Summer stencilling

Things have been a bit quiet on here lately as the summer holidays are here and it's been a bit of a social whirl. I think that will continue over the next month or so and I am trying to make an effort to be outside with the kids as much as we can, even though naturally I'm a "stay-inside-crafting" type of girl.

I've been pining after my craft desk for the past couple of days and found myself with a couple of free hours this morning and so dug out my desk from under the camping supplies to get a scrapbook page done...

Brightly coloured tie-dye items seem so summery to me and so I started my page by using my new Crafters Workshop stencil and some alcohol inks to make a tie-dye type background.

I found some butterfly punchies and stitched them together on my machine to make this garland. This was a project idea from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's "It's Sew Easy" class.

I made my own tape with stamps and Promarkers too...

I would like to have time for a bit more crafting like this over the holidays, but I am definitely taking my sketchbook with me wherever I go, so I'm hoping to have lots to share from there.