Something Blue............

Lazy Sunday afternoons, don't you just love them? 

I decided to today to make a new necklace and after rustling through my stash of beads and putting my creative flare to the test, I came up with this lovely blue necklace :)

I have used 2 strands of tiger wire to wrap around the beads.

I have used a selection of blue glass beads which I purchased from Hobbycraft.  I have also used small silver seed beads at both ends of each bead and thread both strands through a 4mm silver foil round glass bead.

This is the items I used to make this necklace :-

A set each of crimp pliers, wire cutting pliers and bent nose pliers. I also used a jump ring open/close setter. A selection of glass beads and silver seed beads. 7 strand tiger wire, a lobster trigger clasp, 2 jump rings, 2 crimp beads and 2 clam shell end beads.

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A Little Bit Different

Since I have started this blog the only thing I have been putting on so far are the cards I have been making.  So I have decided to show off some of my other talents lol.  As I had said on my profile I have recently taken up jewellery making and was really busy making a few necklaces etc for Christmas presents.

This is the necklace I made for my sister Tina.

I used Beadalon 7 strand 0.62 wire to string the beads.  The main beads were some that I had in my craft stash.  I threaded some Pearl coloured 3mm beads next to the dark coloured beads and black seed beads next to the light coloured beads.  I also put on some silver 2mm seed beads to brake it up along with silver coloured crimp beads to make the beads float. 

I hope you like what I have made and please feel free to leave a comment :)

Sugar bowl Challenge 75

So much for my New Year Resolution 

I promised myself that I would do more crafting this year but so far I have done very little.  That's the one thing about being self employed, at this time of year unfortunately the tax man comes knocking and there's so much to do with paperwork etc (maybe I should make another resolution and try to keep my paperwork up to date what do you think)?

However, thanks to the lovely Erika she had arranged for our local ladies to have a Crop on Sunday 22nd January so this gave me the perfect opportunity to get out the Promarkers :) and colour this lovely Sugar Nellie stamp.  This is Pippi Longsocks which can be purchased here.

I think she is so adorable especially with her little froggy companion.  My friend is frog daft and I thought this would make the perfect card for her birthday in March and as this is the theme for this weeks Sugar Bowls challenge (also set by Erika) I thought this would be an ideal opportunity for me.

The backing papers I have used are My Mind's Eye Lush blue Diamond, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist and some plain card stock which I had in my scrap drawer.  I have finished it off with stamping out the tickets which are from Lily of the Valley which can be purchased from here and added a few of Craftworks Candi :)

I hope you like my card and please feel free to leave a comment :)