Cheeky Monkey

The third card I have made so far using an image from the DigiStamp Boutique 'Funky Monkey' set.  This one took inspiration from a recent Sweet Sketch Wednesday challenge.

 

This weeks market

In the past week I managed to crochet a few more things to bring to the Country Market on Friday (two days ago).  One Coin Purse (lined):

 Never made one of these before and sewing in the frame was difficult!

 And some brightly coloured birdhouse bunting.  I rather went to town on this (1.8m long, bows, flowers inbetween the houses) and buttons added.  I did have fun making it though :-)

Having fun making the things is what it is all about I think.  Not sold much yet (11 cards over 2 weeks isn't going to be enough to live on!).  Got some ideas for projects in the next week...  watch this space :-)

Clever Funky Monkey

Another monkey from the DigiStamp Boutique set.  Thought this time I would make an exam congrats card with 'Clever Monkey'.  Again, inspiration for the card came from an old RetroSketches challenge.

 

Hello Funky Monkey

I bought the new Funky Monkey set from DigiStamp Boutique the other week and got them out to play with recently.  This is the first card I made using 'hey there' monkey.  I took inspiration for the layout from a recent RetroSketches challenge (keep doing sketches after the date of the challenge at the moment- will catch up eventually!).  The background is a bit different for me- made up using Stamplorations stamps and distress inks.

Notice the mistake I made stamping the top????

Bee mine

I got this valentine's image from DigiStamp Boutique a long time ago and had never used it until now (I don't really have call for Valentine's cards- lol!).  But I wanted to test it out on a simple, but bright card.

 

Sketch Saturday #413

This weeks Sketch Saturday layout was designed by Niki and our sponsor is The Paper Shelter.

I have used the super image 'Soccer Star' on my card along with Papermania 'Spots and Stripes' Christmas papers!

Hope you are inspired to join in.

Country Markets

I have finally taken the plunge into trying to sell some of my craft work.  After all I have boxes of cards I have made with no homes to go to (as yet!). I remember going to the Country Market in Bentley Heath as a child- it was then the WI market (changed to Country Market in 2004 apparently).  The set up suites me- no pressure to produce loads each week (there is actually a limit on the max number of things you can bring along) and a chance to 'test the water' to see if I like selling, plus a chance to get to meet other crafters :-)
I have done my two week 'just helping out' trial and tomorrow is my first 'selling' week.  I have been crocheting like crazy the past 2 weeks:

 Phone cosies :-)

 Cotton bags (made two of these before- one for a present and the other for my Mum.  They both went down well.)

 Finally got the motivation to finish this summer shawl (4 ply wool and so hopefully just right for a summer evening when the sun ahs gone in).

 An impressive 160cm across at it's widest!

 A baby blanket (actually made this a while ago but all my friends had baby boys and so this was redundant).

 And of course I will also be bringing along some of my card stock pile:

All a learning curve in packaging, labelling and pricing...
If you are interested it's Fridays 9:30-11:30am Bentley Heath Community Centre.  Lots of food (cakes and savouries) and plants as well as craft.  Maybe it will inspire you to check out (or join) a Country Market near you?

Farmyard cheer

Nothing like a cow, sheep and pig to wish you congratulations is there???! 

As you might have guessed, the images are from DigiStamp Boutique and I have used my favourite NitWit papers (see the chickens in the background?). 

Craft Stamper does Digis!!

I was thrilled to see that the freebie with this months Craft Stamper mag was a digi (two in fact)!  I got given a subscription of the mag for Christmas and am enjoying it ALOT :-)
I made this fun, colourful card using the shoe digi this month.

 

Lets Party

I treated myself to some more patterned papers the other day when I was in the Works (they do quite a good range now, don't they?).  I made this card using a LoTV image.