Making Fabric Labels

 For ages I've been saying I want to have some fabric labels to sew onto my handsewn goodies...especially now that some are being ordered and given to people that I don't personally know...so I kind of want these people to be able to look me up and tell other people about the things I've made.

 So I took a look on Pinterest and found an awesome, simple tutorial for how to make my own fabric labels...you can find it over at Dolls and Daydreams. The hardest part of the tutorial was finding shops in the UK that actually stock freezer paper...Hobbycraft do in case you are wondering.

Here's my labels drying off...love them...think I'll be making plenty more of these in the future!

 Here's to sewing them into everything from now on!

Fathers Day Cards

 Now I know that all the fathers day cards have been received and opened I can share them on my blog to show you all. Every year I go with a theme for the design and make all the cards using that theme and just change a colour here and there between the cards..saves me a little time by not having to design 4 different cards but still means everybody gets a different card to the others.

The first design features a large Dad stamp...

Made using:

• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set (SU)
• Dad stamp (Hobbycraft)
• Baked Brown Sugar ink (SU)
• Baked Brown Sugar cardstock (SU)
• Pacific Point ink (SU)

Then for the second Dad stamp card I swapped out the Baked Brown Sugar..

Made using:

• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set (SU)
• Dad stamp (Hobbycraft)
• Real Red ink (SU)
• Real Red cardstock (SU)
• Pacific Point ink (SU)

Design 2 kept the same Gorgeous Grunge background and 2 colourschemes..

 Made using....

• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set (SU)
• Need For Speed stamp set (SU)
• Dapper Dad stamp set (SU)
• Baked Brown Sugar ink (SU)
• Baked Brown Sugar cardstock (SU)
• Pacific Point ink (SU)

 

Made using: 

• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set (SU)
• Need For Speed stamp set (SU)
• Dapper Dad stamp set (SU)
• Real Red ink (SU)
• Real Red cardstock (SU)
• Pacific Point ink (SU)

 The cards seem to have gone down well, I'm looking forward to seeing what new stamp sets SU will have in the new catalogue to play with for next years Fathers Day card designs!

Been Sewing...Baby Gifts

 Been doing a lot of sewing recently and there's seems to be a lot of baby things I need to make for friends and family who are all having kids this year...

These are for my new little nephew Isaac...choosing the fabrics were made easier by knowing that my sister in law was having a little boy, whereas everybody else I'll be making for are having surprises...gender neutral baby fabric is so hard to find!

I chose 2 fabrics for Isaac's presents...I love the bee fabric..thought it could also be used as quite a good gender neutral fabric too. I made a standard shaped bib and burp cloth from the bee fabric.

Then I found this awesome blue dinosaur fabric which I totally fell in love with, shame it didn't come in more colours though. I made a standard shaped bib, 2 bandana style bibs, a burp cloth and a soft door closer from the dinosaur fabric.

 The soft door closer idea came from the Practically Functional blog via a pin on Pinterest, such a simple yet brilliant idea and it works so well!

 My sister in law loved them and the bibs fitted baby Isaac well so I'd say that the first batch of baby gifts were a total success!

June Card Club

 This month's card club saw us trying out some new ideas and some non-standard design cards...We made a pop-up box card and  handbag for storing some cards in.

 Love the idea of a pop-up box card...though I once again didn't stick to the design of the sample card, I changed the stamp set I used to better suit the person who will receive the card.

For the pop-up box card I used:

• Midnight Muse cardstock
• The Open Sea stamp set 
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
• Wild Wasabi ink
• Crumb Cake ink

 

For the card and handbag we used:

• Tempting Turquoise ink
• Raspberry Ripple ink and cardstock
• Daffodil Delight ink
• Wild Wasabi ink
• Baked Brown Sugar Ruffle Stretch Trim
• Large Pearl Basic Jewels 
• Petite Petals stamps set and punch
• Chalk Talk stamp set

 Don't they look great together, could use the handbag for so many other gift bag ideas too.

Butterfly Birthday Cards

 Love the Stampin' Up Pappillon Potpourri stamp set so much and the punches are great too, even if you don't have/want to use the stamps you can still punch out coloured/patterned butterflies.

Whipped up a couple of quick, bright and bold butterfly birthday cards...

 The first is made using non Stampin' Up inks and cardstock.

  Both cards use Sassy Salutations stamp set for the sentiment, stamped using black StazOn...I know I always use Sassy Salutations but they are so easy and versatile to use for any type of card.

This second card uses Stampin' Up inks:

• Strawberry Slush
• Coastal Cabana
• Pistachio Pudding
• Crisp Canteloupe

May Card Club

 May's Stampin' Up card club with Paula of Knall Crafting was all about Papillon Potpourri...everybody else bought Bermuda Bay as their ink for this class but as I already had it I went for a different colour, Real Red, to build my collection up. As well as the ink I also got a reel of Real Red Taffeta Ribbon to play with on my cards.

 All of the cardstock I used was Whisper White and Real Red.

 Ads you can see for most of my cards I decided to use Sassy Salutations, I know it's no surprise as I do love this set so much. For some of the cards I changed which of the larger butterflies I used as well as I prefer the flower print on to the detailed drawn one.

It's cards like this one that make me think I need to get the Flowering Flourishes stamp set as it really is a great set to use.

 For this card we used a circular mask and brought out the Gorgeous Grunge set from the April class and stamped using the smallest of the paint splats before then removing the mask and stamping the stripes over the top. The large butterfly was punched out of plain Whisper White card using the Elegant Butterfly punch and then sponged with ink using daubers. Think this is my favourite card from the class actually.

 This simple yet elegant card using the Simply Scored Scoring Tool for the embossed (or debossed as I chose to use them) lines and happy birthday wishes sentiment from the Petite Pairs stamp set.

 For this card we used the small butterfly silhouette and then the Bitty Butterfly punch to punch it out. Using the card scrap we punched an Elegant Butterfly out of earlier as a mask we could then sponge dauber ink to produce 3 more butterflies 'flying' up the card. The sthank you sentiment comes from the Blooming With Kindness stamp set.

 Once again Paula made us a lovely gift...this time it was an A6 notepad using some of the new watercolour papers for the tag and the tag topper punch too.

First Use Of The Judo Suit Template

It's great to see somebody has made a card using the Judo suit template I was asked for last week. I'm quite excited to see how people use it. This is Kirsten's card for her grandson and you can see her blog by clicking on the photo of the Judo card.  

I look forward to seeing what else people do using the template.

Been Making Totes

So I mentioned in my earlier post Elephant Make Up Bag that I was going to be making a lot of fabric presents for friends and family this year.. well here are the presents for the May birthday ladies.

The first tote was for my Mum and she has an obsession with hearts, so I used some of the leftover fabric I had from the apron I made her.

 The second tote was for a friend who works for VW so when I saw this super VW camper van fabric I knew I had to get some and make her something from it.

 I faffed about with where to cut the sections from the piece of fabric I had to make sure both sides had a full camper van on. As there's so many cool campers on the fabric I made sure both sides had a different coloured camper showing so she can decide which side should be showing depending what colour she likes on the day.

Great present to give people and really easy to whip up...can see a few more of these being given out as presents this year!

May Birthdays

 Finally got round to making some cards when I'm not at card club! These cards are for our friends and family who have birthdays in May.

 Even managed to use one of my Sale-a-bration freebies that's been sat around in the drawer while I've pinned loads of ideas using the set.

Made using:

• Petal Parade stamp set
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
• Crisp Canteloupe cardstock
• Pistachio Pudding cardstock
• Crisp Canteloupe ink
• Pistachio pudding ink

 Making mascualine cards is always such a struggle, good thing I got myself a bundle of blues and turquoise inks recently.

Made using:

• Gorgeous Grunge stamp set
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
• Bermuda Bay ink
• Coastal Cabana ink
• Pacific Point ink

 First outing for the giant butterfly stamp I got last year...even managed to find some ribbon in my box that perfectly matched the bermuda bay ink and it's non SU.

Made using:

• Swallowtail stamp
• Sassy Salutations stamp set
• Bermuda Bay cardstock
• Bermuda Bay ink
• Basic Pearl Jewels

As everyone should have received asnd opened them by now it's safe to publish this post, hopefully they all liked their cards too.

Tote Bag

 Ages ago I won a bundle of goodies from the lovely ladies over at Live It Love It Make It loads of fabric sewing kits to play with. The kits sat in fabric stash box for ages till I finally decided on a day off that I'd start playing with them, the tote bag seemed like it'd be the easiest so I thought it'd be a good starting point.

 Love the colour of the fabric and the awesome turquoisey blue thread that came with the kit. The little owl was an applique that my Nan stuck into my handmade birthday card that she knew I'd find some purpose for in the future. Been a very useful little bag, it seems to have become my bag for taking my card making goodies to and from card club. Only thing I might change for next time is having the straps sewn into the inside of the bag instead as sewing the perfect X's on the front wasn't easy and with a more visible colour thread would be a nightmare to make look neat.