New goodies

Wow I can't beleive it's July already. Where is this year going. It only seems like the other week was the Royal wedding.

I'm still trying to do my x stitch dragon. I had almost finshed it when I dound I'd made a mistake almost at the very beginning of the pattern. I ended up undoing almost a third of it to rectify the mistake. It wasn't a mistake I could bluff my way through unfortunately. Then as a result I didn't have enough thread to finish it. Luckily I found some spare thread the same DMC 701 in another kit so I was able to finish the x stitching. I'm now doing all the back stitch. And back stitch is not my favourite part of x stitch lol.

I have managed to get a couple of cards done in the interim though. One is for my lil sis for her nephews to give to their mum and dad on Saturday for their wedding. The other is for a fellow committee member's birthday next Tuesday. Happy Birthday Delphine.

Delphine's birthday card

Wedding card

For the wedding card I took the image from Design Objectives new Forever Friends triple cd. I can't wait for the launch of the Me To You version of the new range of cd's. I also triend out the new paper roses. after having a play with scrap paper I have now mastered the technique. I was watching Clare curd on Create and Craft and have to agree using the hot glue gun does make it easier as it dries almost instantly. I'm usually a Pinflait glue gel girl. But for this technique a glue gun deos make it easier. I also see that Design Objectives are launching thier own version of nesties, yipee. I'm a huge fan of Design Objectives. And I do like the new Tim Holtz range from Core'dinations. I can see I me needing some of those too lol. I love textured card and core'dinations card means you can do so much more with your scrapbooking as well as your card making and much, much more.

I'm hoping to get some decorating done this month and next as my poor apartment is looking very sorry for itself now. I have everything and went to start it all last week only to find that yes I had all i needed but it would be helpful to get a paint tray for the roller's!! I need to take a trip to B and Q I think and find a paint tray. With this nice weather it's perfect as I can have all the windows wide open. Hopefully lil miss K will go out and not try and "help". Spirit will do her best to "help" as well. Bless!!! Once it's all done I can then wash all the carpets. Little babies can be so messy!! My next task will be to make them both slippers so they don't get their mucky paws all over my nice clean carpets.

14th May

Hearts and Tall stories

I'm entering this Anniversary card into the TotallyPaperCrafts Anniversary challenge. 
I used Holographic card stock along with some pearl card. For the top layer I used swiss dots card from Hunkydory. The whole card was made using the Glitter Girls board Hearts and Tall stories. The flowers are from Wild Orchid. The ribbon I had in my stash though I think I bought it from Ribbonbox. The ribbin and pearl flowers I made myself.

Hello fellow crafters. It's been a long time since I last posted. I lost my mojo there for awhile and am still trying to sort myself out. I've been getting on with some cross stitch just recently. I had far too many unfinished projects sat in a bag so I have pulled everything out and have decided to bite the bullet and get on with it. Both my parents celebrated their 60th birthdays just recently so it was an ideal time to sort those projects out and make them so unforgetable gifts.

Freshwater pearl bracelet

Kanban and DOcrafts

Teddy Golfer

Debbi Moore Paris collection

Poppy Fairy

Forever Friends

I have also added some more pictures to my DOcrafts gallery. Please click on the link on the left hand side to go visit my Gallery.