T on Tuesday......T is for QuilT! Scrapbooking of sorts!

Hello there

Tuesday again?  What!!!!  I am sure weeks are going quicker now than ever!

As it is Tuesday I am going to share my cup of tea with you Elizabeth and Bleubeard, as well as my latest project.

As some of you may know from my mentioning it on previous posts, I am desperately trying to finish a quilt by Saturday - THIS Saturday.  Well last night I managed to tack the quilt to some backing fabric I found - no doubt bought for some project I have long forgotten about many many MANY moons ago, as well as finding just enough cotton wadding to use without joining bits together.  Fate or what? So I ironed the fabric and the quilt top to within an inch of its life and tacked all three layers together. 

Now I remember from a workshop/get together many years ago that you should let the fabrics "rest" overnight before starting to quilt them.  So this I did.  I will start quilting in earnest tonight.   Whilst looking for fabric to back this quilt I also found another quilt top which I made in around 2000, I found the actual fabric I bought for the backing and I ironed those pieces and put them together, so hopefully I will have another quilt for our Quilt Exhibition in June!!  As well as that, this means that I have managed to empty more stash from my overflowing boxes!  Wahoo!

Now the photos I am sharing with you today are all little Snippets of the quilt.  I thought I would tease you all a little and I could also prove that I am working on something.  

The whole quilt, which is a wall hanging measures 32" x 42".  Some of the fabrics I bought in Praha when Mr and I last went and I managed to find similarly coloured ones to make up the collection I am using here at the Quilter's Guild AGM last year.  I have also used some Snippets of fabrics too so I shall taunt the Snippets Playground too!  We won't even mention the snippets of fabric, bondaweb, stitch and tear, and threads that are currently littering my craft room floor! 

Have any of you recognised some of the tools I have used to make this yet?  The clock below must be the most recognisable one!!   Yep!  I have used a mixture of Tim Holtz, Sizzix and Spellbinders dies, as well as some electronic dies on my Silhouette!  Don't you love it when different hobbies collide?  

Below is this week's cuppa.  It is my first cup of the day so is Glengettie and in one of my favourite Sophie Allerton Chicken mugs.   I didn't dare have my cuppa too close to my quilt!!!  

In case you are wondering where the scrapbooking element of today's post is, the quilt is a reminder of last year's AGM where some of us went to a large House near to Nottingham.  The blocks are each elements of things that were at the House.  All will be revealed when it is finished!  It WILL be finished on Friday night.  Why Friday?  We have a Group Area Day on Saturday where some of us who went to the House will be meeting up and doing a Show 'n Tell of our challenge quilts!  

Thanks for popping over.  Please leave me a comment and let me know what you think of my quilt so far.  I shall pop back to see you, though it may be a little late!

Hettie

Scrapbook Layout - Meet Harry

Hello Peeps

Well, after introducing you to my Angel the other day (click HERE if you didn't see her), I thought I would introduce you to my Grandfather from my Mum's side.  This is Harry, my Mum's Father.  Born in Yorkshire in 1904, the family moved firstly to Cardiff and then Newport (South Wales).  We are not sure when exactly only that it was during the First World War.  Maybe in about 2021 I will have a bit more information ey?

This photo was taken in 1925 prior to Harry's 21st birthday.  A bit of a looker don't you think?  In fact, my Uncle, (Harry's son), my Brother and his son, Jack, are scarily close in looks, more so than my cousin Christopher who is direct male descendant.

The layout for this was taken from a sketch on my friend Karen's blog HERE.  Thank you Karen!

The papers are from the K&Company Ancestry range, some Laura Ashley ribbon strip, Bazzill, DCWV and some scraps/snippets would you believe!  The flower has been made using Tim Holtz, Paperartsy and Stampin Up flowers.

The frame is from Stampin Up - Everything Eleanor.  The flourish stamp is also SU.  The numbers are Prima.  Edge punch is Martha Stewart.

Die cuts are Tim Holtz.  Letters are chipboard ones, painted then stamped with the same script stamp (Tim Holtz) and brushed with Perfect Pearls

The journalling block has now been completed with details about Harry (having checked my book).   I hadn't stuck it down when I took the photo, so it isn't wonky now.  

Well, now you know a little more of my family history.  As I mentioned above, I have the K&Company Ancestry collection of papers along with album, so I am putting significant family photos in there and keeping every scrap of the paper collection in the box so it doesn't get used! 

Well, thank you Karen for this sketch, it is one that can be used time and time again adding to or leaving plain!

Thank you for popping by and looking and I hope you will sign in so I know you have been to see me. 

TTFN 

Hettie

Buzzzzzzz!! Scrapbook Layout

Good Evening Peeps

I thought that I would share with you another one of my layouts from the Retreat which I went to recently.  The subject is one of Hubby's Bees which he photographed in February last year.  The white in the background of the photograph are the snowdrops which were out at the time.  Hope you approve....

I am sorry I cannot tell you any details of the paper make but you may recognise them as some of the papers from which I created the Snippets for my card which I posted yesterday.

I hope you are having a great crafty weekend.  Today I attended a quilting workshop  where we worked on a block with a fabulous technique which I will, of course, share with you just as soon as it is finished enough for me to show you.

I understand the weather forecast for tomorrow is great if you are in a drought area and fantastic if you were thinking of having a crafting day!  What a shame!!  Guess you will find me in my room!!  (Yeay! Doing the Happy Dance!!!)

TTFN

Hettie

Friday Snippets - I can do non-inkey!

Good Evening Peeps and Happy Friday!

Time for my Friday Snippets with the Lovely Di in the Playground this week.  I am afraid I only have the one this week to show you.  This card is for my good friend Stephanie whose birthday it was on Monday.  Hope you approve.  Stephanie liked it....

This card came about thanks to a friend of mine who plays in the Playground who, when we were talking about a card workshop that was coming up told me that it "probably wouldn't be inky enough 4 u anyway"!! You know who you are!  So that set me off thinking and this is what I came up with .  The only bit of inking is on the tag which is a stamp.  All the rest are leftovers from a layout I did on the retreat.

Why not head over to Di's and join in the Snippets Challenge.  Come on, we know you have snippets which are collecting dust in the corner now.

See you by the go-kart shed!

Have a great crafting weekend.

Hugs

Hettie

xxx

GM31 - Happy Birthday Tim

Good Afternoon Peeps

Over on the Lovely Linda's blog this week's Challenge is to make a Birthday Card for the wonderful Tim Holtz in commemoration of his birthday yesterday.  Happy Birthday Tim!!

I wanted to make a monogram type of card but instead of black and white, I opted for browns - hope you like it Tim!

The stamped background is from my Darkroom Door stamp sets with my lovely Praha images.  Around the stamped piece I have stamped with Hero Arts and Penny Black stamps.   The lampost is made from the Sizzix die using MME paper and stamped with my favourite Stampers Anonomous flourish stamp and embossed with bronze powder.  The background piece to my sentiment is from the same MME paper.  I used one of the sentiments from the Darkroom Door stamps and cut both the sentiment and the background with my Spellbinders dies.  The whole piece is mounted on a piece of paper which was formerly the base of my spray box.  I just love using these pieces as they are beautiful colours. 

On the lampost I hung a Muse Token with U for Unique as that is what Tim is! 

I am afraid that I have Praha very much on my mind at the moment as Hubby and I are going to be visiting very soon!!  Yeay!!!  After the stresses and strains of the last few months of 2011 the thought of this trip has kept us going once we decided that we weren't going to cancel the trip!

You rock Tim and I hope your birthday was a very happy one!

Please do not forget to leave me a message and call by Linda's to see some of the other birthday cards which have been made for Tim.  And of course, don't forget to call by Tim's blog for some awesome ideas and updates! 

TTFN

Hettie

Sewing Art - Sunday Stamper Challenge

Good Evening Peeps

I decided last night what I wanted to make for the Sunday Stamper Challenge on Hels Sheridan's blog so had to set to it pretty pronto as the deadline is 9pm tonight! Yikes!!  So this is my little piece! 

I had thought of putting one of the cards which I gave you a peep at on Wednesday but a few sleepless nights later I came up with this idea.  I promise I will give you a close up of those cards tomorrow now.  Hope you like my little Sewing Art piece instead!  The theme this week is BROWN!

The base is an 8 x 8  canvas which I bought from The Works some time ago which I gesso'd to give it a bit of texture, then inked it before spraying with my colour washes.  I then added a torn piece of Kaisercraft and out of the bits I cut off I made the roses. 

The dies is are both Tim Holtz's both of which I bought from Country View Crafts and the stamps are a mixture of PaperArtsy and Tim Holtz bought at The Event a few weeks ago.  I painted the bird cage with copper alcohol ink before running it through the Big Shot with an embossing folder, sanding it and adding Walnut Ink DI.

The charms are from a bracelet which I bought from Claire's Accessories recently.  The bracelet was reduced to £2 and I just knew when I saw it that I wanted to team it with the stamps and die to make a little piece to go on the wall near my sewing end of my room.

The buttons are all old ones from my button pots.  Some very kind people in work have given me some lovely buttons to add to my collection and some of them I imagine came off some FAB old coats.  Keep 'em coming as you never know when I might need them!

The roses were recently featured on Hels' blog and I used the free stamp which came on a recent copy of Craft Stamper. 

When I finished it I then sprayed it with Tim Holtz' gold Perfect Pearls. 

Thanks for looking.  Enjoy the rest of the weekend and please do not forget to leave me a comment.

Hettie