Stampin Up demonstrator choice

I signed up as a Stampin Up demonstrator in October. I'm absolutely loving their stamps and papers, can't believe I've been missing out for so long. They are such great quality and make gorgeous cards. So far I have just managed to run parties for friends, but still looking for my first party for someone else to host!

Today I had my first quarterly stampin up training with my upline's upline and could take along a project to enter into the demonstrators choice competition. As the training involved making jewellery charms from the spring catalogue I decided to make a jewellery holder. I took a piece of MDF and covered in paper from the timeless portrait designer paper, punched out flowers and die cut butterflies from regal rose patterned paper and decorated. I used mini cotton reels and covered with paper and antique brads.

I took my jewellery holder along today and was so chuffed as I came first in demonstrator of choice. There were some such lovely projects I couldn't believe it. So I have ideas people like so now all I need is to find some lovely customers to host parties and share them with all :)

Rachele

Sew roll

I decided to finally get round to sewing this sew roll over the christmas break, I've been meaning to do it for so long and very pleased with it, although it did takes hours!

Alter It Monthly

Check out the alter it monthly blog where I've entered my tree textile piece into their monthly draw for September where the theme for the month is tree leaf branch twig.
http://alteritmonthly.blogspot.com/

Rachele

Macro Photography Course

Last weekend I went on a macro photography course to learn how to use my new macro lens. This is my favourite shot of the day, which also happened to be the very last shot after everyone else had returned to the classroom!

Rachele

Jewellery

Today I've been in the art room creating jewellery. Some are for myself whilst others I am planning to sell at the Macmillan coffee morning at work to raise some money for a very worthy cause. I thought I'd do something different to cakes!

Rachele

Altered Canvas

This week I went on workshop with Tina http://tinas-inks.blogspot.com/ to create a canvas. I started off attaching teared up pieces of old book sheets with matt medium all over and then spritzed with cosmic shimmer mist. I used some moulding paste and gesso through masks to create some texture as well as some distress inks. Then stamped on tissue and attached with matt medium. I attached some hand made beads using the same dyed paper with cosmic shimmer mists and finally some butterflies made with cosmic shimmer fantasy film.

The beads were made by rolling up a triangle of spritzed paper.

Thanks Tina for a great project.

Rachele

Headboard

We decided to buy a kingsize bed a couple of months ago and went for a divan. The headboards on the market were not what we wanted and I was looking for something to go with the cream suede blanket box and curtains, so I decided to make my own headboard. Here's the result:

Rachele