Wildflower Fairy

Hi all hope you are well.

I have had a big push lately with the blanket

squares i've done another 80 odd or so.

I have got so many other things i want to start 

but i've told myself i'm not allowed 

to start them till what i've got on the 

go at the moment are finished.

Otherwise i'd have bags of projects that just won't get 

finished.

Anyway enough wool and onto a card.

It's time for another Papertake Weekly

and this weeks challenge is a

Dawny Sketch.

I love sketches half the battle for me is 

layout and following a sketch is just 

brill, not much thinking is needed.

I have used a gorgeous digi image

called Wildflower Fairy from

Saturated Canary Digi's off Etsy. 

I thinks she's the artist behind the Sassy stamps,

she has a lot of wonderful images you can buy.

I have used a mixture of copics pro an flex markers

to colour her in.

Sentiment stamps is from a flower fairies stamp set.

Papers are from Pink Petticoat vintage rose

collection.

Ribbon and lace are from my stash.

Please go and check out the other
dt's work over at Papertake weekly.

One last thing 
Oooooooooo!
look at last my 
Hyacinthe bulbs are out.

They smell as good as they look.


Thanks for looking today.
Take care

Pot of daffs

Hi all hope you are well and 

enjoying your weekend.

Just wanted to share with you a little something

i made last night.

You know how it is, i happened to be passing 

my local yarn shop and somehow the 

car seemed to stop right outside. 

Who was i to argue so in i went to have a look.

WELL

Staring at me from the shelf was 

some gorgeous 

Louisa Harding Ianthe yarn 

in some yummy colours so i had to take them home.

i love the muted tones

Looking through blog land i came across

tins that had crochet covers on them see here. 

My mum had bought me a pot of daffs so

when i saw these i thought what a great idea

and had to make one

Guess which yarn i had to use.

I used a Pineapple rings tin instead of tuna.

I used a mixture of crochet stitches

Double, Half Double and treble.

And

Ta..  Dah..

I'm really pleased how it turned out.

I left long ends when i changed colours,

after i had sewn the edges together i pulled

all the ends out of the top,

then made them into a tassel to cover the join.

The tin fits the daffs pot perfectly.

 It now has pride of place on the kitchen windowsill.

The only thing now is they are quite addictive,

i might have to buy some more pineapple tins

when food shopping next week to make a matching set.

Good job we all like pineapples.

Thanks for looking

Take care

Spring is in the Air

Hi all on this dull and miserable wet

Tuesday hope your are well.

Aren't you just fed up of this weather, they were

even talking about lack of vitamin D this morning on 

the BBC, i think we are all suffering.

Well it's Papertake time again and this week

the theme is 

Happy Highlights

We want you to highlight part of the image 

or paper with something like 

Glossy Accents, Glitter or decoupage.

This week we are sponsored by

Bugaboo
Who have 7 digi stamps up for grabs. 

I have used one of the images available from

Bugaboo. This one is from the scene it range

called Ladybugs.

I have used my Promarkers and Flexmarkers

to colour it in.

I used Glossy Accents on the Ladybugs.

Papers are from K and Co best of paper pad.

Sentiment i found online as a freebie digi

image.

Flowers are Prima and i have used 

Martha Stewart punches for the leaves and

the background.

Ribbon from the Ribbon Girl.

Pin from stash.

Please go and check out the other girls DT work
they are all just fab.

I took a picture of the roses i bought

whilst food shopping last week

Aren't they just gorgeous and cheap to.

I bought them from Aldi £3 for 11 roses.

They had them in all sorts of fab colours.

I got pink as it's my favourite colour.

I'm also on with making a Granny Square
Spring blanket and with the amount of squares
i've got to do it will probably be spring before
i finish making them.

I've got 400+ to make, i've forgotten the total off the 
top of my head but i have it written down
in colour combo's so i don't loose my way
and have to recount.

 Fortunately they are not to big so you can make a square 
quite quickly and i'm finishing them off on the back 
as i go so i don't have to do it all at the end.
I can imagine that would take days in itself.


I'm aiming to try and get it finished before our 
first VW show in the spring.
I also fancy making some bunting to go 
round the van as well.
I think i'm going to be a busy bee........Buzz.




Thanks for looking 
Take care

Cosy time for Tea and some wool

Hi all hope you are well.

I thought i would share with you the 

quick project i have just finished,

in between all the other two projects on the go
at the moment.

The cosy is a pattern from a book

that had strawberries on the top

but i wanted to brighten it up

so decided to make rosettes in all

colours to add a bit of a spring feel.

I don't know if the internet is a good or a bad thing

i keep coming across some gorgeous

patterns for things that i want to make.

This prompted a trip to my local wool

shop. They must have thought it was Christmas

again when i walked in

there was so much gorgeous wool.

This first box is some wool i got

for my stash, you could call it

just in case stash.

If i come across something that takes my eye

I've got some wool to get going

straight away. 

I bought this alpaca to make a 

knitted cushion which are all the rage in the

shops at the moment.

It's gorgeous to touch it's so soft.  

This last bag is some Aran 

for another cushion.

All i need now it about 30 hours in the day

to complete them all.

Thanks for looking today

Take care 

Buttons,Bows,Bling and Blooms

Hi all hope you are well.

We are all back in the swing of things again after

Christmas, that seems such a long time ago now.

It's Papertake weekly time again and 

the challenge this week is 

 All the B's

Buttons, Bows,Bling and Blooms.

Pretty straight forward really

just pile it all on.

 This is a card made for 

a friends Granddaughter.

The image is from Wee Stamps.

Coloured with Polychromos pencils and 

blended with sansodor.

Papers from Papermania.

Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I have added glitter as my bling on the image.

Sentiment computer generated.

please pop over to the challenge and

check out the other DT's fabulous work.

Thanks for looking today

Take care

Blooming Lovely

Morning all hope you are well, it's still

dull and wet here in the north west.

So here's the promise of spring 

to cheer us up.

Yesterday i was writing about the 

daffodils i bought, well look what 

i found 

I painted this as you can see back in 2010.

I was sorting out stuff the other day and

came across it, It's been sat in the pad

since i painted it.  Well i thought

'Wow, I painted that!'

looking at it again all this time later,

it's better than i remember.

So i have put it into a frame which instantly
makes it look better and thinking 

of putting it on my kitchen wall.

I sketched the image from a book of flowers and

painted it with watercolours.

Talking of flowers look whats 

finally decided to flower again

My Orchid is flowering again.

Yippee!!!!!

It's been so long i had actually forgotten

what the flowers looked like.

I remember now i bought this one because

it looks like someone has just got some

paint and put splodges on it.

It must be a year ago since it last flowered but

it's well worth the wait, and there are two stems 

so i should have quite a few flowers on it.

Oh well time to go, i might bake today

I'm in the mood for a cake.

Thanks for looking in today.

Take care

Molly fairy at Papertake

Hi all hope you're well on this dull and

miserable day, it's so yucky and dark,

but there's no rain. 

Roll on spring.

When i was out this morning i 

decided to cheer myself up

with the promise of colour by buying a 

pot of daffodils. In a week or two 

they will look wonderful, I'll post a picture

of them when they come out.

It's time for another Papertake Weekly

and this week's theme is

Die Cute Special

We want to see a die cut something on your card and 

make it cute.

We are sponsored this week by the 

fabulous 

Stamp Fairy 

and the prize is £10 to 

spend in their on line shop.

I have used one of the digi stamps you can get at

The Stamp Fairy store

she is called Molly fairy on swing and is 

easy to colour.

I used my copics and glitter pens.

Sentiment is computer generated.

The die cut shapes are made with a 

Go Kreate frilly die.

The papers are from a freebie pad that i got 

with a mag last year i think they where

from Pink Petticoat.

Flowers are from Prima and i used a black

pen to make the stamens match the paper and 

finished it off with a green brad.

I was a bit miffed when at the end i put glitter

glue on her wings and the ink bled a bit.

I wasn't about to start again so it had to do,

I'll not do that again. Glitter glue and

digi images do not mix.

I don't know if you have notice but i changed the

name of my blog only slightly.

Instead of Paper Paradise I've changed it to
Crafty paradise. What with all the 
crochet, knitting, the occasional beading, cross stitch
and very rarely painting i thought it best.

Well thanks for taking a look today, and please pop
over to Papertake and check out the other
fabulous DT's cards they are so good.


Take care 

I'm back

Good morning all hope to find you well.

You may have noticed the lack of posts recently,

apart from the Papertake Weekly posts

i decided to have a little break over Christmas time.

I went cold turkey......ish on anything papery which

freed up a lot of time to divulge into the new 

love of my crafty life Crochet/Knitting.

What could be better than looking at a basket
full of brightly coloured wool.

 

don't they look scrummy.

This is the wool i'm using for my latest project

here's a sneaky look at it so far.

It's going to be a scarf, but actually i love 

the way it looks over my wool basket.

I might have to make some more to trim it.

Looking around blogland i have seen a few 

flower scarves and thought they looked so lovely,

but could not find a pattern, then i found out that

the pattern came from a Japanese Crochet book.

Not being able to speak or read Japanese buying the book 

was a no no.  So i decided to get a close up of one of the flowers and made a pattern up myself and this is

what i came up with, I'm so chuffed with it.

Listen to me, I've only made 9 at the moment

there's another 37 to go

i may not feel the same in a bit.

I also wanted to show you a couple of fab pressies 

that Santa brought.

 He brought me a new knitting bag to keep all my

hooks and needles in it's so gorgeous.  I also got

this fab book which is actually a tin full of

loveliness.

 

 Aren't these sooooo yummy.

 

This is what you can make, but it's so

lovely with little iddy biddy balls of wool in such delish colours i might have to just stroke it for the time being.

Ok i've got to be good now and actually get some

housework done the laundry basket it close 

to overflowing. I don't know! this housework

keeps getting in the way of some serious crafting.

 Lol.

Thanks for looking today 

i'll be back tomorrow with this weeks

Papertake challenge.

Take care

 

Happy New Year

Hi all and a Happy new year, hope you

had a fab time over Christmas hols.

Nearly back to normal now, the kiddies are back

at school tomorrow.

This weeks Papertake challenge theme is

Anything goes with the optional extra

to make a card for or with something new.

A new home, baby or even using some of the new

stash you got for Christmas.

We are sponsored this week by 

Lili of the Valley.

 

I have used some of the new stash i got, i treated 

myself to some of the Simply Sassy stamps from

Funky Kits. I also got some spellbinders dies.

The stamp is Cinderella, i have coloured her 

with Promarkers.

Sentiment is from Lili of the Valley.

The papers are GCD Ella Blue.

Flowers are from Wild Orchid crafts.

It's great when you have new stash, can't wait to

have a play with it all.

Please pop over to the Papertake challenge and 

check out the rest of the DT's inspirational work,
they are just so talented.

Thanks for looking 

take care