Dad's Tools

This DigiStamp Boutique cheeky monkey image is apt for so many people I know.  I challenged myself to use just black and white backing papers on this card.

 

This week's mission

This weeks mission was to finish this owl blanket I have been making for months.  It was no mean feat either as I had to buy more wool and wait for it to arrive but I wanted to bring it with me to the market at Bentley Heath this week.  So yesterday was a crochet marathon.
Finally finished (an impressive 1x1.2m):

 I'm pleased with the result.  Certainly it has been a bit of a work of love.

Super Dad

A father's day card for a 'Superhero Dad'.  I love this DigiStamp Boutique image :-)

 

A Palace for a Home

Going with the Royal theme again tonight, this is the third card I made specially for Friday's Bentley Heath Country Market to celebrate the Queen's 90th Birthday (the official one rather than her biological birthday).  This is an old Pollycraft image I had and again I used Papermania 'Sew lovely' papers.  I thought it would make quite a nice 'New Home' card for someone to send.

 

Happy Birthday Elizabeth II

Wishing her Royal Highness Many Happy Returns for her 90th.

A card made for Friday's Country Market in Bentley Heath.  This uses a Pollycraft image and Papermania 'Sew Lovely' papers which I cut up to make the Union Jack background. 

Cute Birthday Dragon

This is one of the cards I made for the Queen's birthday themed market yesterday.  I remembered I had this super cute royal dragon image from DigiStamp Boutique that I had never used.  Together with some Papermania 'Sew Lovely' papers I hope it gives the card a bit of a 'Royal'/British theme.

Unfortunately I seem to have got a bit lazy recently about entering my cards into blog challenges.  I often use the sketches from the challenges but post the cards here too late- ooops!  This card was made using this weeks Sweet Sketch Wednesday layout.  Hope I remember to link it up in time.

 

Queen's Official 90th Birthday

Tomorrow we are having a special market at Bentley Heath to celebrate the Queen's 90th Birthday.  I only found out about it last Friday and so have been busy this week making a few things.  Some crocheted 'Royal' bunting:

 and some 'Crown' broaches:

 I also made a couple of cards, but will share them with you here in the coming week- can't have too much excitement today- lol!

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Sorry I didn't get round to blogging my makes for last week' s Country Market.  In case you were interested I have gone on a bit of a 'bunting' spree the last few weeks.  This is some purple flower bunting I made:

 And some sunflower and daisy bunting:

 And the third 'make' from last week was a lined wallet, which I was quite proud of:

 Thought the hint of yellow gave it a bit of character, but maybe that is just me.

Anyway, last week I did a little better than the week before and sold 7 cards.  I am yet to sell any of my crocheted makes, but maybe the Royal bunting or Crown broaches will catch someone's eye tomorrow....

Art cards!

I was inspired by the Card Art article in May's Craft Stamper to make a batch of thankyou cards for my birthday presents (in May)- not that I had that many presents, but now I have a mini stock of 'thankyous' for when I need them- bonus!  The backing paper was made (in part) with instant coffee!

 

Sketch Saturday #415

It's Saturday again and I have made a card for the new Sketch Saturday challenge starting today.  Our sponsor this week is A Day for the Daisies.  The image I have used is called 'Little Striped Dress'.  She is cute isn't she?  The image made me think of a little girl walking along a beach a bit lost carrying the balloons.  That's why I went for an uplifting sentiment because I didn't want to think of her lost forever.

Hope you are inspired to join in this week.

Thankyou teacher(s)

These new cute cat 'thankyou teacher' images from DigiStamp Boutique are just ace.  I made a card with each image: