Thing 1

 This is a card for one of my twins who loves purple and rabbits so this is the ideal image for her.
The stamp is one of the new Rachelle Anne Miller collection from Crafters Companion.and is called squeeze.
I coloured the image using Spectrum Noir pens using the following colours:

HB2, HB3, LV1, LV2, FS1
GB1, GB8, CR1, TB6, TB7
BG3, BG4, CT3

The 'Daughter' stamp is from Papermania and is also coloured using Spectrum Noir pens which I have added some purple and lilac gems to.

Finally I added a couple of fabric and glitter flowers to the bottom of the card.

I have to say I almost threw this away in it's early stages but my little girl really liked it so I'm glad I didn't.

I am entering this into this months Spectrum Noir Challenge

Guest designer

 Today I have a guest designer for you, or should I say guest designers. The teacher of one of my twins will be starting her maternity leave straight after the Easter holidays so her last day at school was Friday. As a surprise from her class I got the children to make this. (I apologise for the dodgy photos but the glass front made it difficult)

So to start with I took a piece of pale blue A4 card and printed the words onto it, then cut each set of words down to size. Next I took a piece of 12x12 white card and drew three wiggly lines on it. I added to small lines at each end to give it a twiggy look, I stuck the pieces of blue card to each end.

Then came the good bit, each child choose a colour and used their thumb and forefinger to create a head and body. I then wrote the child's name underneath before I forgot (heehee!) I left the whole thing to dry before using a black pen to give each owl a beak, eyes and wings. As you can see I had to get a little creative with the few owls that seem to be wandering off.

I bought a 12x12 box frame from Wilkinsons (as it was the only one I could find) but I took the square of wood out to put the picture in before putting it back to stop the picture slipping.

Panda

And panda makes three. So as promised here is my latest creation from the Feltie book by Nelly Pailloux.

Once again really easy to make using a few scraps of felt, embroidery thread and toy stuffing.

I've really enjoyed making these guys and have been thinking they might make sweet brooches.
Don't worry this isn't the last you'll see of these the book boasts 18 cute and fuzzy friends.

Blooming Beautiful Bicycle

At our annual trip to Stitches at the NEC in February we found a new company called Anna Marie Designs, they have some fantastic products so we decided to get a selection of goodies. This image is from their stamp range it's called Blooming Bicycle. Firstly I stamped the image onto white card using Memento ink and coloured the flowers using the following Spectrum Noir pens:

HB1, HB2, HB3
PL1, PL2, PL3

I added a few pink gems to the flowers on the bicycle just to give it a bit of bling.

Next I used the English Ivy Edger punch from EK Success to create a fancy border along the top and bottom of my white card.
I layered the image onto a piece of pink spotty card, also from Anna Marie Designs.

The text stamp at the side of my card is actually really clever, it is also from Anna Marie Designs (are yiou noticing a theme here?), the text stamp has gaps so you can use any of the other stamps to personalise the card. This happy birthday one has To My Mum, To My Sister as well as loads of others. So I stamped just enough to fit in the space I had, then used the Mum from To My Mum to create my greeting. I layered my greeting onto the smae pink spotty card and voila my finished masterpiece.

Polar-roo

A couple days ago I showed you a picture of one of my creations from the Felties book by Nelly Pailloux so I'm back to show you my next little friend, she is a beauty and so is her little one.

This is Polar-roo with her little joey/cub in her pouch. She is about 3inches tall and is made using white felt, embroidery thread and a tiny amount of toy stuffing. The cute thing about this particular feltie is the cub is detatchable.

I have to say this has to be the smallest thing I have even sewn in my life and as for stuffing the little tike, oh the fun.

Just to put it into prespective her is Mummy and baby side by side. (See I wasn't joking about how small he is). Come back soon for the next installment of 'When Felties Attack!'

Mummy's Little Girl

So this is my Mother's Day card for my Mum, she's loves teddy bears so when I saw this image from Wild Rose Studio knew what I would do with it. So I used my Tonic circle dies to cut the image out before I coloured it in using ordinary colouring pencils, I like the subtle colour of pencils. Then I cute a slightly larger scalloped circle from plain blue card and another slightly larger plain circle from a piece of blue spotty card from Anna Marie Design, I think I'm in love with this range of card.

Then I stamped the Worlds Best Mum image, from Stamps Away, onto a piece of white card which I cut and layered in the same way as the main image. Finally adding some little gems on two corners to give it a little bling.

However eyes keener than mine where at the time will notice my glaring error, yes I put it on upside down. Unfortunately I didn't notice it until my Mum pointed it out to me after she opened it. Ooops!

Little Lion

I have had a book called Felties by Nelly Pailloux for a long time now and the only thing I have done with it is to copy the patterns for each toy. I was really organised, I cut out each pattern piece for the toys and put the pieces into resealable bags. But as is usually the case life got in the way and my little pattern collection was put on the shelf.
So a few days ago, after a particularly stressful week, I decided enough was enough, my little friends need to be given life.

Here is my first creation the Little Lion, he is about 2 inches tall and is so cute. To make him you only need scraps of felt, embroidery cotton and 2 black beads. I have really enjoyed making him, although I'm not sure what to do with him now, and will be back later with a few more of my creations.