Sunday, May 30, 2010

Watercolour wallhanging

Watercolour wallhanging

Managed to fit this small wallhanging in amongst other art projects. Its was great fun matching the fabrics.

Organza challenge

Shelagh Folgate Challenge

Well, I have at last finished my Shelagh Folgate challenge, it was not too artistic but its finished and looks good against a window with the sun shining through. Just need the sun to shine now!!!
Enjoy

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Jelly Roll Tryptich

Jelly Roll Tryptich

Last year at the Malvern Show I bought a Jelly Roll and joined the strips together whilst away in our caravan, I finally got around to making something with the strips this Easter, I added some cor-ordinating fabrics and decided to use the templates from Louise L. Smith's book Strips and Curves, I designed the layout myself and used two different size blocks, Thats why the centre panel is shorter than the two outside panels. I am very pleased with the finished wall hanging and brian has hung it in our salle du jour. (day room) Enjoy

Flower Pounding

Well , there is a new craze around, its called Flower Pounding and its great fun, I book the book at the Nantes expo and went to stay with my great friend Wendy, near Toulouse and we both had a great time Flower Pounding, its just collecting fresh petals from the garden and laying them on to calico or silk and covering either with more calico or masking tape and using a wooden mallet, pounding the petals until the dye comes into the fabric, it give the shape of the petal and the colours are gorgeous, leaves are brilliant too. Well worth a try!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Table Centre

I made this table centre at my Patchwork Group here in Benet, all done by hand which is very unusual for me. The fabric doesnt look very black in the photo, sorry.

Table Centre

Lutrador Boxes

I had greatfun with Di my friend from Paris making these little Lutrador Boxes as articled in Stitch magazine,

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Maggie Grey Tutorials

Maggie Grey Tutorials

I have been having immense fun working my way through the Internet tutorials from Maggie,
one lesson was to use Moulding Paste and Scrim and make a mould and insert it in the scrim and make it into a piece of work. Here is my interpretation.

Textured Wallhanging, Dream Love and Enjoy

Dream, Love and Enjoy

I have had such fun making a wallhanging using a Jacqueline Sullivan technique and Golden Acrylics. I prepared an Art Board using textures such as aluminuim foil, modling paste, lace , scrim etc. then these were overpainted using Golden acrylics and Interference colours, What fun it was to do. I cut the text out using my Cricut Expression. I am not sure the photo gives it full justice, but I am very pleased with it. Enjoy

Shelagh Folgate Challenge

Shelagh Folgate Challenge

Ages ago I did a challenge with Shelagh Folgate but never managed to finish it, so with this really cold weather I have been staying in and finishing UFO,s I stressed over how to finish it and then suddenly one day Bingo, I got an idea and here it is, hope you like it Shelagh

Golden acyrlics on Aluminium

I have already made a small vessel using acrylics on aluminium and decided to make a tall vessel, I was really pleased with the way this one turned out.

Covered Spiral Bound Book

Well I wasnt happy with my spiral bound book cover so redid the tissue on the front cover and am very happy withit now.

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Today is Valentines Day and I decided to surprise Brian with a gift and a card.
I made some fabric paper using the Beryl Taylor method and then cut out lettering using my Cricut Expression and the new programme I have bought, Make The Cut, is was very good and very easy to use, I made an extra heart in more red rose fabric and made a papercard box to house it, all embellished in tru Valentine fashion. He loved them both and then made ME tea in bed. Cool hey.
I was lucky enough on my trip to the UK in October to visit
Ally Pally and to see Steffi Francis, I bought her Silk Carrier Rod Necklace Kit and here it is finished, It is very pretty

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Sorry for amount of new entries

Well, at last I am caught up with my Blogging, I am sorry there are so many entries, but please take the time to scroll down to the Textured Sampler wallhanging I posted in September and come back up from there. Enjoy!!!

Friendship Hugs

I then decided to make little paper boxes to put the Friendship Hug Heart in and give them as gifts. I hope you like all the new projects I have had such fun in making, Watch this space for more soon!!!

Friendship Hugs

I then saw an idea which I thought would be fun and made some of these hearts for Valentines Day but I used rose fabrics, instead of Red fabrics.

Golden acyrlics on Aluminium


Silk Carrier Rod Box

We then made a Silk Carrier Rod Box from the December issue of Stitch magazine, We unravelled the carrier rods and laid them vertically onto pelmet vilene and overstitched using a heavy thread in the bobbin, This was lined in a dyed felt. This was a lovely project to make.

Covered Spiral Bound Book

This project we used a spiral bound notebook and recovered the back and front covers with tissue paper and then sprayed these with Moonglow sprays, We then made a felt spine cover and embellished it with transfoiling and machine embroidered pipe cleaners.

Baby wipe book cover

This little notebook had a cover which had been made from procion dyed baby wipes, the effect was like silk, We made signatures to go inside and handstitched them in place.

Three day retreat

The next exciting thing to happen was that my friend Diana from paris came to stay for four days, a sort of retreat, we had a truly great time, played and made art for three solid days. Here are some pictures of our fun.

I then found time to finish a project I had started before taking our trip, a pink on black velvet handbag, foiled, embroidered and beaded. This proved to be quite a challenge, but Yo! its done.

Snowbabes


Snowbabes

My Patchwork group here in Benet had a Christmas Fayre and I made Snowbabes to sell on our stall, they were a huge success and great fun to make, Here is a picture

Starting my Blog up again

Hello everybody,
Gosh where has the time gone, Brian and I went off for three months travelling across France and over the Alps into Italy then up the foothills of the Alps to the North Coast of France and over to England and then off to New York for Brian's 65th Birthday Bash and to see my youngest son and his wife and our two grandchildren, then back to England for a month to catch up with all our friends before Christmas. We dashed home just in time for all our family to arrive for Christmas and we had the best Christmas we have had for years.
Then I caught a cold, which became flu and then bronchitus, then an abycss in my throat, Oh dear another 6 weeks gone by.
So at last I am feeling better and ready to start blogging again.
I have done some small projects during this time, the first being some whacky Angels for the Christmas tree, I made many of these and gave them as gifts to my girlfriends for Christmas.