More Quilling

Yesterday I promised Jill I'd pop a photo onto my blog of a quilled sheep picture I'd made since attending her workshop last month and as the day has turned out to be fairly bright it was light enough to get a reasonable picture.  The design is from a book in the 'Twenty to Make' series and all the animals have been designed by Diane Boden who is well known in the quilling world.  On the front cover of the book there is an amazing alpaca which I'd love to make one of these days when I've had a bit more practice at rolling the shapes.

Another Quilling Workshop

I spent a very enjoyable morning yesterday at a Spring Quilling workshop presented by the talented Jill of Jill's Quills.  We were given various options including a selection of spring flowers and/or rabbits, chicks and ducklings.  I started by producing two rabbits with fluffy tails which I brought home and made into a card using some embossing folders and inks to make a background. Details of items used are below as usual. Next I worked on a couple of daffodils which were popped onto a card which was supplied by Jill and I will add a greeting to this at some point.  I'm very much looking forward now to the next workshop where we will be quilling butterflies.

Embossing Folders - two from a set of three given away free with a magazine
Flowers on branch - punched from printed paper using small punch from Stampin' Up
Sentiment - computer generated punched using SU punches

Pixie's Playground challenge 216

Di has handed over the playground to Sarn this week and she has made three pretty Valentine cards with her snippets.  If you hop over to her blog HERE  you will be able to see more details of the cards and also of the prize on offer if you are lucky enough to get your name picked out of the 'hat'.  For my entry I rooted about amongst my dies and dug out one which I know hasn't  been used for quite a while.  The background paper was more or less the final snippet from a free pad which came with a magazine and luckily I had some snippets of card which matched it nicely as well as ribbon and lace snippets.  The cameo and sentiment were cut from oddments of cream card and I found a couple of stray matching flowers loitering about just waiting to be used.

Dies - Tonic cameo design
Background - paper from pad given away with a magazine

Pixie Snippets Week 215

Another week has rushed by, ending with a day of continuous rain yesterday and with more to come according to the forecasts -  yuk!!  For my Pixie Snippets card this week I've used up various bits and pieces which were littering my workspace. mostly left over from previous projects where they'd been 'auditioned' for a card and then rejected for one reason or another.  Luckily I managed to match them up with suitable snippets of paper and card.

Image - from a sheet of toppers printed using Crazy Cats CD by Card Creations
Dies - Border by Sue Wilson, oval is Spellbinders and an oddment of swirl
Flowers - Stampin' Up punch
Sentiment - computer generated, punches by Stampin' Up
Background - from Papermania pad

Rose Card

This  card is one which I actually made some time ago but haven't posted on here (at least I don't think so).  Although it is a birthday card I think the design would work well for Valentine's Day with a more suitable sentiment.  The stamp is one I've had for quite a while and is a favourite which this time was embossed before colouring with pencils.

Stamp - Chocolate Baroque Harlequin Rose set

A Busy Week

I've had a very busy week meeting friends for coffee and some crafty chat, different friends for lunch on another day, going to patchwork group and also a craft group as well as fitting in the boring stuff like food shopping and 'domestic' stuff - all of which means I've not posted a blog since last Sunday.  Finally yesterday I spent a very enjoyable morning at a quilling workshop with the talented Jill of Jill's Quills where we were offered various design options including a selection of flowers or this quirky frog to make.  I thought he would make a good card to cheer someone up if they were feeling a bit under the weather and as various snippets of card and ribbon were incorporated I'm putting it into the challenge for Pixie Snippets this week.  I found a suitable snippet of plaid background paper; some bits and pieces of card for the die cut shapes and also ribbon snippets just to finish off with a couple of bits of Card Candi.  The frog as you see was made from snippets of quilling paper and I carried him home carefully so that I could build up the card once I got back amongst my scraps.

Apologies for the quality of the picture but it is far too dull to take a photo this morning so I had to resort to the scanner which isn't ideal for a dimensional card like this.

Circular Mats - Tattered Lace Pin Dot Decorative Circles
Greeting - Computer generated, punches from Stampin' Up

Pixie Snippets Playground week 213

My offering for the playground challenge this week uses some snippets of fabric rather than card so I hope I won't be sent to stand in the corner!!  I wanted to try out one of the patterns on Debbie Shore's CD 'Pretty Little Purses' so I dug out some snippets of fabric - actually some left overs of a curtain for the outer layer and snippets from a toning flat cotton sheet for lining and to trim the bow. Both of these were lucky charity shop finds from which I've already stitched quite a few projects.  I'm sure you can imagine that I still have some left as it is amazing just how many bags, pouches etc can be made from this type of fabric find.  This little clutch purse has a clever bow across the front which acts as a fastening for the flap to just tuck in so no zips or magnetic clasps involved.  Strips of patterned fabric with narrower strips of lining were stitched so that when pressed the pattern fabric forms a narrow border on the edges - very nifty.

Clever Di has made a pretty 'inchie' style  card to inspire us this week using some of her snippets and as usual there are some great picks chosen from last week's entries to see if you follow the link to take a look and maybe even enter something yourself - as usual a great prize on offer.