There’s just a week to go before I finally start my extended diploma in art and design course at Leicester College, and I must admit looking forward to it. We were set a summer assignment to create an A5 size postcard, with the front being a collage describing ourselves, and the reverse carrying the college address and a description of what we’d been doing over the summer.
I started work on it last week, and yesterday I finished my submission:
I’m still doing bits ‘n’ bobs for the dining room, including sewing napkins yesterday. Since the table was clear, the sewing machine was out and I was up at silly o’clock this morning, I decided to sew up a Cath Kidston shoulder bag kit from her book ‘sew!’ Two and a half hours later, and a break for sewing machine maintenance, the bag was complete. Not bad for a novice machinist!
And this is the second part of the demo/workshop day to be held at Kim’s Crafts (Hinckley Branch) – mini-suitcase memory boxes:
Apparently hospitals don’t allow flowers to be brought in any more. Presumably greenfly are in danger of spreading MRSA around as they don’t sanitise between flowers? Any how – this lead to a request to make some paper flowers to take instead. And here they are. Using the large daisy punch, I sandwiched a whorl of florists wire between two cardstock daisies, stuck down with Glossy Accents. The centres were then layered with yellow six-petal flower punch, then a brown cardstock one inch sun punch before topping off with a disc of Liquid Pearls. Some petals were scored with small embossing tool, others were curved by pressing around a narrow cylinder. Rather pleased with the outcome, and so was my friend 🙂
Here’s this afternoon’s work – lining and taping a small Tim Holtz configurations shadowbox. I’m aiming for the box to be filled with ephemera evoking Victorian times with a steampunk feel to it. Quite pleased with it so far, but found the tissue tape to be less adherent than I would have liked. Three of the boxes are lined with paper of my own making – using various Tim Holtz stamps and distress inks: I inked the stamp with the same colour pad as I then used to swirl colour on with foam application tool. The tone-on-tone gives it a nice aged look.
