A few stash busting bags using the acetate and large pattern paper I can’t use on greeting cards.
Simply made as long as the side panels are the same. Some sides are pushed in to make gussets, there are different closure styles from Velcro to string, pegs and brads.
It is my new obsession, asking ChatGPT to redraw one of my photos in a particular style.
Pets, people and places are being printed in pop art or old master format and used to personalise greeting cards.
I am limited, as I use the free version, to four? uploads a day but this is enough to keep me going.
A much better performance by ChatGPT then when I asked it to identify items from photos.
When sorting through my late Aunt’s jewellry I broke a necklace. Although it was probably on its way to the charity shop, I felt guilty so decided to craft it into a new life.
I set the beads in uv resin to make three pendant baubles. These can be hung on a window latch, car rear view mirror or Christmas tree (with the right string) but here I have used some toning ribbon from my stash so I can finish the project off without buying.
Don’t feel so guilty now.
My cross stitch ‘to do’ list is huge but I had to try this basket of flowers before any of the bigger ones because I am trying cure myself of a YouTube addiction!
My vow to stop mindless watching is to try out a crafty project if I watch a crafty video (and to cook a recipe if I watch yet another foodie video etc.).
So when the lovely Sarah Homfrey demonstrated basket weaving stitch in her May embroidery upload I had to try it.
I have a paper die that creates cross stitch panels so used that rather than load a hoop for stitching a more detailed basket on fabric.
I freestyled the pansies and fixed the finished panel on some craft foam before mounting it on a card base. I found some matching brads to embellish and tied some embroidery thread around the spine.
Rustic but at least the project is done and I can tackle some other UFOs (un finished projects).
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