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.

Collaborative quilt

We are making a quilt in one of the groups I belong to. We have each chosen a subject, and we have made two 4" squares for each person. We will then put the quilt together when we have all the squares. My subject was vintage, as was one of the others. the others chose, faces, flowers, nature, and owls. Here are my efforts.

Finished at last

This is a set of drawers that I started ages ago, and just made myself finish.
The drawers are covered in metal, most of which have been embossed, sanded, painted or alcohol inked. The drawer knobs are a mixture of beads,, with a few of the original wooden ones painted to match the metal

Crafty Individuals course

Spent a great two days in Yarm on the Crafty Individuals weekend course, and made the two pieces of work above. I just love working with houses, so this suited me very well. We used house and tree blanks and either covered them with backing paper, or collaged them. Images were then inserted in the windows, and embellished with charms, flowers etc. One set were placed into a wooden box, and the others into a row. They are both very 3D

Chunky book----I, J, K, L.

These are the next 4 letters for the chunky book swap. They are all collaged, with various embellishments added.

Next stage -- Using colours

The next part of the Sumptuous surfaces lesson is using colour. The designs above are postcard size, and I haven't made up my mind which one to work on. It will develop as I go, I hope.
I have used orange as the seahorse colour, as it is opposite on the colour wheel, and the colour that complements blue. I have loads of blue and turquoise threads and beads, and have been wanting to use them for ages, hence the sea theme.
The top picture is showing the beginnings of the stitching