Dainty Doily Dolly

Sorry for not being an active blogger this week, those pesky blue are well and truly singing but i'm getting back on form slowly, In the meantime I thought i'd share a pic of my finished doily mannequin.
Some of you may have seen it but some may not have so for you people.. here it is.

It started as a plastic mannequin you would use for a barbie clothes shop, but with some hot glue and some doilies, lace, flowers & pearls I transformed it into a victorian beauty.
I was totally inspired by a similar project made by Shilpa on utube.
Stay Inky

2 posts in one day!!!

It's practically unheard of for me but I have been happily playing with paper and ink all afternoon so decided I would join in a couple of challenges, the following piece fits both the Lots To Do 'Ribbon/Lace' theme and the Alter It Monthly 'Musical' theme.

The base is mountboard, with 2 grungeboard hearts placed on top and then the whole thing covered in gel medium, draped with a slightly damp old music sheet {a few spritz from your mini mister should do the trick}, work the paper in around the hearts to define them taking care not to tare, use a smidge of gel medium on top to seal. Let the whole thing dry, and once hard then its time to ink. 

I used barn door or was it fire brick.. anyways.. round the edge of the base, avoiding the hearts, and coloured the hearts themselves with a creamy brown chalk ink. I edged the heart and the whole piece with a gold marker. Stapled some frilly cream lace to the bottom, creating a thought ribbon from the left over bit i had and adding a heart brad to finish it. I then i found a fab quote which i typed out on my label maker and added to complete the little hanging piece.
♥ HUGZ ♥

Shabby Chic....

....and oh so pretty!

Morning peeps, The birds are tweeting and the sun is out and i'm not working woo hoo.

Perfect excuse to have a play and enter this weeks Lots To Do challenge

This week they want you to 'Use a Machine'

After being totally inspired by some of the wonderful blogs i visited on the OWOH Magic carpet i fell in love with all the gorgeous shabby chic fabric samplers i had seen and just had to try it out for myself.

My efforts were a little more reserved though, as i'm not totally comfortable with fabric working yet, so figured i'd start slow and i used a canvas as my base.

If you've not guessed by now, the 'machine' i used was my Sewing Machine, this is also something i'm not quite comfortable using lol but the piece came out ok in the end.

I used a small collection of fabrics and a lrg lace doillie, I frayed the edges on one piece of fabric and that gave me the loose fibres that created the birds nest.

I used the beautiful 'Lotus' stamp from Stampington & Company onto some glossy cardstock.

I used my machine to sew several of the layers together, and to also give a nice finishing detail.

 I stamped several outline hearts from the Roses are Red plate by The Artistic Stamper onto some old book pages and cut out and distressed um a bit with vintage photo then it was just a case of adding a few buttons and feathers and voila. Jobs a goodun.

Definatly not my usual style but i kinda like it and can see more being attempted!

This piece also fits in with a few other challenges

• The Corrosive Challenges-  'Sew it up'
• One Stitch at a Time - 'Use Stitching'
• Sophisticats - 'Stitching'

Thanks for dropping by, I'm off now to lose myself in ink, Ta Ra

♥ HUGZ ♥

GC42: Lace is Ace!

Surely it can't be a whole week since i posted, where on earth did that go.. oh well that must mean it's time for another Gingersnaps Challenge:
I am again glad to be flying the Creative Team  flag for The Artistic Stamper
Its a Spicy Supply week and you have to use - Lace / Fibers

Well me being me i immediatly thought outside the box and decided that the lace i would use would be my main focal point and i created a cuff bracelet with it.

I threaded some wire along the top and down the 2 shortest edges to create a stiff bangle structure, leaving the bottom free flowing. I entertwined some fibres along the top to hide the wire frame, and then I hand sowed some brown material to each side to edge and cover the wire and give it a nice finish.

To create my focal point I got 2 squares of grungepaper, measuring that the points in the shape of a diamond would not overhang the width of the lace.

I stamped one of the super 20's hatted ladies by Artistic Stamper, in desert sand memento ink to one of the squares, added some colour with my copics and then added some faint outlines with a very thin black pen.

I edged the other piece of grungepaper with 2 sorts of bobble ribbon, and then sandwiched the two together hiding all the glue and what not. I used an invisible cotton to stitch round the edge at the same time attaching it to the lace cuff.

I finished by stamping 2 hearts on shrink plastic, and then stamping the open sequin waste stamp on top,  I made a hole b4 shrinking to attach a jump ring to, I then cut out the heart shapes and heated, once cool i attached the rings to the hearts and then to the cuff.

And thats it really. Thanks for another great Challenge Gingersnappers.. Dont forget to check out the rest of the talented Creative Teams work.

Come back soon for more of this and that from me soon

♥ HUGZ ♥

Late Object D'Art OR Todays LTD challenge..oh and a spot of Candy

OK so i'm a few hours late for the box challenge over on the Object D'Art Blog as this weeks new performance has been announced which is MIRROR's....

But i am however on time for today's newly announced challenge over on Lots to Do which is LITTLE BOXES

I Started off with a simple little gift box

Changed the way the lid opened, gave it few coats of gesso, added some colour, a nice clasp and some lace

and lined the inside base with orange felt, and hay presto, one altered box.

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I am offering this wee box {which will be stuffed full of secret treats by the way}

as my first BLOG Candy

Thought it was about time as a thank you to all my visitors

I've just noticed my blog is nearly 1 year old on the 9th April

So all you need do is leave me a comment before the 9th

{and a link on your blog to my candy if you so wish}

and i'll draw a winner out

on my BLOGOVERSARY {around 9pm ish}

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Thanks for stopping by and good luck

xx Hugz xx