Bare Copper Wire Jewellery

I've had a bit of a break from paper crafting this week and had a few days making jewellery.  The first one is made using wire weaving and the second one is Chain Maille and called captured beads.

I've had such a great time making them and was lucky enough to get both pieces shown on the Jewellery Maker TV Channel.

Sheena Douglass - Perfect Partners

Morning All.

I hope you've been enjoying Sheena's shows on Create and Craft.  I love the new sets which include kitchen sets, gardening sets, tea for two and pickling.

Below are the samples I made for the show including stamping on cutlery!

PanPastel - Floral

Wow this is so different for me!  I loved doing it and I'm so pleased with the result.  I'm going to use it as a cover for a cheap supermarket notebook.

Below are a few photos to show how I arrived at my final piece.

I started by using different stamps and different coloured inks.

I then took an open floral stamp which I stamped twice with Versamark and embossed.

Difficult to see but you may just make out the images.

I then covered the whole lot in different colours of PanPastels.

I then needed to erase the Pans from the embossed flowers.

I then outlined one of the flowers with black Wink of Stella, I thought it was a little harsh so added dots with a white pen before colouring in the flower.

The second flower I outlined in white pen before colouring in.

Thanks for joining me today I really hope you enjoyed my journey with this little piece of artwork.

Wire wrapped pendants

I can't tell you how much I have enjoyed making these pendants over the Xmas holidays.

It's so easy to sit with this work on you're knee - whereas when I'm paper crafting I seem to have out half my craft room!!

I'm so enjoying learning something new.

Happy New Year everyone xxxx

Polymer Clay - Dragons Eye and Owl book cover

Wow did I indulge myself yesterday with a full day of Polymer Clay playing.

I decided to cover two A5 2016 Diaries for the younger members of our family.

The Dragons Eye cover looks like a piece of old leather in real life.

Left over food and left over Polymer Clay - the perfect day for between Xmas and New Year.

Hope you all had a great time xxx

PanPastel Altered Dictionary

For my inspiration today I decided to add to my Altered Dictionary.  PanPastels are the perfect medium for this work as they don't bleed through the quite thin paper.

Firstly I did all the stamping,

I then started to add the colour

Finally I added glitter to the lips, eyes and bells.

Have a very Happy Xmas everyone and thank you so much for all your support throughout 2015 xxxx

PanPastel Challenge

Morning all!

For this weeks Panpastel Challenge I set myself a personal Challenge which was to only use bits and bobs which were already on my desk left over from previous projects.  This was the end result.

The base was half embossed through an embossing folder and half had added texture from some leftover texture paste popped through a stencil.

I painted over this with white Gesso.

When dry I added a mixture of metallic PanPastels and Diarylide Yellow to show off the texture.

I then had some flowers, leaves and stems which had already been stamped and coloured with ink but I added metallic PanPastels to tie everything together.

I put it altogether and layered onto some lovely purple card to finish off, hope you like it.