Sewing - Hanging Hand Towel

I've been wanting to make these hanging hand towels for a while now (since I spotted them on this website ... http://kleiosbelly.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/christmas-prezzies-6-1-for-you/) and happened to spot these cute tea towels in Spotlight the other day. The intention was to make a couple for Mothers Day, however I hung this one up in my kitchen to take a photo, now I just can't bear to take it down. Think I'll have to make some more and pop them away in the present cupboard for Christmas!

 

The possibilities really are endless as I also saw some plain coloured towels (with no pattern/design) which had a matching strip of fabric along the bottom. This added that extra splash of colour which was needed to give another point of interest. What a great gift for someone who is hard to buy for!!

Male card - masking leaves

If you want an extremely easy and quick male card which uses very little craft supplies, this card is perfect. I saw it on Leonie Schroder's blog http://www.stamp-a-latte.com/?s=masking, loved it so copied it almost exactly as I didn't have the same stamps. It looks much better in real life. I'm going to do a few more in blue and brown tones.

I just used three scrap pieces of paper and held in place with a very small amount of double sided tape on the plain white card stock. Then using daubers I sponged SU Always Artikoke and SU Mellow Moss to a desired colour strength. I then removed the scrap paper and stamped the leaf images as desired and finished off with the birthday saying.

Products used: leaf stamps are non Stampin Up; birthday saying is from the SU Upsy Daisy stamp set; SU Always Artikoke & Mellow Moss stamp pads; white card stock.

Stampin Up - A Rose Is a Rose - 70th Birthday Card

Products used:  Stampin Up A Rose Is A Rose stamp set; SU Sale-a-bration Bliss stamp set; SU French Script stamp; Pink Pirouette, Pretty In Pink, Rich Razzleberry, Mellow Moss & Always Artitoke ink pads.

CASED from http://clairedaly.typepad.com/sisterhood_of_the_travell/2010/06/vintage-a-rose-is-a-rose-.html

Stampin Up Punch Art Crab

I've just spent the weekend in Toodyay at a Stampin Up Craft Camp where we made heaps and heaps of projects. The last project was where we were given a sketch and had to come up with our own design. As I'm from Mandurah, famous for the yummy Mandurah estuary crabs, this is the card I came up with. I'll probably change the mouth as it was a rush job to finish and the mouth isn't how I wanted. Apart from that, very happy with my design.

Stampin Up Bird Punch - Wedding card

Isn't this gorgeous! It's CASED from the very talented Teneale Williams (http://tenealewilliams.com.au/2010/09/no-longer-an-inkspiration/) however I added a little splash of purple colour. It's not hard to make something look stunning with this Stampin Up Bird Punch.

Stampin Up Illuminations Gift Voucher Holder

As mentioned in the last post, my twin Aunts are turning 50 so as we have organised a gift voucher that came in a daggy plain envelope, I made these Gift Voucher Holders using Stampin Up Illuminations stamp set, SU Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette and Whisper White cardstock, SU Riding Hood Red inkpad and Stampin Up Bella Rose DS Paper. Lucky for me my Aunts names start with 'J' and 'C' so this stamp set was perfect utilising the 'Joy' and 'Cherish' stamps.

To retain the 'J' and remove the remainder of the wording in 'Joy' I had two attempts. In the first attempt (which didn't work for me) I stamped the entire stamp, then tried to remove the 'o' and 'y' with a cotton wool bud. But when stamped the outline of the letters remained albeit very faintly. So the second attempt (which worked great) was I placed sticky tape strategically over the unwanted letters, stamped the entire stamp, removed the sticky tape and it stamped perfectly.

Quilled 50th Birthday Card easel card

My twin aunts are turning 50 this week so I wanted to make their 50th birthday cards extra special. This is what I came up with. One down, one to go! It's lucky they only turn 50 once as I'll definately think twice about attempting this card design again ... it took hours!!