A card or eight

Cards seem to be all that i am capable of lately
so here are a few
the first three are all on the same theme, but i tried different ribbon dying techniques. The pretty blue cardstock is the new Stampin Up colour Pool Party and the dies and stamps are from Papertray Ink.

i like the last ruffled ribbon the best
next up a tag, surprise surprise

love these cute button card dies from PTI together with the tag its stamps (only US$5 bargain)

now i was trying to teach my friend Pina how to make a rosette at work, which wasn't very successful so i went home and made her one

love how this turned out, it uses some Tim Holtz tissue paper ribbon roll and cream cardstock

here's a bright card for ya

last week my nice postie bought me a new cricut cartridge "Art Philosophy" and i have to say that its my favourite ever and i would go so far as too say that if you buy a cricut machine you really only need this cart. It has a font, 3d flowers, 3d boxes and bags, some lovely shapes and flourishes, cards and envelopes. It doesn't really cover the men in our lives so you might need a cart for them.
anyway here is a card i made which is an exact copy of the demo they design for you, it was so easy

and a couple of days after that delivery my postie bought me my Papertray Ink delivery with their new bloom builder die, oh love heart love heart this die.
so these cards were made with PTI stamps and dies and some more new incolour Stampin Up cardstock (love the coral)

and yes i dyed my own seem binding with some of the coral ink, isn't that flower just lovely lovely lovely.

well my big dilemma now is what to make for dinner and as its 5.09 i had better head towards the kitchen

thanks for making it to the end

enjoy your week
xxx

Are you Jealous

Hi all
there is no crafting happening here at all
but on Friday i came home from work to a wonderful delicious surprise
Joe was on his day of and bored so he walked to the shops and back (about 4k's) bought some supplies to create an amazing sweet.

so here is Joe's interpretation of pavlova

first off he sliced some strawberries very finely and coated them with icing sugar and arranged them on rice paper and baked them in the oven. They tasted like strawberry jam

they were placed in front of a quinelle of whipped cream that included diced strawberries and some of this amazing sauce he created.
Here's the finished masterpiece it really was delicious and a work of art.

we are so proud of him as he has found something to do for which he has a passion and he can practice on us anytime. xxx

A challenge

A couple of weeks ago i challenged myself to create a LO using an oldish photo. I had to open my album and pick a photo on that page.

I did it and had so much fun.

a bit of doodling and lots of jounalling talking about everything in the background of the photo and of course me and my mum or if my mum was reading this mum and I (the grammar of children is getting worse these days is a topic mum frequently refers too).
It bought back a heap of childhood memories especially the story about Shaun Cassidy which lead me to a U Tube search and i sat there watching/listening to That's rock & roll and Da Do Ron Ron...ah was anyone else a Shaun Cassidy fan?

and last night another challenge a card this time
i had the latest Cards Aug 2011 mag on my desk and i closed my eyes picked a page and had to make the card on that page.
Now this was a challenge as this card is a bit shabby chic which although i love is really not my style. I had loads of fun doing it, needless to say mine turned out nothing like the original which was made by Maureen Plut (page 20)

and you know what? I enjoyed this process so much i am going to do another one. (i don't have to think, just copy and that's what i need at this moment in time)
Hope you are all enjoying your week
xx
and if you get time go and search Shaun Cassidy and watch the videos and yep even in his satin pants i still think he's pretty cute.

Cute

I cant believe that it was over a week ago that "the three of us" got together to make a LabelCrew (link in sidebar) project.

Here is what we made

Susan's is on the left, Tracey's is in the middle and my chubby one is on the right. Aren't they just the cutest pin cushions ever?

and just in case you needed to see a close up here i am with said pin cushion and don't forget that it was late at night.

OK now for a couple of cards and lifts i might add as well
this first one was from the papertray ink gallery and i just had to copy it

simple and easy
now the next one is a lift from my favourite card maker Dawn Mcvey and this card was on the cover of the very first issue of the Create:Stamping magazine-another line in the scrapbook trends magazines.

so i just had to copy it, here is my version

A lot is happening in Linda land at the moment and although craft is my therapy at times like these i certainly wont/don't have the time to do many posts so please forgive me if my posts are few and far between in the next month or so. I love to see what you have all been up to so i will still be looking so please be safe,be happy and have fun.
xxxx

Mmm what should i title this post?

Gosh its been so busy around here that i actually forgot to play with my July Cocoa Daisy kit. So the other day i had a little peek and found this beautiful paper that i just knew would go with one of my Papertrey Ink Stamps, so i made a card

well several in fact all of the same design
and because you follow my blog you know what comes next
yes a tag

and i haven't cropped any of these photos as you are all meant to be going ooo ahhh over my lovely new blind and voile's in the background...are you, i cant hear?

and then i had to do a LO with some of the bits and bobs that came with the kit
the photo i used is one that catches my eye whenever i am going through my Adobe catalogue so i thought i should use it. Caitlin took it of herself with my IPhone when i was driving   taxi-ing her around, i just love how the light has reflected of her sunnies.

and here's a closer view

very simple, but i got to play with some ink and a stamp from my rather largish collection it was fun to do.

Off now to play some more
see ya
xx

oh and i haven't forgotten about my antique juicer, its just that we haven't got the side-board yet, but i should go and get it out of its box and give it a polish, yes that's why its been in said box for nearly 10 years its silver and needs frequent polishing and its so intricate oh maybe i should do it now instead of playing with crafty stuff.

Fabric & Paper

Hi there

i have heaps for you today so not too much chitter chatter

here are my last months blocks for "The Family Gathering" quilt that the three of us are making.

i am too lazy to hold my patterns up to the window to trace everything so i have just free hand drawn my people and boy if you look close it tells. I cant work out whether the guy in the middle looks like a frog or if he has the mumps and as for the poor little wee one on the end he's looking a bit cross eyed

this guy is kinda OK he has very long skinny arms and i drew the fishing rod which turned out OK. On to next months block which is meant to be a family tree and as i don't think this particular block goes with the quilt i have designed my own block (god help me), will show you when it's finished.

Here's a quick boy card using SU stamps and ink.

and here's a LO, the photos were from my IPhone and the sun was way way shining so the photos aren't that crash but i still wanted to scrap them. Poor Andrew has got a nice big ink blob on his face from when i was inking the photos, all journalling is tucked away in that gorgeous envelope.

Yesterday saw me making some more tags and dying my seam binding with different types of inks and sprays

and now you can meet my tag lady. As you know i make a few tags, so where does one put them, on a tag lady of course...

now all i have to do is just grab one when i want one.

Now i have tried to resist, even when i have seen some amazing blocks completed i have still tried to resist, i have too many projects on the go as it is so i still tried to resist, all to no avail, here is the book which arrived last week

and the fabric should arrive in a couple of weeks. So i will be behind but that's OK i can work at it  at my own pace and i haven't decided yet whether i will hand piece it or machine stitch it.

Whew that was a long post thanks for persevering and making it to the end.

Have a great week

xxxxLindaxxxxx

Can you remember

way back to last year when i was very lucky to be given some fabric by Susan to make a table runner that she had made and i had fallen in love with? Well i cant remember when it was either but alas it was ages. I have had the top finished for months and it was just waiting to be quilted so yippee here it is all finished.

and a close up coz the quilting really did take me ages and ages

and i went for yellow binding for a few reasons
-Susan's is in yellow and i love it

-Cadel Evans was wearing the yellow jersey in the Tour DE France when i was deciding on colours

-all my binding choices seem to be red red red
so yellow it was.

Now you may also remember from only a few posts ago i made a beautiful little "Table Topper" that was oh so easy to make so i have decided to make one each for my fellow work colleagues for Christmas, this one is made from Fig Trees-Butterscotch & Rose fabric mm mm i love this and will have to make a table topper for me as well. So here is 1 top made it needs to be sandwiched and quilted and binded/bound then only three left hmm have i bitten of more than i can chew? I wonder.

and here's another shot of my table runner just in case you have forgotten it already.

I am just waiting on getting a new buffet to put it on along with my new antiquey jars and my real very real and very old antique lemon juicer and i can promise you that you have never seen one of these before and it's most definitely antique, from the 17th century i believe-thank you to my in laws who were huge antique collectors-i got this one b/c my MIL hates to clean it. Anyway when i get my buffet i will show you..

Have a happy, fun,joyous week
xxxxx