Fabric woodland book

Another two pages for my woodland/tree book. The first one is made using bits of scrap fabric, placing organza on top, and top stitching with the machine. The postcard in the middle is on painted pelmet vilene with free machine embroidered.

 This one has three lutrador leaves, which were painted and then zapped with a heat gun to make them look decayed. I used a running stitch around them.

Every Inchie Monday -- Rhinosorus

This week on Every Inchie Monday, the rhinosorus is taking centre stage. Not an animal I would like to encounter, they look like really bad tempered beasts. The stampbord is with shrink plastic and the sewn one with very soft leather.
I am away at the weekend and then next week I have a friend coming for a week of non stop chatting and sewing. I think I have everything ready, just need to do some more meals for the freezer, so I don't have to waste time cooking. We are also going to the Festival of Quilts for even more ideas, as if we don't have enough already.

Tag Tuesday -- My favourite colour combination

This my second tag for Chrissies theme on Tag Tuesday. This is a bigger tag, again with a distress inked background. On this one I used a few stamps on the background. I stamped two of my Lynne Perrella stamps and added some flowers to the the bottom corner.

Go Tag Thursday -- Seaside

One of my favourite things this week on Go Tag Thursday, it's the seaside. Many years of going to the seaside and having a chalet as a child has made me very nostalgic, so I love doing art and embroidery that is sea orientated
This is a large tag, that I used distress inks on to colour the background. I used texture paste on the edge of the sea for some texture, and some accent beads on the sand. I stamped and coloured all the images and added some die cut seagulls. and a crab charm.

Thursday Journal with Neet

This week we are off to Africa, and I have used a double page that I had painted before. I had wondered what I would use these pages for, and was thinking of painting them black and doing a black and white page. I searched out any African stamps in my stash and they are all very small, so this was the best I could come up with. Once again the colours are more true on the single pages.

Tag Tuesday -- My favourite colour combination

For the next fortnight on Tag Tuesday Chrissie has chosen 'My favourite colour combination'  Mine is definitely turquoise and copper type colours. My first tag is a simple one with a distress inked background and a script background. I stamped two flowers and coloured them with my Derwent inktense crayons. I added some sari ribbon to frame the flowers.

Every Inchie Monday -- Camel

This week we are off to the desert, and to the not very lovable camel. I did have a ride on one once as a youngster, and I remember the strange movement it made. I have never wanted to repeat the experience. It was a bit like the bare back ride Peter and I had in India, where Peter was doing his best to fall off sideways and take me with him. I was terrified. I didn't care how many films this huge mail elephant had stared in, I just wanted to get off.

This is a photographer my Grandfather on a camel in Egypt during the First World War, he's the one in the middle.