Crafting update

Have been busy at work (and hoping it pays off!) and have been trying my darndest to do bits of crafting here and there. Sadly not much time to tat (so for people looking for a tatting update, you can exit right about here).

 

I'm still one of those "old foggies" who like to have physical diaries... but this year I really couldn't find one that caught my eye... So I made my own with a S$1.90 dotted Muji notebook. Then made a fabric book cover (with extra pockets!) to "protect it" - first book cover I've made using the same concept of the card holders that I shared in a previous post.

Next on to Christmas!!!

This project was inspired by a Christmas gift that I'm going to share later in this post. What you're looking at is a S$3.00 A4 sized calico bag covered with dinosaur stamps (from lawn fawn) in black Versacraft ink. I love it! Have I mentioned I love dinosaurs... and I was inspired to do this because of this gift....

My boss's daughter appears to be a creative little gal... so I decided to put together a "decorate a bag" kit. With a budget of S$30.00 (about US$21.00) I put together a varied collection of items including 2 blank calico bags, fabric paint, fabric crayons, lace, fabric scraps, craft glue, cover buttons, buttons, sequins, plastic gems and more! And it all convenient comes in a plastic carrying case! I'm rather pleased with this gift idea - I think I got a lot of things in there in my budget and I managed to destash a little as well... When I compared this to US30.00 kits that I saw online for sale... I thought I did good! Hoping the little girl enjoys it (and just in case she wasn't sure what to do, I'm even including an idea sheet!).

 

On the topic of Christmas, I have a habit of trying to "personalize" my store bought cards - this year I'm going simple with sequins! Who can resist a little bling =).

Slow but steady progress

Colouring in the additional bits...

Punching out gift tags and "texturing" them (so it doesn't look so plain...)!

Step 2! A leeeettle bit more!

Scrimped some time to work on my hopefully soon to be gift tags.

Added bits to make each robot different... and stamped a couple more bits to add on later.

And silly me, forgot to identify that the above are from Lawn Fawn's Beep Boop Birthday and Penny Black's Margaret Sherry Garden Critters [I love Margaret Sherry].

Still asking for good referral sites!

No time no time!

I haven't had much time to craft at all. In between work and the stuff I now do outside work, I haven't touched a shuttle (sadly) in ages!

I had a rough weekend and really needed to get in some crafting to settle frazzled and strained nerves. 

So I stamped and coloured (to make gift tags and cards for upcoming birthdays). 

My colouring skill aren't great and I read a few webbies yesterday about how to go about colouring in stamps. Save for one site that was giving pointed on shading and shadows I didn't really find anything instructive.

So. How do they look? Does anything have good websites to recommend about card and gift tag making using stamped images? Or colouring? Do share!

Hope be able to actually finish the tags and hopefully will update and or show the finished product. Wondering whether I will be able to sneak in some small tats in the tags...

Add a cat!

Loving the new addition to my library book bag. 

Can't decide whether to add more! And I still have the whole other side to work one! 

By the way does anyone know what I can use to replace the films on clear stamps? 

OMG

I discovered a new scrapbooking shop today.

While I am not a scrapbooker, I am a BIG Margaret Sherry fan! 

I'm so excited!!! 

Fabric!

My sister has demanded that I sew her an apron for her birthday - I've never done one before... but I went to to town to pick her up some frabic to make one and I'm super pleased with my find =). 

I found a small shop that specializes in Japanese fabrics and picked up these lovelies. 

Don't know whether the bits with glitter can be seen in the photo. 100% cotton... cost me $7.00 per meter - I who have paid over $20 per metre when I was taking a quilting course whooped for joy =). Hope I can turn these fabrics into a kick ass half apron! Anyone have patterns to recommend?

And in case anyone is interested (and perhaps for my own selfish record)... this is the shop's card!

They are open Monday to Sunday from 12.00noon to 7.00pm

[I understand they will be closed for a while for Chinese New Year though].

Check it out!

In the meantime, I'm also making some (slow) progress with my MSCSG SAL! Hope to finish before I have to go back to work!

A Mondo GIveaway and a WIP

Check out the awesome giveaway that Ladyshuttlemaker is having on her blog here! Hmm... methinks that the next book in my challenge which I shall start should be from her books!

But that aside... item 1 of my 2012 Challenge is from Tatting Treats Two by Ms Pam Palmer. 

The lovely lovely Rocking Horse. I've done this little cutey a couple of times before. It's my favourite tat for the 'new parents!' prezzies =). This one in size 80 Lizbeth Sherbert Delight is for a little girl named Kyra =). I haven't bought the frame yet so I haven't finished the full present. Pics will be posted when I get around to getting the frame. =)

One of my first few tatting books - and still one of my favourites. I still recommend this as well as Tatting Treats and Tatting Treats Three (and in fact any other book by Ms Pam Palmer) to any 'fresh' tatter... =)

On another crafting front (since I'm on leave this week - clearing leave before it gets wiped out), I'm loving my WIP for my MSCSG January 2012 SAL! Woohoo!