My obsession with bags

 First let me appologize for the very old posts from 2011 that might have popped up for you, some posts from back then had a link to the challenge at Wild Orchid challenge and apparently that site is flagged now for virus or malware. Blogger sent me a notice so I fixed the posts and when Blogger checked them they posted them again, with today's date... sigh...

Anyhow, if you know me you know that I love gift bags and that doesn't necessarily mean paper bags. Oh no, I realized that I have hoarded fabric bordering on silly and I found a bag - yes a whole bag - of zippers so I have dusted off my sewing machine and made some fabric bags and why make one when you can make plenty :)

I selected one that I will enter in some challenges and then I will line up the ones I made this far. Picture heavy doesn't begin to describe it :)

Challenges:

Allsorts - summer
Try it on Tuesday - feminine
TTCRD - A/G
613 Avenue - A/G
Shopping our stash - WTH embellishments (why on earth did I have a whole bag of zippers???)

And here we go:

My big bag for shopping: 

Various size bags:

Cell phone bags:

And zipper pouches:

My daughter asked me if I needed this many bags. "Honey, need has nothing to do with crafting!"

Summer poppies

 I saw a nice sketch that I wanted to test out so I stepped away from the Christmas cards and used these poppies from My favourite things, coloured with Festive Berries distress oxide for the red and a mix of Rustic Wilderness and Mowed Lawn for the green. Sentiment is computer generated using the font Hashed browns outline.

Challenges:

MFT Stamps - sketch
The paper shelter - A/G
Fab'n'Funky - A/G
Happy little stampers watercolor - A/G
Welovestamping - A/G with hot sunny colors
Stamping sensations - Summer blooms
Addicted to stamps and more - Any occasion
The flower challenge - CAS

Christmas bauble in July

 Another Christmas card using distress oxides on a bauble stencil from Sweet Poppy stencils and stamps from Lavinia placed in the middle. 

I love my new stencil and will probably use it lots :), and might I remind you of our current challenge at ABC Christmas where the theme is N for New and O for Old.

Challenges:

Allsorts - Christmas in July
Lilpatchofcraftyfriends - A/G
613 Avenue - A/G
AAA cards - Christmas (pets) in July
Dare2Bartzy - Christmas in July
CHNC - Anything Christmas
Less is More - traditional Christmas
Inkspirational - Favourite color in monochrome
Taylormadecards4U - Holidays in July
CRAFT challenge - Christmas
CraftyGalscorner - Christmas in July
The holly and Ivy challenge - A/G
Crafty Catz - Christmas in July
Alphabet challenge - Holidays

🎅ABC Christmas 🎄 - New and Old ☃️

 This month at 🎅 ABC Christmas Lynda set the theme to N for New and O for Old. I chose N for New as in Newborn baby, using a stamp from Lili of the Valley, coloured with distress inks, and the sentiment is made using a really old die cut set of letters, so I guess I fill the O for Old as well :)

Lynda also has a lovely prize for a lucky winner:

      

Other challenges:

Crafty Catz - A/G

Creative fingers - A/G

Merry little Christmas challenge - A/G

Sweet stampers - Christmas in July

TTCRD - A/G

Cutiepie challenges - Little cuties

Double trouble - Christmas in July

The holly and ivy - Anything Christmas goes

Allsorts - allsorts of animals

We love stamping - A/G

Happy little stampers - Christmas in July

Christmas in July

 Christmas in July is a popular challenge theme, personally I love to make Christmas cards and projects all year round :). Today I have a snowman card in red and white. Stamp is Penny Black, the doily and the letters are die cuts and to make the letters pop I traced the edges with a black pen. 

challenges:

Christmas kickstart - show us your snowfolk
Happy little stampers - July Christmas A/G
The holly and Ivy - A/G
Unicorn challenge - Christmas in July
PBSC - A/G or spots/stripes
Corrosive challenges - A/G
Love to craft - A/G
The creative crafters - A/G
DoubleTrouble - Christmas in July

Summer cards

 Got two cards today:

A paper pieced image from Chocolate Baroque on a printed paper background, coloured with distress inks

Challenges:

The flower challenge - CAS

Lilpatchofcraftyfriends - A/G

Stamping sensations - Summer flowers

Allsorts - Flora
ColorCrazy - A/G
CraftyCatz - flowers

Aud sentiments - flowers + sentiment

And a bright and sunny card using stamps from Lavinia. 

Challenges:

We love stamping - Hot sunny colors
Polkadoodles - A/G
Taylormade Cards4U - A/G
The fairy and the unicorn - Fantasy
TTCRD - A/G