4 piece swap from Sherry

Sherry and I recently decided to do a swap with one another and I chose the theme which was to send each other 4 items from our stash to be made into something by the other. We were allowed to add other items from our own stash. These are the itmes that I sent to Sherry.

Designer paper by Papermania from the Chatsworth vintage collection.

Beads on a wire, pink flower and this vintage butterfly found in FIL's house when we did the clear out last year. So what did Sherry make me from all this?

Well for starters she made this absolutely gorgeous art doll collage and used the butterfly on its chain as the hanging tag. The paper was used for the background and the flower was disected to make the wonderful hats. Now Sherry and I have never met so couldn't possibly know that the style and design is so so me. From the high heels (never less than 4") to the long skirts to those oh so me hats. I love hats.! This only used up 3 of the itmes so Sherry set about using the last item to make this cute little wooden hanging.

The glass beads became the necklace. Priceless!!! Hanging from the drawer knob on my chest of drawers as we speak. Sherry even sent me back the beads that she didn't use and so as not to be beaten I finished them up on a tag that I made for Tag Tuesday. shown below.

Thanks Sherry. I love what you have made for me and really had fun using the items that you sent to me. Will post shortly what I made in return.

Madi Gras.

I made this Triptych ATC for the Art 'n' Soul swap on the flickr group. Partners have all been asigned and Deb knows this will be on its way to her shortly. The challenge was to alter a head and after much procrasternating I came up with the idea of using a carnival mask to change the head that is inside the card.

Entering this into the following challenge.

Rainbow Lady's: Mardi Gras.

I just know someone is bound to ask what is inside so here is a peak.

Iris - Folding.

Another on my list to achieve this year is Iris - Folding so a quick raid on the snippets folder produced these papers.

I found some basic instructions in a crafts-beautiful magazine and decided to have a go at doing a poppy.

Going to enter into Di's Crafty snippets #8 (cos I missed the deadline for #7)

And also the following:

Do you Stack Up (DYSU): Layers.

Delightful Challenges: Use your scraps.

Fab 'n' Funky: Try something new.

WOYWW Wk 141

It's 3am and this is whats on my desk. I'm still up cos The ATC card on the right is waiting for the glitter glue to dry so that I can put the mask on and take a photo and post onto the flckr group that its the last day for uploading to. While I'm waitng I found this old knitting pattern dated April 20th 1959. Sis and I each made one of the little Tessie bear with the frilly skirt. She stood about 3" tall. The bears have long gone but the pattern has survived!!!
To the left you can just see my next project. Nearly DIL has asked if I can make the ring cushion for her. The picture is what she would like me to make as near as. So far I have found beads in the right colour to match the bridesmaids dresses and now need to run up a few different heart shapes in plain cotton so NDIL can choose the shape and size.
Lastly you can just see a pin cushion sitting on top of my sewing machine. This was a swap I received. Mine is still enroute to USA.


If your wondering why I'm showing you my desk at this unearthly hour then why not pop on over to Julia's blog where all will be revealed.
Ok the glue is dry!!!!!!!

WOYWW Monkey business

There appear to be 2 trunks on the boys desk but what are they doing there? Well after Bert left to go and live with Fluff up North the boys got a bit lonely and decided to surf the net for another Monkey to adopt! They found Sam looking for a home and as he said he would be no trouble and was very quiet the boys extended an open invittion to come asap. Well trunks have arrived but Sam appears to have been held up by the snow last week and is still digging a way out!

"Erm Norm you don't think theres a dead body in there do you?"

"Nargh. Must be bananas Monkey"

"Do you reckon maybe his Uncle works for Fyffes then?!!!!!

Tea Bag Anyone!

One of the other things on my list to achieve this year is to learn tea bag folding so that is what I have been teaching myself to do this week. This fold is the called the square fold simply because its a square of paper that you fold this way and that to make another smaller square. The hardest bit I found was to cut 8 squares identical not only in size but with the exact pattern on each one.

I raided my snippets folder and found this pretty floral paper that had a small repeat pattern on it. I used #2 size Xcut square parenthis nestie die to then trim the sqaures before I folded them into shape. I used #5 size to cut the mauve card and green cardstock 5"x 4.75" for the base card.

I created the sentiment using the #2 nestie die and of course no guesses for where the shrinkie button is.(It does have all sparkle on it but photo doesn't show it up.) I also made one for a friends birthday in Purple and Lime Green but forgot to take a photo before I sent it off in the post.

Entering into Di's Crafty Snippets Challenge #6 and also the following:

Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes + add a heart.

New Home.

I needed a New Home card for Fluff & Co and had an idea in my head of one to make so out came my snippets folders and a quick rummge around found these bits and bobs. 2 lolly pop sticks still on my desk from last weeks card. A bit of shrink plastic for you know what , pile of assorted papers (everyone writes on their snippets right?!!) and a collection of plastic collar stiffners (remember those?). Found a huge bag of them when we cleared FIL's house and they sort of found their way into my stash.

A lot of cutting, gluing, sticking and sniffing (nealy as good as having a glass of wine) later this is what I made. Just knew those collar stiffners would come in handy. No clues as to where the "wally heart" is this time!

Entering into Di's snipets playground wk5 and might even have a go on the swings before leaving.

Also entering in the following:

Crafting when we Can: Something not intended for crafting. ( I used collar stiffeners).

Cupcake Cafts: Recycle. (I recycled lolly pop sticks and collar stiffeners).

Crafty creations: Home sweet Home.

The Poodles Parlour: Anything goes.