At the WI this week we did a speed crafting event.  There were three stations of crafting and one talk and example.

I demonstrated small cards using the owl punch and my members copied what I had done choosing their own waistcoats for the owls or making a chicken.

June showed everyone how to make a flower arrangement in a teacup - they looked really good.

Jean showed everyone her quilts and told them about the Linus charity where we make quilts for premature babies and children up to sixteen year olds.  I am very proud of the quilts I made for them and we put a label on the quilts which I always kiss and then send on.

Christine taught the ladies how to crochet - some hadn't crocheted for years and others were new to the craft but I hope it gives them the incentive to carry on.

We had fifteen minutes at each table and it was an excellent evening with everyone really happy and going home with items they had made.

I made these Easter baskets for the ladies of Grenoside WI.  Some of them use the silver glimmer card for the handles and I've used a pretty flower punch to cut the flowers out on the handles.  The boxed basket shape is a 6 x 6 transparent patterned card stock and scored at 2 and 4 inches then taped at both sides of the middle panels on two opposite sides then slit up the score lines on the same two sides and put together.  I used the Stampin up new trimmer to cut and score which was brilliant to use as I could keep resting the scorer and trimmer blade while I used the other one.  Then I have put some sparkle angel hair in them and I'm going to put in some chocolate eggs of course!!  Hope they like them.

Forgot to mention this one is my Son Dylan's and D in L Elaine's house and there were so many patterns of bricks and tiles etc.  I really enjoyed doing this and they loved it.  There are two cats in windows as well.

Really mixed bunch of stuff here starting with my Goddaughter Anna at her civil wedding to Kate.  Then we have my deck chairs I've added earlier - they go with the two boats further down and the now framed seagulls nesting on breakers scene.  We have a flower that I've just sketched out which I will show when I've completed it.  We have a cross stitch Victorian scene and then a Japenese scene at the bottom which I copied off the top of a jewellery box - the colours are perfect for a Japenese scene and the paintings are all done at my painting class with the help of my tutor Joanne Jenkins at the Coterie Gallery.

All the items are from Stampin up except the book!!  I made 35 of these for my ladies at Grenoside WI - it was Valentine's Day and we were having a talk on Books called Bookworms so I thought this was appropriate.  It is a bookmark and is made by printing onto the heart and then gluing ribbon onto and between two hearts and then placing another printed heart on the top and finally embellishing it with diamonds!!

I went to a craft class with Sara Rayner and made these - I love the embossing folders.

Here are the cards I made at Kate's - my upline Mama

I really enjoyed using the honeycomb folder and really concentrated on the children's card - it's for my Grandson Neo's second birthday.  The other card was lovely to do but my Tree was slightly skew if!!