A TCP too easy challenge - Use a digi

Woo Hoo ! It's another Sunday gone so that means .... 

... OMG Christmas is another week closer 

(thanks for the reminder lol) 

BUT ALSO A new challenge with The Crafty Pad !

This week we can not make it any easier for you ... 

We want you to 

USE A DIGI - Image or sentiment ! 

Now really ...  there is nothing more simple than this!

What are you in the chance for if you play along ???

 A Joanna Sheen £10.00 gift voucher for her shop and she has some really really NICE stuff! 

So ... Where did my creative juices go this week ??? 

Hmm here is a sneaky peaky :P 

Understatement of the year ... I got hand stitching crazy! 

Surprisingly this was extremely therapeutic to me this week.

My dearest Nana was on my mind and it just keep on floating back to the days she and I used to sit and natter.  She would be hand making my dresses and I would be right beside her sewing a matching dress for my dolly.  Sadly the angels took her to join them in 1989; but it is days like this that she floats into my mind that I still treasure her presence with me. 

As Nana so loved her cuppa tea and her garden; my mind went to crafting a tea satchel card and a paper watering-can with an added good handful of peanut m&m chocolates wrapped in cellophane.

 

 

 

 

There is not much to this card but Nana always said it was about the details. All the DP has a hand sewn border, including the watering-can, I added some lace, the flowers I have made by hand and I added a touch of pearls with the posh pins in the ribbon bow on the front and as flower centers on the flowers.  The image is The Crafty Pad - Girl In Window - that you can purchase from HERE.  On the card front I have edited out the window and paper pierced her and the same on the watering can though I have edited out all bar the flowers from the image.  The ticket is a very beautiful sentiment, also from The Crafty Pad called Laugh With the Sun Ticket and I have carried the hand stitching through on this piece as well.

I really enjoyed making this and I love the finished result (lol can't you tell from all the pics :)  And while I only usually hand-stitch once in a while now days I think Nana would be proud of my effort today, so much so that I am going to give this little beauty to Granny (Nana's daughter) for Mother's Day.

 

Challenges this creation is entering

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days Challenge -  #4 Back to nature (2/2)

Craft Ann's Challenge Blog - #36 Sketch and or Spring - I went with spring

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge - #74 Mothers Day (1/1)

Delicious Doodles - #17 Dimensional Project 

Mami Doodles - #22 Celebrate Spring

Paper Cutz - #83 Your Choice

Phindy's Place - #47 Hot Stuff / Warm Colors / Sunshine

The Res-Q Challenge - Be like a surgeon - fancy tied ribbon, sewing & stitching

The Stamp Man - #18 Mothers Day / Floral Theme (1/1)

Stamp Something - Something Sweet (1/1)

Stampin' for the Weekend - #6 For Mothers Day (1/1)

Stampin with the Dragon - Bring on Spring

Wags 'n' Whiskers - #50 Spring

C.R.A.F.T.  - #94 Paper piecing
Charisma Carz - Use Die Cuts (2/3)

Digi Doodle Shop's Best - #51 Anything goes

Do You Stack Up - #11 Add a Bow (2/3)

Sassy Studio Designs - #64 Make your own embellishments

Shelly's Images - Show us what you got 

Some Odd Girl -  Think Spring

Crafty Creations -  #110 Mothers Day
Creative Cottage - #35 Spring has sprung
Scrapbook Sisters - #27 Spring flowers
By The Cute & Girly - Springtime
My Grafico - March Anything goes

Sundays With Crissy - #15 Stitching (2/3)
Bearly-Mine - Mothers Day (1/1)
Creative Craft Challenges - Lace (2/3)
Going grey with Scrap-Creations - Anything goes (2/2)
Sweet Stamps - #6 Think Spring (1/1)
Try It On Tuesday - Chocolate therapy - M&Ms as in the cellophane wrap in the watering can
Tuesday Throwdown - #40 Lace
Die Cut Dreams - #85 Mothers Day or Special Friend
Karens Doodles - Spring
Woodware USA Clear Stamps - Spring is coming
Craft Your Days Away - For Mum or a special lady
* Easy Craft Projects - For Mum
Stamping Vacation - Clean and Simple - Flowers
Sugar Creek Hollow - Anything goes (2/2)
I Did It Creations - Spring