20 minutes can stretch to hours!

20 Minuters

The idea was meant to challenge us to find time for 20 minutes creative activity each day. Well, I have managed to fit at least 20 minutes activity into my daily schedule but for some reason this week I have not felt very creative.

Anyway, I decided I would put a few photos on my blog, just to show that I have been busy.

This was a little "dumfling" heart brooch that I made before Christmas so I just popped it onto one of my new cards.

Valentine card/gift maybe?










The card on the right was a machine felted and machine embroidered card topper. The colours are much fresher than this photo.











This card reminded me of the English cottage garden pictures on hand embroidered cloths. I used a scrap of printed fabric and then embellished it with machine embroidery and free machine stitching.




So there we are - certainly a good 20 minutes each day and more but I think the snow has frozen my mojo!!

I am sure Wipso has had a much more creative week and I look forward to seeing it all tomorrow.

Is it a card or a brooch? - WOYWW

Well, I dumfed away with my embellisher and a bag of sari silk waste last week and created these tiny dumflings (another new word Wipso!!) I intended them to be a sort of card topper and I was just going to glue them to a decorated card. Then, as often happens - when I am wide awake at 4 in the morning - I had this brainwave of adding beads and some hand stitching and a little brooch back, thus turning them into rather unusual little brooches.

Then I found some white cards embossed with a curly design and just pinned each brooch onto the centre square. I think I shall pop each one in a tiny jiffy bag and then they will be ready to go onto the shelf in our new blog shop!

If you want to see all the gorgeous goodies that Wipso has been making, then follow the link on the right and head over to Sisters Crafty Creations. We had lots of fun setting it up on Fun Day Monday and just have a few more shelves to fill. We are planning a celebration "Give-away" once we have it all sorted, so do keep popping back to check us out.

Well, she is named Wipso for more reasons than you know - so before she cracks that whip and starts asking where all my little dumflings are - I had better get them sorted out ready for the shelf she has dusted ready!!

Have a great week - and all you lovely card makers out there - do let me know what you think about dumfling brooches on cards.

Exciting Developments....

Our Fun Day Monday has been used wisely today. Our shop is slowly taking shape and the shelves are filling up nicely. Mrs Overall has dusted down the shelves and much giggling and squealing ensued as the little pocket bears and felties were popped on a shelf next to each other. Following a squabble amongst the puppets, the giggle of Iggies convinced Wipso to use their photo for the link to their shelf in the shop.
In the next day or so we hope to fill the gift, card and the picture shelves. We would love you to pop over to have a look so please use the link to Sisters Crafty Creations on the right of this blog. Please let us know what you think by leaving us a comment in the feedback blog at the top of the shop.
Thank you.

Shop opening soon...

Wipso and I are opening a blog shop so please look out for future developments here. Lots of people have shown real interest in our crafts and many have asked if we are selling them. As we have decided to work together on this, our new blog site will showcase gifts and cards made by each of us. Our shop will take a little while to get up and running so please watch this space.

Gorgeous wool and a giveaway link.

Just recently I have bought some gorgeous wool to use with my embellishing machine. Wipso and I decided that the colour schemes incorporated in these lovely yarns would help us when we were creating our little works of art.

It certainly worked when Wipso was making her little bags with a wool/felted/embellished flap. Pop over here if you are interested - they are so pretty!

And what do I do with my yarns?

This was my experiment from yesterday - a piece of white felt, embellished with wool rovings in colours which toned with one of my new yarns - Wendy-Roxy-California
I think I will make little Valentine card toppers with it now that I have added machine embroidery stitches and beads. Perhaps I will blog the finished items!

I spotted a fab giveaway whilst checking out a few crafty bloggers.

You can enter at this blog if you are looking for beautiful yarns or some japanese fabric.
http://tinywhitedaisies.blogspot.com/2010/01/one-year-blog-versary-give-away.html