Firey fashion scarf

I made this scarf from a single ball of yarn I think it was RICO but not sure




I gave this to my sister Helen for her birthday today



I was very pleased the way the earthy red and orange colours came out against the black

Christmas scarfs

Here are the pictures if the scarf I made for my sister Helen

Christmas candle

Tonight we made some Christmas candles using vellum for a shade and a wine glass as a base.


A simple crescent shape is cut from vellum and this is wrapped around the glass to made a faux shade

Anything from your crafty stash can be used to decorate the shade.

I have decorated one in a Christmas theme ... White stazon is used here to stamp a random snowflake design and i have added silver deer cut outs and some silver stick on gems to decorate it. A punch has also been used to mirror the snowflake design.


I also made this more shabby styled design using Papermania vellum. I thought the roses looked really effective.... A laced up ribbon design added both a design element and a practical application in that it held the shade together with having to glue it. Some additional detail has been added by highlighting some of the elements of the roses with a sticky glue pen and then embellishing with glitter. Again gems have been added around the edge to highlight the bottom.


Remember folks only use the faux tea lights in these. Our local store sells 4 battery operated tea lights for £1.00, so an inexpensive gift idea that can be personalised for any occasion.


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Christams candle

Tonight we made some Christmas candles using vellum for a shade and a wine glass as a base.

A simple crescent shape is cut from vellum and this is wrapped around the glass to made a faux shade

Anything from your crafty stash can be used to decorate the shade.

I have decorated one in a Christmas theme ... White stazon is used here to stamp a random snowflake design and i have added silver deer cut outs and some silver stick on gems to decorate it. A punch has also been used to mirror the snowflake design.


I also made this more shabby styled design using Papermania vellum. I thought the roses looked really effective.... A laced up ribbon design added both a design element and a practical application in that it held the shade together with having to glue it. Some additional detail has been added by highlighting some of the elements of the roses with a sticky glue pen and then embellishing with glitter. Again gems have been added around the edge to highlight the bottom.


Remember folks only use the faux tea lights in these. Our local store sells 4 battery operated tea lights for £1.00, so an inexpensive gift idea that can be personalised for any occasion.

Animal card

Tonight I was inspired to make this animal card


The background is made from a single piece of black paper randomly ripped to create a camouflage style effect



A few animal type sentiments complete the look


I also used some fluffy hairy wool to make a rustic style sign for the "have a wild one" sentiment and a black brad to symbolise a nail holding up the sign

I used a single zebra stamp and the masking technique to replicate the zebra twice to make the little herd

The zebra are coloured with promarker in cool grey 5

I grounded the zebra by using a different promarker cool grey 1 to give the illusion of them walking in the bush velt



The border is simply a piece of ribbon from my stash which I thought mirrored the style and colour of the card

more Christmas pro marker designs

here is a lovely card done with pro markers, a different colour scheme than the usual green and red