Simple HeArt

At the weekend we had a pre-birthday party for my Hb. I shared some photos from our sunny but cold Saturday afternoon walk in my last post. Here are a few photos of Daisy having fun in the swing park there.

She would not put on her gloves but obviously was quite chilly as she let us tuck her up warm in her pushchair for the walk home. What a way to travel, I wish there was room in there for me. 

She loves the little waterfall and the ducks.

On Sunday we woke up to a light dusting of snow,which Daisy had not seen before. When we were up and dressed she told me she wanted to go into the garden....I thought to look at the snow. I insisted she wrapped up warmly and put on her welly boots. She took me by the hand and led her Nanna outside. Although I showed her the snow she had other things on her 2 year old mind.....yes she was leading me to Nanna's studio and some crafting!

Brrr it was very chilly but how could I say no to my little sweetheart? We went into my chilly studio, put on the heater and immediately Daisy spotted my trays of distress inks. I suggested she chose some colours and we would have a go at swooshing some distress colours onto some watercolour card. She helped spritz the ink with water and when I said I would take a photo put on her serious concentration look....LOLOL!

 She had fun dipping in the card

 and seeing all the patterns.

I then asked if she would like to add some stencilling and she choose a star one.

 I held the stencil in place whilst she added more ink, some with a blending tool, some with her fingers (such a useful tool).

More serious crafting faces ;0) We also added some embossing powder which she loved...she stamped D for Daisy with an alphabet stamp. 

and more embossing around the edges.

So once we had made this piece I let Daisy have free reign with the ink pads.....and she just swooshed and inked and added embossing powders. Obviously I used the heat gun for her...she marvelled at how the powders melt and shine.

 and just look what she made...lots of stamping of her D for Daisy. We added some red and blue embossing powders and again she loved the shine appear as I heated them,

I loved this....so simple but so beautiful. Now you are wondering where the "Simple HeArt" comes into my blog  title...well sadly Daisy got this ready to take home and then it got left behind on the dining room table, together with a few of her Daddy's bits. As I am not seeing her for a couple of weeks I decided that I would make her unique piece into something for her and send it in the post. There is nothing like getting real mail is there?

As I looked at her creation  I could see so much love there that I decided I had to make this into a HeArt wall hanging for her. 

I added a couple of Nanna handmade elements...another embossed foil heart (to represent love from Nanna) and a die cut and inked flower to remember Nanna's garden. 

Here it is;

I added some lace for it to be hung up by..Daisy lace of course and finished it off with a little mauve heart brad. I have posted it off to my little sweetheart.

Now the thing that really amuses me in that Daisy has actually used the colours of her jacket (mauve), tights (blue) and the bottom of her welly boots (red) with just a little bit of green...could that be the grass in the park. Now I love to colour coordinate my Moments...do you think she has started early ;0) ?

I would like to enter my HeArt wall hanging into the following challenges;

PaperArtsy Hearts I was inspired by Leandra's great intro especially the primitive simple hanging hearts she showed.

Crafty Ribbons  anything but a card

Crafty Boots ribbon or lace

Pixie's snippets playground  2/3 #212 I used a snippets of card for my die cut flower and a snippet of lace for the hanger.

Noor anything goes

Bunny Zoe 3/3 hearts 

The Artistic Stamper anything goes

Stamping sensations 3/3 anything goes with dies

Crafting from the heart anything goes

Crafty friends  anything goes

Simon says stamp Mondays  best friends Daisy is my very best crafting friend (and granddaughter)

We love to create  #2 anything mixed media
WOW embossing challenge anything goes  

So perhaps I when I craft with Daisy I should call her my crafting SweetHeArt....I can see we are going to have such fun over the years. She must be a very serious crafter as even I would not have gone out to craft in my studio on Sunday morning....brrr!!

Keep warm, it is very chilly here but no more snow so far. I really hope it stays clear for tomorrow as we will be 31 floors up the Shard enjoying my Hb's birthday lunch. Of course my camera will be joining us too. It's been a glorious cold but sunny day here today, this was my back garden at sunset....

freezing cold but so clear........we may be lucky with the view tomorrow...fingers crossed.

Thanks for visiting, keep warm.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x