A Fish…

Good morning friends, followers and visitors. I’ve been a bit down the past couple of days… I won’t go into detail on here as it’s a rather private matter. To lift my spirits again I went off upstairs into my
tidyex-craftroom and I dipped into my felt stash in afternoon yesterday pondering as I wanted to use my beautiful mother of pearl shell buttons… I then thought oh! I haven’t made a fish yet as I was looking through my big file of templates.

I love to work with beads too so I mixed together some pink,silver,blue and purple seed beads. Then I went off downstairs (Ex-Craftroom is going to be my daughter’s bedroom and I have a wall desk downstairs now) I began to draw round my template onto my 100% pure wool felt fabric with a white tailors pencil. After I did all that I cut them out and proceeded to sew. The buttons and beads were added along the front with the fish face as I wanted the fish to be stuffed with some filling to pad it out and give it more shape. I then added the eye with green felt (80% wool felt marbled) and sewed on some black seed beads for a different look for a pupil. I sewed everything up with metallic thread for added texture and shine. I may make another one soon!
Thank you for visiting! Happy crafting :)

Larissa xoxo

Crafty catch up!

Hello friends, followers and visitors…
I apologize for the lack of blogging it’s been a while. lots of stuff going on here at home. Anyway This post is a quick catch up of the crafty makes I did a while ago.

Here we have TWO vintage wine bottles created from The Dreamees “Something to treasure” CD, the purple one (obviously) was gifted to my mum she loved it! The one on the right is sat on my side table :) They have both been embellished with Dreamees flower stamps. I added creative expressions Pearlized PVA glue to make the pearls and finished with a bow and other gems.

Next up a few cards…

This card was created using my favourite artist Hannah Lynn stamps. I have incorporated a cheery Lynn frame die, Tattered lace Chantilly bow, a tattered lace sentiment, Marianne die swirls and the dreamees flower stamp.

Here’s a close up… (My colouring has slightly improved since)

Here we have a NEW stamp from the Sheena Douglass range “A little bit magical – maid of the sea”

For this square card I created a layered wavy ocean effect by ripping Sheena’s stamping card and colouring with pro markers. the last layer was stamped with the mermaid and the ripped edges done afterwards. She was coloured in pro-markers as was the beach and sentiment. I like how this card turned out :)

 Ooooh THIS CARD! This is a poppy art stencil I bought at  the craft show near the Trafford centre (Event-city) I used distress inks for her and the background. I Spritzed over and blotted for a bleached bubble effect and added 3d clear lacquer. Here I have also used Sheena Douglass sea shell stamps these were embossed and gilded with gilding wax.

There we go! I have more stuff to show you of course but it will have to wait a while…

Happy Crafting

Larissa :) xox