Rainbow Butterfly Case

Saw a lovely card on Pinterest a while ago that you can see here. 

Really loved the look of it so I decided to case it. Instead of using washi tape though, I used some rainbow striped paper that I love. 

I ended up making two of these virtually identical except for different coloured bling on the butterfly. 

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A Happy Rainbow Quilt and card for a sad reason!

Those of you who know Karratha, will know that it is a very transient town.  People come here to work for a couple of years, usually on mining projects and then move on.  My very good friend Martine, from Just a little Craft, is moving on this week and I am VERY sad about it.  I thought I had hardened my heart to leaving friends after living this nomadic life for 10 years.  BUT apparently not!  I must be melting with age!  Lucky for me she is moving back to The Netherlands, so at least when we eventually get back to the UK we will not be that far away.  For that I am glad. 

Anyway it was her leaving party on Saturday and I wanted to give her a special present.  But as I was in denial about her leaving I put off making the special present.  The idea had formed in my head a while before.  I knew her favourite colour is blue and so I spent ages looking for some lovely blue fabrics.  I was planning to make her a little quilt that would be used as a wall hanging or runner.  When I left here last time my friend Lorraine made me a gorgeous wall hanging with thongs on (that's flip flops not g-strings folks! ;-)) and it proudly hangs on my wall in my craft room and I love it!  Well I couldn't find any blue fabrics I liked so I came up with another idea!  Staying with the wall hanging idea I decided to go for colours that would remind her of me and her time here, it is a present from me after all!

Hence the rainbow idea came about.  I knew she loved my Rainbow Pillow so I wanted to create something along those lines.  I incorporated lots of the fabric that I use on my t-shirts, some she gave me and some special fabrics relating to travel, Australia, Britain.  I wanted it to evoke memories.  My original plan was to put all the coloured pieces next to one another, but when I laid it out on the table it was just way too busy so I decided to break it up with the black fabric I was using on the back.  I LOVED the result.

 

And whilst this is about our time in Australia, I also wanted to have something on the to acknowledge that I am British, hence the London bus on the back!  The butterfly was on an Australia Day Baby Onesie Martine bought me to make something with as it was on sale! The same for the 'Australia' on the front (Above).  Well I thought they would be perfect appliqued onto this project!  Love the Aussie flag in the butterfly pattern!

The square on the right is a printed out message from me to Martine.  Thankfully the bright sun has glared out the message!

Some closer up shots.

It was a learning process, I did have to unpick some of the quilting due to bunching, but I got there.  This is my first proper quilting project afterall, well bigger than a mug rug (!) and a cushion!

Anyhow I think she liked it!

I'm in the green spotty dress

I made a card to match along with the rainbow theme.

I'm entering it for the following card challenges:

• Embellish Magazine - Rainbow
• Clean & Simple Sketch
• Crafty Creations - Let it Shine - Bling
• The Shabby Tearoom - My Favourite Things - that would have to be the Rainbow colours!

And I am linking up to some linky parties:

CraftoManiac

 

DYSU 14: Yellow

Well I was happy to see that this week's them at DYSU was YELLOW.  As I love the bright and cheery effect adding yellow to a card can bring!

My card uses a cute Noah's Ark image from The Stamping Boutique, one of our sponsors this week.

I wanted to create some dimesion so I layered the boat and animals up on dimensionals.

In addition I carefully cut the tops of the waves and curled them back. And added some dimensional magic to the windows.

We have a whopping FOUR sponsors this week! Click on the logos to go to the shops!

     

Have fun with the challenge and be sure to load up your creations here.

So sorry! Forgot about the Giveaway!

And the winner of the Incy Wincy Rainbow Giveaway is..... as picked by Random Org....lucky number 14!!! Bianca, shoot me an email and I'll mail your prize out!

Congratulations!

So Excited!

My Rainbow pillow got third place in the 'Words to Live by' Pillow Contest over at Sew Mama Sew.  Thank you so much to those who went over there and voted.  I'm so glad Sew Mama Sew had this contest as it prompted me to make a cushion cover, that I might not have gotten around to otherwise!  Thanks Sew Mama Sew!



I promise this is the last time you will see this pillow posted on my blog!! You must be getting sick of it now!!!

I was excited to see that I have won an awesome prize too!  Some wonderful fabric, a cube shaped cushion and a Sew Mama Sew Gift Certificate! Yay!!  And added to that I got picked out randomly for another prize for leaving a comment on their site, so even more wonderful fabric!!!

Friday Focus will be a bit late this week! Sorry folks!

OH Wow!! I made the Top 20!! Please VOTE for me!!

OMG!!! I made it to the Top 20 in the Sew Mama Sew, 'Words to Live by' Pillow Contest!!!!  If you loved my pillow and would like to vote for it just go here!!  How exciting is this!!!

Wow wow wow!!! Can you tell I'm excited!!!

Well who would have thought it....?

It seems my rainbow pillow has captured the imagination of quite a few.

I have been amazed to see it popping up all over the place: here; here; here; here; here; here; here; and here. WOW! Oh and here! And here!!!

Feeling pretty humble right now.  Thanks everyone!

I have been making plenty of stuff lately just too busy to post! But I will soon I promise!

Silver Lining Rainbow Pillow

Seeing as I have now moved to a brand spanking new website, if you would like to read more about how to make one of these Rainbow pillows, please head on over here. Or click the pic!

Rainbow Dress Transformed

So you may remember the Rainbow Dress from before Christmas.  Well yesterday it was transformed into a Rainbow skirt with matching ruffle t-shirt.

Before:

After:

I think it looks altogether more grown up now don't you think?

Papertrey Ink Tag Download Challenge

I just spotted that Papertrey Ink have a little contest going on.  You download a file with nine cute little digi images on and then make a card using one of them and upload it.  Here is mine.  I couldn't resist the little rainbow image.  Too Cute!

I used a tiny rainbow and cloud stamp from Stampin Up to make the background 'paper'.  I used a variegated thread for the stitching.

I absolutely LOVE Papertrey Ink stuff, just don't have any unfortunately! One of the downsides of living in Australia, wish they had a Australian stockist.   If you want to upload your pic or check out all the other creations (there are hundreds!) you can see do that here.

Oh and I used the sketch over at Clean and Simple for this card. Thanks for looking!