Heart Pouch Gifts for East PArk

We have just had another great weekend away with the crafting friends to Easthampstead Park Conference Centre. Lovely company, and we get fed and looked after too. 

Traditionally we make one-another a small gift to take along to the event.

This year I made these little heart shaped, zip-up pouches. I found the pattern on Pinterest.

Once made they were filled with chocolates, ready for the weekedn.

I received lots of lovey gifts too, many thanks girls.

Looking forward to next year now!

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Butterfly Mug Bag

This is the Butterfly Mug Bag I made Anita for her birthday this year. A design from Red Brolly, which I downloaded from the internet. I purchased a pretty fine bone china mug and set about selecting fabrics to compliment it. A great idea for those of us who go to retreats and like to take out own mug, carefully protected it it's own little bag with a few of our favourite tea bags hidden away in the inside pocket.

In addition to fabrics, interfacing ans wadding, I selected three buttons and a length of ribbon to make a fastening on the front.

I had fun making selecting materials and making this for my friend.

Happy birthday Anita.

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

Fabric8 Small Gift Bags

I picked up a small kit at Fabric8 in Felixstowe for making one of these small gift bags - just like the paper ones you buy in card shops. I thought they would make good gifts for my crafty friends at our Cardinal Colours Christmas Crop this year. I simply filled them with delicious chocolate gifts and crackers.

Here are the individual bags I made:

Here are a set of three bags made of the five year old triplets and filled with small toys and sweets.

I enjoyed making these as the pattern and instructions work so well.

Merry Christmas Girls

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

Tick-Toc Times Three!

Way back in the spring at our annual weekend retreat to Debden, Wendy and Liz gave everyone the makings of a chipboard clock, we had a variety of shapes and a selection of papers and embellishments. Here is the clock I made that weekend for my niece Lucy.
 

As Lucy is one of triplets, I was kindly given another two clocks to make up for Hannah and Oliver.

I used my Cricut to cut the characters and numbers for these time pieces.

This is Hannah's Clock ....

... and Oliver's clock.

I used lots of scraps of Bazzill and various papers from my stash. I used punches for the flowers. The names are all created with Doodlebug Designs Inc. letter stickers. Tons of Stickles and Liquid pearls were also employed!
As I had to travel to London on the train and then the tube to give these clocks to the children, so I made a box for each one. I was then able to tie them together for transportation. The were all ticking away loudly in out living room, so I thought I had better remove the batteries before boarding the trains!

Happy Christmas Oliver, Hannah and Lucy!

Christmas Crop, Cards and Gifts

We had our monthly crop at Cardinal Colours on 3rd December and my lovely friends made some super cards and presents.

Sue made these beautiful Kanzashi flowers

Linda made this Decoupage card and this lovely gift box containing this beautiful handmade bracelet and other goodies.

This fun card is from Jill. 

Jill also made this box which was filled with scrapping goodies.

I love this clever snowman card by Anita. She also made this delightful cake stand, which I can't wait to show off over Christmas.

Wendy made this cute card. 

Liz made this clever boxed box card, with a draw full of candles

Chris is very clever with beads and this year she made some tree baubles - here is mine.

Thanks to my crafty friends for all these wonderful gifts and cards.

You have been seeing the Three Little Angel Cards which I made for my friends at this crop. Back tomorrow with the gifts I made.

Cards and Gifts

It's taken me a week to catch up but here are some pictures of all the fantastic hand made cards and gifts I received at the Cardinal Colours Crop last weekend. We had a lovely day as we always do, good company good food, scrapbooking, card making and this time lots of gifts and cards were exchanged for Christmas too.

Anita made this delightful card including a charm and handmade embellishments.

Anita also knitted this wonderful scarf, in my favourite colours. This is me just before going out to my work Christmas meal last night.

Linda made this lovely card using her favourite stamp of this Christmas season, featuring her two new cats, Ariel and George.

Sue made this great card...

.... and this cute little rice doll tree decoration

This super shaker card was from Jill

Wendy made this pretty card.

Liz made this lovely card with some embossing detail.

Chris made this card and ....

... this amazingly beautiful hand made bead decoration.

Thanks to you all for a great crop and the beautiful collection of cards and gifts. xxx

Merry Christmas Girls.xxx