Small fabric book covers

These are a couple of small book covers made for a swap. The background is painted vilene, with painted and heat distressed lutrador sewn on top with free embroidery stitching done on the sewing machine. I have added a couple of pieces of muslin. fabric paper and some French knots and beads, to embellish them.

Seahorse embroidery

Finished, I think. As the online course finished ages ago, this has taken a lot of will power to finish, and many hours of work. It is well travelled, and has been to Dorset, London, Swindon, Yorkshire, Devon, Stratford upon Avon, Hull, and last week to Silverstone. Is it finished though, do you think the seahorse needs more orange ?

Vilene emery board holder

For a swap that had to have buttons on, I made this emery board holder with pelmet vilene.
I put some texture paste at the bottom, made it textured, and when dry painted the whole thing with Viva metallic paints. I then did some machine stitching, added some buttons, then machined around the edge.
It's a lot brighter in real life, the scanner has dulled the colours.

Fabric heart

This fabric heart is for a decorated heart swap, so I decided to do it in fabric rather than card. I know the person it's going to likes vintage, so hope she likes it. The background fabric is sort of old fashioned, the image is on fine cotton, with lace and flowers added.

Metal fronted key cupboard

Where has the last month gone, it seems like the year is going too fast.
As we have a little time at home for a change, I decide to tackle the key cupboard that has been on my to do list for a year. It has been sitting in it's bare wood state for ages, and the one we were using wouldn't close.
I painted the wood with a weak-ish solution of Precious metal paint, and put some Croco crackling paint in platinum on the front surround, and when dry rubbed in a small amount of Treasure gold.
I used a green metal for the front, and did some free hand work, and used some of my metal embossing moulds. I then lightly sanded the top to take some of the colour off, and touched some bits of it with lettuce alcohol ink. I then got all gluey by sticking it down with UHU glue.

Artsycrafts weekend

These are the projects from a very enjoyable weekend last month. All bird themed which suited me. The pink one, was right out of my comfort zone, I don't often work with just pinks. The large tag was inked with distress inks, sprayed with Crafty notions spray, and stamped, and the tree treated with Terra, through a stencil and spray inked. The flower was stamped tissue paper, crumpled up, and stuck on with metal leaves underneath. All the birds, bird houses and leaves are metal, stamped or embossed.
The bird sampler has nine squares of various materials, metal, fine canvas and card. All are mounted onto a wooden canvas base, which was painted and stenciled. Some are just heavily textured, some are metal, stamped or embossed, and some are fine canvas embossed, or spray inked through a stencil.
The wooden bird house was painted, has a metal roof, and front, with the birds stamped onto card.

Playing with Lutrador

I have been playing with some Lutrador, and various fibres this weekend, and have managed to make three needle cases with the piece. First of all I painted the lutrador with Jacquard textile paint, and heated it with a heat gun to distress it. I ironed on a few Angelina fibres, and some foil. I then added some dyed muslin, painted and heated Tyvek, and did some free machine embroidery on top, with some pelmet vilene underneath to stiffen it. The individual cases have beads sewn onto them, and some fancy yarn.