Ready, Steady, Craft...

As a member of the Joanna Sheen forum I was really lucky to have been chosen for the September 'Ready, Steady, Craft' Challenge.

This is a challenge based on the TV programme Ready, Steady, Cook, but instead of food it's craft! Each month Joanna chooses choose four people from her list of volunteers and provides them with some “ingredients”. These ingredients are craft items from her website.

The volunteers then have to make a card using these items plus anything from their “larder” which is a list of items they may have at home.

This month we were given:-

• Craft UK - no scissors required decoupage book 10·


• Mars Stardream Card·


• Mini Tassels in brown (a gold colour)·


• Self adhesive pearls - dark grey (almost black)

How lucky were we?

My 'larder' additions included gold mirri card and gold peel offs.

Thank you to Joanna (and Tina for original idea I believe) for being kind enough to organise this for your forum members. It was great fun and very much appreciated.

Buttons...

The challenge at http://www.dutchdare-cardchallenges.blogspot.com/ is to use buttons on your cards. Here is one I made for a good friend of mine.

Materials used:

• purple and lilac pearlescent card
• fiskars embossing board in swirl pattern
• lilac patterned paper by English Paper Company
• purple embroidery cotton
• buttons
• stamps by Stampin up
• plastic canvas mesh circular grid and rectangle to create stitching holes

Gifts...

This post is purely for fun - well aren't they all?

As you can see Paris Hilton absolutely loved her new fridge magnet and as the challenge at http://abc-challenge.blogspot.com/ is to make a gift for someone I think this counts. LOL!!!

Scroll down to see a proper photo of her gift.

I found this link to a site that enables you do all sorts with your photos of cards, etc on another blogger's blog and couldn't resist using it...

http://www.photofunia.com/