Happy New Year for 2015

First of all I hope you all had a really lovely Christmas, and I wish you all a very Happy, Healthy and Wealthy New Year for 2015.
Let's hope it will be a really good one, and especially have lots of time and money to spend on our Crafty bits and pieces.

I have had a good time and the last 2 days I have had a relaxing time I had a couple of the Spellbound books for Christmas. I have just made my first bauble with beads, and am really quite chuffed with it.
I altered one of the spellbound patterns to suit as I have used beads from my stash.  I know I will  now be buying beads to suit the patterns It is a lovely relaxing thing to do and makes a nice change from the usual bits things.

Thanks for dropping by to have a look, any comments will  be most welcome.

Take care everyone Sue xx

Table Mat

Hi everyone, Here are just a couple of things for you. Firstly is the xmas table mat I have made. It is made an Origami mat made with fabric. I have used heat resistant wadding in it so is nice and thick to  save your table. I got the pattern from a blog called  

https://aspoonfulofsugar.blogspot.com

I hope this link works if not google will find it for you I am sure.

I think the trees are really lovely this autumn, this is a tree in the grounds of the Hurst community Centre where we hold our twice weekly clubs. I think it is really beautiful

That's all for now, hopefully I might have some Christmas cards to show you shortly, (when I have made them) haha!!

Take care

Sue xx

Some cards

Hi Everyone
I thought it about time I put some more cards on here.  The first two are stitched cards, the first one having a lot of beads added.
I am afraid I have got a bit lazy in keeping this blog up to date, so will try to improve. Famous last words!!.

The next one is a stamped card and decorated with card candy and blobs of glitter glue.

Finally here is one I have done for a Grandson using Promarker pens, he is very keen on fishing so thought this appropriate

Well that's all for today, thanks for looking in. Comments are always appreciated

Take care

Sue xx

Sophia is a Winner

Here is a picture of our youngest member at the Card Stitching group. She has been with the club now for a couple of years.
At the Grand Old Age of 12 she has beaten all of the rest of us ladies in a card stitching contest held at the club, her stitching is beautiful and she is now learning how to mount them, she did really well with this one, keep it up Sophia.
She is a very proud young lady, deservedly so, and the picture shows her with her prize winning card and her reward of a £10.00 voucher to spend at Hobbycraft.
I wonder what she will spend it on, I bet it won't take long for her to make up her mind.
If you would like to  leave her a comment on here, I will make sure she sees it.

Thank you for looking in, I am sure you will agree Sophia is good at card making. 

I will be back soon with some more of my bits and pieces, just wanted to get this on here before she has to go back to school.

Take care Sue xx

Bunny Lovey, Bag and Card

Hi Everyone
Here are a few of the projects I have very recently completed.
The Bunny Lovey (child's cuddly blanket with Bunny attached) is from a pattern I found on Pinterest, by The Stitchin' Mommy. Her patterns are very easy to follow, and I have just added a couple of frills around the neck of the bunny. This is going to be for another Great Grand-daughter, due in September.

The bag is crocheted in Crocodile Stitch, also known as scale stitch.  I found the link on you tube to Meladora's tutorial. Being Left handed I had great problems trying to do it, and found Meladora's instructions for left handed very easy to follow, so many thanks to her.  I have now started a small black one using thinner wool, I am hoping to make it into an evening bag, I will put a picture on here if it turns out OK.

Finally the card I have done for my son-in-law was inspired by a picture on Hope & Chances Creativity, Christine kindly gave a link to Angela Dodson's blog. Her one is much better than mine, but I was quite happy with the finished card. I only had a very dark grey leather look card, it doesn't show up the grain as much as Angela's does. I will have to get some lighter card from Hope & Chances.

So thanks to all you lovely ladies that have inspired me with these projects.

Thanks for looking in, your comments are always appreciated, take care
Sue xx

If You don't Like Bugs, LOOK AWAY NOW!!!

Hi Everyone
Just had to let you all see my little visitor that was on my wall yesterday.
It was a Female Stag Beetle, the Male has long antlers, (that was the only way I checked it out LOL!!)
It was about 2 inches long and was very good at staying in position for me to photograph it.
It flew away as soon as I was done, the wing span must have made it up to at least 3 inches wide (THAT'S BIG)
I thought it was a lesser stag beetle at first but it has a different back markings. We get them come into our garden every year, but this was the first POSER !!

Cute isn't it Ha Ha!!

I promise the next photo's I put on will be of my craft work, just couldn't resist this one.

Take care everyone

Sue xx

West Ham Football supporters card

My grandson Charlie has another birthday coming up, where does time go.. He is an avid Westham supporter, I would even go as far as saying a fanatical supporter LOL!!
I have been wanting to do one of these exploding cards for sometime now, I love it because it lays flat for posting. It took a long time to make but I think the end result was pretty good, hope you like it.
I have also been making some mens cards (never know quite what to do for them).
The London scene one was made using Xcut scene-it die, the one with guitars using Tattered lace die and the other one was done with a stamps from The Artistic Stamper and Distress inks.

Thanks for looking in, take care everyone Sue xx