Lutrador and puff paint

Two ATCs made using painted lutrador and puff paint. The leaves have been made using a stencil with the paint, which when heated puffs. It's a delicate balance using the correct amount.....it puffs a LOT! I added touches of glitz with transfer foil on the puff paint, but it doesn't show too well in the photos

More Textiles

A Post-card holder book.

Ages ago I had bought several damaged photo albums, meaning to utilise them for gifts or swaps. Well, that day actually arrived this year. This was made as a birthday gift for a friend. I used a combination of embellishing, fabric and stitching. The ties were made of sari ribbon (the purplish colour) and stitched around the whole book, under the embellishments. The embellishment on the front is made from either polymer clay or air dry clay. The picture of the lady was printed onto printable cotton.

Two needle cases. The blue/purple one was made by embellishing various threads onto pelmet vilene. This was then embellished again using the fabric I used for the lining, picture three. I then couched (see I'm even getting to know the right terms for this stitching lark!) the silver thread on, lined it and stitched around the edges. I added a polymer button from my stash and silver thread to make the closure. The inside 'pages' are made from black felt stitched into place.

The black/white/cream was made using pieces of patterned fabric embellished onto pelmet vilene, and some bits of it were covered and embellished with bits of nylon lace. I then machined stitched the pattern, added the lining as before and satin stitched around the edges. The closure is made from a button from my stash and some black sheer ribbon. The inside 'pages' are again black felt.

This started out as a piece of sateen curtain lining, which was coloured with distress inks. I used a texture plate with a fabric crayon to give me a pattern to follow. Using a backing of felt or pelmet vilene (can't remember which) I stitched over the lines using a heavy cotton thread. I then 'scribbled in the shapes using a heavy gold thread.This was lined with some of the fabric, and satin stitched around the edges. The fastening was made using a polymer button and some of the thick cotton thread. The inside pages were stitched into place and I added a few beads to finish it off.

Fabric, threads and a sewing machine

No idea how this has happened. Me the absolute sewing phobic has become obsessed with all things fabric. I even went out and bought a sewing machine. Not the all singing dancing one I might have liked to buy, but one that meets my needs at a much lesser price! Whilst I was at it I bagged an embellisher for my Christmas (2009) present from DH, and they have both had plenty of use.

My first fabric postcard swap. Crazy patchwork, with fabric flowers cut from organza using a soldering iron.
This one is layers of organza,stitched with different threads and cut away in places. Centre of the flower is a largish bead surrounded by small ones.

Oh my, this has changed a lot since I last posted on here! It took me ages to actually get into my blog! I'll need to have a good look around to get familiar with all the changes!

In the meantime I thought I might post some pictures of what I've been up to in the last few months (years!) These wont be in any order, but I will try and give details of what I've done.

Long time

It's a long time since I posted to my blog, my how time does fly. I do intend to get up to date, or at least post some pics of art I've made.
Actually my new laptop has nudged me to get on here, there is a feature called Live Writer, which means I can write my blog and upload pictures without actually having to go to the blog. The programme then uploads it when you say so. But, when I tried to set it up, it recognized that I didn't have an active blog , so like a good little girl I am doing as I am told and posting so that it now becomes active. LOL

Tyvek Paper

Adrienne has a swap running, which requires the use of 'fabric paper'. Here are the pieces that I have been playing with over the last few days. The challenge now is to use them for something!

I used Tyvek paper for my base. For the first two I used tissue, and serviettes for the images, the second two were gift wrapping paper. I used very watered metallic acrylics to add the colour.

Tip Ins

The theme for Sweetpea's tip in swap for July was Time.
Here is my offering. I wanted to get away from 'Clocks', so I hoped this would work.



For Karen's birthday I decided to make her a tip in instead of a birthday card. I think she liked it !