A little bit of crochet

I haven’t made any cards worth sharing recently but here is a crochet project that I almost finished. I had learnt to crochet when I was a kid and mainly just made hair scrunchies. 

Quite a while ago I got addicted to couple of really helpful crochet channels on YouTube. That inspired me to start crocheting again and this little pouch is one of the results I really liked😊

I cannot find the link to the exact video or page that has the instructions, but it’s basically just circle crochet with front post double crochet in intervals. The yarn is a variegated cotton yarn and I loved it so much that just kept it…admiring it for a long time before I actually put it to use.

I haven’t done the closure yet… I’ve attached a brad sort of thing from an old bag I think, and a small flap. I plan to use a thread with tassle for a string loop type closure, before my crochet craze fades away😊

Another vines and roses card

I seem to not be able to not use the Tim Holtz vines and roses stamp 🙂 This one has the worn lipstick distress oxide ink stamped. I then blended abandoned coral distress ink slightly from the edges and corners. They go together so well and I just love the pinkish peach look.

The ‘You’ is handwritten with a white gel pen…as clearly seen from the scratchily filled in letters 😶 I wanted to make it puffy by adding glossy accent or something but I usually end up messing the letters. I used a small vellum piece, blended some pink oxide ink on it and cut a heart to add the ‘miss’ word.

I think I’ll try blending these oxide and regular inks together on another card and see how it looks. This is another pic though the messy lettering looks more pronounced here😊

Paper craft and paperclips

My mom teaches little kids and they were doing a group song in her school yesterday. I made this quick little group of paper flowers with random Hindi letters written in the centres.

It was a song about the Hindi language hence the characters. She didn’t want anything too  elaborate and this was the final idea that she liked. It’s really simple but I loved how colorful and happy it looked having all those flowers together.

I don’t have a die cut machine yet so I just folded and cut some diff. designs to pass as flowers ^_^

And this below is what just popped into my mind when I saw my little paperclip box with the colourful clips. I used an app in my phone to add the phrase.  I love cute and colourful items and sometimes just can’t resist buying random fun things when I’m in a stationery store…pens and papers and tapes and boxes, it’s great when I find something really lovely ❤

I think I’ll end up using something like this on a card…maybe to a fellow stationery fan 🙂