Bookmark Card for Exchange.

Another new one for the Birthday Exchange. I’m the next birthday on the list as there is no one listed for August.

From the Docrafts Tulip /. Hot Diggerty Dawg CD.

Back to Bears

I'm waiting on a delivery of Fur & roving to make a birthday bear for the baby grand bean. I’d really like to do something with my bear making and eventually sell some. either the ones I make randomly or by commission.

Anyway to get back in the mood for bear making I knocked out this little mini bear head this afternoon from scraps.

He is now a phone charm

Mum’s Birthday Card

 

Another Tulip /Boofle combine from my Do crafts disks. I made the butterfly’s from scrap ribbon & head pins from my jewellery making stash.

OMG this so clever……….

Making your own rubber stamps. I mean so simple yet so Clever.

Die Cutting–I succumbed……..

well I happened to catch a show on create n craft for a Spellbinders Grand Calibre Die cutting Machine.

Fatal – it was the middle of the night & I was watching in bed whilst J was snoring. Anyway I did look for a cheaper option all over the place but these things are SO expensive. Never one do things the easy or cheap way I succumbed yesterday and ordered the Grand Calibre deal for £150 quid on flexi pay.

yes I know its a lot of money, I know, I’m still worried I wont get the use of it BUT i have discovered that I can use for my Bears.

How you ask – well, I will be able to cut felt with it, so not only is there the opportunity to do flower hair bands for lady bears there is also the use of personalising bears with felt lettering I can appliqué on the feet.

SO When I FINALLY get the balls to start trying to sell my crafts, beading,, cards & Bears I'm hoping to recoup the cost eventually.

The only questions remaining is How to go about selling & when will my grand calibre arrive!.

Tulip Bubble Bath Birthday Card

I have been playing with my Docrafts Tulip & friends Cd Rom lately & am quite enjoying it. Digital Designer which comes as part of the disk or can be downloaded from the Docrafts website, is clean, clear & pretty easy to use.

Unlike Disks like Crafters companion, you can do a lot more with DD, the only thing that I have found so far that I don’t like is that you can’t do bendy text around toppers etc. when you are creating. I tend to do my bendy text in Ms Publisher save as a Jpg & import to DD.

Anyway enough yapping this is my latest easel card using Tulip designs, I don’t normally like girly stuff but am quite taken with Tulip & Hot Diggerty Dawg.

I attempted Knitting again…..

well I tried, but I’ve given it up as a bad job, I can knit, I can read the pattern, its just putting the 2 together that beats me, its got more holes than a colander so I shall abandon it & revert back to the Matching afghan to go with the cot bumper instead of a knitted blanket.

Bumsville