And another Lovely Great Grandson

Hi Ladies
Well this week has been lovely, my Grandson has now given me another Lovely Great Grandson.
This one is Great Grandchild number 7, and I have 2 more due this year.  I haven't managed to get my hands on him yet as he is rather a long way away, but no doubt it will soon happen.
Here is a picture of him ,he  weighed in at 7lb 3oz and is named George Ray.
I have crocheted a blanket for him and also made a card for his parents, pictures follow.
I have been busy sewing this weekend, I have made a craft bin. I used Simplicity pattern 4232.
A friend made one recently and although I have had the pattern for ages I had never got round to doing it,
so thanks Janice you inspired me. I must agree Janice there were lots of groans from me doing it, I don't think I shall be in a hurry to do another.
I had bought 2 pieces of Owl pattern material from Ebay, one with black background and the other white, so had enough to make it.
I am also adding a card that I have just made for one of my Grand-daughters.

Baby George Ray

The crocheted Blanket I made him

The card for his Mum & Dad

Craft Bin (nightmare job) LOL!!

Card for Grand-daughter Melanie

Well that is all for now, hopefully will be back with more soon.

Hope you are all keeping well

Thanks for looking in

Sue xx

Hi Everyone
Here are a few projects that I have been doing lately, there's a bit of colouring, beading, card stitching, book covering  and sewing.

This card I coloured in with my fabulous Promarkers 

This Card I borrowed my good friend Sandy's lace stamp, I then embossed it in black, I made the flower using the loose silk petals from the wedding department of Hobbycraft

This card I stitched one of Emilie Design patterns and beaded it. It took loads of beads as you can see, I really enjoyed doing it. Not one for the post though, all that work, I couldn't bear the thought of the beads getting broken.

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This is the book cover, it is made using Craft paper and Glycerine and water mix, the decorations were used with black scratch card with gold in the middle, after cutting and embossing with spellbinders dies I ran over it with emery board to take some of the black off to reveal the gold. I rather like the effect.

This is the card I made for my Daughter, her favourite colour is lilac.

Well I have been inspired by the lovely programme Sewing Bee, I am hooked on the programme.  I know it looks like a night shirt, LOL!! but it is not for bed, haha!! I couldn't get a very good picture of it, it is a long length cotton top, it has slits up the side and is in white with a very small pattern on it in black.  It looks OK on, honest. It's the first clothing item I have made for years, hoping to get back to it more And hopefully the more complicated designs will follow, fingers crossed.

Well that's all for now folks, have a really good week, and thanks for looking in.

Take care Sue xx

A few cards I have recently made

Hi Everyone
Well at last I am back. I had a stroke just before Christmas and at last am now managing to make a few cards. My daughter gave me a Thomas Kinkade 3CD set for Christmas and that has made life a lot easier to make the cards.  I am really missing the stitching ones but at last have just managed one which I am a bit proud of. The stroke was very scarey, fortunately I only lost the use of my left  side, being left handed that was a real problem. But me being very stubborn has got me going again LOL!!  I have had a lot of support from my lovely family and friends who encouraged me to keep it up.
Well that's enough of that boring stuff, I have now got a few cards for you to look at.
The first one is the one I stitched and made an origami paper bow for the centre (how good is that haha!!)

The rest are from the Thomas Kinkade cd, not my usual stitching but determination got me going with them

Oops!! the one above this is from the lovely cd Crazy Cats, the images are sooooooo cute

Hope you all are keeping well,

Hopefully I will be back soon

Thanks for dropping by

Sue xx

Birthday Card for friend

Hi Everyone
I have made this card for my friend Sandy at the craft club. She makes such beautiful cards I
felt I had to make a bit of an effort.
The image of flowers and butterfly was done using a pretty little stencil on velvet paper. I used Diamond Sparkle Medium paste by Imagination Crafts in the stencil.  It is a beautiful paste and really sparkles when dry.  The rest of the items in the card were bits and pieces from my stash.
Thanks for looking
Hope you are all OK
Sue x

Christmas Penguin

Hi Everyone
I have just crocheted this cute little friend.  It was from a free pattern from Craftsy, they have a lot of freebies on their site so why not pop in and have a peep.
I really enjoyed making him, (no name at the moment).
I find crochet a bit hard to do these days, the old bones in my hand are playing up a bit so have to keep resting it, still with the very wet afternoon we had today it was a lovely way to spend a few hours.
The web site for Craftsy is    

www.craftsy.com/patterns

there are a lot of patterns to buy as well as freebies.
Thanks for looking in
Take care Sue x

Notelets and Holder

Hi Everyone
I have just made this small pack of notelets and holder.  The holder was made just using an A4 piece of card folded and decorated up with patterned paper and bits and pieces from my stash.  I seem to be getting hooked on making the concertina type of flower with feathers. They are a bit fiddly to make but look nice.  I cut and embossed the small notelet cards and chalked over the fronts to match, then made the little envelopes to fit.
Well I really enjoyed making it, now I don't know who to give it to hahaha!! I am sure someone will get it.
Hope you are all OK, take care
Sue x

Pretty little Origami Box

Hi Everyone
I have had a lovely afternoon playing with paper.
Thanks to Cardsarus blog,   I picked up the link to

www.card-making-magic.com/

Thank you Jenny.

There are some really lovely video tutorials on the site and  the tutorials are very easy to follow, trust me haha!!  I need easy.

Anyway this is the result of the origami box, I am rather pleased with it, don't know what to do
with it yet, probably fill it with sweets and give as a pressie  (or keep it myself - minus sweets haha!!)
Thanks for taking the time to look in, and always appreciate comments.
Take care
Sue xx