Showing posts with label crochet flower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crochet flower. Show all posts

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Bloomin' Easy Weight Loss !



I watch a lot of TV at night. Yup, a lot. About 3 hours, every night. And I eat crap while I watch. Just blindly stuff the food in - and to be honest, it's not even food, it's crap!

Keeping my hands busy by crocheting while the TV is on, keeps me from eating and I have been able to lose a few pounds in the process!

Saturday, May 16, 2009

More about those little flowers I crochet...




Using the same little flower on a mini album that I made at Stamp Club this month, here are two different looks for the cover.


Monday, May 4, 2009

Thanks Sue F!



Thanks Sue F for a great stamp club yesterday. We made an amazing mini album, a really cute box which Kathy LOVED making (hee hee hee) and a lovely card.

The card in the photo is the card we made, and I added a crochet flower that I had coloured with the Stampin'Up! Marker after misting it with water. And as easy as that, I have a handmade card with a crocheted flower embellishment that matches my card!

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Success !!!



I love Stampin' Up!

Have I mentioned that before?

The colours coordinate, saving me hours of time (literally!) when putting together a card or scrapbook page.

Stampin'Up! came out with some really cute hand crocheted flower embellisments. Unfortunately, they came in a set of colours that I wouldn't really use.

Well, being Ady's daughter, and following in her footsteps, I decided to challenge myself, and see if I could come up with some crocheted flower embellishments of my own.



Thanks to my friend Kathy, who always inspires me and encourages me, I came up with the above.

Then I started thinking - crochet flowers in Stampin'Up! Colours, and this is what I came up with, using Stampin' Up! reinkers. Sue F was kind enough to lend me some reinkers to experiment with.



My first attempt.
(Note to self - mix the water and reinker before adding the flower).

Did I mention that I love Stampin' Up! ?

Then... I decided to take it a step further, and coloured the crochet cotton first and then crocheted a flower in two Stampin' Up colours:



Yup, I know the flower is imperfect, I used it as an example anyway, because I loved the colour combination - lovely lilac and apricot appeal.

The flower at the top of this blog was made dying the cotton with nearly navy and apricot appeal.

And then...

A fancier flower crocheted in white, dyed with Lovely Lavender reinker and water.



By the way, did I mention I love Stampin' Up?

What do you think of my flowers?