Showing posts with label mini album. lace and material. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mini album. lace and material. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 February 2012

Little Book of Secrets - Vintage Sewing

So at last the second of the little books of secrets has arrived at it's destination in the UK!!  Yay!!
Lynne's chosen theme was vintage sewing... so I hope I have covered both ideas.
I did encounter a certain fatness problem once I started to decorate all the signatures!
As you can see.... but I think the effect is vintagey fatness of a good sort!!
I used lots of sewing themed stamps and did some embossing.
I got my sewing machine out and did lots of sewing on the pages.

Made an extended flap page with sewing themed pictures.
Added some Maya Road chipboard sewing pieces.
Made some slide in tags to go under the velvet ribbons.
Some lace frames and embossed stamping.
Made a couple of pocket pages and added some tags.
Lots of lace from Saudi Arabia.
More lace and some vintage pattern downloads.
A pull down tab with silver embossed dress form image and a pocket page.
The pocket was supposed ;) to look like a paper pattern holder.
and inside are some patterns stamped onto brown tissue paper to represent patterns.
More stamping and embossing...
My Grandmother's favourite quote.
This is the base with the four drawers filled with sewing bits and bobs.  I hope Lynne like it.

Wednesday, 29 June 2011

WOYWW 29th June 2011

Yay... summer is here!!  A lovely 27.7 degrees C this morning and looking like it may last for a few days too!
Here we are with another week flying by and Wednesday arriving at the speed of Ryan Reynolds in the Green Lantern.... is it only me that doesn't really see him as gorgeous???
I have had a terrible week... I have cleaned out drawers, done housework, scrubbed floors... and still my mojo is AWOL!!  So I got the sewing machine out and decided that if paper wouldn't play nicely then perhaps material would!!
and decided to have a go at making a material mini book...
so now all I need to do is figure out what to put in it and how to bind it... 
Don't forget to pop along to our lovely Chief Desk Inspector, Julia, for the complete and exceedingly long list of craftyness to nose about in!