Saturday, 21 January 2012

Pound shop find!

It's rare that I find something this good at the pound shop.  Here it is!  A pair of earrings made of eight ultra-light metal flowers suspended from a larger rosette.  I bought the three pairs I could find on the shelf.  I will be taking my pliers to them and separating the pieces.  I'll show you what I use them for soon... Here's hoping anyway!


Monday, 16 January 2012

Cards from the Scraps



There was a later class in the Pretty Paper Party about paper weaving. I incorporated this into my stash dive when making some cards out of the smaller scraps when I was done making pages. First, I wove the papers on straight, and for the second one, I wove them separately and stuck them on at an angle. I like them both. :)


Sunday, 15 January 2012

Art of Crochet Square 91

This one went quickly. I forgot how "holey" designs take so much less time!

Short and sweet-- less talking, more crafting!

Saturday, 14 January 2012

Debden 2009

This page is the last one I did with my stash dive. I have smaller pieces now to make cards with. I think I have filed them in my scraps only section.

I'm a lot happier with this one than I was with the previous one. This one uses strips of paper, anchoring the paper to the top and the bottom of the layout. I punctuated it with flowers punched with EK Success retro flowers and button middles.

Shimelle's Pretty Paper Party is still on in this house! I'm going to go through each class slowly as and when I have time. I'm really enjoying it.

Friday, 13 January 2012

Art of Crochet Square 90

Could I finally be getting the hang of putting the designs in the middle where they belong?? Looks like it...

Thursday, 12 January 2012

M&M World

Another page from my creative stash dive. You may have noticed the letter blocks on the previous two pages. These are most of the rest of them. I'm not very good at clustering embellishments yet, and I did intend to make a cluster but the photos sort of took over and I didn't really have any room for anything else. I still have a lot to learn as a scrapper.

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Art of Crochet Square 89

This was not the square I was looking forward to doing right after I'd made those sofa cushions for my Mother-In-Law. This pattern was the one I used on the cushions, and after making two large ones, this basketweave was the last thing I wanted to make! But I soldiered on.