Saturday, 6 June 2009

Winner Announced & More Babushka!

The winner of the "How to Sell Greeting Cards" e-book is June at ArtyRetreat. Thank you everyone for posting the button to your sites and helping to spread the word about Extremely Crafty. I'd really like this to be a unique site where you can find new and unusual crafty tips.

I'm still searching for the origins of the Cheese Rolling I posted about previously. Can't quite find it, but could find a picture of the hill at http://www.cheese-rolling.co.uk/. I wouldn't even like to ski it, never mind run down it chasing cheddar!
This is a crafty site, so better show some crafts. On my babushka card making kick, I made the little petal below.

Easy Peasy Lemon Cheesey Instructions:

  1. Used the babushka pattern (I will figure out how to post a link to it soon) and cut out a body.

  2. Used a flower puncher to punch holes in the babushka body.

  3. Glued the green flowers to the card in contrasting color.

  4. Drew face on another sheet of paper, used pastel pencils to shade in the face and cheeks, and black pen for the eyes.

  5. Glued face to back of body.

  6. Punched a flower out of the back of the card and glued it above her eyes. (I wanted the exact color peach and didn't want to waste a whole other card, so if anyone asks why there's a hole punched in the back of the card, I will say "It's the design, darling!"

  7. Glued babushka to the card.
You see, easy peasy lemon cheesey!


Do you have any easy peasy lemon cheesey crafting tips?

5 comments:

Clare said...

Fab babushka, very nice,hugs Clare x

Merry said...

Congrats Arty
I think you are doing well with this blog...I love coming for a read and seeing the crafts you create...always gets me thinking.

Anonymous said...

very creative michele,I love makingsome of your crafts with my girls,keep it up.

Anonymous said...

very creative michele,I love makingsome of your crafts with my girls,keep it up.

michele said...

Thank you so much for all of your delightful comments. I am so glad that you like the ideas. It inspires me to make more!