn't receive the instructions until
recently, I thought I would make this bag.

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x

A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge #120 - 'Anything Goes'

A new challenge starts today at 'A Bit More Time to Craft Challenge Blog'
where the theme is always 'Anything Goes'

Here is my design team card made using two of the set of
Pink Love digi papers.

Details of the challenge can be found HERE

where 3/5 randomly drawn winners will each get to choose

3 sets of Lozzy's papers.

After cutting both of the papers, I edged each one with a black

Promarker, which gives the effect of matting onto black card.

I stamped the sentiment directly onto the smallest square, and then used 

3D foam to this and the patterned square to give some dimension.
I added the black gems to finish.

The products I have used are:-

Lozzy's digi papers Pink Love
Impression Obsession wood mounted stamp - Happy Birthday (B5204)
Black Promarker

 

Challenges entered:-

Crafty Sentiment Designs - Anything Goes
TTCRD - Anything Goes
613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes/Optional Twist - The Sentiment As The Focal
Lemon Shortbread - Anything Goes
A Place to Start - Flowers

Crafting Happiness - Anything Goes

Get Creative - Birthday

Thank you for visiting my blog today.
Janice x