Fussy and Fancy #70 Back to School

Morning all,

I had a wonderful surprise yesterday, my husband took me out for our anniversary to see Dirty Dancing at the Birmingham Hippodrome and it was amazing! I've never been to a show before and I was sooooo excited, the whole evening was magical and I've got the bug now and want to go to see more shows lol!

It's Friday and that means another 

Fussy and Fancy

 challenge with a fab theme of 

Back to School

 this time!

I usually struggle with this theme, but there are loads of challenge blogs with the same idea at the minute and after blog hopping I was totally inspired to make something new! I decided to make a binder for my four year old daughter as a keepsake as she starts school in a couple of weeks - eeek, my kids are growing up too fast!

My sewing machine got another outing on this project and think the stitching finishes it off perfectly - I know it's nothing new in the crafting world but it's a big deal to me as I have had my sewing machine since Christmas (and wanted one long before that) and have only just plucked up the courage to use it, and I also had some teething troubles with it as I had cheap cotton which kept breaking. To get the perfect stitching around the image I turned the handwheel manually instead of using the foot pedal, my wrist ached afterwards but it was so worth it!

Supplies:

LOTV school girl image

Nitwits papers

Nesties Circle and Lacey circles

Magnolia doohickey cloud, antique lace, vintage tag, Tildas Ticket

various Kraft scraps

SU seam binding

WOC flowers

TH clip, DI's and tab On the edge die

Magnolia newspaper print paper

book rings and compass charm from stash

I would like to enter the following challenge:

Lili's little fairies - Spots or stripes

Thanks for taking the time to pop by today, your comments are always so lovely! I will be back tomorrow with my Allsorts creation

Hugs,