Cards for ATC's

Here is one of the cards to go with the Blue Moon ATC's.

I used the trimmings of the ATC's to make the strips and applied them to the card with machine zig zag stitch.

Now they can be on there way!

See my website for ATC inspiration and more news! http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Chain Braid Stitch Page

At the moment I am participating in a crazywork round robin, so I was revisiting different embroidery stitches. This has inspired me to form a book of stitches. Making the pages interesting to look at in the future. This page was inspired by Beryl Taylors Book, Mixed Media Exploratons.
Beryl Taylors website is http://www.beryltaylor.com/

Chain Braid Stitch Sample

Chain Braid Stitch 2

Now you can see that the thread is twisted around the bottom of the needle and it has already in the chain loop.

Chain Braid Stitch 1

It is always good to learn new things and come out of your comfort zone!
So today I leant a new stitch.Ooh you might say but I enjoyed the researching and threads!
I belong to http://www.stitchinfingers.ning.com/ which is a wonderful site for sharing and being inspired.

On this site there are different groups one being "Take a Stitch on Tuesday", I know it's Friday but I've had a busy week.
Sharon Bloggon organises the stitch and kindly demonstrates it on her website
http://www.pintangle.com/

This weeks stitch is 'Chain Braid Stitch' not as easy as it looks and you can end up with knots!

I found that making the loop before I got the needle involved! far easier. The thread as you can see is twisted in a loop behind. Important otherwise you just get a knot after knot!(I speak from experience).

Inspirational Mixed Media Book

This book is so wonderful for surface pattern and beautiful ways of combining media.

Well done Beryl Taylor.

Purple Embellishment Day

Some of the purple embellishment items made this afternoon at The Gallery Dereham.

Visit my webpage for more on embellishments and "how to"

http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

I will be demonstrating different mixed media techniques every Tuesday 10 until 2.30pm and in March Workshops will be available to book in.

Visit http://www.thegallerydereham.co.uk/ for more information.

Purple Embellishment

The start of purple embellishment under the machine.
see my website for more embellishment ideas

http://www.art2inspire.co.uk/

Purple Beads

Another taster of my beads before they are used for creativeness!

Gallery Camel

Paper machie morning at The Gallery Dereham. Putting a coat! on a camel.

Gallery Paper Machie

The SPLAT artclub at The Gallery Dereham had been making paper machie sculptures last Saturday and they had a Camel that needed a wooly fur coat so I applied a mixture of paper and glue mush to add the texture and give it time to dry ready for painting. Judy had a great laugh as the Camel became rather heavy for her legs so ended up sitting down. I'm sure it was because she was tired! baby camel got his fur coat too but was still standing!

The Splat Childrens Art Club is on Saturdays. see http://www.thegallerydereham.com/

8 Blue Moon ATC'S Finished

They are finished and ready to swap.
One for me as a keepsake.
One to Sheila in Australia and
One to Judy in America.

So that leaves 5 to swap with the best comments on what they are inspired by.

Finished Blue Moon ATC'S

I have really enjoyed making these.
See other collections of ATC's on my website www.art2inspire.co.uk

Scrumble Detail

These are added flowers and scrumble pots which are then added with extra crochet to form a textured edge.

Scrumbles!

I took a crochet hook and some different wools and threads and enjoyed, Scrumbling and adding on crochet flowers. Really free and enjoyable. I was ispired by Anneliese from Stichin Fingers network site.