A quick make as a gesture for a traveler.
I like the matt laminating sheets I have. They create a subtler effect without the gloss.
To use up the laminating sheets I made a storage pouch (slipping a second sheet inside and turning it inside out) and extra book marks for another day …
I salvaged a pretty serviette from a coffee morning and decided to use it up when I upcycling a cheese tray about to hit the recycling and scallop shells from a yummy ready meal.
I just pasted the top ply of the napkin on with mod podge (using up the giant pot of gloss where I can so I can get some Matt finish glue soon).
Layers of mod podge not only stick the paper, they also seal it enough for casual trinket dishes.
Mod podge also sealed the paint I put on one of the shells and I finished off the edges with some Goldfinger burnish effect.
I don’t have enough patience to slow stitch large projects so finished this 6” mat with machine embroidery.
A good practice of embroidery stitches and a little using up of the fabric and ribbon mountain though.
I bought a cheap die set from Globeland on Amazon and have been stitching on paper for the last month.
The set includes a die to make Aida effect punched paper, dies to make different sizes of hoops, buttons and sewing accessories. Well worth the price at about £7.
Our library has a ‘fab lab’ where you can play on machines such as 3d printers, sublimation and sewing machines. I decided to see if a serger was something I might find useful.
A one hour session making up assorted bags and pouches was enough to convince me NOT to buy one. Fiddly to thread, scary to use and I can do a mock overlock with my standard machine.
Thanks to the library for the trial run though.
This beautiful Swedish mat had a small stain on it so I stitched (simple straight and cross stitch with embroidery floss) over the printing until the stain ‘disappeared’ and now it is back in use as beautiful as ever.
Another attempt to empty the patterned paper remnants bag…
This time I used a stamp die for the bigger stamps and my scan n cut for the smaller ones. I finally chopped up pages of butterfly, floral and birds paper and used long neglected franking stamps and some old paper distress ink to create the collage on a sheet of magazine paper.
Experiments with fabric, ribbon and patterned paper remnants to create a series of cards.
A combined effort to recover some hangers AND use some of the donated ribbon in my overflowing haberdashery box.
After removing the old fabric cover, but saving the foam padding which was in good condition, I discovered the hanger bit unscrews.
I used the old fabric as a pattern for the new and sewed a tube with a button hole where the hanger would screw back in.
The ends of the tube were hand stitched closed and the butterfly chain ribbon hand stitched around, including covering the button hole.
Not easy to line up the screw hole for the hanger but a satisfying little job.
In this case it was the chicken.
A pair of paper cut outs (calligraphy paper aplenty in my drawer) were sewn to sandwich a crème egg inside. Ready for little Easter gifts and tucked away so we don’t inadvertently nibble them.
Then a few eggs were made using up magazine papers and washi tape (will I never use it up?) again sewn shut and packed away for Easter.
The basic shapes were cut from my scan and cut to the maximum size of my papers. I can see this working with other stock shapes for single sweet treats throughout the year – hearts, cars, stockings …
Must remember to keep the sewing machine needle with my papercraft projects as the paper blunts the needle quickly.
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