More than One Fold

Hi I am sharing a card for the latest challenge over at the Delicious Doodles Challenge. I have been busy with the kids this week as it is the Easter Break. I have also been busy with my other crafting passions sewing and beading. Did you see The Great Sewing Bee BBC2 what a fantastic show!

Here is my card for the challenge which is to include More than One Fold. I decided to make a centre stepper card for the challenge. I used the stunning image Fantasia from the Delicious Doodles Store. I also used the Oriental Frame and the Oriental Lotus Paper set. I coloured in my image with alcohol pens and added some sakura stardust to the hair clip and the fan. I also added some gold rhinestones to the image. For the side panels of the centre stepper card I added some card that I embossed using a cuttlebug embossing folder. I then used alcohol pens to colour in the raised part of the embossing. I made some fans using the oriental lotus papers and added a sentiment to the card.

Challenges I would like to enter are as follows:

Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Anything Goes

Nut crafters - Shaped card

Can U Digi It? - Pick a Season ( mine is Spring inspired)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Away with the Fairies

Hello I hope you are all well and not affected by this awful weather we are currently experiencing. I am sharing my card today for my DT piece for the wonderful  Delicious Doodles Challenge our theme is "Fairies" I love Fairies. I have made a selection of Thank You cards I hope you like them as much as I do xxx I used Fairy Fae she is wonderful. I had used this image on some bunting I made. So I just printed used some digital software to create a frame and decoupaged.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

Moving Along with the times - Decoupage

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Spiral Peyote Stitch

Hi there I am back with another bracelet to share with you. For years I have loved beading but unfortunately a papercraft addiction that I gained got in the way of my love for it. Now I am well and truely in love with my beading again. The great thing about this craft is that you can wear your goodies you have made and show them off to everyone.
I have found this fanatastic tutorial over at You Tube by Kelly from Up the Beaded Path. It is for a Spiral Peyote stitch. It looks complicated but once  you have started off it is really repetitive and so relaxing. I have tried some other spiral stitches and this one at the moment is my favourite. I am
working on another piece as we speak.

I want to enter this into the fantastic Beading Friends Forever Challenge which this month wants our favourite colour combinations. I love odd colour combinations and I have also loved Green and Purple together since I was a teenager. I also love black as it adds a touch of class to everything.
There is a prize of £15.00 to spend at the wonderful Beads Direct so try and join in the fun xxx


Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Another BFF entry

Inspired by Beading Friends Forever challenge I have created another double spiral bracelet. This is a great pattern for a double spiral bracelet from Up The Beaded Path You Tube video.

Die Cuts at Delicious Doodles!

Hi everyone a busy week here two birthdays to celebrate. My daughter turned 8 on Wednesday and my baby son turns 5 on Sunday.
I have made this card for my DT piece at Delicious Doodles Challenge. We have a theme of Die Cuts we want to see all your lovely Dies on your projects.
I have a friend who is raising money for Evelina Childrens Hospital here in London and he is running the marathon. I helped him raise some money by making some cards. Here are a couple of the Mothers Day ones I made using Teri's image Butterfly Border and Gothic Architectural Papers
I used a pretty Edgability from Spellbinders and a Nestibility from Spellbinders as my dies on a gold mirriboard.

Challenges I would love to enter are:

4 Crafty Chicks - Dies for Dies

Card Mania - Butterflies and Fairies

Digi Makeover Challenge - Flight

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Double Spiral Bracelet

Hi just blogging my second entry for the Beading Friends Forever Challenge. I made it following the tutorial from Up the beaded Path on You Tube.
I used Swaroski crystal pearls from the Sponser Beads Direct. I used two seed beads either side as I liked this better than three.

Beading Friends Forever favourite colour combination

Hello just stopping in to show you a long magatama kumihimo bracelet I designed for the challenge at Beading Friends Forever. This is for the favourite colour combination part. I used wine reds, pinks and lilacs with silver. I used four different styles of long Magatama beads from Robins Beads. The clasp is from Spoilt Rotten beads as are the end caps. The thread is from the Sponser Beads direct as is the Kumihimo board I used to weave the bracelet.

Dies at Natalie and Amy's Challenge this week

Hello a tiny bit late posting today for our challenge at Natalie and Amy's this week. we have a theme of Dies we would love to see your beautiful dies in your collection"
I have gone clean and simple. I used a 4 by 4 inch square blank card from the store. I then used a Nellie snellen die to create a matt and layer for the You Rock sentiment. I added some punched flowers and some glossy accents to the card and some bling.

I hope you like it.

Spring Flowers

Good Morning I hope you are all well hasn't it got chilly again... Snow Flurries for us in the South East today!!!
I am just stopping in with a project I made for my living room. I have used Delicious Doodles images Hydrangea and Poppies. Our challenge this week is Spring Flowers.
I love using digital images with fabric I used my graphics package to recolour and create a background. I then punched a bird out from the background and printed the images onto a printable cotton fabric. I created my cushion design and before sewing together I appliqued on my birds. I also machine stitched a free hand perch for them to sit on.

Collage of images

Cushion 

Close up of birdie

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Kumihimo

Hello I have found a new addiction the ancient Japanese art of Kumihimo!!! You have to try it!!! It is so relaxing and such fun. I got all my bits and pieces this week and have been playing so here are few examples of what I have done.
I would also like to enter into the fantastic Beading Friends Forever challenge. I am entering the Anything Goes part of the challenge with these creations xxx

Seeded Kumihimo using a bead mixture from Robins beads and a kumihimo finding and s-lon beading cord.

Leather cord, copper findings and wire

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

No Patterned Paper

Hello I hope you are all well and not too cold or poorly. I have had the sniffles this week so feeling a little bit low. I have also been busy doing my volunteering bits and pieces. Sometimes it makes me sad as we live in such a broken world that really needs fixing.
Onto much brighter and lovelier things. Team B have a great challenge this week over at Delicious Doodles we want to see you use no patterned papers. I am not sure if mine is cheating as I used no paper whatsoever. I decided to create some bunting to hang in my daughters bedroom.

I  printed out Fairy Fae from the Delicious Doodle shop onto A4 paper. I then painted her using H2O's I added finer details with a spectrum Noir pen. 

I then created the material using printable cotton. I found some co-ordinating materials to make my bunting. Originally I had planned to write her name on the bunting but she decided she did not want me to. 

Looking forward to your makes.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Hugs and Kisses

Hello I hope you are all having a great week. I have been busy with lots of voluntary work once again this week. So I have been busy crafting this weekend to relax. I am delighted that Marcea's Crafting Corner has set up the wonderful group Beading Friends Forever. I love beading so I have joined in. Their is a fantastic prize from Beads Direct so if you love beading you must hop over and  check out the challenge.

I have followed the tutorial on the blog by "Beadiful Nights". I have made this bracelet for the challenge using the Hugs and Kisses Bracelet tutorial. I  shortened the length of the bracelet and added a chain just to give my own little twist.

I used pearls and glass bicone beads  from Spoilt Rotten beads. I used monofiliment fishing line. The seed beads are from Robins Beads. The chain and toggle clasp are from my humungous stash xxx :0)

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Natalie and Amy's Challenge

Hi it is time for another challenge over at the wonderful Natalie and Amy's Challenge. This month the theme is to use Something Old and Something New.  I have used lots of products from the brilliant store which you can find HERE!!

Card Recipe

Card Blank - from stash Old

Stamp - Kraftin Kimmie Captain Hook New to me

Papers - Marianne Designs Paper Bloc dark vintage blue New to me

Nesties - Old

Spectrum Noirs - Old

Coredination card

Marianne D Die cuts

Cannot wait to see your old and new stash xxxx

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

All you need is love!!!

Hello it has been a busy couple of weeks I turned 40 last Saturday. I have been doing lots of volunteer work and stuff too.
My youngest son is going up The Shard today so I am really apprehensive as the school are taking him not sure what he will think.
I am sharing with you today my DT make for Delicious Doodles Challenge we have a lovely theme this week " All you Need is Love" we cannot wait to see your love themed creations.
I chose to make this cushion. It is my first attempt at quilting OMG so much fun xxx I used some fabric squares from The Cotton Patch and the two squares with Delicious Doodles images on I created using my graphics programme and printable cotton. I used the gorgeous Delicious Doodles images Zebra and Foal and Zebras.
You get the chance to win some lovely images from the shop so please join us in our challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Anything Goes

Hi there I hope you are all keeping well. Our house has had one bug or another in it for the past 6 weeks. I am getting a bit fed up with it now. I have been into sewing recently and I wanted to make my own fabric so this weeks Delicious Doodles Theme "Anything Goes using favourite colours" gave me the chance to do this. I have made a cushion for my sofa.

 Cushion Recipe

Delicious Doodles image - Butterfly 
Sweet Pea Stamps Image by Ching Chou Kuik
Graphics programme
Washable Printable Cotton
Zip
Cotton

My favourite colours are currently Teal and Rust

We hope you can join us you can win 5 images from Teri's store.

Challenges I would like to enter are:

Digi Stamps For Joy - How Time Flies

Digital Tuesday challenge - New Beginnings ( I am giving my living room a new look)

Sweet Pea Stamps - Show us your blog 

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

My Favourite Things

Hello today at Natalie and Amy's Monthly Challenge we have a theme of My Favourite Things! So what are My Favourite things. At this very moment in time I have two things that I love doing. They are digital crafting combined with traditional crafting and sewing. So for this I decided to make a padded bag for my daughter to store her child's tablet in.

I printed off this gorgeous duck image which I matted onto a backing paper (in CraftArtist) both from the Crafters Companion Everyday in Mulberry Wood CD rom. I printed onto a cotton and I also printed another of just the image (with my daughters name) onto some printable shrink plastic. I made a zip tag.
I attached to the zip using a jump ring.

I then added some cotton wadding to the image and quilted it. I then sewed it onto my material and made the bag.

Challenges I would love to enter are:

2 Sister Challenge - Anything but a card

Charisma Cardz - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Something NEW

Hi I am a little bit late posting this DT post for the Delicious Doodles Challenge . I have been entertaining today. This week Team B are creating Something New for the challenge. I decided to make two new baby cards. I digitally coloured up the image A Mothers Love one pink and one blue. I added to some card stock and added a punched border lace and a saftey pin and charm. I added a Whiff of Joy sentiment to finish.  There is a sale on too at the store a huge 20% off up until January 1st on ALL ITEMS

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Something a bit different using a digital stamp

The current theme over at Delicious Doodles Challenge is Anything But a Card. The challenge which my team is not part of inspired me to stretch my imagination to create something with one of Teri's images. My son loves the part of the Nativity where the Three Kings are involved so I thought that Teri's image We Three Kings would be perfect for his stocking.

I sized the image to fit the stocking template I created. I then printed it twice. I used the image as a template. I have slightly altered the town of Bethlehem and the decorative lines.

I would love to know what you think.
Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

STocking Fun

Hello I am just sharing some felt stockings I have made for a few comissioned orders over the  last few weeks.
I used felt from Sew Sweet and I designed the stockings using my own unique designs.

Joey's Stocking

Jed's Stocking

Raya's Stocking

Theo's Stocking

Ruth Marina's

Zara's 

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale

Blue Christmas

Hi everyone hope you are all well and warm in this seasonally cold weather. I have been busy getting ready for christmas and here I am sharing with you one of the cards I have made. This is also for my DT piece over at Delicious Doodles Challenge where we want to see a christmas card with some blue in it.

I have used Emo Christmas and Snowflake collection from the Shop!  I coloured in my image mounted on to card and added some sparkle with stickles. I then scanned into the computer and created a backing paper to match the image using Craft Artist 2. I used a snowflake from the snowflake collection as an embellishment I added a red card candy and some gems to bling it up a bit. Sentiment stamp is inkadinkadoo. Ribbon is from the stash xxx

I hope you like my card I must say I loved making it. I am entering the following challenges with it.

Charisma Cardz Challenge - Christmas

ABC Christmas Challenge - X there must be an X on your project mine is the bones on the Emo's skull tattoo

Thanks for stopping by today I really appreciate your time and comments. I hope you are inspired too. Hugs Pascale