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Needle Felted Fox

Hello and I do hope you don't mind my "non cardmaking" posts.  I guess I will find out how many unsubscribe for that answer!!   

As you know for Christmas I treated myself to a little needle felting kit and I have fallen totally and utterly for it.  Since Christmas I have been selling lots of older stamps and dies and getting money for my felting stash and I am a wee bit addicted to "fluff".   Part of my Ebay fund was spent on a couple of kits, one of which was the Lincolnshire Fenn Crafts Fox Kit.

I finally got around to making it and I am pleased how it come out.  Still lots to learn and I would love to find a class to go to but failing that there are people out there like Sandy from Lincolnshire Fenn Crafts who take the hard work out of it and make these lovely kits.  Everything you need to make one complete animal, very detailed instructions jam packed with photos, a sponge, needles, beads and of course wool... literally Everything you need to complete the project.

Caiden decided that this fox was called Freddy :)

A funny story about where Freddy is sitting for the above photo.  This morning in the pot behind him was a lump of leather off an older armchair we have broken

up to take the dump.  Our "real" Foxes decided to bury this piece of 

leather along side my spring flowers!  

Needless to say the leather has been rehomed in a rubbish bag.

What a beautiful day to be a fox!

I can not wait to get started on my Hare and Cat kits from 

Lincolnshire Fenn Crafts

If you are remotely tempted to try needle felting I would have a 

look at their designs :)  and tell them Caz sent ya for some Wooly fun!

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C375

According to the Days of the Year web site, Thursday 2nd March was World Book Day. For our challenge this week take your inspiration for making your card from a book … adults or children’s book whatever you prefer.

I made this card for today's Create & Take at work and I thought it fitted the book
"The Dressmaker" by Rosalie Ham.

I admit I have not read this book, I think I would enjoy it but I do fancy the film

I have no clue why?!

I have used the GORGEOUS Penny Black stamp "Sew Much Fun"

and the Crealies Stitching stamps.

You can see all the cards that the other Crazy4challenges team have made

Link TOP LEFT

Crazy 4 Challenge C4C373

Hello
Its challenge time again over at the Crazy 4 Challenges blog and this week it is a sketch.

Here is the sketch and here is my take on the sketch.

I decided that I wanted to play with Poppy the Owl

from Karen Burniston HERE

I also used a few things that were lying close to hand such as the Sizzix tree that

I used as branch, and the Sizzix Cloud at the bottom of the page.

A simple card, but sometimes simple is good eh?

You can see all the other designs on their blogs

LINKS TOP LEFT to the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.

Until next time!
Cazx

Paper Pros Challenge 001

Welcome to a NEW challenge for me. 

 This is the Paper Pros Challenge and it is Challenge Number 001! 
 What or who are Paper Pros?... well we are a group of Crafting Friends, brought together by our love for the Karen Burniston Products and we formed the Karen Burniston Designer Challenge Team.  Now firm friends and firm crafters we all decided with the Karen Burniston Design Team without our challenges we wanted to keep ourselves busy with Monthly challenges.  Just for fun, anything goes product wise and just to be part of a team, together creating and hopefully inspiring you all still!  Thrilled that our "Team Leader" Karen Burniston wanted to play with us too!! And Karen is joining in.

Summer was the lady to kick our challenge into the start line and her challenge is :

How about shaking it up? --- a challenge all about shaking... Whether a 

shaker card or action wobbler... Just a whole lotta shaking going on

Now me being last minute dot.com I had to make some Valentine gifts.

A little choccy box for 4 special people.

I used the Tonic Studios Gesture Box this cute

little box is big enough to hold a small chocolate.  Such as a

ferrero rocher But for Valentines I popped some chocolate hearts.

The image was stamped with a Taylored Expressions Grumplings set

and I mounted the circle onto a concertina of card to create a "Wobble" platform.

You can see the rest of the teams creations on their blogs :

Sandy Diller - http://sandydiller.blogspot.com
Donna Wright - http://oldredshed.blogspot.com
Shelly Hickox - http://shellyhickox.blogspot.com
Summer - Hills Painter - http://1craftypainter.blogspot.com
Karen Aicken - http://paintedmountaincards.blogspot.ca
Raquel Mason - http://raquelmason.blogspot.com
Caz Counsell -http://stampingcaz.blogspot.com
Helen Cryer - http://diningroomdrawers.blogspot.com
Kelly Booth - http://cruzinkellster.blogspot.com
Frances Byrne - http://stampowl.blogspot.com
Fran Sabad - http://fransabad.com

Karen Burniston - http://karenburniston.typepad.com

I am not sure if all are playing along every week, we are doing 

it as a kind of relaxed thing.  No stress just fun!!

I hope you enjoy seeing us back together.

Cazx

C4C372

Second week in February and although I did my card in time I totally forgot to post it on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog last night!  opps!

Tammy is hosting February and she said :

Hello everyone, and welcome to the second challenge for February!  Valentine's Day is approaching, and many take the opportunity to go out for a fancy dinner to celebrate!  So for this week's challenge, incorporate a food/dining/dishes-theme into your design, and also use the color red!

And here is my card :)

I used a Penny Black Owl for my main image.

This was mounted onto the Oval Pull Card from Karen Burniston 

I used it minus the optional arm

The Cupcakes are very old Penny Black stamps.

That's my card for today!

Caz

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C371

This February is Tammy's turn to choose the challenges and she said 

"Today my baby girl turns 20! Oh my, where has the time gone? In addition to turning 20, Kelsey will also be graduating from Vet Tech school later this month, and we're so proud of her! In honor of Kelsey today, please create a card with animals in your design."

Here is my card for the challenge and this card was made just for fun, with no-one in mind and I was just grabbing lots of different things close by and generally just having some fun.

Here is what I used :

Foxes from Hobby Art set

Grass Border is Marianne from Crafts U Love

Trees, Hello and Banner from Sizzix Sets 

Karen Burniston Lorna Label Pop It ups

Flowers Card-io

Sorry the photo is dark, its hard to take a picture at night time.

You can see all the other Crazies cards on the link TOP LEFT of my blog :)

I hope you like this card today.  Stay safe, storm Doris is blowing in tonight.  I was in my Crafty Palace earlier and the wind nearly took the door off!!  Its scary out there so I came in, sounds much safer in here that out in the wind with some giant leylandii swaying around me.  Eeek!!

Caz x

Wooly Madness

I have been utterly enjoying my trip into Needle felting and I thought I would share a couple of more projects with you.

First up is Little Peggy my sleepy Tea Cup Mouse.

Such a cute little critter and I got the tutorial for it HERE

Next up is my sheep and I have struggled to think of a name

for her, it is a her and she is wearing a heart on her chest

to say "I love ewe".  I told Darren I would give her to him for Valentines, to which he said "What am I going to do with a felted sheep?"  I told him "Say thanks and then give it back!"  LOL

Lastly here is Barnabus Bear, this bear looks nothing like he was supposed to

but he turned out cute.

I do hope you have enjoyed looking at my Wooly Madness!

Until next time, I am off to stab some wool xx

(I purchase all my lovely core wool and natural wools and blends

from Fleece 4 Ewe - this is on Facebook  Tell her Caz sent ya!)

Caz

Crazy 4 Challenges C4C370

Hello is Saturday again and that means challenge time.  This is my last Saturday for hosting and I wanted to send Thanks to Lynn for playing along with me this month :)  You can see Lynn's and all the other Crazies over on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog.  The link is top left of my blog.

Today is Squirrel Appreciation Day!!  Would would have thought that eh?  I love squirrels and I wanted to celebrate with them, so I challenge the team to make a card with these fluffy creatures, or alternatively another critter of their choosing.

I used this adorable stamp from Lili of the Valley HERE

I love this design, in fact I love a lot of their designs and they are lovely to

 colour in.  I have used my watercolour pencils here.

For the inside the used the Karen Burniston 

Twist Circle Pop it Up die with a simple Happy Birthday message.

A simple but effective card :)  I do hope my Sister in Law Sue liked it.

Until next time, Happy Crafting.

Caz x

Crazy 4 Challenge - Sketch Challenge C4C369

This week on the Crazy 4 Challenges its a sketch and this is the sketch that I designed.

And here is the card that I designed around that Sketch.

I used a stamp from a Penny Black set called Hearts Aplenty.

Darren my husband has been told to "look away" as I think

this may be his Valentines Day card :)

I also used an Elizabeth Craft Designs die called 

Bubble Edgy Options

Lyn is my guest again and you can see her card over on the 

Crazy 4 Challenges blog, the link is TOP LEFT.

Until next time.  Keep on crafting!!

Caz xx

Furry Hugs

Hello, I am here with a card that I made for Create and Take today at Crafts U Love.  I love Penny Black and this is a new set from them.

The stamp set is called Furry Hugs

The frame that I mounted it onto is one from Find It Trading called

Springtastic Frame

A simple card, but I enjoyed making it and the ladies who came along

today did too.

Caz

Crazy 4 Challenges - C4C368 - New Home or Within the Home

Hello its Caz again and this week the challenge was : Today is organise your Home Day - Create a card suitable for NEW HOME or something within the home.

I chose to create a couple of gifts for my sons friends which they could display in their rooms.  He has a joint Birthday Party tomorrow.  These cute little chalk boards are great for jotting down reminders, play o's and x's or doodles.

I used papers from We R Memory Keepers and an awesome

die set called Pixelated from Neat & Tangled.

Just perfect for boys and pre teens/teens.

For for the girly one I used a Stampendous Stamp 

called Whisper Wall from Crafts U Love.

I do hope the recipients like these little gifts.

Check out the rest of the teams creations over on the c4c blog.

The link is top left.