SLYMI week 24

UKScrappers Scrap Like You Mean It week 24, was to scrap with felt. I have some gorgeous felt flowers and leaves I was given in the UKS Advent Swap last Christmas, so I've used some of the purple flowers with some of the leaves. The large flower in the top right came from material rescued from a bed base.

Thanks for looking

Take care, love and hugs

Sarah C xoxoxo

July Week 3

The UKS challenge this week has been set by the Yummy Mummys.

They set 3 criteria for it:

Scraplift a CD cover 10pts
Holiday theme 10pts
Use material embellies 10pts

I googled and found some different covers by artists I hadn't even heard of!! So, I decided to go for this one titled ~ The Sky is Crying:

Here's my take on the challenge and is another one for my Somerset holiday album.

I've used White linen look card stock for the background.

CD cover ~ yes, but changed the title to The Sun is Shining!

Holiday theme ~ yes

Material ~ yes, the strips at the top and bottom are white felt that I've painted with black and copper acrylic paint.

Full points again this week for the Ruby Snippers.

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.