Still Stash Busting...................

Three afternoons work making vintage bunting for the caravan , for the inside not out in our inclement weather, I think most time was taken up deciding what to put where.There are lots of little memories in each piece of bunting, my grandmothers crochet and pieces from my aunt as well as bought pieces. Certainly a stash busting project and also an excuse to buy more when I hit the charity shops.

Stash busting.......

 
A postcard and small bookcover both made using printed images on fabric and vintage embroidery mixed with various lace.

Seascape........

This wall hanging was started in 2008 and worked on occasionally since then, I finally finished it about a month ago and it's hanging with my other seascapes in the lounge.

Pin Cushions abound.......

After a few days away from home I'm itching to get back to some stitching but am just sitting in front of the pc as need that push into the sewing room and also need to catch up on what I've missed in blogland etc.
Over the winter months I seem to have had a pin cushion mania, probably as they are easy to sit and work on in an evening , the pictures here are the stitched pear pincushion that I love and two pincushions made in a vintage china teacup and  little jug.

A Struggle but I got back in!!

I think it would be quicker getting into the Royal Mint than getting back into this blog, all my sign in info seems to have changed , I've tried before but today I was determined and here I am!!! Never have been good at remembering passwords etc or even where I have saved them!!
I'm mainly sewing these days, having a break from the papercrafting - think I'm suffering from burn out after three years of intense papercrafting !
I have  photo's of work to post and the first is some bookcovers made using vintage and modern lace and embroidery.

A holiday coming up but I'll be back!!!

Long time no posts I'm afraid, that isn't to say I've been idle of course!!
As I'm back in sewing mode I thought I'd show these two pieces, I really have a fantastic collection of lace and such to use up, the first is a small wall hanging using lace both ancient and modern with some pearly embellishments, in the top left corner,  from my late aunts wedding headdress.
The second picture is a postcard I made to swap with a friend, again using all ages of lace.

Altered book cover..........

I originally bought this little book for the pages, to stamp on etc, but then as it was a good solid cover I decided to alter it and ,having removed the pages, i put a box base inside. I'm determined to use up that stash of embelishments , one down but plenty more to go!!

John Lennon mode...........

Never was a great fan of John Lennon but I think this is a great image so I used it as a journal page and a Finnabair style canvas.

Memories of Grace...........

Those of us of a 'certain age' will remember the beautiful Princess Grace of Monaco as Grace Kelly - film star - here I've included her face in a canvas i created -Finnabair style  (tworzysko.blogspot.com/‎), I have boxes of embelishments saved - why do we save these things rather than use them? - so I'm making canvases. This one is A4 size.

A little bit different...........

Well different for me - I agreed to do a workshop using the Kanban 'Garden Birds' kit, the ladies made four cards and this one I managed to get a little of my style in by using hessian and twine along with kraft card.

Back to patchwork........

I love this little pin cushion, almost too good to use, the hexagons were made using a scrap of a liberty print that I got from somewhere years ago.

Just one more...............

So I love this Dragon Fly stamp and the tag of course, can't promise I won't make any more but we'll see.
This was made especially for someone who didn't understand what Art Tags are.

Dragonfly Tag inspired by........

Tim Holtz does monthly tag tutorials, and I particularly liked his April 2013 tag so I set to to make it his way and was disappointed that it was dull, I obviously hadn't got the colours right so I decided to do it my way using distress inks instead of paints and it was much better and I was able to include it in my tag workshop a few weeks ago.
The lower tag is the one using the paints.

Big Bee etc...........

Another workshop card, this time I used Sweet Pea stamps and their Steampunk Bee, the wings are actually "decoupaged"

This is the other stamp we used - Steampunk Butterfly, I think the ladies enjoyed the workshop altho' they all weren't sure about the bee. Both cards are 8 x 8.

I don't believe it.............

Computers really make fools of us - for weeks I've been trying to upload and nothing , today it worked!!!

Blog troubles.........

Blogger doesn't like me any more, it isn't just that I  joined the 'reluctant bloggers society', blogger won't publish anything after I sit for ages putting in the pics etc - let's see if it works today!!

Two Art Tags i taught in a recent workshop.

These pics show the front and first inside pages of the Steampunk Spells album I put together using Graphic 45 papers, I'm really pleased with the end result and the plan is to do a workshop with it in the new year.
At the moment I 'm working on a prem baby quilt, it might as well be a full size one the time I'm taking but I thought I' d start small!!

Birds on a wire..........

A mini quilt I put together to use the bird images that were printed using Thermofax screens and textile inks, it started off as a cushion but I changed my mind halfway through.

I really wanted to do some sewing so this is my afternoons work, I thought of starting a quilt then had a panic and made this cushion instead!!