The Seamstress Sisters

Here are my latest paper dolls -

five sisters called

Honey, Bluebell, Holly, Fuchsia & Marigold.

 They are Sewing Fairies.

I made one of these dolls a couple of years back

for a swap

 

 

 and once I'd worked out how I made her

(thank goodness I put a lot of detail in my original

blog post) thought I'd have a go at making some more.

The 'core' of each doll is an old clothing tag.

I had to peel the first (shiny) layer off in order for 

the Distress Stain to absorb into it.

I rubber stamped the dolls body onto card

and machined stitched it to the tag.

The stamp was from a set called

'Paperdoll Parts' from Character Constructions

by Catherine Moore.

 

There is some random rubber stamping on the back.

I replicated the form skirt with some wire.

This was a bit tricky but I like the finished result.

 

The 'feet' are two card bobbins stuck together,

covered with dressmaking tissue and Mod Podged

over - then machined stitched onto the body.

For the hair I used hand dyed (not by me)

 mohair fleece.  I love the natural waves in it.

As usual, the faces are moulded from air dried clay.

 The wings I cut from a piece of cotton fabric and

Mod Podged on some dressmaking pattern tissue.

I finished them off with some zigzag machine

stitching around the edge.

This green doll, Holly is my favourite

and she'll be adorning my wall above my sewing machine.

The other four I've put into my

Esty shop

 GemstonePaperDolls

Thanks for looking :) 

Spring Charm Swap

Anyone for Su Doku?

No, not me, I don't like number games,

scrabble and other words games yes, but nothing with numbers!

 

When I saw this set of Su Doku in a charity shop

a few years ago, I had no intention of ever playing a game with them,

but just knew they'd come in handy one day.

 

Cue - The Altered Dominos & Other Altered Game Pieces

group on Flickr.

The current swap on there is to 

" Create up to ten charms and receive ten. They have to be made using a game piece

 and have something on it that makes you think of Spring"

 

I wanted to use wire and the 'gizmo' wire coiling tool

to create some flowers with a gemstone in their centre. 

 

 

Although it's an easy tool to use (in theory!),

I think I need more practice.  However I was reasonably

pleased with how the flowers turned out.

 

 

First though, I painted one side of the Su Doku counters

white (to hide the numbers)

 and then attached book text with Liquitex.

 

   

The flowers (or maybe butterflies!) were then

stuck onto the counters with E6000 adhesive.

 

 

The gemstones I used are Carnelian,

except the blue one in the middle of the photo

which is Blue Chalcedony

 (no, I'd never heard of them before either!)

 

 

  

Flower or butterfly?

You decide!

 

Can't wait to see what charms I get back in return now!

 

Thanks for looking and I promise to try and get

round to see some of my blogging friends' blogs soon!    

Traffic Lights Swap

This is the second of two swaps Sian is currently hosting. We had to make three ATCs, one in each of the colours of traffic lights (red, amber and green) and each ATC also had to have on it some wire, some metal (in addition to the wire)and some plastic. How does she come up with these ideas!!!

The bases of each of my three ATCs were covered with some bright silver sticky tape which I then embossed (each in a different way) and then coloured with alcohol inks. The red and green wasn't a problem, but for the amber I used the Caramel ink and then went over with some amber metallic rub ons. The red and amber both have faces moulded from friendly plastic. This is the first time I'd used the plastic in a mould - I'm sure it should be easy but I think I need a bit more practice. The green one has a plastic button in the centre. The metal on each of them is - for red, the head-dress, for amber an old bottletop (the head is mounted in) and for green it is the metal corner pieces. The wire is for red, interlinked with the head-dress, for amber, the stem and leaves and for green it is attaching the button to the ATC.

Despite the gruesome looking face, I think my favourite of the three is the amber one. The petals are pieces of amber coloured acrylic mosaic. None of them have photographed very well unfortunately (well, I would say that wouldn't I!!)