Sketch at Craft Your Days Away Challenge

Morning everyone.  Today is a new challenge over at Craft Your Days Away and this fortnight we have a fabby sketch for you created by Joanne.

Here is my take on this fortnights sketch using a stamped image and some fabby papers that I love.  I love the bright colours that are around again now, spring is definitely in the air!

 

Coloured with pro markers, flowers are prima I believe, ribbon is papermania, co ordinations card stock and the papers I cant remember right now lol

This fortnight we are sponsored by the fabby Emma who owns Craft Emmas Store which you must check out it is stocked with fabby goodies!

Go check out the rest of the DT's great works and I look forward to checking out your fab makes!

Dazie

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Fab Finds Friday!

Well this week I have found some great bargins online and instores including charity shops so I thought I would share my finds with you each friday, some of these items you can get yourselves and some are just one of finds.

This week as you know I spent a HUGE amount of time searching the internet for some fabric that had to be GORGEOUS and fairly priced and I stumbled upon Patch Fabric and Habadasery .  So I thought just to test the water before I buy fabric in larger amounts I would buy some of her fab Mini fabric Bundles.  Well they are just fab!  you have to check them out!  Here is the a piccy of the fabric and also some of the goodies I got on top like ribbon BUT you do get ribbon in her mini packs too or rick rack or some thing else which makes her packs a absolute bargin!  Also I had my fabric within 2 days!  Now that is service!

Then my next 2 fabby finds were in 2 charity shop's  One lot was this fabby set of Russian Dolls, I promised my daughter if I ever found some I would get them and these were sat there waiting for me!

And some fabric (not sure what I am going to do with it) which was a bargain for so much!

Then I this week I popped into Wilkinson's to find they had finally stocked up on the KEEP CALM CARRY ON Pictures that are framed and are BIG, £9 is all they are!  And the reason I wanted this one is because I love this colour!!!!  They do it in red too!  Also if you are a fan of the union jack pictures they have massive ones down to half price, plus a lot of their home furnishings like cushions are down to 2.50 and they have fab covers on them!

So for this week these are my my Fab Finds!  If you have found any fab finds then please let us all know by leaving a comment here or putting a post up on your blog and linking back here as I NEED to see! 

Sarah has some fab finds over on her blog one including a fabby HOME sign from B&M  Go check it out!!!

Catch you soon 

Dazie

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Its friday so that means Little Musings Day!

Oh this weeks musing is just fab!  If you are getting prepared for easter its perfect for cards, gift bags with mini eggs in, cupcake decorations well just about anything.  Or if you just like making beautiful cards with gorgeous images on this is for you!  

This weeks musing is a fab set of outline and pre coloured images!  

You simply have to have this set!  Its only £1.50!

Here is what I made using just 1 of the fab images ( there are lots including a bunny!)

I wanted to keep things sweet and simple as I think the images are just too cute!  So I made a little set of Easter cards or spring notelets.

Go check out what Sj and Caz made with this fab set!  And grab it for yourself, here is a piccy of what you will get in your digi pack!

Click the Pic to take you straight over to Sj's blog where the details of how to get this set are!

Thanks so much for popping by

Catch you tommrow for a brand new fortnight over at Craft your Days away Challenge!

Dazie

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Winner of the Little Musings Candy Annie Its you!!!!

I so very nearly forgot to draw the winner of the fabby Little Musing Candy!  But I have just this minute cut up all your names that were listed here and from the readers who contacted me

I popped them in my lovely Kath Kidston tin (ooo loving the cath kidston tin!)

 And 

Drum roll please....drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

the winner is...........................

 

That says Annie The Felt Fairy in my terrible hand writing!

Congrats Annie Please contact Sj via HERE (scroll down on left hand side for email button on her site) who will sort out your gorgeous digi's and digi print!

Thanks for all who entered, I will hopefully be holding a little birthday candy in the next couple of weeks if I get organised!

Catch you all soon

Dazie

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Update on fabric for people who sew or sewers or needle crafters (not sewers of the sewage Kind LOL)

Well what a fantastic response to my shout out about fabric and with the info that has been shared with me I thought it best to pass it on as there seems to be a fair few of us who have trouble finding decently priced 'gorgeous' fabrics!  Lots of you have suggested Dunelm Mills (check if you have one locally) Charity shops for clothes etc that have gorgeous patterns on etc, the local market and local fabric stores. 

So here we go the lovely Shell pointed me in the direction of these online places 

• Fabric Inspirations
• Printspolkadots My personal Favourite!
• craftonline

Pene of Scrap my midlife crisis said:

"I buy 99% of my fabric online either ebay or etsy. Etsy is great as the choice in the states is so much better than here you just have to watch the postage. I look for sellers who will do 7-8yds in a ups envelope then it only about $13-14 which works out about £1 per yd postage!! Bundles of fat quaters are a good buy as well as they are normally co ordinating so good for patchwork and applique.. hope that helps
Hugs Pene"

I adore Pene's work and her fabrics are gorgeous!  So defo check out her advice, I have also noticed that on ebay you can get stuff from America cheap and the shipping isnt too bad. 

Then my newest follower (hello Ali thanks for the follow) suggested Fabric Rehab and their fabrics are gorgeous! 

Then the lovely Lizze suggested all this!!!!!!!

Try Skye Reve Fabrics (Facebook page - http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/Skyerevefabrics7 ); Frumafar (Etsy - http://www.etsy.com/shop/frumafar ); 

Cottonholic (Etsy - http://www.etsy.com/shop/cottonholic ); 

MissElany (Etsy, based in UK - http://www.etsy.com/shop/MissElany ); 

You can also look for fabric suppliers on Etsy by searching in Supplies / Fabric - http://www.etsy.com/category/supplies/fabric or use Shop Local and search for UK or your locality. You don't have to have a shop on Etsy to buy there, but you will need to register as a buyer. Many shops price in US$, but some now price in UK£. You can pay with paypal - even if you don't have a paypal account you can use paypal with your credit card.
If you want smallish pieces of fabrics, a quilting supplies shop would sell Fat Quarters, which means you can get squares of nice fabrics at reasonable prices (a Fat Quarter is the meter or yard cut in half both lengthwise and widthwise - ie. 1/4 meter/yard, in a nice square).
I also recently found this online shop - http://www.remnanthouse.co.uk/index.php. I haven't bought from them yet, so cant tell you much about them.

Aj recommends Pinflair (although hasnt ordered online from them) she also said to search on ebay for Japanese Fabrics as there are some cute ones.

Thank you all so much for pointing me in the direction of some fabby fabrics you are all STARS!!!  Also thank you to those who were worried I was having sewer of the sewerage kind problems lol Its so nice to know you care!!!

I will update the list as people recommend and if I find any decent fairly priced gorgeous fabrics!

Dazie

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