Competition updates...

I am proud to say that I won both the Cupcake Challenge and the Make Jewellery Challenge - what a surprise!  I am thrilled to bits and already working on the next challenge, which will be for Let's Make Cards magazine.  Watch this space...

Another challenge make

This necklace was inspired by the Vintage Rose design in Issue 41 of Make Jewellery magazine.  I had the poylmer clay rose in my stash and thought it teamed up well with the filigrees from Nostalgia Beads, I didn't want to cover the filgree completely as in the original though.  I used two sizes and colours of toning pearl beads for one side of the necklace and ribbon threaded through chain for the other.

I had a dream...

I bought a blank 8" square canvas from a charity shop ages ago and didn't know what to do with it for months, then Louise (Pinkpuppy) posted a cupcake themed challenge on the Crafts Beautiful Forum.  I fiddled about trying to make a pair of beaded cupcake earrings but they kept going wrong and I got fed up with them, then one night I dreamed up this project - literally!  I got up early and had it finished before I had to leave for work!

The background is one of the free papers from Crafts Beautiful magazine, I loved the fabric effect, and I used a strip of another paper from the same book put through a ribbler for the cupcake case.  The icing is funky foam cut using scalloped oval Nestabilities dies in various sizes, with a button cherry and seed bead and bugle bead sprinkles.  The doiley was a RAK from Maritrez.

Thank you for looking!