It's coming, you know!

Christmas, that is.

I really don't want to get caught out this year and still be making Christmas cards right up to the last minute - all that does is make me really cheesed off with the whole thing and I stop enjoying my Christmas crafting. So this year I'm trying really hard to get my cards ready a bit earlier. So far I've made about 30 so not a huge total, but probably loads more than I'd done at this time last year.
I did some classes for the Bubbly Funk Forum's cyber crop recently and that gave me a good prod into getting started on some designs. I've stuck pretty much to that design, using blocks of patterned paper to fill the white space and then adding trees. baubles etc as accents.

Having almost cleared the "to do" list I've had some time over the last few days to make some more - the arrival of the BG Wassail papers into my sticky mitts also encouraged me to get going on the Christmas card campaign.
Here are some of the cards I've made with these fabby papers. The scalloped rectangles are cut with a new Craft Robo template. I've made some scalloped shapes before, but the scallops were quite a bit bigger on those. This time I've made rectangle, square and circle shapes with teeny weeny scalloped edges, I think they're just a litle bit different and make a change from the straight cut shapes I usually use.
The small trees on the righthand card are cut from the Wassail papers which is covered with triangles of all the other designs - perfect for sticking on cereal-packet-chipboard and cutting out to make mini trees!
The other trees are cut with the Cuttlebug cut and emboss die
For the cards below I've used the Craft Robo template I mentioned yesterday.
I enjoyed spending some time at the weekend making this new template. I cut the basic bauble and bow shape as one piece, then cut the parts of the bow seperately to stick on top and add a little bit of dimension to the finished bauble. I made three different decorations to add to the front of the bauble - that way I don't get bored making the same thing every time!
I'll show the ones I've made using other papers next time.

I'm quite pleased with these so I hope you like them too. Let me know what you think, I love to read your comments - let's me know I'm not just talking to myself for a start!

I have to make a baby's 1st birthday card today, so I should stop procrastinating and get on with it, shouldn't I? lol

ok, I'm going.....

Waffling Weekend, Blog Candy pics

For the first time in ages we had a a quiet, nothing-planned weekend. It was bliss. I do love the going-away ones, and the visitors-here ones, but recently they've all come together - add in a few visits from the builder and plumber who like to start at 8.30 on a Saturday morning and I've been missing my weekend long-lie-ins for what seems ages.

I pretty much caught up with the crafty deadlines last week, so that feels good too! I've got a few things to get on with this week though, but it's nice to feel rather more in control that I've done recently. I've even spent some time getting on with making our own Christmas cards. I've not done the photos yet so I'll post some pics when I have - I've been using that lovely BG Wassail that arrived last week, plus some from the Fancy Pants Happy Holidays paper pad - which is a nice mix of funky papers and more grungy ones.
I spent a bit of time on Saturday making a new Craft Robo template and some of the cards use that.

There are a few things I've done recently that I've not shown on here yet - I've not been a verygood blogger recently....
I thought I'd show the little folding album I made for Juliet when she won my Birthday Blog Candy draw. It's made from 3 squares of card, which are folded and stuck together in such a way that it all folds up into a smaller square and is then tied up with a ribbon to keep it froms springing open.

There's room for Juliet to add small photographs and some journalling, and I hope she'll let us see what it looks like when she's completed it.

Papers are Fancy Pants "Aged Florals"

Forever Autumn?

My feelings about Autumn are very mixed - much as I love the colours of Autumn - and those bright blue sky days we often get at this time of the year, what I hate is the rest of it - the darkening, cold mornings, the way the days get shorter and shorter and colder and colder - and I hate the thought of not seeing much of the sun, or even enough light for the next few months. It's not the best time of the year for me and I know many other people suffer the same sort of mood dips at this time of the year. What I'd really like to do is hibernate; I'd like to snuggle in somewhere warm and cosy then sleep till Spring!

Sue chose "Forever Autumn" as the theme for our Daring Cardmakers challenge this week:

Forever Autumn
I decided on this one after hearing the Justin Haywood song of the same name playing on the radio. I couldn’t get it out of my mind and kept singing it as I was working.

So now I’m daring you to make a card that depicts Autumn.
It can be an Autumn scene or it can be something completely different but using a palette of Autumn colours……the choice is yours! I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if a few of you are singing along by the time you’ve finished either, I know some of the DT were!

As soon as I saw what Sue had in store for us I knew which papers I wanted to use - they've been sitting in the box for ages and this was the perfect opportunity to make use of them.
The papers are from the Exotic East collection from Imaginisce and are truly lush.
I've used a couple of them for this card, then did plenty of cutting and layering. I felt they looked a bit dull once I'd got them stuck down though - probably because of the brown card blank I'd used, so I grabbed my gold pen and did some doodled outlining. I do tend to get carried away when I start doing this but for once I think I managed to stop before making a doodle too far!

The gorgeous flower brad is MM (I think), but I gave it a hint of a shimmer by dabbing at it with a gold Krylon pen. The ribbon fell, serendipitously from my scraps box just as I was reaching for something else.

Please pop over and see all the beautiful Autumn Inspired cards on the DCM blog, and maybe you'll be inspired to join in - we do love to see where the dares we come up with lead.

Don't forget that the LE sketch this week has a Prize Draw too, which is still open for entering till next Tuesday - so you could combine the LE and the Main dare this week AND be in with winning a prize from Creative Treasures.


I've bought loads and loads of Christmas papers this year because there seem to be lots of must-have collections around this year. One set I've been lusting for is the new BG Wassail papers and now, thanks to Emma of Sassycrafts I finally have them sitting on my desk looking rather delicious.
As I've just caught up with most of my crafty tasks I'm going to try and get some more Christmas cards added to the pile and these are going to come in very handy, I think. Along with the Dream Street ones, the Imaginisce ones, 2 lots of Fancy Pants ones, 2 lots of Lasting Impressions ones.......

Around the World Sketch

The Midweek Little Extra over on the Daring Cardmakers blog has had a bit of a makeover recently and if you visit on Tuesdays you'll usually find one of the Design Team doing their "own thing" on there. It might be some sort of challenge, a tutorial or pretty much anything we fancy really.

I signed up to do this week's LE and decided on a sketch challenge. But I wanted to add an extra dimension to what appeared on the DCM blog, so I asked just a few of my favourite cardmakers if they'd help me out and make a card for my sketch. It was pretty hard deciding who to ask, actually, but in the end I asked fabby designers from the UK, Belgium, Australia and NZ. I'd have loved to ask more people but I had to rein myself in a bit!
Pop over to the DCM blog to see who came out to play - you won't be disappointed.
I'm thrilled at the cards made for the challenge, and I'm hoping that lots of my fellow cardmakers will now be inspired to try the sketch for themselves - maybe the lure of a fabby prize will help toooo..... hah, you'll have to go and look at the blog to find out about that too.

This is the sketch I made:
And this is my card:
The papers are Fancy Pants "Botanicals", Flowers are Prima and the ribbon is from Ribbon Oasis.
The flower edging is made with punched flowers, the centres are cut using the flower centre from the Cuttlebug "flower and pot" - I use this a lot. I've used cereal-packet chipboard covered with paper to make them, then topped them with Glossy Accents.
The chipboard swirl is painted with Cranberry Paint Dabber, then again coated with a layer of GA.
The wording is computer generated, then just mounted onto more paper-covered card layers.

I've another idea for using this sketch - if I can find enough time to make it up.

I'd love it if you'd join in and make a card using my sketch. There's a prize for one lucky winner to be chosen at random in a week's time. You just need to make a card with the sketch then leave a message on the DCM blog to let us know where we can see your card.

All the cards made by "my" little team of designers from around the world, so please go and have a look - and visit their blogs for masses of wonderful papercrafting projects that is sure to inspire you the same as it does me.

Painting the Town

It's the Daring Cardmaker's 104th weekly dare today - which means it's our 2nd birthday - wow, where does the time go? We've seen loads of cardmaking challenge sites start up since Jane had the brilliant idea to start up the DCM but we're pretty sure we were the first. I remember Jane saying "the scrapbookers do it, so why not cardmakers too?" Why not indeed. The Daring Cardmakers was born. It's wonderful to share our crafting with cardmakers from all over the world and I still love being involved with the DCM, being part of the team is fab and I love visiting all the blogs to see what our DCM darers have been up to each week - it's always soooo inspiring. So Happy Birthday Daring Cardmakers, we're going to celebrate by Painting the Town Red.........well not just red, any colour of paint is fine. Any type of paint, any style of painting - as long as there's paint getting used on the cards thats all tht matters. I hope lots of people will join in and get painty at our party I've made a couple of cards this week both using acrylic paints. For the first one I used some glossy card, splodged some cranberry and white paints on then swished it about with a watery brush. The colour was a bit too deep so I used a wet-wipe to remove lots of the paint, then rubbed a damp cloth over the rest until I got a linen look that I quite liked. The hearts were stamped with undiluted cranberry acrylic paint. The swirls were just done freehand (you can probably tell) on an offcut of the painted card. The second card was the one I made first, it's pretty simple, just a set of Bubbly Funk chipboard stars painted with a metallic silver Paint Dabber and arranged on top of each other. I didn't plan on leaving them just like that - I was going to use wire and beads, or maybe suspend the stars in the window, but in the end I just put some dark blue card behind the aperture and stuck the stars straight onto that. I think there's something missing, so may come back and add something later.
Pretty simple card but I do like the "knobbly" effect of the paint on the stars.
Here's another little Thank You card I needed to make, it's just a diddy 10cm sq The stamps are those cute little ones that I can just about cope with without getting into a !I can't stamp" panic. Papers are scraps of Fancy Pants - Celebrate, I think that were lying on my desk from another project. Birdies extra long B&W legs are one of the fabby Jo Kill's ideas which I snaffled rather than cut out the stamped ones that belong to the birdie! Thanks Jo, you're SUCH a fab inspiration!

A Change in the Weather

Sitting here on a rainy Wednesday, nursing an extra cup of coffee just to warm me up it's hard to believe that on Sunday it was warm enough to be outdoors in short sleeves, This countrys weather is mad.
Here are a few of the photos I took at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire on Sunday afternoon - check out those blue skies!












This is another card made for the August Bubbly Funk Kit, which was filled with K&Co Wild Saffron goodness:

I've been using my tiny eyelet setter and hammer again as you can see!
I really like the effect you get - I even like getting the hammer out instead of Mr Cropodile for a change - there's something therapeutic about bashing things with a hammer.....just not so keen on the racket I make, or the headache I get as aresult!
You can click on the pics for a clser look if you like.


I made these two cards using the same basic plan, the first is an anniversary card for one BiL/SiL set and uses "The Daily Grind" papers from Fancy Pants - I've just discovered that they are doing 8x8 paper pads for some of their ranges so I indulged myself and bought a couple. They may have been doing these for months/years, but I'm not the most up-with-the-news person!

The second version - well ok, it was the first version if you're going to demand accuracy....was to put in with the blog candy I made for Juliet when she came out of the virtual hat to win my Birthday Blog Candy prize. I know it seems ages ago but I had to wait and see who won, and then do the making. Still I know the postie delivered it safely into Juliet's hands yesterday - I hope she likes what I've made and enjoys finishing it off.
I'll post some pics soon
Fancy Pants papers again, this time I've used Aged Florals - those papers are just sooooo pretty,
The little frame is a slidemount and the blooms are Primas

The new Bubbly Funk Kit should go out today I think. I can't wait to hear what everyone thinks of it - I loved it and am looking forward to getting some spare time so that I can play with it some more. I've still got loads and loads left even after doing four projects so far, it's a fantastic kit. Last time I checked the shop there were still some left to buy, so if you like chipboard and you like Christmas then you should get your hands on one before they sell out just like all the other monthly kits have done

Thanks for looking, please leave a message to say you called by!

More soon

Apples and Pears

I've got a few pics from Audley End House to share - actually I took loads of photos over the weekend, but I promise not to show them all!
One of my favourite places at Audley End House is the kitchen garden, it's changed a lot since we first visited when it was little more than a large glasshouse and a walled wilderness. Now the garden has been cleared and cultivated and the glasshouse, which is huge, is filled with all sorts of vines and other plants. There are masses of apples, pears and squashes growing, and at the moment they've got fab displays of some of the produce. I loved the way they've displayed all the different varieties of apples and pears they've grown - I could only get a fraction of the display in my photo.



This huge barrow was filled with all sorts of squashes, and in the entrance to the greenhouse there were shelves filled with loads of different shapes, sizes and colours of pumpkins.

There are flowers too, the red of these dahlias was just beautiful in Friday's sunshine






Since we last visited Audley End they've opened a new exhibition - the Service Wing of the house has been renovated and the various areas are now shown more as they would have looked when the house was lived in. They've done a fab job and its a really interesting place to nose around in. I loved the look of this range - I didn't fancy keeping it, or all the copper pots gleaming though! You can check out the pastry room, the various cold stores, the laundry room and all sorts of other interesting areas vital to the smooth running of One's Country House ;-)

Back to some crafting stuff now

Another of the cards I made for the August Bubbly Funk kit which featured lots of the gorgeous K&Co's Wild Saffron range of goodies.
The beautiful colours, and fab embellishments, like the 3D butterflies and the paper ribbon were inspirational.
I really wanted to use a quotation for this card, but I couldn't find one that worked in the way I wanted. So I just made something up!

Blue Skies, Nothing but Blue Skies

What an amazing weekend weather-wise. Seems like it's gone back to normal grey today, but for the last few days we've enjoyed blue skies and even some warmth! Just as well as we had MIL staying with us, so being able to get out and about is a very good thing!

Hopefully there'll be photos once Hubby's sorted them out - he insists on us "shooting raw" so that he can tweak the techie stuff, but as I haven't a clue, it means I can't get at my photos when I use my "proper" camera rather than the one I just use for instant pics of cards etc. We made good use of our English Heritage membership; on Friday we went to Audley End House and yesterday to Wrest Park. I love both of these places, but it's ages since we visited either - and they both looked beautiful in the sunshine this weekend.
On Saturday morning Hubby took his Ma along to the local museum (a couple of hours P&Q for me), then we went out for a pub lunch in one of the local villages. We then did the almost obligatory garden centre visit in the afternoon, and although it was one of those with a craft shop in (well, there's a surprise choice....) all I managed to buy was a small circle punch - and that was to replace the one I'd broken last week. What a failure I am - or maybe its what a failyre the shop was to come up with anything to inspire me.... I'm thinking a browse around my fave online shop might be on the cards (oh, the pun!)

I completely forgot to share the things I made for the August Bubbly Funk Kit and emag so I'm going to rectify that over the next couple of days, while I get my breath back and make some other stuff.
This is a photo frame made from mountboard. I'm not sure the photo I used in the frame works very well, but as usual I was in a hurry and didn't have time to find a more suitable one.
This was a beautiful kit full of delicious, subdued shades, and some beautiful embellishments and accessories - and plenty of chipboard of course as that's Caroline's specialist product.
I made a Craft Robo template for cutting extra flowers to match those on the papers and added the download for that to the Bubbly Scrumptious emag for those who subscribed to the kit to use if they wished.
I used flowers cut with the template on this card too:
I used a DL card, as a starting point then drew swirly butterfly trails of tiny dots with a blue metallic pen all over the base card. I then made the centre panel with papers and card from the kit and added one of those fab 3D butterflies also from the kit.

If you've never tried a Bubbly Funk monthly kit before check them out here

More pics tomorrow

So Bright You've gotta wear Shades

We never quite know what Lythan will come up with for her dare when it's her turn to issue the challenge on the DCM. Sometimes, if we're really lucky they're even quite gentle......But this time - she's out to shock this week - in as bright and colourful way as possible

Her instructions to us were simple and to the point, and they made me gulp!

I want to see some shockingly bright colours
- the clashier the better!

I spent a few days mulling it over, and trying to work out what on earth I could do - I often do this while I'm working on other projects, I suppose I'm sitting there surrounded by my stash and even while concentrating on what I'm doing the wheels are whirring (if slowly) into action for whatever is next on the list. Well, as I was looking through my papers for some other reason I came across more of my new(ish) Fancy Pants papers, this time from the Celebrations set.
Oh boy, are they bright!
Subdued is not the word for these babies - but they are perfect for this dare - it was just a case of not wimping out and adding in some neutrals to take away a bit of the ouch! factor of all that colour and brightness.
I managed to resist calming things down a bit and actually now that it's finished I quite like the result. All of the colours and patterns go together so well - clever peeps these paper designers, aren't they?
So, if you've already given your eyes a shock, make sure you put your sunnies on before you head off to the Daring Cardmakers blog this week!

It wouldn't be the same if I didn't have a sneak peek or two to finish off a message - so here are a couple more of that work-in-progress I mentioned a few days ago.

Another Crafty Christmas Card

Here's another Christmas card made with one of the newest Crafty Templates and Goodies Kit
I used the smaller banner option to make my card, but there's also a nice big version which would be fab for making banners to hang in the house at Christmas or for Birthdays. I made a window in a DL card to frame the beautiful vellum that is part of the goodies kit, the other papers, buttons and the poinsetia sticker are also from the kit. I've cut the big letters with my Robo and the small ones at the bottom are K&Co rub-ons - which came in a fab Birthday Goody Bag from the lovely Sue

Hopefully I'll get something else made with this template set, but things are a bit hectic chez Waffle atm.
If you've never tried Leo's templates and other goodies, why not pop over to the Crafty Templates Website and the Crafty Templates Blog to find out what its all about and maybe order a template set for yourself. I don't think you'd be disappointed.

Lastly for now, it's another of those sneak peeks!

ooooh whatever could it be?

Crafty Templates October Delights

The new Template set and Goodies kit from the fabby Crafty Templates are out. The Goodies kit is a bumper one this time and has a Christmassy theme. As always, Leo's templates are fab and full of inspiration for all sorts of crafty uses - not just for cardmaking.
I've made some Christmas cards this time though.
These letters are quite big and I decided to try and make a fold that would let them really stand out. So I cut a piece of A4 lengthwise to just over the height of the letters (does that make sense???). I then made alternate wide and narrow folds; the wider ones are for the letters and the narrower ones to give a staggered effect when the card is standing up. I had to add an extra piece of card to make the back of the card as it needed to be much wider than one piece of A4 allows.
The card, when folded flat still fits in a C5 envelope.

The background is actually from a sheet of textured gold wrapping paper and the handcut scalloped edges are one of the BG Dasher papers. The torn papers I used for the letters are from the Crafty Templates Goodies Kit

One of Leo's wonderful shaped cards next.
Mr Robin is all dressed up and ready for a Christmas party. At first I was just going to make him in his normal brown and red feathers, but hey, it's Christmas and he felt like dressing up a bit. Although, by the look on his face he doesn't look convinced he got it right.
His red breast and Christmas hat are cut from felt, the papers and ribbon are from the Goodies Kit.
The Robin Template is soooo cute, but I reckon you could use the same basic template to make other cute birdies too.

I'll save my other card for tomorrow, I think.

I'm halfway through making my card for Friday's DCM. Incidentally, Vanessa's done the Little Extra this week, and has a great card sketch on there with some beautiful cards she's made using it - if you're looking for a bit of cardmaking help and inspiration pop over and have a look. Vanessa always makes inspiring and beautiful cards.

We've got MIL coming tomorrow so I should go and get on with sorting out the guestroom, I suppose. And think up some plans on what to do with her (now, now, I know what you're thinking....). At least Hubby is taking some time off while she's here which makes life a bit easier.

Rightio, back to my card for Lythan's dare - there now, I bet that scared you, Lythan's dares are often a bit scary, aren't they? hmmmmm

Yes, we Have no Tomatoes

Well, actually we have rather a lot of them.
I'd already spent hours and hours skinning, chopping and freezing bagfuls of tomatoes ready for adding to soups and sauces when I thought about taking this photo
On Sunday Hubby and I prepared all the ripe ones you can see here, which took ages - and then I went out and picked all the ones that were still on the plants. So there's still about the same amount as this sitting on the breakfasr bar.
Anyone want some tomatoes?
Tomatoe recipes gladly accepted too, btw.
Apparently its been a bad year for tomatoes.........

One last sneak peek of Bubbly Funk Kit projects for the October kit. I've got stacks of stuff still to use though, plus the paint tin that it comes in to decorate - so plenty of scope for more Christmassy Crafting yet.
I'm busy with loads of crafty projects atm so should have plenty to blog in the next week or so.
So much to do, so little time

PS
The new radiators seem to be doing their stuff - the lounge is no longer an ice-box and fleecy rugs may not be needed for the winter after all - well, they still may be if the fuel companies don't stop being so greedy.....
We also have water in the en-suite that doesn't take a full two minutes to warm up (what a waste) it used to be the last place the hot water got to, now that room gets the hot water first - which sounds such a small thing but makes such a difference. He needs to come back to fix the boiler though, and to make sure all the radiators are balanced properly. Should be a warmer Winter in our house this year, yay!

Right, enough procrastination. Coffee and back to work, I think

Warmer Winter, Hopefully!

Did you know?
4th October 1829
John Thompson of London designed the first greeting card.

So Happy Anniversary to cardmakers everywhere!

We've had the plumbers here today putting new radiators in our fridge-like lounge, Hopefully it won't be just a great big walk-in ice box any more. If I say that at 9 this morning, when the heating had been on since about 7 it had reached the heady temperature of 13º you'll realise why I'm so excited by something as dull as a couple of radiators, mind you, these new ones are monsters they are about 60" long, same as the old ones, but they are twice as deep. We'll wait and see whether they're all fur and no knickers though.
Sorry, that's a daft phrase a friend of mum's used to say and I just think it's such a good one that I have to slip it in whenever I can.

Postie came this morning and brought these:
Aren't they great? Thank you (L-R) Karen, Tracey, Janice and Nicky (the last one is the one I made), for my lovely little houses - this was a fab swap, I really enjoyed making my houses and I enjoyed it even more when the little envelope of swaps arrived this morning.

I thought I'd share a photo of a "work-in-progress" today. so here you go. I'll add some more pics when it's all finished. but this will have to do for now.

And finally....
some more sneak peeks of the things I've made for the October Bubbly Funk Kit

Not ordered it yet?
What on earth are you waiting for? Christmas?
hahaha

Scalloping Along

This week it's Keryn setting the dare over on the Daring Cardmakers Blog - and she's chosen something right smack in the middle of the comfort zone:

I'm just loving all the new scallop punches that are out at the moment, circles, ovals, squares, edges etc, etc and then there's the corner rounder and slit punches that can be used to scallop edges as well. Use your imagination, your scallop punches, your corner rounders, your cricuts and cuttlebugs to create any card to fit any style as long as it shows scallops. Please leave us a comment on this post to point us in the direction of your scallop cards.

Lovely!
Double lovely because I had an email at the beginning of the week asking me to make a New Baby card and I knew I could tie these two together - isn't it great when that happens? I made something quite similar to this as one of my Kit Designer projects for Bubbly Funk a couple of months back. I've changed the background scalloped shape to squares instead of the original circles, and I've used a different pram this time. I made the templates for the two scalloped squares and the little pram using PSP.
I've been practising using the preset shapes to make the pictures, then using the brush and fill tools to to the rest of the job. I think I might even be getting the hang of doing this sort of thing at last - I always know I'm getting to grips with anything techie when I don't have to call Hubby for help as often!
I embossed the upper pale blue section of the pram with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. Papers are Sassafras Lass - I've been hoarding the leftovers from that Bubbly Funk kit I mentioned earlier. This is my favourite paper from that set, so if I only use a little bit at a time, I can make it last a bit longer!
Chipboard circle from BF, silver heart brads, buttons and ribbon are all from my stash.

There are loads of scalloping good ideas on the DCM blog, so do go and have a look at what the girls have come up with this week. We'd love to see you joining in with the dares and sharing your ideas and your cards, so if you make a card with scallops this week, please leave a message on the blog telling us where we can see your creations.

It's Sneak Peek time again and who on earth could this be eh?
The October Bubbly Funk Kit is available for pre-order from the shop: If you like chipboard this kit is stuffed full of the sort of things that will make you ooohh and ahhh when you open it. There's more than 60 pieces of chipboard in this kit, plus a chipboard book to decorate, felt, ribbons, buttons, crackle paint, Stickles - and it all arrives along with a paint can all ready for you to decorate. Last but not least, subscribers to the kits have their own e-mag, with info and ideas not just about the kits but all sorts of other things too.
Go on, you know you want too.........

Houses and October Sneaks

Yes it's that time of the month when the new Bubbly Funk Kit appears in the shop for pre-order, and this month its a real wowzer! Mind you I say that every month!
This month we have something a little different for you and if you like chipboard then you'll not want to miss this one because there's more of the stuff than you could shake a stick at!

Here's the first sneak peek at what I've been doing with this fab kit

More of that another day - but if you want to see more of what's in the kit check it out here. It's big and it's beautiful and you won't want to miss it. Trust me, I'm a Crafter.....

Something else I've been making this week are these Little Houses
They're about 4" high and I had soooo much fun making them. Can you tell I've got a bit of a thing about Beach Huts?
I cut all the various bits on my Craft Robo, I made the templates using PSP pre-set shapes - the basic house shape is actually made using several triangles, the door with a rectangle and a squished circle shape and the hearts are PSP pre-sets. I just "drew" the scalloped edge with the paintbrush tool as I quite liked the idea of a bit of random!

The houses are for a forum swap. I send mine off and get one of them back, plus 4 different ones - can't wait to see them! I'm already planning how to display them.

Back soon with more teasing sneak peeks - ahhh, you know you love them really!