What's in your Basket?

Good Morning,

I have my next DT project for you as we have a brand new theme over at the Alphabet Challenge today. This time Jackie has chosen a popular theme for the letter 'Y' - we are letting 'YOU CHOOSE' for this one, so pretty much anything goes.

Here's what I made from the brand new issue of the Crafter's Inspiration magazine which came out a couple of weeks ago ...

This cute little basket was much easier to make than I anticipated and is made from just one piece of A4 cardstock.

It's decorated with papers from the 'English Country Garden' range from Sara's Signature Collection. The flowers are die-cut from scraps of the papers using a die from the same range.

I added a couple of pearl strings to the handle, together with three little cute hanging hearts and another die-cut flower for decoration.

My little basket is currently residing in the Crafter's Companion shop as a sample, but I think it would also look very sweet full of candy or little chocolate eggs for Easter.

Hope you will come and join us with your own projects.

Hugz, Jan xx

You Choose

Happy Friday,

It's certainly a happy Friday for me - not only is it my day off, but I've finished for our half term break too. It's only been a five week half term, but it's seemed a very long one in some respects, especially trying to cram in everything we needed to do before the break.

After a trip to the doctors on Monday and a course of antibiotics for a chest infection, I am now beginning to feel a little better, so hopefully I can enjoy the break.

I have a card to show you today which I made as DT inspiration for the new theme over at the Alphabet Challenge today - we are up to the letter 'Y' and Caz has chosen the theme of

'YOU CHOOSE'

I have a feeling this might be a popular choice - here's my design ...

This one is for my sister's birthday next week (but ssshh, don't tell her). 

 I love the Santoro Gorjuss range and these new smaller size stamps are great to play with - this one is called 'The White Rabbit' and I coloured her with my Promarkers to match the backing papers which are from one of the 6 x 6" paper packs.  Now my card is an 8 x 8" - so a little clever playing with the papers allowed me to spread them out to fit. 

The flowers are die-cut from paper scraps left over using a new pretty little die that came free on a recent magazine purchase.  A stamped greeting and a few black adhesive gems to finish off.

Why not pop over to the challenge and check out some fab inspiration from the design team.

Hugz, Jan xx