Baby Taggie Blankie

I keep seeing these lovely taggie blankies around but hadn't made one til yesterday.  Mainly because there is another girl locally who makes wonderful ones to sell at the local markets, and it's always nice to provide something that's not already there right?

Anyway I have friends popping babies out left right and centre at the mo! So baby gifts are being cooked up in my house at the mo.   This one is for one of my oldest friends (not oldest in age you understand!), a girl I went to school with.  Her and her partner are both musicians so when the idea began to take form and I was stood in the fabric shop choosing fabric I was VERY happy to spot these two musical black and white fabrics.  I wanted to go with the black, red and white theme as I remember reading when my daughter was little that it helps with brain/eye development.  She had a little cloth book in these colours and she loved looking at it intently!

As you can see I patchworked the front block.  Seems Lorraine has finally gotten me interested in patchwork.  Still think small projects are the way forward for me though!

I just love the minky fabric on the back it really is so soft!

I can see me making one or two more of these as gifts for friends.

I'm linking this up to:

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!

Oh Wow I was Featured on Kid Style File

Took me a while to realise it, but better late than never hey! Back in late December I was included on the Kid Style File website in their 'I Made This' feature.  They featured my 'I'm Super' Onesie! Pretty exciting! I was wondering why it was getting so many views!

Well have a great day.  I'm feeling starved of card making time, think I will have to squeeze some in this weekend!

Made it Friday Focus: Tractor

As it is the first Friday in February I think we've had enough of a break from Friday Focus, the last one was in December, I thought we'd kick off the Made It Friday Focus' again here on the blog! And today I'm introducing the Tractor shirt.

As some of you may remember it took a while to perfect this little baby, but it's all good now!

 My search for tractor goodies on Made it revealed these beauties!

• My Tractor Shirt - The Crafty Nomad
• Children's Art Print - Elbie Sparks
• Farm Tag Blanket - Jacaranda Handmade
• Farmyard Lamp - An Element of Style
• Tractor Notepad - Paddock Press
• Transport Mobile - Turtle Velocity

I know these guys would be thrilled if you would check their little shops out! Have fun browsing!

Week 5: Do You Stack Up Challenge - Red

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.  The card I am sharing with you today is for Challenge #5 at the Do You Stack Up Challenge Blog. 

This week's challenge is:

Red

Our Sponsors today are: TLC and Sassy Studio Designs. 

I chose to make my card using a sentiment from TLC.  I added a Stampin Up music notes wheel stamp for the background and made some embellishments to go along with it.

Here is a close up of the embellishments I made: a felt 'red hot' loveheart - 2 pieces of felt sewn together using blanket stitch on my sewing machine; and a little zippy flower, love these!  Hopefully just sneaking in in time for the JUGs Challenge of creating a 3D flower!

Thanks for taking a look, can't wait to see what you come up with. Head on over to the DYSU blog to add your Red Hot creation to the list!