This week I’m joining in on the Hero Art blog hop. It’s CHA time and that means new releases! Yay!
“Love the smell of new stamps” hehe Maybe I will be lucky and win some of the new releases on the blog hop…one can hope.
Well Kathy Racoosin is doing a giveaway in the name of Hero Art. Hop on over to her blog for a chance to win some of this goodness…
How beautiful…
Inspired by Majas hobbykrok post on knitting a cover for firelighter boxes I gave it a try this weekend.
The firelighter box originally screams at you…and I have a box with a design that is less colorful than the ones out there… My box measurs 37 cm in diameter and 23,5 cm high.
I’m not 100% happy with the result. Mostly because I knit the pattern too tight, causing the snowflakes to be a bit stretched. But happy with my efficiency…only took me one weekend!
After making one is such a short time I will make more of these. need to be able to change it when I feel like it. The box is stored next to our fireplace year round, so should have some designs that can be used with the different seasons…not just snowflakes.
a close up
Very happy with my color choice, the deep purple with the off white…very advent. With purple being my favorite color, how can I not love it 
- do you have firelighter boxes that need covering?
- what designs would you like to see on your cover?
A while back I promised a post on last years Christmas card. Here it is!
I love being creative when putting together my Christmas cards, but there isn’t enough creative juice to make 25 unique cards. So every year I play around and end up with a card design I like, which then gets “mass produced”.
For this years card base I chose a cream colored cardstock. With the largest die in Quickutz nested ornament die cut set I cut out the ornament for the front. To give the ornament a Christmas feel I embossed a pearlescent green embossing powder (unknown brand) after stamping with the Hero Arts Flourish Background Stamp (CG119) and Versamark ink. With Fiskars 1” hole punch I made a hole for the picture of BabyS (I’m trying to keep pictures of BabyS in this blog to a minimum…but the card just wouldn’t look the same with a blurred out picture). The ornament was then attached to the card with a little ribbon and a glue dot. Under the tree I had stamped (with a discontinued Inque Boutique stamp - Stephanie Barnard Mini Christmas -Model # 50437) a little Christmas greeting…The star on the top of the tree got a little bling to make it “sparkle”…cute!
Inside the card DaddyO had written our 2012 review and another stamped Christmas greeting together with a handwritten sentiment. The corner was adorned with a Magnolia swirly ornament stamp.
Hopefully friends and family have received their cards by now…
- Do you create your own Christmas cards?
- How many different designs do you make?
Do share your creations with a link in the comments.
Stay tuned I’ll be back before you know it…
With the flu and a sinus infection finally loosening the grip on me I have some catching up to do…
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years celebration. And with days starting to go back to ‘normal’ … I try to enjoy the last full month of my maternity leave. In February I slowly return back to work. Ahhh how time flies. BabyS is already 7 months old!
Thanks to help from DaddyO we got last years Christmas shopping done almost two weeks before Christmas eve, leaving me with lots of time to do some knitting.
The projects I finished were mostly for BabyS, one can never have too many blankets or socks
Here are the patterns I used:
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| Bring it on baby blanket by Pickles | Tube socks by Drops design | Twister beanie by G-Anette |
All the projects are knitted in baby merino wool (the grey socks and the pink/purple/grey blanket) and alpaca blends (the brown socks, the purple/white blanket and my beanie). All should be warm and cozy on these (still) cold winter days.
Just a note, I didn’t follow the beanie pattern to the letter…when I followed the pattern it was more of a kids size beanie when using the alpaca blend I had. So I increased the number for masks to start with from 80 to 120. But thanks G-Anette for the great pattern.
The socks don’t have heals knitted into them, so they are one size fit all babies. Just knit them as long as you feel like, I made mine about 25cm long.
- Have you done some knitting lately?
- Who do you knit projects for?
Do share you projects by leaving me a link…all comments are also appreciated.
Be back before you know it with another post…
Time sure flies…another year has begun.
Sorry for my absence lately, someone left casaR a Christmas gift consisting of the Flu! And I was struck the worst. I’m still recovering…starting with some energy to sit a little in front of the computer. Just dropping by to wish everybody a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Wasn’t much of a celebration @casaR this year…with BabyS needing her sleep and DaddyO and me sick…So this year I reminisce about the new year we celebrated in Singapore two years ago…
the sky @MarinaBay, SG…ahhh New Year in the tropics
- How did you welcome the new year?
