New Home

A couple of friends who got married recently have been waiting for their first home to complete and it did today.

I wanted to give them a card so decided on a quick make.

The cutting file was brought from Esty

I then used my scan n cut to cut the shapes from some vinyl. 

I love the scan n cut for this as you just place the bits on the mat and once scanned in move the item to the right position and cut.

Once at l used some transfer paper to put the image Straight onto the card blank.

I am really pleased with how this turned out.

This card is for the following challenges:

AAA Cards Challenge ~ CAS made in minutes

Crafting by Designs ~ Anything Goes

Through the Craftroom Door ~ Anything Goes

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Taggy Blanky

I had some squares left over from the quilt so thought I would make a taggy blanky for my friends baby as well.

These are basically soft blankets with lots of different textures.

Firstly I made the 12" x 12" patchwork square with the leftovers from the quilt.

I have a box that I keep all my snippets of ribbons in that I snip off from clothes, gifts etc.

This came into its own to attach lots of assorted ribbons to the square.

I backed it all with a piece of minky fabric that is so soft to touch.

Everything was secured into place by running a couple of rows of stitching around the edge.

This is for the following challenges:

Pixies Snippet Playground ~ use your snippets

Allsorts Challenge ~ Something for Baby

Simply Create Too ~ Anything Goes 

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First Attempt at Quilting!

To go with the card I made in the previous post I wanted to make a gift for the baby.

I knew that the nursery was having a Dumbo theme.

I found some fat quarter's in Hobbycraft that were Dumbo and in pinks perfect.

I have never made a quilt before but had brought some fabric dies to use in my Big Shot Plus,

I cut out a number of squares from each piece of material and the worked out a pattern I liked. 

Before I did any sewing I found some help from 

Pinterest and You Tube!

I sewed the squares into 12x12 blocks, then joined the blocks into rows and fixed the rows together. Amazing what you can learn online.

I then watched some more tutorials and added the wadding and backing to the panel. Then I stitched each square to give the quilting effect.

Now come the how part finishing the quilt of with some binding.

I cut 2.S" strips of the backing material and joined them together.

I then folded it in half, ironed it and attached it to the quilt.

Again this involved watching some videos of how to do cornes etc

Finally I folded the binding over and attached it on the otherside.

It had taken me an afternoon and an evening but I am really pleased with how it turned out.

Thisis for the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday ~ use a die cut

Craft Rocket Challenge ~ Anything goes

Crafting with Attitude ~ Anything Goes

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Baby coming soon

This card was made for my friend, as she's just started her maternity leave.

The cutting file was brought from a great site called 

Jamie and Jenn. 

If you have cutting machine do visit as the have some fanstatic files.

The papers were all from my snippets draw.

I used my Scan and cut machine to cut the shapes.

Then mounted then onto a piece of white card.

I kept the card a soft pink as she knows she is having a little girl.

This card is for the following challenges:

Through the Craftroom Door ~ Anything Goes

Penny's Paper Crafty Challenges ~ Anything Goes

A Bit More Time to Craft ~ Anything Goes

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1st Birthday Card

This card uses a great digi image from Mo's Digital Pencil

This image always makes me smile

I have matted it onto some sparkle card

The sentiment was done on my Scan and cut

This was again matted onto the sparkle card

Finally I used some ombre card to put it all on to.

This card is for the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Monday ~ Bright and cheerful

Crafting by Designs ~ Anything Goes

Pennys Paper Crafty Challenge ~ Anything Goes

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Birthday Cup of Tea

I made this card for my friend who loves a cuppa.

The image is from Kanban and I have simply matted it

The bits of cards are all snippets

I finished the card with some bling and a sentiment.

This card is for the following challenges:

Sketch Saturday ~ sketch I have followed

Though the Craftroom Door ~ Anything Goes

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