ALTERED JIGSAW

I'm taking part in a 6 way Christmas Jigsaw Jam swap. (I know the dreaded C word, but it really isn't long now lol)

When each person receives all their swaps back, they then adhere them to canvas, to make one piece of art.

Me, i have to be different lol. I'm sending them slightly larger jigsaw pieces, and wish to have them made into individual christmas tree decorations. Havn't quite made my mind up on the colours, but have chosen the theme 'Wings".

The first one i made was for Sherry, who asked for the theme Musical Christmas with the colours red and gold.

For Sherry
size 3" x 2" (7cm x 5cm approx)

The second one is for Viv, who asked for vintage christmas in the colours cream and gold

For Viv
size 3" x 3" (8sq cm)

The third one is for Wendy who asked for Angels, in the colours purple, blue and silver. To make this one, i digitally altered a photograph, then did an inkjet copy, which i then painted with brusho inks, and used stickles glitter, glamour dust, stickers, and acetate wings

For Wendy
size2.5" x 3.5" (6cm x 9cm)

I'm still awaiting the arrival of the other 2 involved in the swap, and will post them up as and when i finish them.

Also this week, i managed to make 2 ATC's for the MAMMA group i run over on Flickr. The theme i chose this week is Remembrance and here's my entries for the swap.

'Twixt Love andDuty'
Watercolour background


"Flanders Fields"
Cross with the words of the Poem
Flanders Field by John McCrae
Poppies decoupaged with paper napkins

Christmas in July

Sorry i havn't been blogging or looking at other people's blogs, been extrememly busy.

NOOOOOO NOT celebrating Christmas in July lol, but with hospital visits with hubby, plus i've been feeling really under the weather myself.

Sooo, even when ill i find it really difficult to sit still, so did some handsewing whilst sat watching tv.

I've been making fabric trees, mainly for the Christmas Season, (hence the title lol), but decided to go against using christmas fabrics,and decided to use some Kaffe Fassett fabrics instead.

I was extremely excited when i did a swap with Mieke
earlier in the year, and she sent me 2 pieces of Kaffe Fassett fabric.
I never thanked her properly for the gifts, as i was in the middle of my move. So hopefully this will make up for it.

Sooooo here's a taster of 2 of the trees i'm making, they are stuffed, ready for the base to be put on. I'm in the middle of beading another one as well, and hope to make a whole 'forest' of them to put in my etsy shop.

The one on the right was made from the fabric from Mieke

I'm making things that i like myself, so if they do not sell, i can adorn my own home with them.

I also bought some beautiful fabric fromChesterfield last week, a very pale grey/green embroidered fabric, and will definitely be using this for fabric trees as well.

Oh nearly forgot about my exciting news. Yesterday i bought a computerised sewing machine. This was bought with money that i finally received from a dispute with Tiny Computers.

On my 50th birthday, my daughter and hubby saved up to give me the money to buy a computer. I paid cash for it (never again), and the day after, the company went bust, and i lost my money.

Now 6 years later i managed to get half my money back, and decided to use it to buy the sewing machine. (ooh i gave my age away)

Mind you it's still in the box. Can't believe it myself. Normally i'm like a child at christmas with anything new, but finding it hard to get excited at anything at the mo.

Will definitely be getting it out of the box later today, and will start playing with it hopefully over the coming weekend.

So keep your eye out for embroidered fabric from me, (that's if i can understand the bloomin thing. another technical thingamajig to get my head aroundHAHAHA)

Take care everyone, and i hope to get time to look at all your fabulous blogs