Great Blog Candy

The lovely folks over at DigiStamp Boutique are giving away some great Blog Candy. So hop on over to their blog and check it out.
http://digistampboutique.blogspot.com/
I just love their images so while you are there check out their shop and their digi stamps. Sooooooooo cute!!!

Winter crafts.

When it is cold and snowy outside and the house feels a bit chilled I like to do some crocheting. I think just working with the yarn makes me feel warmer. I had started this afghan ages ago and finally finished it this past week here. I picked it up again to work on when we had all that snow. It was warm sitting under it snuggled on the couch with Jingles cuddled up under it while I was putting the rows together. It is nice and warm besides being pretty to look at. :)

I have already started my next crochet project. :) Trying this hexagon pattern. You put it together as you go.... So it should be quite a colourful afghan. :) Great for using up little bits of yarn leftover from other projects. I found the pattern on the website.... Raverly and from there to this blog post From Attic24 with the pattern. She has some really good clear instructions for crocheting the Hexagons. :)


Also I have been busy working on some Valentine cards for a card contest in my Ebay group. Here are a few extra cards I sent down to my friend in Cornwall to sell for her animal santuary.





I used some digital image stamps for these cards the bears are from DigiStamp Botique.

I forgot where I got the dog image from but once I run across it again I will post the web link here. :)

One Card Two Challenges

Okay I have never entered into one of these before, but there is always a first time for everything. And the first one I want to enter is this card into the Snowflake Challenge at Kaboodle Doodles. The two snowflakes are cut from plain white card using my Craft Robo and then glittered up with white glitter. The digital image is from Tales from PollyCraft. I find this cute little fellow lovely to colour in using my water colouring pencils. I layered and mounted onto a white 6x6 card using card and paper from my stash. And added a sentiment from my stash also.

And while I am on a roll I would also like to enter this card into the Sparkle Challenge over at
Digital Tuesday Challenge Sparkle Challenge. Both of the snowflakes are very sparkly and again this lovely digital image comes from the Tales from PollyCraft website. They have loads more lovely images too.
I hope you enjoyed my first challenge card. :)

Digi stamps

I am just now getting into using digi stamps. I don't know if you all have tried these yet or not. Basically you buy an image from an online shop and then use your own photo editing program to resize to the size you want or need and then print them off. I did these two cards for a contest in my ebay group and I won 2nd and 3rd places on them. :) They are such cute images.
You can see these and more at Digi Stamps . They also have a contest you can enter and also a monthly freebie so you can give it a try before you buy. I do find with my water colours I sometimes get the printer ink running slightly. But overall they are fun to work with and I like the lovely images they have on offer. Their collections and monthly offers are a great value too. :)


This is Milly and Snowball.


And this is Alex and Felicity.

Blog Candy available from Pink Piggy

Hi all, sorry for being a bit absent of late. But the hedgehogs have taken up a bit more time than I anticipated. :) Just now starting to get back to working on some cards for Christmas around here and doing a bit of Blog hopping as they say. I came across this lovely blog called....Pink Piggy. There are some lovely cards and jewlery there. Well worth a visit. Also she has up for grabs this blog candy....

June 22nd, 2009

Well this is a rather slow time for any sort of crafting and sewing here, as the gardening is taking over just a bit along with some preserving. :) I enjoy making jams, pickles and chutneys.But I need to make some fancy Jam jar covers and some labels to go with my jars. We did have a card competition on my ebay group. And I came in Second with my daisy doggy card.



I also made this card for the competion.

And then Jingles and I made another one very similar for his dad for Fathers day. :) His contribution was a nice stamped pawprint inside.

May 13th 2009

What a busy time I am having lately. :) I am busy with the gardening and with new little Hedgehog visitors here. Besides all the normal stuff. I did find time to do a bit of crafting too. :)
My little grand daughter turned 2 on the 8th and here is the card I made her. I just love these teddies.


And I even had time to sew up an outfit for her. I just hope it fits. It is the first sewing project that I have done on my new sewing machine and I really enjoyed making it and using my new machine. :)



Brian and I finally met back up with Steve and Sarah who used to run the Two Brewer's pub we used to frequent. They now run the Odd Fellows Arms . :) Well they have a charity they sponsor and I offered to make them some cards to sell with all the money going to the charity. The Little Havens Children's Hospice . Below are some of the cards I have made for them. I also made a load for my friend in Cornwall for her animal sanctuary. :)