Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Finally Completed!
Three years ago I decided to take part in a CAL (crochet along project) from Stylecraft and designed by Susan Pinner but partway through, and for various reasons, this was put aside. However I have 'friends' who remind me of this from time to time by asking if it is finished so I went for it recently and made a determined effort to get it done and finally here is a photo to prove that it is indeed finished. Probably if I'd realised at the start just how much work was involved I might not have been tempted but all in all I've quite enjoyed the process. I also learnt some new techniques including joining shapes by crocheting them together which I found quite fiddly at first but soon got the hang of it - plenty of practice on this design with the pentagons and hexagons to be joined. Please don't ask me if I'm making another one!! I do have quite a lot of the many coloured yarns left over so I will be using them up at some stage on possibly a smaller project.
Sunday, 13 October 2019
Green Wellies
This chocolate Labrador in green wellies is scampering along to the Playground for challenge #363. The lovely Di has made a really fun underwater scene card and there is a bumper prize for the lucky winner this time as well. There is also the added bonus of a video of the adorable Dudley enjoying his recent holiday - a blog well worth visiting.
For my card I've used up various snippets of paper and card starting with the last piece of patterned paper left in a pad I've had for ages and some reasonably sized pieces of pearl card in a creamy brown colour. These were used to die cut an oval frame and the backing for the sentiment banner; the final scrap was embossed and used as a layer behind the oval. The dog was cut from a scrap of chocolate brown card and his red bandanna and green wellies from really tiny bits of card. The tree was stamped onto an oval of cream card, as was the sentiment. Finally some die cut birds were added to the tree cut from scraps of black.
Embossed Panel - Sheena embossing folder
Ovals - dies from Tonic
Tree - Sheltering tree stamp set Stamoin' Up
Birds - Memory Box dies
Banner - Creative Expressions dies
Labrador in Wellies - from an Unbranded die set
For my card I've used up various snippets of paper and card starting with the last piece of patterned paper left in a pad I've had for ages and some reasonably sized pieces of pearl card in a creamy brown colour. These were used to die cut an oval frame and the backing for the sentiment banner; the final scrap was embossed and used as a layer behind the oval. The dog was cut from a scrap of chocolate brown card and his red bandanna and green wellies from really tiny bits of card. The tree was stamped onto an oval of cream card, as was the sentiment. Finally some die cut birds were added to the tree cut from scraps of black.
Embossed Panel - Sheena embossing folder
Ovals - dies from Tonic
Tree - Sheltering tree stamp set Stamoin' Up
Birds - Memory Box dies
Banner - Creative Expressions dies
Labrador in Wellies - from an Unbranded die set
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