Vacation

I am taking some time off to catch up on some rest and relaxation. I will begin posting again Wednesday, July 6th. I have some new flowers and projects that I have been working on for you all to see.

Fabric Book Pages

Here are the final pictures in my fabric book. I loved the pictures of these beautiful children.
I will be working on some new products in the next few days. I will try to post an update. I will also be setting up a class for gals who do not work with vintage images . Boy, they do not know what they are missing.
I had to get some items for my class at New England Scrapbooking, and of course picked up a new Tim Holts die. When I finish, I will post a picture!!

More Fabric Book Pages

Two more pages of my book. I tend to keep things simple on these two pages. The lace tells the story. Tomorrow I will post the rest of the pages. The images are from AlteredPages.com
If anyone is still hesitating on making a fabric book, try it! It is a wonderful feeling to create something that you never thought you could. Yes!!!!!!!!!

Fabric & Lace Book

Good Afternoon. I am a first timer with fabric books. I wanted to try the technique for quite a while but was afraid that the down loading of image to fabric was a little beyond my talents. Well, let me tell you that this was a piece of cake. The images are from AlteredPages.com. I downloaded the images onto my computer I bought some freezer paper and took a piece of light weight muslin, cut it to 8 1/2 x 11 and ironed it onto the freezer paper. I took all paper out of my HP printer and ran just the muslin sheet thru. Easy peasy. And they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks!!!!!! Hope you like it. If you have any questions, just ask. I will show some more pages tomorrow.

Victorian Jewlery by JoAnne StJames

This lovely cabochon has flecks of copper and is surrounded by dark bronze delica beads and clear crystal fringe on a dark brown netted chain.
This piece would look lovely worn with a high necked blouse. The clear crystal beads around the stone look like delicate lace!
A true Victorian look!!! See more of JoAnn's work at her website www.accessor-ize.com

Mother & Daughter

This card was made for Mothers Day. I loved the image, so i thought I would post, even though the special day has past. I used one of my ribbon roses, Martha Stewart foliage punch, pearls and some lace.
I have been house cleaning yuckkkkkk. Have to get things organized so I can spend more time creating. Will have more projects next week.

Crepe Paper Flower Tutorial

Here is the tutorial for the crepe flowers that was requested. Hope you enjoy. These are lovely flowers on any project.
If you have any questions, please leave me a comment. If there are any suggestions for furthur turorials on my work, let me know. This is my first tutorial, so please be kind to me !!!!!

Supplies:
Melissa Crepe Paper
2 punches-one size a little larger than the other
white glue
piece of cardstock or chipboard
Glitter
Pearl
Glue gun
Cut 5 circles of each size. Start with the larger size. Stretch the first petal and twist the bottom of the petal. Finish stretching and twisting the larger petal. Punch a circle out of chipboard or cardstock. Put a light bead of white glue around the edge of the petals. Dip in glitter.
Take a little glue from your glue gun and place onto the cardstock. Start laying your petals around the circle.
Do the same with the smaller petals
Put glue in center and add the pearl.

Melissa Frances Crepe Paper

Stretch the petal and twist the ends

Place a bead of glue on the edges of the large petals.

When all five are done, glue the twisted ends on the

circle and glue ends down

Leaf after adding glitter

First Layer- Lay the smaller petals in between

Glue pearl in center . Your finished flower