Watercolors

I bought Simply Cards & papercraft #237 magazine and did something I have not done in a decade -I think. In January I paint the 4 cards included with the magazine by the watercolors attached to the kit. I made several beginner level mistakes but hey it's been time since I paint with these! Here you can see my expression of the cards.

Christmas Stationery

 

The time to make some Christmas Season Stationery arrived again with November. This time I used very old typing paper. Can you see the watermark? These belonged to my grandmother and I found them last June when helping out my mom to sort out rest of the papers.

I stamped the pictures and then colored a bit.

The deer got also some outline color to look more chic.

I found also some old envelopes I bought on sale years ago after Xmas. They are perfect for these writing papers!

One letter will be enclosed with this reindeer card...

I wish you all

Very Home Made Christmas Season!

L e t t e r s

I love L E T T E R S. I have always loved. 

Correspondence has been my dear hobby -and then LifeStyle- for 30 years. Every year, every month, very often and going on. Via letters I have found unbeliveable loveable life time friends.

For ages I have made my own stationery. I do this for three resons:

1. To personalize my l e t t e r s
2. To keep it cheaper
3. Around here it is difficult to get stationery in big packs. If you get them, they usually are just boring college styled white with stripes or squares. If you get pretty ones, there are just few pieces of papers with high cost.

This time I used A3 papers which I fold to get 4 pages. I used snow flake and this cute girl stamps. I colored the girl with my favourite Derwent Water Colour Pencils. They are over 20 years old. I have used them a lot. But they are still there. Some of them are stump. But if you ever desire to buy ones and think they are far too expencive; I can promise they will last and last and last...

I hate water colouring but with my pencils I love it. You just colour and then add the water. Brilliant!

It is up to you which effect you want. More or less...

The next one goes to dear B...

Miss N's vest

Today I finished this cute vest for little Miss N. It is my own design. I used Makedonian Tonika's Mohera yarn  (100% polyacryl). I knitted the vest and crocheted the edges. The yarn has mohair type effect and it is not 100% smooth as you can see from the result.

These are Novita's teddy yarn which I bought from a sale some weeks ago.They include 45% wool, 30% polyamide and 25% acryl. Each ball include 100g.

Because I finished Miss N's vest I started new project. It is going to be a blanket. Again my own design. It is for living room use; you know -just sofa and me.... Yes I always have several projects going on at the same time. One carry on, one or two stitching and usually one knitting or crocheting for sofa moments (too big to carry on) and some other craft projects too...

... projects like card making; still the Easter cards. :) These are my dear Derwent Watercolour pencils; pack of 36. I simply love them. You just color, then you take your wet paintbrush and water the coloured parts. I am a control freak and real watercolouring is my nightmare. I can do it but I hate it. This is suitable way for me to do it. :) And no, the ink of the stamped pictures doesn't get messed up because I don't use too much water. It is not any special water proof ink. I just let it dry for a week or two before wetting it. ;)