It's a Creative World

What to do with a fabric collage

or two?

It's Eleanor, back with some stamping, stitching, snipping stuff.

Some weeks ago I made a couple of 8 inch square (ish) pieces, just freestyle, but they didn't really set me on fire, so I put them away until I felt inspired to finish them off.

That day came, I added a few more scraps, buttons and stitches, joined them together, added a border of tea-dyed broderie anglaise trim, and stitched the whole thing to some artists' canvas. 

I added a couple of flaps inside, made plenty of pages from kraft card (Staples own brand manila files in a previous life) and toning cardstock, stitched lace or ribbon on each page, bound the lot with the Bind it all and slipped the front and back pages into the cover flaps.

All done.

x

That loving feeling

With Valentines day just around the corner and the shops all adorned with all things pink, red and heart shaped, it is really hard to avoid the subject of love this week

 

I actually created this romantic card for my mum and dad's wedding anniversary last month, but it would make an equally apt valentines day card.

 

 

The heart stamp is a Stempelglede, and definitely my all-time favourite set of stamps. Born on Valentines Day myself I guess I am destined to be drawn to hearts in all their many forms. The sentiment is by Stampin' Up.

 

The papers are a mix, My Minds Eye and Bo Bunny, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and the delicate leaves are a Marianne die cut.

 

I have created the shabby edges to the paper layers using a Tim Holtz distress tool.

 

I have stickled a few of the details, including the flowers, which I brushed with a paintbrush dipped in stickles ( much easier than trying to do it with the nozzle.)

 

So....have you got that lovin' feelin' ?

 

Til next time

Much love 

Tracey xxx

Oh the weather outside

is frightful,

But the fire is so delightful,

And since we've no place to go,

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

After our recent blizzards and scary storms I ventured out to a local artisan gift shop and fell in love with a white-painted metal snowflake wreath.

I came home and created my own with the aid of my Cricut, Joys of the Season cartridge, a 50p lace bargain, some white card, mountboard and a few flatback pearls.

First I cut a 14 in ring from mountboard (drawing round my large frying pan lid), and wrapped it with 6in lace stapled on the outer edge:

Once finished, I evened out the gathers:

and cut 64 snowflakes from plain white cardstock, 16 of each of four designs.

I used glue dots to stick them on, and to the uppermost 8 I gave a pearl centre.

Let it snow!

Happy Christmas everyone.

Eleanor

x

 

Weekend Workout 19 - LACE

 Hiya Claireliz here with this weekend's workout.

The challenge is to use some lace.

I love using lace on all kinds of projects, mini books, scrapbook pages, altered items & sewing projects. I decided for this challenge to create something from fabric, so I had a go at making a brooch, but it was larger than planned so I changed into into a fascinator. First I took a strip of lace & hand stitched running stitch along one edge & ruffled it around so it started to form a circle...

 

keep on stitching until you end up with a flower shape like this...

 

I did the same again with a strip of navy blue net which I folded in half lengthways...

 

& with a cream strip of net which was also folded in half lengthways...

 

The cream net is the largest piece so I took a circle of felt & stitched it to the back of the cream net flower...

 

Then I added the next 2 layers, one at a time with just a few stitches to catch them into place (with the felt on what would be the underside of the fascinator) so that it looks like this...

 

I then stitched in a few glass pearl beads...

 

On the underside where the felt is I stitched 2 hair grips...

and taadaa...

 

This was my first attempt at making fascinators & I suspect I may be making more, infact thinking about it this will co-ordinate with my outfit for my friends wedding next week. 

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Dolly here with a little snippet of lace too.

One of the things I love to use lace on is a heritage page or project and I have a heritage page to share which seems to show what I mean.

 
 
The page is of my husband's grandmother and great grandmother and actually his great grandfather too as he is in the photo that the little girl is holding up.

The strip of lace just softened the page a little and added to a heritage feel.

You know me - I like to do things digitally too, and digital lace adds feeling just like real lace.

I wanted a really soft shabby chic feel to this page and the lace helped create that.

 
and finally, an example of using some lovely cotton lace to make something pretty and feminine and just a whole lot of fun.

 

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Hello, Eleanor here. Like Dolly, I too have used my lace on a notebook, only mine is somewhat tattier.

It's a music notebook, as any musicians may guess by the title :) for my notes about songs, lyrics, and piano pieces, and details of sheet music I want to buy.      I think I will even use Kel's excellent tutorial for 'tipping in' extra pages, using manuscript paper so that I can jot down a tune, or even compose one, lol.

Anyway, here it is, chipboard covers, modpodge base, half of a vintage lace-trimmed hankie on the right, and strips of cotton lace on the left, chippie letters and metal charms. All sponged lightly over with white gesso, and finally, when dry, sprayed with a mist of watered copper acrylic ink.

a closer look:

xx