Tink Shui

For Lucy

Jody — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 19:24:11 +0000

Here’s the link if you want to make your own.

Tatty Teddy

Jody — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:55:32 +0000

Here’s a relatively quick make I did using my free Tatty Teddy stamps and loosely using the tutorial in Docrafts magazine, which by the way is an amazing magazine and website too. Inside I stamped the sentiment that came with the set and ended up giving it to my mummy for her birthday on 8th of July. I’m thinking of making some variations on this because I really like how it turned out, oh and btw the actual teddy in the pics is one that an ex bought for me back when I was younger.

Much Love

Jody — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:00:35 +0000

Late last night in bed, where for some strange reasons I get all my good ideas, I had a fabulous idea for a card and I couldn’t wait to make it in the morning, once actually getting into the making of it I realised that the original idea was not going to work nearly as well as I had imagined the night before so I chopped and changed and produced this little gem.

Loyalty Card Holder

Jody — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 19:00:25 +0000

I promised I would make this tutorial over at Grosgrain Fabulous on my twitter and I have actually gotten around the making it, I used some old curtains for the linings and some lovely fabric I picked up at a jumble sale for next to nothing for the outside. The only problem is that I didn’t have any magnetic clasps so thought I’d improvise and make a button closure instead, didn’t work, fabric is to thick to use the button hole maker foot on my sewing machine so it just jammed up. I might try and find another alternative but for now this is what it turned out like:

Camembert & Cranberrys

Jody — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:27:00 +0000

About a month ago I went and visited the wonderful Maddy on one of her last day in Portsmouth, we had Disarano, KFC and loud bassy music, it was goooood, the next day called for something to cure a little hangover so we bumbled over the The Wine Vaults down Albert Road and boy am I glad we ended up there. I choose a Camembert and Cranberry panini and expected it to be in the traditional panini style, all smooshed together between two slices of panini bread, but no, it was far more wonderful than that!

What I got was a whole warmed through Camembert still in it’s wooden case and piled on top was lovely bright red cranberry sauce, next to it was thick slices of panini bread lightly toasted with a little bit of rocket salad and all this was presented on a wooden board rustic style, it looked gorgeous! Ever since that day I have been trying to recreate this mouth watering lunch I had and I think I may have got it!

How lovely does that look? Mmmmm, if you want to make it yourself here’s what I did:

Ingredients:

225g of frozen cranberrys
200g of Caster sugar
100ml of Water
Whole Camembert in a wooden case not a card one
Couple of freshly baked Panini’s

1: Put the water and the caster sugar in a saucepan and bring just to the boil, making sure the sugar has all dissolved.

2: Turn the heat down a little and add the Cranberry’s, it should take between 5 and 10 mins for the cranberry’s to get hot enough that they will burst when you push them onto the side of the saucepan with a wooden spoon. Burst all or some of the Cranberry’s, depending on how you like your sauce.

3: Take off the heat and leave to cool for a minute or two so the sauce will thicken a bit.

4: Sieve the cranberry’s so that you get most of the liquid out and then leave to one side to cool down a bit more.

5: Put the Camembert on the grill medium heat for about 15-20 mins or until when you touch the top it wobbles a bit.

6: Slice the Panini breads into long strips and a couple of mins before the Camambert is ready pop them under the grill to lightly toast on both sides.

7: Place you whole Camembert on the plate, pile the cranberry sauce onto the Camembert and place the slices of Panini bread on the side.

Et Viola, hope you like it!

Let me know if you make it too, I’d love to see how it tuned out.

Organising stamps

Jody — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:25:25 +0000

My collection of clear stamps has got quite a lot larger recently and my previous method of simply putting the whole stamp set with it’s packaging in a punched pocket and then in a small ring binder, as you can image, is now not sufficient.

While trying to come up with a more suitable solution I remembered one of my favourite inspirational blogs, Paper in Bloom by the lovely Carly Robertson, has an awesome video on how she organises her stamps among other things. From watching her video I now have perfectly organised stamps in a proper lever arch file, I highly recommend watching all of her videos on organising your craft supplies.

In fact I highly recommend her blog for all of her wonderful card designs and am very jealous of her lovely craft room!

Make a Wish

Jody — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:23:30 +0000

Just a quickie today, my other half’s god son was 11 the other day and we needed a quick card before we popped over to wish him Happy Birthday, I made this in about 15 mins, and the inside I stamped a Happy Birthday sentiment and added some little gemstones on the flames too.

Red Wedding Theme

Jody — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:29:46 +0000

Organiser Bag

Jody — Sun, 29 May 2011 18:36:20 +0000

At the end of last year a friend who is the head honcho at NCG Events was holding a charity event in aid of Help the Heroes and The Selsey Lifeboats, she was doing a raffle, an auction and there would be a band too. She asked local businesses to donate prizes to keep costs down and I offered my services to make a bespoke bag for whoever won the auction, the night was a success, I won a few prizes too and the organiser’s twin sister won the auction for my one of a kind bag, she was thrilled as apparently that’s one of the prizes she wanted and since she was expecting too so it would be nice to have a changing bag to put all her baby gear in.

To cut a long story short I finally made the bag some months later due to lack of monetary funds and viola here it is today, I am very proud of myself on this one and think it came out great. Lots of fiddly things I’ve not done before to challenge my skills not to mention the hour or so prep time it took to cut, iron and interface all the pieces. The bag includes a flush zip pocket, elasticated pocket and pen pockets on one side and a laptop harness on the other, adjustable strap and twist lock fasteners at the front.

Origami

Jody — Sun, 22 May 2011 09:17:08 +0000

One of my first introductions to the world of papercrafts was through Origami, I was taught how to make one of those ‘pick a number, pick a colour’ thingys, (what are they called?) by my auntie Maria who is Spanish and doesn’t speak amazing English but it was so super duper easy I picked it up very quick and ended up making loads and loads of them, from teeny tiny ones made from the tiniest sliver of paper I could manage to massive ones made out of my mums biggest card she had (and she had quite big pieces being an artist!)

It has been a love of mine ever since but I have moved on to much more advanced techniques now, although I’m no where near as god as some people are with there intricate designs. Here are a few of my origami pieces I’ve made.