In honour of the Royal Wedding....

...no self respecting British girl could not have something special to wear on today of all days! So in honour of the Royal Wedding I made this for my daughter!

We did as you can see twist the colours a bit to make it more girly but I think I can live with that!  The measurements are exact at least!

Sorry for the shocking photos, would you believe it is actually raining here!

DYSU: Make it POP!

Well, what a lot of comments I had last week from the blog hop! Always makes you feel nice, so thank you!

Today the challenge over at DYSU is:

Make it Pop!

I used an image from Stitchy Bear (one of today's sponsors!) called Krizza.  I decided to make her a bit wild with GREEN hair! By the way she is on offer at the mo and reduced by 30% to $2.10!

Given that the theme was to Make it Pop, I made it Pop in three ways: Colour; dimensionals (front image); and pop up (inside - we'll get to that!).  Despite being urged to make it pop in a fourth way by my juvenile family (!) I refrained! but it did lead to some amusing conversations! Makes you wonder who the juvenile is sometimes!

I took a piece of  kraft card and embossed it, but before running it through my machine, I inked up one side of my embossing folder so the ink would transfer to the non popped up embossed bit - oh see I did do four types of popping!! LOL! Then I added a bit more black in on top of some of the embossed bits!

I ruffled a piece of fabric and then sewed it in place on the card.  I'm loving playing with the skin copics, still following the Annika's tutorial that I talked about last week in the Strongman post! Loving the results, maybe if you click on the image above you might be able to see more clearly.

And this is the inside.  I curled up a bit of wire and stuck it to the card and the sentiment so that now it springs off the page!  Added a bit of co-ordinating fabric.

Our sponsors today are:

  

Head on over to the DYSU website to see more of the DT creations and to upload you Popping Creation!

And the winner is....

Sorry so slack I just saw that the winners were all announced on DYSU for the Blog Hop and I hadn't even done the random org thing!!!! 

Anyhow without further ado the winner of the Windy Day image from Stretch and Bubbles is comment #8:

Julie

who said:

Great cards! I love the lace on the dress
Hugs,
julie

Congratulations Julie, I'll be in touch!

Cute lil' Bow Ties for Boys!

I know normally you get to see lots of girly stuff on my blog.  But today I wanted to show you some cute little polka dot Bow Ties I made last week.  I used a tutorial from Christie at Lemon Squeezy Home - LOVE this blog!  These two little cuties are for my friends two little boys who are having a circus themed party next month and going as clowns!  The polka dot fabric was from the stash I won last month (or before) from Sew Mama Sew.  I think it is Queen Street fabric.  Will look for a link.

Aren't they just the cutest! Will have to get some pictures of the boys modelling them!

DYSU 16: Easter Blog Hop!

Firstly a big Welcome to any newbies along for the DYSU blog hop! Pull up a chair and feel free to have a browse around!

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Today I have two projects to share with you for our awesome DYSU Easter Blog Hop!  We have four sponsors this week providing prizes for four randomly picked lucky entants.  Plus a prize for the Blog hop Winner. Plus I get to giveaway the Windy Day image I used below from Stretch and Bubbles to one lucky commenter! And if you hop along to all the other DT members, they are giving images away too! Yay!

Here are my two cards.  The first one uses the Windy Day image from Stretch and Bubbles that I am able to give away to one lucky commenter.

I paper pieced the image, after printing it onto kraft card.  This has to be one of my all time favourite colour combos!

Here's a close up of the little metal flower that I made, I'm planning on adding a tutorial for that next week so make sure to pop back or follow along so you don't miss it!

And my second card uses an image from another one of today's sponsors: Amber Ink.  The image from a set called Hostess with the Mostess.  It comes with a whopping 20 digi stamps! Heaps of things for you to put onto her tray.  But given that it was Easter I added my own topping, yummy Easter Eggs! I also used Digital papers from the shop too!

I added some lace trim to the underskirt and gave dimension to the skirts!

The Sponsors this week are:

Amber Ink

Stretch 'n' Bubbles

Papiersalat

Little Claire

So just to recap....

1. Be sure to hop along to all the blogs and comment for your chance to win free images from Stretch 'n' Bubbles - The next one is Marcy
2. Whilst you're there collect the letters and figure out the mystery phrase, then head on over to DYSU and email the phrase in.
3. Make sure to load up your card to stand a chance of winning one of our sponsor prizes or being picked as one of our top 3 (or both LOL!)