Archives for January 2009
Highly Commended
A few years ago Non Sequitur (wonderful stamp manufacturer in the US) had a competition for items using their images. I sent several items to them but they picked my least favourite to give a Highly Commended award to. I stamped the image of the man onto glossy card with a permanent black ink. I then...
Faux Layering
This is a technique I taught to my stamping club friends. It involves an aperture cut in acetate, sponges, various inks and outlines to make the flat image look like several layers on top of each other. Tweet
Embroidering a lily
The embroidery on the back of this sweatshirt jacket was a free design from Singer some years ago. Very stitch intensive it needed lots of stabilising on the stretchy fabric. You are supposed to always stitch-out a test design before putting it onto the intended final garment but, at almost 33,000...
Appliqued Sweatshirt Jacket
I get to wear this jacket for about 1 month a year! It does get a lot of comments from strangers, always nice ones, thankfully. It is made from a plain sweatshirt, christmas fabric was ironed onto the front centre using fusible interfacing and then I followed the pattern roughly up the centre cutting...
SweetPea
I’ve been card making for many years now, lately I’ve been more into papercrafts but I did used to embroider everything – including most of my cards. The sweetpeas on this one were for one of my sisters who grows the most wonderful sweetpeas in her greenhouse every year. They smell...