A bit of Oh La La - from beans

It's been a whole week since I have been able to do any crafting, but I was determined to do so today - even though it was tipping it down with rain and my studio shed is at the end of the garden.

Patrick thinks I am mad - I am convinced - but I do feel a bit stir crazy being hemmed indoors in our little bungalow day in day out in grim weather - there is only so much reading a gal can do!

We went into a biggish town about ten miles from us to get some shopping.

We had some store vouchers and I wanted to use them before they ran out of date

So I bought a tin of beans because I wanted to alter it.

Not eaten the beans though - sigh.

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I covered the tin with a piece of cardstock which had some French words on it, and some gold patterning.  So I stamped some smaller words and French images and embossed them with gold.

I did a heat tranfer of an image onto cream satin

and added a French stamp

Slinky satin, embossed images of all things French

Can you see where this is going?

The lovely material drape in the background I bought in a charity shop

yesterday after I had been to my weekly Adult Education class

And as soon as I saw it I thought - Oh La La.

So off I went to a great blog I follow here Ink Stained Roni

and downloaded the pattern.

I then commited sacrilege and copied it, drawing it in a smaller size.

I cut out the corset from the peach material.

Then I stamped the middle panel with a lace pattern

Then coloured it with Promarkers, and painted

the flower centres with gold.

And coloured the rest of it with Promaker.

And glued it on!

Off to daydream of summer weekends in France

Altered Box

You know how it is - you are in the middle of cooking lunch and you get a flash of inspiration!

Well you would, wouldn't you when you see an empty OXO box?

So you find and download of images from Crafty Computer Paper

and enhance the colours with chalks

They are so sweet

You paint the oxo box with blue pearlescent paint, and stamp it with a lace stamp - all over.

Glue it all back together, and add a picture for the front

Another for the back - and then fill it up with whatever takes your fancy!

Vintage Notebook

I had fun making these two notebooks and they didn't take long to make - which makes quite a change for me!

This was made from a little notepad available from most supermarkets.

I removed the front cover which I used as a template, and made this.

Printed card cut to size, using co-ordinating colours to enhance the image which came frm Crafty Computer Paper.

I enhanced/coloured the image with chalks to bring the colours out.

Added some vintage lace top and bottom

Finished!

Simple vintage note book

The are little note books with lined pages which you can buy at any supermarket at little cost.

I took off the front over and replaced it with one of my own making

This is the back - it covers the plain cardboard

And here is the front. 

I want to build up a collection of these so that I have some little

gifts to hand - probably instead of cards!

Image from Crafty Computer Paper

Thankyou to for my blog candy Linda B

My blog candy from LB Crafts

A B Line printed paper template

To make a paper art doll - never had a go at one of these

so will need to do some research.

I also won

a lovely butterfly rubber stamp.

Linda does great courses at her shop and she has  brilliant blog too

Thank you very much Linda

More art from scraps

I had fun making this tag today from a dowloaded imaged from Crafty Computer Paper.

I used a scrap of old, soaked, cardboard - which in itself looks vintage.

I stamped am old postmark on it, the sewed on a scrap of frayed materal

and the torn image.  I enhanced/coloureed the image with chalks to get the colours to match the material.

I used another scrap leftover from the bookmark project - the plae blue matched the image exactly.

I punched a hole in the top and added the package string. 

It is large tag with plently of room to write a long message on the back.

French book mark - from scraps

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I had a little play in the studio yesterday - just using scraps of material

and made this book mark.

The intention was to get out my sewing machine and play, but I coudn't be bothered

So I made this using a strip of Vilene which is used to repair hems that have fallen down.

Goodness knows how long ago I bought it!

I ironed the plain strip of material onto the blue back strip with the vilene sandwiched in the middle.

Using distress inks I stamped French script onto the plain material

Added a slither of blue nylon I found

Rubbed on an image I had printed onto dry decal paper

from Crafty Computer Paper 

A scrap of lace - from my daughter in law Haruko

All the black French images where stamped with Stazon.

I offset the France stamp at the bottom as it fitted in nicely with the lace and I wanted to expose the French script.

The hat creation was made from bits cut off an old bag

Voila!