Monkey business! and a splash of colour

It's time for a new challenge at As You Like It Challenge



The sponsor of this challenge is

The sponsor of this challenge is
Wild Orchid Crafts



This fortnight's challenge theme is to showcase a project using
your Favourite Colour Combo (& why).
You MUST explain WHY it is your favourite.


My favorite colour combinations hmmmm this is a another hard challenge
because it depend on what I am making and for whom?
My favourite colour is blue and I love blue and grey together
so I have made 2 crochet monkeys for my great nephews.... and in this case its my favorite combo for boy monkeys :)


The reason they have really long arms and short legs because
they are curtain hold back monkeys for their bedroom!

Crafty Gals Corner-#90 Critters! hopefully these critters are ok :)

Craft-Dee BowZ - Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow - Bow Tie does that count?

Critters & Creatures - Always Anything Goes with a Critter/Creature - Hope crochet is ok?

and a lovely little splash of colour from my garden.

These are seed pods from Iris's  

This is also new but I have forgotten the name, Doh!

This one is new to my garden, its like a red hot poker but its called a popsicle it's

a 3rd of the size of a normal red hot poker and a lovely blush colour as you can see.. 

I have some more to share but I will keep those for another day :)
happy crafting xx

Sew What.....?

Hello I am really excited this week with lots of news!

Its wednesday and it's time for another ABC Christmas Challenge

The Lovely Mandy is our host this time and her assignment is...

'S' for Sew What?  (Include Real or Faux stitching on your project)

Our fab sponsor for this challenge is ....

Freckled Fawn

So being Freckled Fawn were kind enough to gift us a few chalenges ago I thought I would use one of the little embellishments I received

Sew.... with my sewing machine i jumped! 

so I will enter a couple of challenges

A Snowflakes Promise - Christmas/winter themed - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Monday - At the Movies - The Faraway Tree
My Time to Craft - Stitching (real or faux) Real

Christmas Cards All Year Round - Shabby Chic and/or Monochromatic

So then to my other news!

I have been teaching my son to drive for about 8 months on and off!

And monday he passed first time with only 3 small minors! you are allowed 15 minors on a test!

YAY!

and I completed another crochet project

for as a Gift for a friends new born

  I wanted to make a blanket that will grow

with baby into child

Rather than make a baby blanket which they most definitely would already have.

 

Happy Crafting xx

trump trump trump......

Hi ya.... where do the weeks go?
September REALLY?

It's time for another new challenge at As You Like It Challenge



The sponsor of this challenge is

Sweet n Sassy Stamps

This fortnight's challenge theme is to showcase a project using 
your Favourite Film or Song (& why).

You MUST explain WHY it is your favourite.

Ohhh Hard hard hard..... fav film OH my to many to choose just one so I will go with my fav song.... HAHAHHAAA just as hard sooooo... I will choice Nelly the elephant, Why????
Because I was singing it with our granddaughter this last weekend
So I have used this cute WOJ stamp....and also loved making a
crochet one too! which you can see below this card  

Hope you like my card and here are some challenges I am playing

Simon Says Stamp - Stamp It
Ike's World  #71 Square Card with Something Round - Enamel dots 
Lemon Shortbread no digital projects Always Anything Goes
Critters and critters - Always Anything Goes with a Critter/Creature

My Crochet Nelly I made a little while ago...

Happy Creating
hugs me xx

Opps.... Ekkk.... and yay!

Well as every I seem to manage to sod up my post for while I was out of the country and as many of you know blogger does not like Ipad's for editing... Hmmmph!

So my Opps was that my

As you Like it creation did not post at all!

Opps.....

So here it is and there is still time to play if you wanna run check the challenge out...

the challenge theme is Favourite Shaped Card Base & Why Thursday, 25 August

Well this is a very easy choice for me I love standard

and would pick 15x15 square card base every time,

why? simply because I love the size and give me plenty

of clean space. even on a card that I have used layers there is still lots of space.

My Ekks is now I am back I am still running late never seem to catch my tail! ekkkk!

so here is my a little late ABC Christmas challenge card...

It's my turn hosting this one and my Challenge theme is R for Rip it.. Wednesday 31st August.
As you can see I ripped the main image edge and also the DP under that, as above a 15x15 square card and lots of white space... 

I am playing some challenge for this card:

Holly Jolly  #79 - Non-traditional Colors

Digi Choosday #35 - Anything Goes

Ike's World #71 Square Card with Something Round - enamel dots

Tuesday Throwdown #309 - Clean and Simple

Christmas Card Challenges - Winter- #38 anything goes!

My Yay is that before I went away but did not have time to post was I finished the dress and 2 dolls I was working on for our granddaughter yay!

annnnnnd....

I also made her a matching doll and then a mermaid too...

She was very happy I think....

You can find the pattern for the mermaid here - TheMerinoMermaid

Thought I might and my crochet projects to a couple of challenges if that's allowed?

UnstampaBelles - Anything but a Card + Twist: Tutorial (or link to tutorial) on how to make your project - Pattern link shared

Sunny Day Crafting - #12 Anything Goes
Try It On Tuesday C5, - Children 

Ooh La La Creations - Girlie

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Stitches - Crochet stitches and I had to sew the dress too

Happy Wednesday all :)