New Makes

I haven't stopped!!!!!

Honest!

I have been busy crafting as and when I have been able to, what with a baby to look after as well! I have managed a few bits and bobs as birthday presents so thought I would share some of my latest things!

A new style plastic bottle bracelet, the beads look a little like roses and like the other upcycled plastic bottle pieces I make the colours are easy to customise! I particularly liked these colours and felt they suited my friend just right.  Hope you like.

This Peg bag is made from water resistant material and with the flap that can be pulled down your pegs won't get wet and rust if they are caught short in a little rain!  This was really just an experiment, the design criteria was to use fabric a little like Cath Kidston fabric but to be better proportioned to hers and to also be resistant to sitting in the rain occasionally! This one seemed to do it and was v successful!

Heart Bunting.  I love this! each heart is made from upcycled cereal boxes and then covered in scrap papers.

This Quilled J is using thinker papers than my previous experiments, it worked far better in that it was more solid but due to the larger paper it didn't work well with a tighter pattern like my other designs.  That said however, I think I may try an ornate one with the 10mm paper next time.

Quilled B, this is using 3mm quilled paper in a variety of blues, I used 5mm papers around the edges to form the template but all the rest are narrower.  It worked well I think although I do find that the paper buckles a little sometimes and it is hard to make a straight line look truly straight!

Cake Pops!   MMMMMMMMMMM  a commission for a birthday party.  I made these ones with a proper cake pop mold, they were very yummy although I think I may prefer my other, denser recipe with out using the mold.  Advantage of the molds however is that they always come out round...ish! and they are a lot lighter for decorating.


I have done a few other bits as well but just can't find the photos anywhere! Oh well that will give me something to post next time!

xx

Summer holidays 2012

Good morning bloggers! Well what a busy week! I have been getting a few fab commissions which has been wonderful, so nice to feel like I am not barking up the wrong tree all together! lol.

 I have also been doing a little illustrating again for my Pip and Custard books...

 as well as designing a new logo for my Rejenisis line.

Oh and finally my daughter and I have been introducing the world to the Bob's!

I am going to look into creating a range of Bob cards I think! might be fun!
As you can see it has been a busy summer holidays already! Have you been up to anything fun? Anything creative?? Please post any pics here of an creative adventures you have had so far! I would love to see them! xx

A bit more bunting!

Well back from 2 lovely short breaks and thought I should get on with trying to clear the craft room! I can't believe the mountain of carrier bags that people have collected for me! I thought the best thing to do as step one was to create some more bunting! Here are a couple of pics of my latest colourful pieces.

I know the pics are a bit dark but the only colours i haven't done yet it seems are purples and pinks!

So what to do now?? I think I will sit down for a bit of drawing, something different before tackling the craft room again tomorrow!

Carrier bags bunting

Well what a wonderful change in the weather! The sun has inspired me to be all creative and here is my latest creation! Bunting...and what's more it is recycled from plastic carrier bags!!! I have used several different bags and created patterns using coloured bags.  Bonus to the plastic bunting is it doesn't matter if they get wet! I do suspect that the sun will eventually have the same effect on the colours as it does with bags left outside but only time will tell!

I wonder if you can guess which bags I used??

Here's a close up to help!