Polka Doodles have it all stitched up

Polka Doodles are looking for stitching in your

project this week.

So I dusted off my needle and thread for my chevron stitches

and a little french knot at Millie's waist.

I have used the very lovely Millie's Birthday by

Emma Canning.

Emma is having a DT call at the mo

so you have until the 31st August to apply here.

I have used paper and flower from

the Studio 12 Cd. - Picknix 1

to create my tag with Emma's lovely image

coloured with Promarkers.

We'd love to see your projects including

stitches over at Polka Doodles this week!

Benjamin's Dedication.....Also back to school!

Using the wonderful image by Mo Manning - 'Ben'

a card for Benjamin's Dedication.

Hope started school last week

But so far not noticed all this extra time I'm going to have!

They were more keen to go to school than

have their photo's taken.....

Polka Doodles - Celebration

It's coming to the end of the Olympics

 and over at Polka Doodles

we are looking for some Celebration cards

Celebrate in style with a bit of Dress up!

Pollywitchy doodles is a fab and fun 

download bundle by Nikky.

Don't you just love Franky!

Come on share your

celebration projects with us at

Polka Doodles!

Crafty Creations - Olympic ring colours

Red, Yellow, Green, Blue and Black!

Yes it those Olympic ring colours

for this weeks challenge at

Crafty Creations.

And we warmly welcome

A Day for Daisies

as this weeks sponsor.

I have used the very lovely

Miss Clair Clown for my card

a sixth birthday for Hope's wee friend Poppy.

A little bit more felting.....

All the fluffy soft fibres dyed and carded.

This is a mix of Zwartbles, Merino,

Alpaca and Silk.

A bit of elbow grease lots of soap and

alternate hot and cold water.

Voila another piece of felt.....this I hope to use as the greenery on my

felt picture.

A few cards.... on catch up.

Don't know where my time is

going to at the moment. 

So thought I better add some cards 

that I have made over the last few weeks

so you know I am still

making cards!

I love Mo Manning babies and this was a double sided one

with a cut out frame so baby can be seen

on the inside too!

A fun card for a lady retiring as a classroom assistant

from a private little boys school!

A 30th Birthday ...I am still loving that Marianne die cut

ivy frame and of course the gorgeous

Leanne Ellis image!

Bus Stop Toy Shop raising money for CHAS

In Duncan's own words:


BIG NEWS: I'm excited to announce that on the 1st to 3rd of August, Ben Miller, Duncan Conner, Sean McFarlane (all United Kingdom) and Christian Olsson (Sweden) will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for Longest Marathon Playing a Boardgame, at Bus Stop Toy Shop, Largs, Scotland. The current World Record stands at a smidgen under 54 hours - jeeps that's a long time - but we're all gunning to go past that mark.

And for my part - Claire that is...........I am off to do a witness shift 7am - 11am this morning at the 

Bus Stop Toy Shop


Where they are raising money for CHAS

(Children's Hospice Association Scotland). It costs £7M every year to do the vital work they do - perhaps we can put a tiny dent in that for this year?

Step 2 Felted picture......

Next I trimmed 3 of the felted cloth edges straight

to give me some extra pieces of felt fabric.

I used this to create 3 felt flowers.

Two with stamens in the centres.