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Saturday, 9 August 2025

A card and a hare...




 Well. where did that week go! This summer is rushing by so fast, I'm glad I've been making the most of the lovely weather we've had. I hope the warm spell lasts a few more weeks as we're off on holiday in September - Devon is a lovely place to be, especially when the weather is good, so fingers crossed.

I used my Copics to colour up this cute Mo Manning image and made this quick card using old papers from my stash, it looked a bit plain so I added some stamping to the edges of the image panel and the grey background panel using Uniko border stamps, the  digital sentiment stamp is from Polkadoodles.

I've also been having a go at needle felting, inspired by Pinky's amazing projects. I discovered that my cousin knew how to felt and spent a lovely afternoon with her, my sister and a friend being shown how to wet felt and needlefelt. Since then I've bought some basics and tried the needle felting at home. My first attempt was a sheep. It looked a bit like an emaciated dachshund with mange and dodgy legs and went in the bin. My sister and my daughter are still laughing about it- rude!! Next I made a bear- well a head of a bear- it was far to big and I ran out of the yarn I was using...another resident for the bin. Yesterday I sat in the garden and made a hare...


Ok- his eyes are wonky and one ear is bigger than the other but I'm quite proud of him- he's a lot better than the sheep!
Thanks for visiting
Enjoy the weekend
Chris
x

Challenge entries:
(card)
ilovepromarkers #588 (atg)
PFM #800 
unicorn #112

(Hare)
allsorts #829





6 comments:

Pauline C said...

Very cute and funky card Chris, with superb colouring on your image and great background stamping. Love the needle felted hare too … you should have posted a pic of the sheep as it sounds like he was quite a character! xx

crafty-stamper said...

Beautiful card, love the gorgeous image and stamped borders-love the felted hare too.
Carol x

chrissy xx said...

A FABulous design Chris. Such a sweetie of a image.
LOving your colours too.
Chrissyxx
I had a go at needle felting at a class many moons ago.
Deff not a simple hobby! x

brenda said...

The image on the first is fabulous, sp perfect for the youngsters, the face suggests attitude for sure.

And your needle felting, what can I say, super Hare (who often have lopsided ears). I've looked at Pinky's makes in recent months and been tempted, but with my wonky fingers and eyes something tells me your "emaciated dachshund' would have looked like a work of art alongside anything I ended up with.

B x

Aunty Sue said...

Oh Chris what a fab card and you did make me smile re the felting I would end up with it in my finger the needle but I love your Hare and I bet their ears are not equal in real life. End enjoy the rest of the summer

brenda said...

Me again Chris, forgot to say what a perfect entry for our Animals theme at Allsorts, thanks so much for sharing with us.

B x