Christmas Cushion Number Four

Hello Everyone,

I hope this finds you in fine fettle and enjoying your evening. I have a really quick project to share with you this evening.

This is cushion #4. I've created another photo transfer and ironed it on to a scrap of white cotton fabric then appliqued it to the centre of the cushion front. The strawberry print is what was leftover from the little shirred dress I made for Rhian last year when I'd just got my new sewing machine. I'm hoping she will enjoy having a cushion in the same fabric on her bed.

I've added a little gingham bow and red button for embellishment to the top of the appliqued photo. The back is, as usual, envelope style.

Scraps of fabric and ribbon and the leftover strawberry print went into the making so I'm submitting this cushion to Pixie's Snippet Playground - let's see if Parsnip will allow it :)

Right, that's all for now. I have a ton of things to do so I'd better get on with it ... only 21 days to go to C-Day :)

Happy Crafting,

Blue Field Poppies - A Snippet Make

Hello Everyone

I'm lagging behind with my posts this week but hoping to catch up today and tomorrow. First up is the snippet make I should have posted on Sunday for Pixie's Snippets Playground - Week 153.

The card has been made almost entirely from snippets or recycled materials. Even the topper, one of my watercolour experiments with  my current favourite stamp, Poppy Fields from Rubber Necker, and several distress inks from Ranger in shades of blue and turquoise, was made using some glossy card which is the recycled back of a card received last year ... I save way too much stuff!!!

You might be able to see ta gleam or two in this shot ... there's just the teeniest sprinkle of glitter around the flowers. No list of materials today ... most of the snippets used are so old I couldn't even venture a guess as to where they came from. What I can tell you is that I recycled the greeting from a birthday card received sometime in the last couple of years and trimmed it to a pennant shape for this card.

And that's me done posting for today. I hope to be back with another share tomorrow. In the meantime, I wish you all a lovely evening.

Happy Crafting,

What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday - WOYWW Week 287

Good Afternoon,

It's Wednesday, and so WOYWW day over at Julia's, an event, unfortunately, I had to miss last week and one I should have been here for earlier today but de-guddling my desk suddenly took priority! Not for this post but because of it. You see, after I'd taken the shot below depicting, as it so does, the humongous disgrace that is my desk, it was obvious I had to do something, anything, or I'd never craft again!

My desk, in a right old guddle! To those who may wonder, guddle is a Scots word meaning a confusion which somehow sounds a tad tame - something is definitely lost in translation. I see Julia would call it a 'hell hole' ... now that's a much more apt translation :) And the reason for this particular hell hole is? Well, I've been sorting my craft space out ... de-stashing, tossing stuff, reconfiguring, etc., etc. ... and somehow managed to make even more of a guddle in the process. The old adage that you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs comes to mind. Sadly, I'm still an awful long way off from the omelette stage :(  The reason is clear. I'm working on far too many things at once ... Christmassy things, of course. I suspect not too unlike many of you, my fellow WOYWWers. So, since taking this pic this morning, I've put away all the stuff you can see - well, let's not lie, I've found a temporary home for it - and given myself a clear area to get on with the next pressing project on my to-do list.

How are you doing? Are you any more organised than I am? I do hope so. Whatever, I wish you on this the first What's On Your Desk Wednesday in December, a very good week.

Happy Crafting,