I’m linking up with fellow Scrapsters
Kate, Gun, Eva, Sue, Lynda,
Birthe, Turid, Susan, Cathy, Tracy,
Jan, Moira, Sandra, Chris, Alys,
Claire, Jean, Jon, Dawn, Gwen,
Sunny, Kjerstin, Sue L, Vera, Edith
Nanette, Ann, Dawn 2, Carol, Preeti,
Debbierose, Nóilin, Viv, Karrin,
Amo, Alissa, Lynn , Tierney and Hannah.
with photos of my scrappy crafting this month.

For me, it was another patchwork project using 2.5″ squares. I like to prep these squares from scraps each time I’ve got small pieces of leftover fabric, so no matter how many projects I make, the 2.5″ square box keeps on filling up. Anyway, this is just a simple zippy pouch because I found myself in need of a zippy pouch for Miss Viking. The husband and I had been busy painting. I had bought in a packet of Baker Ross wooden bugs, that the husband painted and we turned them into “games tiles”.


There were 100 bugs in 10 different designs, so the husband painted in 5 different colour-ways so that bugs can be used for different games: memory game; spot the difference; odd one out; or simply counting. The wooden bugs were a bit fragile so the scraphappy part here was me cutting cardboard tiles from a couple of old shoe boxes.
Anyway, they all fitted nicely in the zippy pouch with a bit of room left over. So . . . I added a “Tic Tac Toe” board (OXO to some) and 10 of my hand-painted insects. Remember the voile curtains I had to shorten & hem recently? Well, I kept the bits I chopped off and bees’ wings are made from those. I varnished a piece, giving it several coats of varnish, let it dry and cut out the wings before gluing them onto the bees.
