Me at 40

I went to a crop in April and this was the class we took. I had the opportunity to use Bazzil InStitches for the first time too.

Thanks Steph.

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Love, Sarah C xx

Colours of Autumn

As promised in my previous post, here's the reveal of my LO done for Ribbon Mad. It can be seen in their gallery here. Check out the other projects too as they are simply amazing.

I was given the fantastic October 'SPOOKY' kit to work with and this is what I did:

1) I used the orange/black striped ribbon to create a border around the three sides of my photo.

2) By sticking DST to the top of the ladybird ribbon, I was able to pleat it as I stuck it down on the bottom of the photo.

3) I made flowers out of the orange organza and black/orange stitched ribbons, before stitching them together and adding an orange button.

4) I stuck black buttons onto the top corners and inked some *chipboard letters.

* the letters were from my stash, but all other items were from the kit I was given to work with.

SLYMI week 28

Stitching was Shimelle's challenge on UKScrappers this last week. I decided to stitch both the fabric and photo onto my backing paper. Photo is of the entrance to Warwick Castle in January 2001.

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BLOOM and grow

I took this photo of my large bloom the other day and it's just as well I did. We had heavy rain and wind the day after, which destroyed it completely.

PP is Basic Grey. Isn't it just fabulous? It's so lovely, I didn't want to waste any, so I cut out the centre piece that would have been hidden by the photo to use on something else! Waste not, want not eh? This LO was done 'just because' but I've used ScrapSketch's #78 sketch. It had a lot of stitching on it, so I narrowed it down to stitching the frame to the PP and the PP to the Bazzill. Title was cut on my ROBO before inking, with the BLOOM word cut twice and layered.

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Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxo

Hen Party

My sister's Hen Party was the perfect excuse to take lots of photos and this week's challenge on UKScrappers was the perfect excuse to scrap some of them. Set by the Pink Glitter Gals, they challenged us to:

* use either black & white or at least 4 colours of the rainbow
** celebrate womanhood
*** use at least one distressing technique
**** use 5 of something

Here's how I met the criteria:

* I used pink/red/blue/green
** Theme is Jo's Hen Party before becoming a married woman
*** I sanded the edges of the bracket
**** I used 5 blooms

Full points claimed for my team and house The Ruby Snippers/Gold Eyelets

This was done following the Pencillines sketch 124

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Take care, love and hugs
Sarah C xoxo

And Now For Something a Little Different

My friend Shell on 3C's set the members challenges for us and gave us these last 4 weeks to complete them in.

Here's what she came up with:

Part 1

My challenge to you all is to make a bag out of felt. It can be any size you want ickle or big thats up to you as long as it's made from felt, it also has to be handstitched and have a ribbon handle..........

Extras to include...

Buttons........one or more

one or more felt flowers ( and not a ready made one such as the K&Co kind you can get now )

Also a little pocket on the front of the bag.

POINTS FOR THIS CHALLENGE:

COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE: 25 POINTS

INCLUDING BUTTONS AND FELT FLOWERS: 5 POINTS

FRONT POCKET: 10 POINTS

HANDSTITCHED AND RIBBON HANDLE: 10 POINTS

TOTAL POINTS AVAILABLE FOR THIS CHALLENGE: 50 POINTS

Here's my bag and how I made it:

I designed it to hold my photos that I aim to scrap next as they were previously shoved in a drawer that wasn't really big enough for the large ones.

It's made from 2 pieces of purple felt and one piece of white. I hand-cut the flowers and stitched them on adding a button to the centre of each. The handle is made by using white velvet ribbon and is held by buttons. Once it was all ready I hand-sewed three sides of the bag. Last but not least, I sewed on velcro for a fastening.

Part 2

Seen as how we are all doing 2 challenges my second challenge for you is to make a card. Again it must include felt, a flower which could be the felt part if you wish, buttons and hand stitching.

POINTS FOR THIS CHALLENGE:

COMPLETING THE CHALLENGE: 30 POINTS

ADDING SHELL'S EXTRAS: 10 POINTS

TOTAL AVAILABLE FOR THIS CHALLENGE: 40 POINTS

Here's my card and how it was made:

It's A6 size and was strange working in such a small area as I can't remember the last time I made a card this small.

I've hand-cut the felt flower and hand-stitched on 2 buttons. I doodled the stem and flowers. I hand-cut an H and a B from felt and hand-stitched the detail on them, before glueing down and hand-writing the rest of the words.

Full marks to me I think. Just gotta remember to add them to my total which is growing nicely.