Dawns Breast Cancer Awareness Challenge.

Dawn Lancaster, one of my amazing teamies at Feline Playful is running a challenge, starting today, for Breast Cancer Awareness. Ends 29th Sept. I'm sure you'll agree it's a great cause, there are few of us who have not had our lives touched by this disease, if not ourselves, then a family member or friend. I lost a friend two years ago because of it, and have a male friend who is fighting it right now.

Dawn is doing this in dedication of her Mom who has been fighting Breast Cancer for the last 18mths, she has lost her hair....and in aid of charity Dawn will be having her hair shaved on the 8th. Her Challenge is simply Breast Cancer Awareness and/or Think Pink....not a little, use a lot. There is also information on donating to Breakthrough Breast Cancer.

I'm sponsoring the challenge with a few bits of my handmade items...one little extra not shown in this post, because shes not finished yet. Besides my little offering, there are some very wonderful prizes, A Goodie bag from Joanna Sheen, $40 gift voucher from Saturated Canary....there are another 7 sponsors besides. It's well worth taking part.

Please go to Dawns Blog to hear all the details of why she's doing this; see all the prizes on offer; details on joining the challenge; and look at the inspiration from the team she's gathered together for this.


There are 3 pieces of each colour lace, plus the pink and white trim; a crocheted doily in each colour and fimo flowers, in matching colours, extras such as keys, buttons and little dragonflies. Also a few crocheted flowers and ribbon flowers.

 A couple of close ups.

Hop over to Dawn's Blog and join the CHALLENGE.

On Top Of The World

This is for one of two friends who were Baptised last weekend. This is for a man, so I held off on the embellishments, though managed to get in a few gems, lace and ribbons lol. This is a Mo's Digital Image, coloured with ProMarkers - wish it fitted with the latest DP2 challenge. My papers are Kay & Co and I did my background in the style of Dorcas, though hers are cleverer and stitched with a real sewing machine...mine are 'stitched' with a sakura pen. I glued a couple of buttons together (top one is Ribbon Girl) as my sun and added ribbons as sun rays. My lace 'grass' is crocheted by little me. 

I'm entering this for 

Bearly Mine Challenge #37 - Animal Kingdom.

Anniversary Waltz

This is an Anniversary Card for my sister (and Hubby of course) who celebrate the end of next month...and yes it's made already.......whether or not I actually get it in the post on time is another matter of course. 

My Image is from Delicious Doodles, another of those I won with ATC's & Cards with Attitude. Teri at DD gave her permission for me to add the music background with my photoshop. 

The blurred object on the sentiment is a fimo hummingbird. In shimmering pearl white, it's just not showing up too well. 

 My crocheted lace trim. 

Receipe...

Image - Kind Permission of Delicious Doodles 

DP's - Kay & Co

Stamp - Penny Black ( from Sarah Wright Ebay Shop)

Visit her great new store Craft All Day

Crochet Lace and fimo bird - handmade

Heart gems - stash

Sentiment - Computer generated

I'd like to enter this in 

4 Crafty Chicks Music Inspired Challenge 

Editied

Won Top 3 at 4 Crafty Chicks ..Yippie!!

Easely Love, Love, Love.

Been A good while since I posted, I've still been crafting, bit by bit, but not had my head on straight enough to post...hopefully I'll manage to make sense!!

I made this Anniversary card for friends, a lovely couple. It had been a while since I'd made a white on white and I enjoyed making this one. Sorry the images are so fuzzy...you just can't get the staff now-a-days lol. It's a double easel card. 

 Image from a set by Penny Black. Called 'A Good Catch'. I stamped in black and embossed in clear, was a bit of a mistake as made it difficult to colour some of the tiny parts with my pencils....I used Lyca. I'm still not very good with them, but persevering. I dry embossed the backgrounds and then inked the raised edges and wet embossed those. I also went over them with mica spray.....I wanted it lovely and shimmery.

I found the sentiment online. Two great sites for verses and sentiments are Quote Garden and  Imag-n-ation. Imag-n-ation also sell great digi images amongst other things. 

My flowers are crocheted, I've put some of my lovely mother of pearl buttons as centres. 

 I have a little lift up flap for space to put my personal message, with another little quote, I quite like this one and thought it went well with the image. 

  The letters are made with pearl fimo, I used fimo cutters, and I've used a mica spray over the top. 

I'd like to enter this in the challenge at 

Hotshot Crafts Blog for Easel Cards.