Flower Bracelet

This is my latest piece of jewellery for my folksy shop

I made a chain maille bracelet out of 8mm jump rings and attached it to the flower charm and then lightly embellished it with some crystal and light azore swarovski bicones.

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Black Wirework Pendant

This is the latest addition to my folksy shop

I made the pendant from knotting black wire, then embellished with silver and red glass beads.

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Birthday Card and Gift

This is the card and gift that I made for my cousin for her birthday.

I used a decoupage fairy image for the card and made a simple gift box...

... and made this bracelet.

I followed the instructions for the bracelet out of Make Jewellery Magazine, Issue 5, Page 27... I used pink beads instead though!

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Cook Up A Card Challenge

This is my take on September's recipe on the
Cook Up A Card Recipe Challenge Blog.

The recipe was:

1 Flower

2 Ribbons

3 Pieces of Chipboard

The papers and ribbons are My Minds Eye - Bloom and Grow, the sentiment is the from the Stampin Up Circle of Friendship Set and the image was given to me in a rak.

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Jewellery Makes

These are my latest jewellery makes, another cluster ring using glass pearl beads in lovely marshmallow colours....

A charm bracelet using antique copper chain, freshwater pearls and antique bronze shell charms....

Another charm bracelet, this time using handpainted wood beads and tibetan silver elephant charm beads....

These are all in my folksy shop

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Project Tuesday

My sister pointed me in the direction of the Project Tuesday Challenge Blog

The challenge this week was to make a Surprise Gift Card Holder, here is my take on it...

... I used Blonde Moments Sugar Dumpling Paper and the image is Melinda Hugging Heart by Whiff of Joy stamps which I received in a rak.

Thank you for looking x x

A Spoon Full of Sugar, Challenge 65 - Travel

This is my take on the above challenge.....

...I have used My Mind's Eye Bloom and Grow papers (again - I am loving these at the minute!!), a Sarah Kay image given to me in a rak and the sentiment is from the Stampin Up Circle of Friendship set.

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Sketch Saturday - Sketch 64

This is my take on this weeks sketch over on the Sketch Saturday blog.

I've used My Mind's Eye Bloom & Grow papers, and the image is from the Penny Black Toadily Yours set of stamps.

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Finally I found some time to craft!!

I managed to get an afternoon with the beads - here's what I made......

A necklace made with some pale green wire wrapped beads.....

A bracelet.....

A handbag charm........


And a pair of earrings.
The bracelet below is made from various different coloured seed beads and has been an ongoing project for the last week or so!!


Some of these makes will be in my folksy shop soon!

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Some more jewellery makes...

These are my latest jewellery makes for my folksy shop.

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Summer Garden Bracelet

I made this bracelet for the Make Jewellery challenge over on the Crafts Beautiful Forum, the challenge was to make something inspired from a project in issue 3 of the magazine.

I used swarovski bicones and flowers in my wirework in pretty pastel colours - it's very sparkly!

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Jewellery Challenge #13

This weeks challenge was as follows:

Option 1 - Wire shaping + adding a different colour to your design

Option 2 - Wire shaping + an extra element

This is my take on it, I've not done a lot with wire before so it was nice to try something a bit different!

As always thank you for looking x x

Bracelets

These are a couple of bracelets that I have made over the last week.

For this one I crocheted some black wire and added some black and silver beads.

This is a chain maille bracelet that I made myself from jump rings and the beads are some that I got from the nec last year.

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Friday Sketchers 56

This is my take on this weeks sketch, I have used my Lazy Ellie stamp which I love and the papers are Basic Grey.

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Some cards I've made over the last week

I made this card following a sketch challenge from a challenge blog (can't remember which one now) but I didn't finish it in time to enter it! The image is from the Sugar Nellie Little Cotton Rabbits set.

This is a decoupage that I got from my local craft craft shop.

My first fathers day card for my father in law, the stamp is a Stampin Up stamp from the For Father set.

I made this card using some die cuts from my cuttlebug!

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Cupcake Craft Challenges #42

This weeks theme was Fairies...

I used this fairy image with some basic grey paper as my background and added some beads for a bit of sparkle!

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Jewellery Challenge #12

We had to take inspiration from the photo below for the challenge this week....

I made this handbag charm using wooden beads in various shades of brown and a couple of butterfly charms....

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Cupcake Craft Challenges # 41

This weeks challenge was 2-2-2

2 colours plus a neutral

2 shapes on the card

2 pieces of ribbon

This is my take on it, I made a spring pop up card using my

Sugar Nellie 'Dress up Maggie' stamp.

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Friday Sketchers 53

Another fantastic sketch and yes its the Penny Black image again!! It's one of my favourites so I seem to be using it lots at the minute!!

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Stamp Something - Sketch Something Challenge

I loved this sketch - one I will definitely use again!

The image is a Penny Black one from the Garden Friends Transparent Set.

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Jewellery Challenge - Easter Bonus

Sarah over on the Jewellery Challenge Blog is kindly running an Easter Bonus Challenge!

I decided to make this ring using pink and crystal swarovski crystals and some pearl coloured beads - I've never made a ring like this before so it was a first!

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Wedding Cake

Well this is what's been keeping me busy for the last few weeks, my cousin's wedding cake! I've made all of the flowers and leaves from flower paste - it's been hard work but I'm pleased with the result!

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My Makes for the March CB Swaps

Card Swap - The theme was friendship

Jewellery Swap - The theme was to make a bracelet in greens and silver

ATC Swap - The theme was animals

Bookmark Swap - The theme was Spring





Thanks for looking!