Blogoversary Give Away

This post will stay at the top of my blog till the 15th September so you will need to go down to find any newer posts!

On the 15th September this blog will be 7 years old.  So as a thank you to all the lovely people that have been on this blogging journey with me, my time in Saudi Arabia, then Canada and now, Australia, and have been so supportive and kind about all of my mini books, weird projects, tales of abayah wearing and snow shovelling, I thought I would do a blogoversary give away.

I did think perhaps the way to go was to dig into my stash (it's not like there is a shortage of the stuff) but then I thought perhaps the person who won it might not be into stamps and paper and stuff... so I made something instead. The person who wins might now be thinking why didn't she stick to the stash idea!

So I found one of my precious Bisto Gravy Granual tubs and made a cotton reel...

This is the lid that lifts off...

The decorated sides... with dangly bit... gotta have a dangly bit!

and inside is the snippet roll I have been working on...

There are beads, bling, buttons, lace, Chinese coins... paper beads... yep, I flung the lot at it!

Close up of the paper beads I made... I love them!

I used Graphic 45 Communique papers for the cotton reel and Communique fabric in the snippet roll.

So if you would like to win this.... it is very easy! Just add a comment to this post....   which if I am successful will stay at the top of my blog till the 15th September, which is the anniversary and on the 15th I will use a random number generator to pick a number.  yep, that's all you have to do... no jumping through hoops and I don't mind where you live.... 

Cards....

Now I have managed to clear up after the fairy castle... isn't amazing just how far glitter can travel?  I thought I would continue with my self-imposed challenge of using all my TH dies... and it seemed like a good idea to make cards.

I wanted a card to go with the blogoversary giveaway... so used good ole Graphic 45 Communique papers and the lovely vintage telephone die.  I had some awesome black cardboard packaging from some David Yurman perfume which was glossy and shiny and looks like the old plastic stuff that phones were made from.

and I had enough of it to make a typewriter version

then I thought I would get clever (always a bad idea) and do one with a dictionary page as a background, it definitely needs something else... just not sure what!

and I was on the slippery slope downhill from there... but I did use the hanging sign die!  I don't have the rosette die so I had to make my own version. 

and I stamped the backs with this... I love this stamp, it just makes me smile because people are never sure if I will or not.... ;)

Oh yes... more cards! I'm on a roll!

You may just have to bear with me for a couple days while I get this out of my system.... I could just blame Julia and her post about not using Tim Holtz dies because I commented that it would be a challenge to actually use all the Tim Holtz dies I have!!  LOL

So here is the vintage telephone die... I made a quick card for Julia to thank her for getting me the Communique fabric I recently made into a quilt for my family room. I used Graphic 45 Communique papers, which seemed appropriate.

and this actually uses TWO dies! The wings one and the tick tock one... which is a birthday card for my step-daughter... and I used the hands to indicate her age! Heeee heeee heee!

I think I have 10 more to go... sorry about that....

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and here we all are ready to tour the world squinting into other peoples' craft areas!  You will be amazed at how neat some folk are while crafting and truly gobsmacked at what wonderful things others can make in their own little mess!! Pop over to Julia, our esteemed leader of noseyness, and check out all the fun.

This is my desk this morning... the little dressform is still waiting for her final transformation and on my desk are three large pretend buttons that I made to go on my quilt and rejected... they just didn't sit right so I made some smaller versions that I am happier with.

Here is my Graphic 45 Communique quilt on its new home on the sofa in the family room...

It got the Tom-Tom seal of approval too!  You can also see that I had enough material to make a quilted cushion for the sofa...

Not bad eh?  

and what do you think of my newly invented double binding?  LOL  I wanted a black border around the panel but I also wanted a patterned binding... so I sewed the black binding to the front and the wider patterned binding to the back and the sewed them together... and yes, it was a major faff but it looks so nice I did the same thing to the cushion... a beggar for punishment.. that's me!

and the beady eyed will notice that above the sofa is a picture... which I have 'altered' slightly!! LOL

It used to look like this... and when we were putting the pictures up a few weeks ago, Chris mentioned that he had never really liked it... so I thought he wouldn't mind me playing with it... at least, I think it was that one he said he didn't like... its been changed for 3 days and he hasn't noticed yet so I think I got away with it... 

This is the first set of buttons I did...

and this is the second set... still on the fence post about them...

I love how the puffed up bits look on it... they were fun to do... NOT!!  

So with the altered TV unit with the Communique papers and the Ikea box on the top... think that is my family room sorted quite nicely for now!