Katies secret Christmas pressie for her mum and dad

Wow! busy day with Katie today.

Although I had planned a crafty session, Katie arrived with a plan herself today.

To make her mum and dad a door plaque.

We sat down and with Katie's ideas, (plus a picture of her mum and dad that she had brought with her)we came up with a fab door plaque.

We needed: cardboard, paint (rainbow colours), hearts, ribboon, material and glitter.

Step 1

Find and paint cardboard. Katie decided she wanted blue as her background.

Step 2

Cut out a heart shape from some material that Katie had found from my stash. The picture of her mum and dad is to go behind the heart cut out.

Step 3

The blue paint is dry, it is time for Katie to paint a rainbow.

Step 4

Print out a label 'Mum and Dad's Room'

Step 5

Rainbow dry, time to add some more colour. Using a sponge and stencil, Katie added more lovely colours to the top of the plaque.

Step 6

Glue the picture behind the heart cutout and add some ribbon (sorry no picture)

Step 7

Glue picture to plaque, add hearts and glitter. Hold picture up for a proud aunty take a photo.

Wedding Card

This is a card I made for my friend Helen's wedding.

I am entering this in the Totally Tilda Challenge 31 - Wedding theme.

Crafty day with my niece Katie

Had a crafty day with my neice Katie today. We made made a felt container and a flower. After deciding on her colours, Katie laid out her wool, wet it, rubbed it and rolled it, until she was happy with the size of her bowl and flower.

We had a fantastic day and Katie was very pleased with her bowl and flower.

Finished picture

The finished picture is now hanging on our kitchen wall.

Added some buttons, hand stitching and a frame.

Free machining

Free machining on my rose fabric paper.

I decided to use white thread, so when I added any further colour( paint, wax crayon not sure which yet!) the thread would pick up the different colours.

This is the reverse side of the fabric paper I added a piece of linen for stability.

Really enjoyed the free machining.

I then used acrylic paint and water colour paint to add some colour.



Love the colours and the white thread has picked up the paint really well.
Still think it needs a little something!!

More paper fabric

Decided to make some paper fabric using rose petals

I covered the wet tissue paper with thread,rose petals, ribbon and leaves.

After layering the paper with thread, ribbon, rose petals and leaves I covered the final layer of tissue paper with glue.

This is the dried paper, the plan is to machine and hand stitch to add further texture.

Paper fabric

Found an interesting book at the library, Strands by Jacqueline Myers-Cho, creating unexpected fabrics. Decided to try making some paper fabric following her instructions.

I covered white tissue paper with watered down glue.

While the paper was still wet I covered it with thread and lavendar flowers. This added texture and stability to the paper.

I applied another layer of tissue paper to sandwich the threads together and covered the paper with another layer of glue.

I added some paper Gemma had saved from her holiday in Greece.




As it was a lovely day I dried the paper outside.

This is the finished paper - looks great!

Ready to go

This is me making sure stall is ready for the first customer.

The sun has come out and I hope everybody who takes home a crafty bag has a fantastic craftanoon.

Eccleshill Fair

This is Jack my husband helping to set up the stall.

Eccleshil Fair

Had a really busy week, made lots of crafty bags for my Lucky Craft Dip stall.
Each bag had bits to have a fun crafternoon session.

This was my first attempt at using masking to create a stamped scene, and I'm really pleased with how it's turned out :)

I've coloured the image with promarkers and used pearl dots for her earrings.  I also put some glossy accents on her shoes to make them shiny!

The main background paper is My Mind's Eye, and the purple paper and the little Dream dictionary description is from Kaisercraft.

I am entering this in the Just Magnolia Anything Goes challenge.

Gemma

Oriental!

This card is for the Allsorts Challenge, whose theme this week is Oriental.

The image is coloured with Promarkers, and embellished with Pearl Drops and Glossy Accents, and the papers are Best Creation.