What do 36 large crochet squares make?

I first crocheted 36 of the lovely squares above,
edged them, sewn them together, then did a double row edging to the whole piece,
and it has turned into a wonderful double bed throw,
this is nice and heavy as it was made by myself using aran wool
I am over the moon and very pround of completing this within 3 weeks of starting it,
and that includes knitting a hat, baby jumper as well which I will show photos of later.

You will have to excuse the photo's as my bed is a king size and we dont have much room in our bedroom as you can see, to get decent photos and the weather is rubbish today so no sun either.
Thanks for looking and taking the time to leave a comment.
hope you are all well.
Hugs
Angie
x X x

Forever Friends Sketch

I said earlier that I had made two of these tags, well here is the second one,
I did it to follow the sketch over on http://foreverfriendschallengeblog.blogspot.com
I thought of just doing it as a tag, but then decided to make it into a notelet card,
The difference between this one and the first one I did, are that I added ribbon on this one and two lovely little charms.
Hugs
Angie

Fathers Day Teddy

This card is for Fathers Day, I stamped and embossed the teddy in his chair with his paper in gold, on pale blue card, then after colouring hime with sakura pens, mounted it onto a darker blue and then onto gold mirri board, the two beighe with gold roses are a piece of card I had in my stash, so thought I would use it up, this is my version of the sketch at http://mojomonday.blogspot.com

This also has gems, bottle top, charm, mini domino, ribbon on it for the challenge over at http://cupcakecraftchallenges.blogspot.com

I have not done the inside yet as I want to put a special personalised message in it for my dad or hubby depending on whether I make another one thats more suitable to either of them.

Stars and Stipes WOJ meets Sketch and Stash,

Like the title says Stars and stripes Whiff of Joy challenge, meets Sketch and Stashes sketch challenge, you can see the challenges here http://sketchandstashchallenge.blogspot.com and http://wojmondaychallenge.blogspot.com

I made a 5.5" square card, from cream cardstock from my stash, got my new papers the stars is from funky fairys please see link on side bar, and the stripes are from a magazine giveaway,

used dark green card to mount the watercoloured Whiff Of Joy stamp on, that I embossed with clear after stamping in black, I also stamped again onto a scrap bit of the stripes paper and cut out the trousers,

The sketch was a great one, I really enjoyed doing this, I have even done the inside to match,

Hope you all like it

Hand Cut decoupage planes

Good Morning, Its a beautiful day, nice and sunny,

I have made this hand cut decoupage card this morning, its of two planes, that I hand cut out and decoupaged up, then embossed the front of the card and cut down the embossing,

found two papers from my stash, and cut them to go on the card,

I also added a skeleton leaf, not sure why it just felt right,

I am entering this in the decorative cuts challenge over at http://onestopcraftchallenge.blogspot.com/

FunkyFairy Challenge

Hi, over at http://funkyfairyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/ they have a recipe challenge this week, it is for One Image, Two papers, and Three embellishments,

The card above is my entry,
My one Image came from Daisymay digistamps, I coloured her in sakura pens, and also the edge of the cameo to match her dress,
I used the two papers on the card, these came from funkfairy see the link on the side bar,
and my 3 embellishments, are one piece of pink lace, folded at the corner, one pink ribbon, and a pink gem brad that came from candy winnings the other day, (see previous post)

Betty Boop - black dress and sketch challenge entry

This evening I have made this Betty Boop card,

I stamped and embossed Betty Boop and butterflys, then coloured them in with sakura pens,

the dress is black, and the butterflys are multi coloured,

I made my own backing papers,

I am entering this in two challenges,

1) Charisma Cards Black Dress Challenge - http://charismacardz.blogspot.com/

2) Stamp & Smile Sketch Challenge - http://sasthefreshbatch.blogspot.com/

let me know what you think of it,

Cutie Sunday Sketch

After all that washing and boring housework stuff, I just had to make a card,
I made this card following the sketch on Cutie Sunday, so I am entering it into their challenge,
on http://cutie-sunday.blogspot.com/2009/04/cutie-sunday-37-12042009.html

The paper comes from www.funkyfairyspapercrafts.com
The stamp is an old one I had and came from personal impression,
I stamped in black, embossed in clear, and watercoloured with my pencils,

The little saying 'celebrate today' came from my stash, its a foiled one,
The yarn down the side also came from my stash, it was kindly sent to me from a friend from the making greetings card yahoo group I belong to.

Whiff Of Joy - sketch challenge

Here is another challenge card I have made today, this one is for the sketch challenge on
http://wojmondaychallenge.blogspot.com/2009/04/challenge-25.html

I only have two WOJ stamps at the moment, but have them on my wish list,
The marble backgrounds where from a friend in my yahoo group, (thank you),
I stamped and embossed and water coloured this lovely girl,
then created my version of the sketch,

Will not be cardmaking any more today, going to knit this evening, as want to get my scotty dog finished, about 3/4's of the way there with him,

Gift - Penny Black Challenge Entry

This is my entry to the 'gift' challenge on the penny black blog, which you can find here - http://pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge.blogspot.com/2009/04/week-44-gift.html

I have had so much fun doing this today, It has several postcards in it, and a little note booklet,

All which I have stamped with penny black stamps, and on the back as you can see in one of the photos I have used the penny black postcard stamp,

To make the card bag, I used one of the glitter girls keepsake boards, called the multibaz,

I decorated the front of the card bag with peel offs and a 3d mouse which I think is like the penny black mouse on the stamp gone fishing,

This is going to be a gift for someone in a yahoo group I belong to,

hugs

Angie

whiff of Joy - musing melinda - earrings

I have absolutely fell in love with WHIFF OF JOY stamps, this one is my upmost favourite at the moment,
So after making the little gift box with her on top yesterday, (see other post further down)
I just had to use her again today, and I thought while making the Tweety Pie earrings,
why not make her into earrings as well,
so above you can see the results,

Rainbow Lady Challenge - Danglers entry

Here is my entry into the Danglers challenge on http://rainbowladyschallengeblog.blogspot.com/2009/04/challenge-55-danglers.html

I thought it would be nice to do something else apart from a card, so I stamped the tweety onto shrink plastic coloured and shrunk them and made them into dangly earrings,

Stamptacular Sunday challenge entry

Today my first lot of stamping I have done is for a new challenge over at http://stamptacularsundaychallenge.blogspot.com/

its a great new blog so why not pop over and see the challenge and do some crafting,

I have used two papers for the base of the card, separated with a purple ribbon, added my sentiment at the bottom under the penny black elephant (which I adore as he is so cute),
I embossed him and coloured him with sakura souffle pens, mounted him on gold mirri board,
and then added a purple flower at the top corner, which I also added a little gold butterfly gem to the centre,
Hope you like it,

friday sketchers challenge entry for this week,

This is my version of the sketch on http://fridaysketchersblog.blogspot.com/ for this week,

I went for nice bold colours and a male theme this week for it,

layered reds and blues, and stamped the image, coloured it with various sakura pens,

My Time to craft challenge - Island fun - my entry

This my entry to another challenge, this one is on http://mytimetocraftchallenge.blogspot.com/

and its island fun this week,

printed out the gorgeous backing paper that I had on a cd, and same goes with the cheeky melon eating penguin,

then added all the little embellishments,

making this card made me feel like summer, brightened up the day here as its dull and chilly,

stamp something challenge entry,

This is my entry to the current stamp something challenge,
at http://stampchallenges.blogspot.com/2009/03/sketch-something-challenge.html

I made the back ground papers myself, then stamped the Rose in black, embossed it with holographic powder, and coloured it in with sakura pens,

challenge entry for sketch and stash,

Here is my entry for the challenge at http://sketchandstashchallenge.blogspot.com/

The stamp was my stash that I hadnt used before,

the paper was one that I also found in my to be used stash, (bits not quite big enough for a whole card on their own)

I used my brand new h20's for colouring the embossed stamp in,

my entry for #43 saturdaysketch,

Above is the photo of the card I have stamped and made for the saturdaysketch #43,
http://sketchsaturday.blogspot.com/

I stamped and embossed this in gold, coloured it with sakura pens, then matted and layered it onto shades of blues and golds,
huggies
Angie

Another stamped challenge card by lilacanglia

After having a lovely day, I have also stamped this card for a challenge on

http://cardpositioningsystems.blogspot.com/

I am getting addicted to stamping now, in case y'all hadnt noticed,

I used to be so worried and frightened of stamping, but seeing some challenges on blogspot, and other sites like stamptv.comand Michael Strong stamping yahoo group, etc,
I thought I would try it out, and now you can all see the results,

My advice is dont be frightened or worried, just try it, if not sure try on scrap first, then practice,

huggies

Angie

My Sons Crafting for his school project,

Today I want to show off my middle son Hayden's craftyness,

The photos above are of the castle he made for his school project,

complete with lowering drawbridge, and turrets (towers),

he even borrowed (on a permanent basis) two sheets of my dolls house wall paper to show the brick pattern, he painted the inside of the drawbridge, and then added lolly sticks to the outside of it, made his own flag, and cut up and stuck toilet roll inners to make the towers,

I am proud of him for doing this, even tho his teacher didnt show any encouragement to him,