Embellished Flower Brooches

While we were having our textile session at Cancer Care

Beryl popped in with some of her Embellished Flower Brooches.

For the Centre to sell at their coffee morning which they hold once a 

month on the last Tuesday.

Beryl has been coming along to textiles for 18 months and her first 

session with me was on the Embellisher Machine,

she fell in love with the technique and got a machine immediately.

She is now a master and her Embellished Flower Brooches

 don't stay unsold for  long, 

as you can see by the hand coming into the photo!

See Beryl's first session with me HERE

See more Embellished Flowers HERE

See Embellished Flower Cards HERE

See Embellished work on my portfolio site HERE

Click the written labels under this post to see more embellishments.

Embellished Flowers

Pat has been Embellishing for a while. She has her own machine.

Theses flowers are just beautiful, based on Poppies.

She had begun them and then got a book on Embellishing for Christmas,

 there is a similar picture within it.

You often find this, you are inspired to make something.

Start looking around and you find similar ideas and items.

Pat added some of the techniques the book covered and enhanced 

her flowers.

Beautiful.

To see more click on the written labels below or 

visit Embellishing on my portfolio site

HERE 

Embellished Flowers

The embellisher machines are out in force

at class again.

Here Chris has cut out flower petals and shapes

and has embellished them onto the

background polycotton fabric.

I love the colours!

Embellishing

These two pieces were made by two ladies who came along

to the afternoon session on Tuesday.

It was Sue and her Grand Daughter Emily.

They didn't quite know what to do

but soon got stuck in Emily on the embellisher

making a piece of embellished fabric which later

we made into a fancy cuff, including, machine embroidery

and a flap with a button hole for the fashener.

Sue had a go at free machining and got to grips with the

movement and then

made the flowers above, on the embellisher machine.

Both seemed to have a lovely session and had

want to come back again.

Gilded Flowers

On Friday it was chores morning and catching up

on paperwork. When these were finished

I went in the studio and carried on

with the gilding I had started on Wednesday.

Time flies when you are learning something new!

Here is how far I got. Now I just need to

stick and continue with the backgrounds for them.

There is two different ways of gilding here.

Stamp and emboss a piece of card with your pattern,

then using 'size',

paint the areas you want to gild. Allow to almost dry,

it should look tacky. Then put on the flakes all over the area,

brush off any excess with a soft brush.

Do this on to a separate piece of card to save the flakes.

Then continue to brush off the smaller excess pieces,

the pattern is then buffed with a soft tissue.

The other way is to use the double sided sticky

transparent sheets.

(It has the square grids on for card making).

Cut a square out slightly bigger than your flower.

Peel off one side and sick on a peel -off, of your

choice, here I chose flowers.

Place the gilding flakes in the sticky areas and finish

as above. You can then either stick the the square

straight on to a card or cut the shape out.

happy gilding.

See more paper techniques on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Card Making with Concertina Folds

On Friday I went to Laina Crafts and Wool Shop in Downham Market

for a card making class with Elaine.

She had made several designs like the one above all

using different decoration techniques but all

using the concertina fold technique.

It was a lively class.

A really lovely group of ladies.

I didn't quite finish mine, so I did that last night.

I am really pleased with the finished card,

although it is not "really me!".

I really enjoyed learning all the different techniques

and I can see me using the separate techniques with

other medias.

Thank you, so much Elaine for a great

card making morning.

See more paper techniques on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Jeanette's Notebook

Jeanette had been on a workshop recently to make backgrounds

and the flowers.

She wanted to incorporate them in the

embellishment of notebook covers.

She had brought several little notebooks and wants to cover them for gifts.

By adding some gold threads

( which she had to go and buy from The bead Shop in Dereham)

and some extra quilting it gave this cover a real lift.

The cover was then finished off by making a lining which

slips off if necessary.

I have used many different methods of finishing sketchbooks

but this one called for some jewel coloured lining

to give it the added luxury.

Click on the photograph to enlarge and appreciate the Embroidery.

Sylvia making Paper and Stitch Flowers

Sylvia wanted a break from quilting and so for the last few weeks

has been getting to grips with machine embroidery and

mixed media combinations.

Here she is stitching her Paper and Stitch Flower together.

Mine is in front of her as a guide.

When I got the bead box out everyone had a rummage

through and found beads that were yummy!

See my post on Embellished Flowers by

clicking the label below or by the post.

See more of my mixed media art

on my website

www.art2inspire.co.uk

Embellished Flowers

In the afternoon I got to play with the papers

I had made in the morning.

I cut two lots of the postcard sized ones into 1cm

strips and then stuck them onto a piece of lace.

Then, it was lots of free motion machining.

I gathered it all up and then beaded!

I had a wonderful time!

I think it was also because it was a lovely

sunny afternoon and I was able to sit and stitch!

It also reminded me of being a child and

making paper flowers, sticking and stitching

anything together

for presents for my Mum.

I have made varying paper flowers over the years

using similar techniques.

More inspiration can be found with

work by a textile artist, Jill Flower,

You can visit her website at

www.jillflower.co.uk

You may also like these flowers with buttons as centres.

You can also do this technique with any colour paper and

ink stamp the edges, make a hole in the middle and put a

brad through it to hold the petals in place.

Scrunch and arrange as before.