My Makes Forum Launch Party

Do come and join us at the fab new craft forum My Makes . The forum's up and running now and we're having a launch party from mid-day on Saturday 10th September until 8pm on Sunday 11th September.  Fun and games, challenges and much more!  I'm one of the moderators and would love to see you, do come and join in this friendly new craft forum.

Born to Shop card

A quick and easy way to use up some leftover scraps of paper and card.  I can think of a few people this card would be appropriate for!

I found a couple of pretty pink papers in my offcuts box and used strips of  Washi tape on a scrap of card to create a third one to coordinate.  I trimmed them to size, pierced a couple of holes at the top of each for the butcher's twine bag handles and adhered a little wisp of mulberry paper behind.  I attached a piece of white card to a pink card blank with Washi tape, added the bags with thick foam pads to add dimension and finished with a computer generated sentiment. 

Button Heart Hoop

A pretty room decoration from a scrap of dressmaking fabric, an embroidery hoops and lots of buttons and beads from my stash

A nice little stash buster I made for the Fiskarettes UK Facebook page back in June. 

I cut a scrap of dress fabric just larger than my embroidery hoop, drew a heart shape

and sewed on a variety of buttons and beads with a few different shades of embroidery silk, then filled in the gaps with seed beads.

I felt it needed a backing as the fabric I had used was quite thin, so to finish the back I trimmed the surplus fabric to about an inch, ran a running stitch around the edge to gather it and stitched a circle of felt to cover the raw edges.

I have had the hoop for years and never used it for its intended purpose but it now looks really pretty on the wall.  I think I may make some more to go with it!

Spring Surprise Exploding Box Card

A Spring Surprise Exploding Box Card

 

 

 

Inside is a tiny pot of flowers, complete with little bees

 

 

 

This card was great fun to make!  I found a teeny tiny flower pot and made some tulips using cotton buds, green florists tape and the Fiskars petal punch, and added some cute little punched bees with Wink of Stella on their wings for glittery highlights, hovering on strips of acrylic.

I then used green card to make an exploding box card to fit the finished size of the pot, decorated it inside and out with pink and green cardstock and patterned papers and finished off with a little "get well soon" tag. 

This was designed for the Fiskarettes UK Facebook page