Be My Valentine

An early Valentine card. Using silk petals and a little rose for the centre. Have a very Happy New Year everyone. Be healthy, make someone smile and give the one you love a big hug!

Hugs Vee xx

Baby Boy Shoe Template Freebie

Thought I would give out another baby shoe template freebie. This time its for a boy and is a lace-up shoe as you can see. Just right click on the pic and choose Save as to save to your folder you use. 

Good luck and Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you all. Hugs Vee xx

Shabby Chic Pillow

     A project long overdue! I had this little pillow in mind for an age now and just had time to make it for a dear friend for her birthday this month.

The lovely French image is of course from my fav. http://graphicsfairy.blogspot.com

The pillow was made up using a inexpensive calico fabric. I added some vintage lace and binding in cream and made a little flower from an offcut of the lace and attached a small pearl button.

Hope she likes it!!

Method
I used ordinary "Reynolds Freezer Paper" Plastic coated to get the image onto my fabric.
I ironed it onto my A4 paper  'plastic side down' lol! then trimmed my fabric to A4 size with a rotary cutter, making sure there are no frayed edges so as to catch on the printer rollers. Then sent it on it's merry way through the printer.
When it was done, I ironed the image with a hot iron to 'Set' the ink. I know there are products out there you can buy to spray onto the image to set it so you can wash the fabric, but I just use this method for now. Then you just peel away the paper from you fabric. This is much cheaper than buying fabric already coated for a printer, and you get the same effect. Good Luck Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all. 
Hugs Vee xx

Duo Challenge #12 "The Welcome Inn"

I thought this house template from the Duo Challenge #12 would suit being made into an old Inn and restaurant. Maybe it was wishful thinking on my part as I have no time at the moment to indulge LOL!

                                                      It did remind me of pubs in London." The Welcome Inn" is open for business haha, as you can see by the bill board outside the door. 

Just a Note book vintage post

I made this little notebook using the vintage postcard and letter image from Graphics Fairy.

for " Brag Monday "

                                                                      

                                                                          A look inside.

Christmas Book cards

                           These are lovely cards to give out for Christmas to a special person.
                      I have used Basic Grey Jovial papers on the cover of the book and inside.

          A sneak peek inside and there I have added the poinsettia flower and a tiny little shopping bag.

                                                       Room for the personal greeting.

Christmas Sleigh

This is a lovely template from Creations by AR

This is an ongoing project but couldn't wait to post the beginnings of it.

I will add to it and post the completed version. I used tiny doll house bags and boxes to fill the sleigh.

No mean feat making those, but made them nevertheless.

My inspiration came from Floliescrap, one of my favourite bloggers. Go check out her blog! Its amazing.

Bye for now.

Baby Shoe Exploding Box (First Christmas)

I love making shoes!

This is for a first Christmas and is soooo cute I think.

Duo Challenge # 11 Christmas Pillow Pocket

 This is a lovely template for the Duo-Challenge # 11

It's just the cutest pillow box for hanging on the tree with candy inside.

I chose not to cut out the tree shape window from the front of the box, but decided to make a 3D tree. I printed out two Penny Black Christmas star stamps and decoupaged them for the front of the pillow.  Some twine is used to hang the box up. I also chose to decorate the box on the reverse side to accomodate my poinsetta.

CR84FN#43 - Christmas Wreath.

My Christmas card for the latest Colour Challenge. The Wreath is an image from Graphics Fairy as is the background music paper. There are 3 colours of this wreath to choose from, this one is brown. I have used foam pads to make the wreath pop out but not too clear on the picture. I used a tan linen texture for the main background paper and the green and brown ribbon from my stash of seam binding. My buttons are a mix of dark tan wood and pearl. Sorry if my photo is not too clear!