Feeling Christmassy?

Umm no not really, but in the world of publishing most Christmas projects have been designed, worked on and delivered to the mags!

I made some mini christmas Crackers for issue 15 of Craftseller magazine, the Christmas issue, which is full of amazing ideas, out now in shops!

Here's a little look at them...

What Christmas crafts have you been inspired to make?

Annie x

love this idea..

I've just seen this post over at Heart Handmade and originally from here, and I think it is so simple and yet so AWESOME!!! I need to go and get some crates right now and make at least three for my kids and one for me too!

The simple ideas are always the best!

wordless wednesday

(Photos taken on a walk around our neighbourhood. ) x

Things I am liking right now...

I love this time of year, although I'm sad to see summer go, I love the crisper mornings, the sun shining lower in the sky, the colours of the trees, conker collecting and the cosy nights drawing in.

These photos are from last year, I love the colours, the sunshine and the memory of taking the kids to the park after school and filling bags with conkers and enjoying the late summer sun. Hoping to repeat this towards the end of the month this year.

What do you love about this time of year?

Annie x

catching up...

This was my OWOT post over at Truly, Madly, Crafty.....

One Word One Technique #33

Hi everyone,

time for another One Word One Technique

For a reminder of how 'One Word, One Technique' works, click here for Maxine's introduction.

The prompt for wk 33:

Technique - Punching

Word - Fiery

Hi everyone it's Annie here with this weeks OWOT! I have to admit I had to look up the definition of the word fiery as I had a vague idea of it's meaning, but wasn't 100% sure. So I printed out the definition and used this as a starting point for my page, which started life as a piece of A5 cream cardstock.

I then gathered some papers that had an orange, brown and red colour theme running through them to emphasise the passion side of the word. I don't own too many punches, but with the ones I had I used them to add a background and little dots of colour through the page. I loved the way the negative hearts looked on the orange paper and used this in the centre of the page. I used a small circle punch to make a border of half circles near the top. I really just played with the shapes and colours until I was happy with the page!

I hope this will inspire you to get those punches out, especially if you never use them and just have fun with them!

Annie x

saturday shots

Just a few random photos from the past week, we have had some HOT weather at last, but dare I say it, almost too hot! We went from rain, rain and more rain to burning hot sun in the space of 24hrs! But we enjoyed it!

and it's now July!

Where has the time gone? In between a mad busy few weeks and a dodgy modem with intermittent internet connection, I haven't updated in a while. But today I am back with the new post over at Truly, Madly, Crafty

One Word One Technique #29

Here's your next 'One Word, One Technique' prompt for July:

For a reminder of how 'One Word, One Technique' works, click here for Maxine's introduction.

The prompt for week 29 is:

June Technique - Sewing

This Week's Word - FREE

Here's my page for this week! I just had a bit of fun with this page, layering up little bits and pieces on top of a background that I made using watercolour crayons and acrylic paint. I then used my sewing machine to add a sewn freehand line to emphasise the word free.

 I hope you like this weeks page and the ideas I've used, please do link us to your creations as we'd love to see them.

Have fun, Annie