Handmade Little Things: July 2013

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 170 ~ Summertime!

Wendy is our lovely host this week at

City Crafter Challenge Blog

She challenged us to make a project that says

Summertime

Summertime might be beach house vacation for some, flip-flops, watermelon and BBQ for some, but for me, strawberries always pop up when I think of Summertime

Here again, using my favorite strawberry stamp set to make a set of card for Clare

with matching envelopes

I had an old projects that left me with lots of these white cardstock frames

great time to use them

this is a quick and easy project since I have those frames all ready to be used

I make 6 cards with different sentiments

Come on and join us

City Crafter Challenge Blog

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Guten Tag!

Greetings from Grafing, Munich

We flew into Frankfurt, and then took a train from Frankfurt to Munich

if you haven't know yet, taking train rides is one of my favorite thing to do in Europe

{lap top, glasses, note pad, pen and my new hat get to ride along}

See! this is why I love train rides in Europe

Endless scene of beauty..... little German town are among my favorites!

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Our Beautiful World Week 5 ~ Waiting

Our Beautiful World

is a place where you can share photographs taken by you from your part of the world

We have a new word prompt every Sunday

and this week is chosen by Ros

Waiting

Like many mothers, when my children were young, I was the "chaufeur" to drive them to school, and then after school classes, ballet, piano lesson etc. So what you do when you have wait at the cafe for them? I usually bring something to do while waiting, like a book, or a small crotchet project.

now this stack of granny square has a lot to do with waiting

I started this project a few months ago when we had a road trip (I like to do something in the car so I can stay awake and keep my husband company while he does the driving), it is meant for the bed in our guest room, my plan was a 15x3 granny squares decorative item at the end of the bed spread, well.... it didn't look as nice as it was in my head, as I think it looked too small on the queen size bed, so I wanted to crotchet more squares and make it into a cover instead, went to Michael's and look for the same yarn but they were out, so now what?

I guess all I could do is just

WAIT

this last photo here was edited using Picmonkey

Please come join in the fun at

Our Beautiful World

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All my bags are packed, I'm ready to go......

again

source

first stop...

Munich

I will post pictures on the road if I can find internet connection, other wise, I have pre-scheduled post to keep this blog alive, LOL!

Saturday, July 27, 2013

Christmas in July... again!

The Challenge:

DL.ART Thankful Thursday Challenge #114

Theme: Christmas in July

I guess I am in a holiday mood, this is my 2nd christmas card in July

I will be back tomorrow for a new prompt for

Our Beautiful World

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Card with no stamping

The Challenge:

Moxie Fab World Birthday Creation Week - The Birthday Sketch Challenge

Here is Betsy's wonderful sketch

and I am going with cards with no stamping

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

City Crafter Chalenge Blog Week 169 ~ On the Road

Happy Tuesday to all, it is City Crafter Challenge Day, and our lovely host Charlene picked

"On the Road"

as our theme for the week

Here's my Bon Voyage album for my friend Joey

the pages...

back of the album

I hope you fill this album up with lots of beautiful photos from your trip Joey!

Check out the beautiful projects from our Guest Designer Ira (you will be amazed!!!) and of course the team too.

Hop over to City Crafter Challenge Blog now!