An Anniversary Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you have had a good week. It has been a busy one for me. The weekend ahead is going to be busy too. I am very lucky that my lovely hubby is taking me to the Farnborough Craft show on Saturday. Then we are visiting our parents that live up that way. On Sunday we are taking back the hamster we have been looking after for our daughter and son-in-law. I hope we get to share a meal with them as well.

As some of you know I help my very talented friend at her felting workshops. She keeps a box of scraps and I found a lovely piece of felt that must have been trimmed from a bigger project.. I asked if I could keep it to make a card and she kindly agreed.

I hung onto to the piece of felt for a while and I finally decided to make it into a card for our anniversary which is at the beginning of April. I do like to be ahead with my makes. You never know what might happen.

The backing paper came from some packaging. The card is scored so the flap doesn't reach the other side. I can't remember what this style of card is called. I did put some paper on the inside so that I can write a message. 

So the background piece is the original piece of felt and I needle felted a little boat onto it. I created the mats and layers with my guillotine. 

I added some Washi tape to the design. The sentiment was cut with some Britannia Dies.  

I think you can see how the card is folded from this picture. It is okay for me to share this card as my hubby doesn't look at my blog or Facebook Page. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 48 at the Crafting with Attitude Challenge blog

Challenge 31 at the Love to Create Challenge blog

Challenge 57 at the Crafty Addicts Challenge blog

Challenge 158 at the Creative Finger Challenge blog

The Oh Man! Challenge at the Daring Cardmakers Challenge blog

Challenge 336 at the QKR Stampede Challenge blog

Have a great weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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I made a Felted Scarf

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going. I am off to help with a Felting Workshop this morning. It is a Christmas needle felting workshop. I wonder if I will get to make something. I have learnt a lot.

My friend has been asked to run workshops where people can make a felted scarf. So a couple of weeks ago I helped her by  doing  a trial workshop.

This is the finished scarf laying out on the lounge floor. 

You start with a piece of muslin bigger than you want the finished scarf. Under the muslin was some bubble wrap bubbles up. 

You lay the wool fibres over the edge of the muslin.  

I created a pattern in the middle with the fibres. I even added some Angelina for a bit of shine. That has to be covered with some of the wool fibres as it doesn't felt on its own. 

Then you lay some net over the design. It helps to have two of you do this so the fibres don't float away. You spray to make the wool wet with  a weak solution of washing up liquid and warm water. You role up the bubble wrap, the scarf and the net over a rolling pin (pipe lagging cut to size) and roll backwards and forwards for about 60 times. Then you unwrap and remove the netting. You roll up again and there is lots more rolling. You can tell when the felting is done as the fibres don't pick away. The other side is done in the same way. I made the design simpler and with no sparkle. You do fold the edge fibres over to make the edge neat. As the fibres mat together they shrink and this causes puckers in the fabric. This adds nicely to the design. 

This is the finished damp scarf. I took it home and dried it flat and then ironed it through a damp tea towel. It is recommended to hand wash the scarf and to dry it flat. If you machine wash it the scarf with shrink as the matting will continue. 

Here  is me wearing the scarf it is very warm. I am so pleased with how it turned out. This was my first time doing a really large felting project. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Felted Penguin Family

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? Our internet is really playing up which is very frustrating. I do rely on it so much. Hopefully something will be sorted soon.

On Saturday the printing of the Save the Date postcards did not go well. While I was waiting I finished this little felted penguin family. I learnt a bit about felting so I could help at the workshops. I remembered that we had a kit from Hobbycraft. So I got it out to have a go. The wool wasn't as nice as that used at the workshops and I was felting into polystyrene egg shapes.

This is the one I made first. 

Then I made the one with the heart. 

Then I made the tiny egg one. I tried to follow the pattern in the kit. I showed my daughter and she thought they looked like us. Then I realised I should have made her husband. 

So I raided another kit and made another little one. 

I do think they are cute. I might be helping at a couple of workshops next week I am hoping to learn a bit more. 

Enjoy the rest of week

Happy crafting. 

Hugs Jackie

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