I am supposed to be cleaning house and tidying up my craft room - yeah right! - like that's really gonna happen. Do you know how much stuff is in my craft room? I get overwhelmed just lookin at it!
Anyhow back to posting. I am showing this photo cos I wanted to show the lovely flower stand I got at a carboot sale a couple of weeks back. I paid just 10p for it can you believe!!!! Do you know how hard it was to contain my excitement so the guy didn't twig and charge me more!
Here is another shot. Sure glad I had this - no more customers having to pick up the cards that get knocked over. 
This was the first card I came up with - I never quite like the first one somehow. It did get me thinking about stitches, patchwork, old lace though which is right where I wanted to be. 
I don't know the names of too many quilt designs except that I could remember the 'log cabin' one so I used it to create the background on this one. 
While this one just used a simple '4 squared' background I like it because of the different shape nestability in the centre. Even this is a patchwork shape. I was going to use a round one but see how one idea gives birth to another. I knew this shape would fit the theme and how cool is it that it fit the stamped design too?
Anyhow back to posting. I am showing this photo cos I wanted to show the lovely flower stand I got at a carboot sale a couple of weeks back. I paid just 10p for it can you believe!!!! Do you know how hard it was to contain my excitement so the guy didn't twig and charge me more!If I'm gonna demo I wanted to have the table all set up nice like so I am keeping my eyes open for things like this. Even better was that the theme was flowers and patchwork so the wire flower fit right in - pefect. I dragged a couple of stands I used to use when teaching out too - have some more somewhere? Gotta clean my craft room so I know what I got!!!
(I love that I don't always have to spend a fortune on stuff so I can save pennies to spend on the bigger more expensive goodies)
I'm waffling - sorry
Here is another shot. Sure glad I had this - no more customers having to pick up the cards that get knocked over. This was the first card I came up with - I never quite like the first one somehow. It did get me thinking about stitches, patchwork, old lace though which is right where I wanted to be.
I don't know the names of too many quilt designs except that I could remember the 'log cabin' one so I used it to create the background on this one.
While this one just used a simple '4 squared' background I like it because of the different shape nestability in the centre. Even this is a patchwork shape. I was going to use a round one but see how one idea gives birth to another. I knew this shape would fit the theme and how cool is it that it fit the stamped design too?I had intended to add pastel brads and eyelets but didn't get time. If I was making these cards real vintage patchwork I would distress them a little, add real stitches, vintage lace, ribbon and old pearly buttons - how cool would that look. Hhhmmmmm ? Maybe when my craft room is clean, my course is finished (2 weeks and counting) and I come up for air - yeah right!
Did I say that already?
1 comment:
No fair, Suezie, you're getting to go to all the neat carboot sales. I am really jealous now. Love, Mom
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