All occasion card featuring a gold embossed grass image, vellum and textured cardstock

I made up this card for a friend you recently lost her husband.  They had been over 50 years married though he was only 76.  

I made up an off white card using textured cardstock, added a torn strip of vellum and then added my gold embossed stamped image of grasses.  I watercoloured the image before adhering it over the vellum.  

Therese

 

Sewing - braided fleece and mesh dog toys

 I rescued a scrap of blue fleece from our fabric sorting last week and wondered what I could use it for in the way of creating a sellable item.  After a bit of research on line I decided to make up some dog chew toys.  I cut the scrap into 2" x 20" pieces and then trimmed the same size scraps from a mesh t shirt from my fabric stash.  I layered three of them and tied a knot pulling hard so it would be tight.  I then braided the lengths until I had about 3" left and tied another knot.  I flagged the ends to make them interesting.  I ended up with 10 of them.  I will bring them to add to our merchandise bins when I go to sorting this week.    Therese

Sewing - pet bowl mats with dogs and bones

Pet bowl mats for Gramma Link Africa.  These will be on our merchandise table in June when we have our Rhubarb Tea and again in the fall at our Chili for a Cause.  At fabric sorting last week one of the girls was wowing about this cool dog fabric and then out of the box came the bone fabric!!  I had already prepped the flannel batting for three of these so I indicated I could use the fabric for making up the outside layers for the pet bowl mats.  They came home with me and I washed them up.   I used the plaid fabric on the back of each of the mats.  All cotton therefore very washable!!  They are about 13" x 18".  

I used other coordinating cotton scraps from my GA stash to create three unique mats.   I like how they turned out.  I gave another go at making flying geese and they turned out well.  I added spacers to get the width I needed for my mat, framed that in black and then added the bone fabric.  

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I cut a 7" square of the large dog fabric and added pieces all the way around.  I did darker to the upper right and lighter on the lower left.  After it was done and I took a photo it would have been better to put the dark on the lower left which would have better framed the image once I added the black strip.  I created a length of short pieces where I incorporated some of the bone scraps for the right hand side. 

I cut a length of the large dog fabric to 7" along the width of the remnant.  I used a long piece on this mat and a square on the above mat.  I have a square left that would make a unique potholder for a dog lover!!!  I added two strips to each side to finish off the mat.    Therese