Knits for toddler

 

Between my daily activities, cardmaking & quilting, I knit.  These days I mainly knit for charity, trying to use up my yarn stash.  I made this sweater & hat for a care worker's little boy.  Since taking the photo I have added a pompom to the hat.  

This is a great pattern for little ones as it has the shoulder opening to make it easy to put on.  It includes a sweater, jacket and hat.  The pattern is Sirdar 3100, sizes 0 - 6 years, and would be good for someone with a basic knowledge of knitting as it is an easy knit design.

The two other jumpers will go to the hospital with some hats & slippers.  Apparently a lot of kids turn up at hospital with nothing.

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asyoulikeit-favourite-non-card-project-and-why  I can knit while watching TV, is very relaxing.  Nice to make something useful  for others.

Wishes on Water

 

I made this card for a gentleman who has gone to a rest home.  In his life he has always been an outdoors person, so I thought he would like this.

Stamped image, ink blended water & sky area in blue and tree area in green using Ranger Distress Inks. Misted with Perfect Pearls for a bit of sparkle.  Mat in green, diecut sentiment with shadow.  Stamp & diecut unknown.

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Peanuts Some Birdie

I made this to give husband Ian for our wedding anniversary - 57 years!

Peanuts image mag freebie from Practical publishing, coloured with Copics, EF with little flowers.  Stickles for sparkle.  Background panel stencilled with metallic watercolour paints.

Inside it says ME!  with my personal message to him.

He encourages my craft and always appreciates a handmade card.

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Woof Birthday

 

We always love to have your animal creations trot, fly, slide or swim over to show off at Critter Crazy, visit us here: crittercrazy

Welcome to our next Challenge here at Critter Crazy Challenge with our theme "Anything Goes with a Featured Critter."

We want to see animals as the focus - whether real or fantasy! 

And also don't forget to check in on the last day of the month to see if you are a winner or a DT-Favourite! 

A card for a dog-lover.  I made it for a man's birthday.

The stamps are all Inkadinkado.  I added an ombre strip/snippet of paper for this Woofy to sit on, and another at the top for the tag to sit on.  I re-discovered my goggly eyes (no, they weren't lost, just hiding from me) which was a happy addition for this pooch.  Also diecut tag and black ribbon.

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Dare to Be

 

Our local NZ cardmakers internet group have a monthly swap and June is for stencils.  How handy that I have stencils and love using them.  

Here I combine two different ones plus a bit of masking for ground.  The background uses pearly watercolour paint to colour the stencil and the people one uses brown Rust Effect artExtravagance texture paste, with one person (yes you Dawn) standing out in gold (metallic rub-on Craf-T Products).  The bottom is masked and uses watercolour paint.  The stamped sentiment (Tracy Evans) like a typewriter is cut in strips to add texture and layer.  The metallic gold rub-on accentuates the texture.

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Strawberry Notes

 

Nothing says summer more than strawberries (well, maybe raspberries too).  Just picked, eaten fresh, in a salad, on a dessert, or in a drink!

These strawberries are a very old stamp & die set, a magazine freebie from Practical Publishing; the strawberries are diecut from white card and coloured with Copics.  The background basketweave EF is from WeRMemoryKeepers.  Basket & senti diecut unknown.  Basket & background both rubbed with metallic wax in dark metal then gold.    The metallic rub-ons are really old too:  Craf-T.  Finished with gold pearls.  Everything from stash.

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Beautiful Birds & Blooms

 

A beautiful patterned paper from Daphne's Diary.  I love the watercolour effect and also the fact that some is left uncoloured.  I added a diecut sentiment with shadow in gold mirror card from Simon Says Stamp, and some gold cord & gold pearls from stash.  I left it fairly simple as the paper was so beautiful.

Suitable for many occasions.

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Birthday Shining

 

I love doing challenges, they really inspire and motivate me.  Thanks to all the challenge presenters out there - you do a great job!

Blue shining-look diecut panel, a pretty daisy pattern paper background peeping through (a little bit of frosty sparkle here), diecut sentiment with metallic teal card.

This card looks really happy happy!  I like the way the type is randomly set. It feels happy.

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Natures Secret

 

These summery butterflies bring an important thought.  The background is watercolour stencil printed using Ranger DI's.  Add a diecut banner, stamped Hero Arts butterflies coloured with DI's, gems,  Opal Dust on butterfly bodies, & twine.  

These stamps are among my first papercrafting purchases many years ago, everything is from stash.

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Peanuts Always Here

 

I have always loved Peanuts humour and was so pleased to get this stamp set (Practical Publishing) with a Creative Stamping magazine recently.  I stamped and coloured with Copics, white pen dots.  Diecut a frame and stamped the sentiment separately on the frame and gold embossed.  Base card is linen finish.  When you read the sentiment, remember it is Lucy!

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Lucky Peanuts

 

I just got this Peanuts stamp set with Creative Stamping magazine by Practical Publishing.  It usually takes about 2 months for magazines to reach us.  It has loads of images all cute as can be!  I had to make something straight away.  These stamps are great for man cards - not frilly at all, but still leave a bit of love!

The background is watercolour card (so quite thick), coloured with Distress Oxide Spray and splatter.  I embossed it with a Cuttlebug EF, then distressed the edges.  The image panel is stamped, coloured with Copics, edges distressed.  I covered the black (drop-outs from a die) dots and hearts with Glossy Accents.

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Amazing Cool

 

The base card is pale blue.  Background is made using leftover strips/snippets (Yes, I have a container of them) glued to a piece of card then overlaid with a diecut of positive words.   Snippet strips are smooth, glitter, textured & metallic.  What a great sentiment. Black dots embellishment.

I reckon this is a great card style for masculine as it doesn't have frills but is still colour-interesting.

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Just a note

 

Another Parkinsons fundraiser red tulip card.

This is a stencil, coloured & shaded with Distress inks.  A red band edged in gold embossing with a stamped sentiment in gold embossing.  A little bit of glimmer with WoS on the blooms.

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Rusty Crow

 

Two stencils on black card.  One using metallic watercolour paint, the other using two colours of Rust Effect paste from artExtravagance.  I made the sentiment on the computer and stacked it.  Gold pen, black pen, for eyes.  I put the frosted pearl in its mouth because I know they like to collect shiny things.

I know this isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I like it and I had fun making it.  I will just have to be selective with who I send it to.

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Scotty Birthday

 

This was a request from a friend made for an older man's birthday.  His dog's name is Chloe - this stamp looks just like her.  

I used a banner die, a little label diecut, a buckle die (Memory Box), and a doggy stamp & sentiment from Inkadinkado.  I cut a dog collar from the lime card and attached a tag from stash, stamped with a pawprint to continue the doggy theme.  I found googly eyes in my stash and decided to add them for a bit of fun.  Inside I added another collar strip along with a birthday greeting.

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Wildflowers

 

I love this watercolourish look, even though it isn't watercolour at all!  It's just a stamp inked with various shades of blues & greens, how pretty is that?  The stamps are all IndigoBlu - flowers,  dragonfly & sentiment, and embossed.

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