Royal Artillery

Following on from a previous post here is a picture of my Royal Artillery badge that I did in memory of my grandad Alfred Arthur Townrow. I made it as a gift for my mum. As soon as I get some more supplies I'm going to make one up for myself.

Royal Artillery badge

My new cd from DOcrafts arrived in the post this morning. It was the Pick of the Day last Week on Ideal World. I can't wait to try it out. Phil and Sheila did some amazing demonstrations throughout the day and I loved every bit of it. It's also great to see that Create and Craft are starting to do scrapbooking. Finger's crossed they might just pick up Rosemary Merry as well as having Dawn Bibby. I love Rosemary's scrapbooking ideas.

I started a new cross stitch project last weekend only to find this weekend that I'd made a mistake almost at the start of it. I ended up unpicking almost two thirds of it to rectify my mistake. Needlees to say it got put down till my temper cooled off! I have another project on the go which is very hush hush for the time being so I'll go back to my cross stitch after I've met my deadline.

Father's Day card

I just adore this image from Sassy Cheryl's Golfer boy. It was ideal as my dad loves golf. I waster colored the image using Daler Rowney watercolor pencils. The papers are from Raspberry Road. They do some beautiful paper sets with add on embellishments. The ribbon I had in my stash and the buttons were from Craftime I think.

I've also managed to finish another cross stitch projsect which I am really pleased about. I seem to be sticking to my New Years resolution of doing one project at a time and finishing it before moving onto the next one. I absolutely love poppies so this DMC kit was perfect and well worth the time.

Poppies

Easel Gatefold card

Warren in a Bucket

I did this card as a workshop on the Crafty Ideas by Kaz forum http://forum.craftyideasbykaz.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=5547. I used the Warren products from Craftwork Cards. Also available from Crafty ideas http://www.craftyideasbykaz.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=830_1051_1078&products_id=16792. It took awhile to put together as I was photographing everything as I went along for the workshop, but I hope you will agree it was well worth it.
My next workshop will be a star card so watch this space.
Also tomorrow watch Create and Craft as the Walk on the Wildside is being aired for the first time. Do look out for the samples as they were amzing samples put together by the girls. Hayley will be demonstrating. If you are friends with Tina Fallon the check out her Facebook album Walk on the Wildside for more samples.

I'm still working on my Poppy cross stitch, hopefully that won't take too much longer to do. I also need to do my dad a Father's day card. I need to top all the others this year. The same with the gift. Though that may be hard after the gift I made him the other year. 

"Tiger" dad