I mentioned doing the Holy Land album earlier, well here is an idea I came up with for one of the Greek pages. I wanted a Greek key trim on it but had nothing suitable. The county is also famous for it's cotton so I thought about my sewing machines capabilities and voila, an embroidered Greek key border using Greek cottons.
We love growing our own so have masses of packets of seeds. A friend suggested me making a fabric wall hanging to put them in but my paint fusion stamps had just arrived and I was torn between the seeds and playing. Sooo, I combined both by making a set of pockets using Tim Holtz grunge paper, decorating them with some of the paint fusion techniques then fixing them to pieces of distressed mountboard. The letters were cut using my Big Shot. I'm not entirely happy with the composition of some of the pictures, why is it that the dummy run often goes better than the real thing? But hey ho, it hangs on my kitchen wall keeping all of the packets in good order.
With patchwork being one of my first true crafts I just had to have this set. I love coloring in rubber stamps and these ones from Crafters Companion are a dream to work with. The images on the easel card to the left were stamped onto smooth card and coloured using pro markers. I mounted a square of pastel glitter card onto some pearl cardstock, cut and embossed the main image using a neastability die and ran a promarker around the edge to tint it slightly before attatching it and the other embellishments with silicone glue.
The card on the right was made in a similar way to the above but the images were stamped onto watercolour card and painted using a Big and Juicy Vibrant Primary ink pad. I wasn't as happy with the 'feel' of the images done in this way although the effect was good. The die cut main shape was cut into two and then the bottom hung onto the top using little coloured jump rings.
Here is a selection of this years Christmas gifts made using Maya Road papier mache pieces.
