Knit a scarf in a night

I did, yes that's all it took a couple of hours whilst watching TV , I'm doing them now ready for christmas as they make great presents. This is a picture of how the BALLERINA knits up.

This shows you how the SALSA knits up . I think this is my favourite.

And this is the SAMBA, which comes plain or with a bit of glitz in it.

Dont forget it's only £6 a ball , so what's stopping you getting those needles out whilst the winter nights are here and having a good old knit.

Julie: Mini Printer's Tray

Hello and, as this is my first post here of 2012, Happy New Year!

Today's project is one of the Tando Creative Mini Printer's Trays which I've filled with bright, cheerful sunny-day embelishments:

It was one of those projects where I used things that could be considered as 'Best', those special things which you're never entirely sure you should glue down anywhere ... just in case you need them for something else!

After assembling the tray - a simple task involving glueing the layers together - I painted it white and used some of my favourite patterned papers to cover the back of the compartments:

I then went about selecting small embellishmnets which could fit inside the individual compartments and others such as various paper flowers and cabochons:

This particular chipboard tray comes with a cover which you can attach and close over the front, which can give it a secret book feel, but as I want mine to hang on the wall I left that off and added a hanging loop made from a tiny tape measure:

Along with this 15x15cm tray there are various other designs in stock here.

They're a great way to way to present all your favourite embellishments and papers in one small space!

Julie :-)

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Hot Air?

Balloon......I love this stamp. from Lost Coast. This one is simply stamped and then coloured with Distress Inks, just swipe your ink pad onto a glass, tile or plastic surface and use a damp paintbrush to pick up the colour.... easy! Cut out and mount.

this one is stamped and rubbed over with an Antique Linen pad...and cut out

and finally stamped and then the edges of the card coloured with Broken China and Peeled Paint

I used a Jet Black Archival ink pad... no smudges!

New papers to scrapbook with

The new papers have arrived from France and they are just perfect for some of my Japan photo's. Both sheets are from the Edition Speciale range . I also added some of the new rose cabochons to this layout again just perfect colours to match.
The paper is double sided and very hard to choose which side to use.
There are lots in stock to pop over to the shop and have a look .

And the WINNER is ..............................

No 19

Yes No 19 is the winner of this lot of blog candy , please can you email me your address and details to ordersat3djean@btinternet.com

Jan:Pretty Paper 2

Why 2? well it seems Blogger was playing games with my last post.
So if you're a paper addict like me you need to pop over to the shop to drooole buy  the pretty paper Jean has for us. They are from a French company and the colours are positively dreamy. I made a cute Z fold card for a friend's birthday using this paper and I only needed to add a few pearls to the background to make it look really special.


  So if you're in need of a paper fix pop over to the shop as I can see that Jean has just uploaded some new arrivals. Yummy....

Buttoned Up...

Buttons and cabuchons....very pretty on their own but even prettier when you add



some simple felt shapes

and stitch them onto something......

I think they look fab stitched on to this pear.....