Brooch back mountain

Now I have discovered how to make brooches using my dies I have been going brooch crazy. This is my journey so far.

The fishes were made using the Tattered Lace Pisces die

The next set of brooches are also made using Tattered Lace dies.

The birds came with a Crafts Beautiful magazine.

The cats are from Tattered Lace

I used \Tattered Lace and Cricut Zooballoo  for the elephants.

Zooballo foxes

and dog.

Tattered Lace lions.

Tatty Twinkles Summer and Winter

I made a coloured and black and white card featuring the wonderful Tatty Twinkles from Tattered Lace.

This is a panorama card with four layers. It folds flat to fit in and envelope. It was made using Tatty Twinkles "Summer smile " and embellishment stamp set by tattered Lace. The stamped images were coloured using Promarkers and decoupaged to give further depth.I dotted around the edges before cutting out the images;

The panorama dies have concertina sides to which the various layers are attached.

This shows the back and third layers attached to the concertina sides. Red tape was used to attach the front. The aperture was made by cutting half an oval and cutting the shape of the hill by hand.

Each layer was decorated before attaching to the concertina sides. 

I used the banner die and hand wrote the sentiment.

This is the finished card.

Black and white card with several shades of grey...

I think this must be the largest card I have made.

I obtained this textured effect by putting a fairly thick layer of gesso on two pieces of card. The pieces of card were put together with gesso sides facing and then pulled apart. The textured cards had gilding paste applied to give a shimmery effect.

I used Tatty Twinkles Gift Giving from Tattered Lace. The set comes with stamps and dies. I coloured the image with various shades of grey and cut the outline in black to give a shadow.

Tatty Twinkles was mounted on the textured gesso effect cut using the Tattered Lace oval shutter card set. This set is very versatile and can be used in many ways.

I used the Tattered Lace Starter set frame and added some ribbon and lace to decorate.

I did not have any large dies so I used two of the Charisma frames from Tattered Lace, which were cut in half and attached to a square, after being embossed to create the large frame.

Large flourishes were added to the large frame before Tatty Twinkles was mounted

 on top. The tuck in hearts were added to the sides;

I made flowers using Tattered Lace dies and added them to the card.Some flowers had gilding wax on them to add interest, The large roses were made using the Floral layers rose dies.

I folded another card to make the base for the easel card and decorated it with papers and flowers to co-ordinate.

Lastly I added a bow and a sparkly gem made from melted glue stick covered in glitter.

Fishing fun!

I am not really interested in the signs of the zodiac but love the Pisces fish from Tattered Lace. The fishes come as a pair and are easy to separate if you wish t use them as separate fishes. I loved making samples and could have carried on for ages. The fish got my creative juices running.

I cut the fish from paper I had painted and cut the fish again in black to create a shadow.

I cut the fish from cereal packet and stuck three layers together. I painted with gesso and then used Pebeo glass paints to get this effect. I attached a brooch back.

This fish was cut from vilene which was painted and mounted on decorated felt.The vilene was quite thick and did not cut through completed but there was a clear line for me to cut.

I made a pop up box card. The blue and white paper was created by blowing the paint around the paper using a straw.

This is a shaker card. I created the background using Serif and the fish was made using the same method as the brooch.

The fish was again made using layered card and this time it was painted using pearlised paint. I  added washing up liquid to the paint and blew bubbles which I captured onto to paper to create the background.

I think it is great you can use the dies to make matching bags is you are giving a gift.The fish were cut from painted paper.

I had great fun making this canvas using a variety of materials.

 I used painted corrugated card and cut bubble card to create texture on this tag.

I decorated a heart shaped coaster using the fish. I coasted it with modge podge to give it some protection.

Summertime Bliss by Victoria Nelson

The artwork by Victoria Nelson is exquisite. The designs are pretty and delicate. Tattered Lace have made dies and stamps to complement the artwork. The flower dies I had the chance to try are the same as Victoria Nelson`s designs on the backing papers and toppers. The dies have little lift up areas which give you dimension to the designs enable you to make a variety of dimensional designs. I had fun trying them out. I recommend cutting the flowers out before you colour them in in case they are not exactly aligned. It helps to use some low tack tape to keep them in place. I cut mine out after colouring, which I later regretted.
The only thing that held me back with this kit was that the colour of my alcohol pens did not quite match the colours Victoria Nelson used. I regretted not having a wider range.

I added the die cut flowers to two corners of the bag to give some dimension and decoration.I used one of the large toppers from the paper pack.

 I decorated a wooden door hanger with the papers and dies form the set.

I decorated a cardboard box. My plan was to make some shrink plastic jewellery to go in the box but I only had black shrink plastic.

I tried using a more sepia look with the die cut flowers.

I put some fishing twine between two back to back toppers so they look as though they are suspended in mid air.

The die cut flowers were shaped around the bed of the card.

I used the Tattered Lace Charisma frame to make this stepper card.

I used the Tattered lace mid side stepper card and the Tattered lace floral layers Echinacea to make the larger flowers.