playing with ribbon

I took a break from my paper work for next year's classes to relax and look through my stash of ribbons from Green Tara, after a little play with layering them to make a 4x4 inch log cabin patch I decided I needed a new headband to keep my hair out of my face...what better than to use funky ribbons! I also used some of the cute metal flowers as centers for the blooms...they come flat, so I used my flush cutters to cut the metal and bend them up before glueing to another flat flower. I think they look pretty cool and very funky. The patch will be a part of a wall hanging...the pins won't be staying, although they do look good

products used:

• 2cm metal flowers
• 9mm vertical stripe ribbon (used in patch)
• 22mm vertical stripe ribbon (used for flowers)

wishing you a very skelly Christmas

I'm not really in the spirit of Christmas but have decided to create some masculine decorations and what better to use than brass plate, Queen Kat Designs stamps, beads and some chemical etching. I'm working on a few more over the next few days so look out.

Christmas Angel

when I was last in Perth I picked up some foam dress forms...and they have sat atop my shelf since then...until I received my DT package from Green Tara.

I first coated the form with Mod Podge before wrapping it closely with a piece of vintage pattern paper. Once it was dry I coated the entire piece with Mod Podge Hard Coat to strengthen and seal.

Then it's just a matter of decorating, here are the links to the products used...please note that Green Tara is a wholesaler, so you will have to contact your local retailer to get the goodies I use...ok back to the list...

• WHITE SILK FLOWERS WITH SWAROVSKI CRYSTAL CENTRES
• WHITE JUTE RIBBON
• 3MM GOLD BEAD GARLAND
• ORGANZA METALLIC GOLD FLOURISH RIBBON
• SELF ADHESIVE METALLIC GOLD TRIM
• SMALL POINSETTIAS

the wings are of course flourishes from another lovely Aussie wholesaler...Words Or Whatever

the actual piece I used is called Flourish 10 I always modify to suit my pieces.

QKD blog hop

here I am again hopping along with the weekly Queen Kat Designs blog hop and sharing my creation with you. Here is an ATC I created using QKD's Rockstar Rebel rubber stamp set.

I like a versatile product and I know I have found that in using this set, I used the ATC I had made in my last blog hop post as a background and embellished it with the skull from the set to change the look of it.

The cardstock I used started as an offwhite, I used a little distress ink and spritzed with water to blend it through. I used my finger nail to rough up the edges. The guitar is stamped on to an acetate ATC and coloured with a permanent marker, the skull was stamped onto metal shim and hand tooled/embossed to give the piece dimension. I am thinking it would make a very cool brooch for my skull apron...methinks I might need to make a few.


So now I'll send you onto the next blog...Random Thoughts . If by chance you want to start at the beginning of the hop...bounce here first

my play as a metalsmith

On the weekend I was lucky enough to be a student in a two day workshop taught by Keith Lo Bue. He is great metalsmith and is very generous with his ideas and inspiration, I learned so many little things that have given me new ideas to use in my own creations. We also had Keith's lovely daughter Mira in class and I was the recipiant of a pair of hand made earrings by the clever girl.

The pics you see here are my play with steel in the workshop

QKD blog hop

here I am again hopping along with the weekly Queen Kat Designs blog hop and sharing my creation with you. Here is an ATC I created using QKD's Rockstar Rebel rubber stamp set. The cardstock I used started as an offwhite, I used a little distress ink and spritzed with water to blend it through. I used my finger nail to rough up the edges. The guitar is stamped on to an acetate ATC and coloured with a permanent marker.

So now I'll send you onto the next blog...Random Thoughts . If by chance you want to start at the beginning of the hop...bounce here first

Birthday art for MIL

today is my MIL's Birthday, so I spent some time creating something for her.

I've used aluminium flashing to create the large flower and vase, the center of the flower is a set of three copper washers that I hand etched.