Bee's Dancing Daisy

Morning. I am sharing a nice little 3D plaque today. You could use it as either a card, wall-hanging or just a nice piece for a shelf or mantelpiece. For this project, I have used an embossing folder and stamps from Leonie Pujol's new launch on Hochanda. I have also used words from Leonie's Heart Die Collection.

To start with I cut my card to size, approximately 5 x 7''. I used Whitewash Coredinations  card with a green core from Crafters Companion. I ran it through my machine with Leonie's  'Forever Swirls' embossing folder. I used my sanding block to highlight the pattern and let the core colour show through. I wiped over the card with my magic cloth from Crafters Companion, it makes a real difference to your embossing.

I then cut out the heart in the middle of the embossed card.

I took my backing board which was the same size and placed my embossed card over it to mark out where my design needed to be. I stamped the flowers with black Memento ink so they would show through the heart aperture.

On a piece of velvet card I stamped the flowers as I wanted them to decoupage on my design. I stamped quite a few as I wanted the design to be quite deep.

I took the backing image and coloured it with a selection of alcohol markers and did the same with the flowers for the decoupage. I masked of the flowers in my background and coloured the sky with Memento Ink 'Summer Sky'

On black pearl card, I cut out the words 'My Friend' from Leonie's die collection. Then stamped and coloured 3 of the Bees with alcohol markers.

I layered up my decoupage using 3D glue gel, secured a bee to the background, I secured the last 2 bees with spiralled coloured wire, to give the effect of flight.

Finally I added foam on a roll to secure my embossed front, I used four layers of 2 mm foam because of the depth of the decoupage.

I hope you like the project today along with the step by step. Thank you for visiting and I hope that you will visit again. Take care xxx

Flowery Dream Cushion Cover

Morning, Here is today's project, Something little bit different again using Leonie's Die Collection. I have also used stamps from the Brand New Launch from Leonie on Hochanda. When the new dies were launched, I had quite a few e-mails asking if the dies worked with fabric and if I had tried. I hadn't so I decided I would use this as the project for this post.

I started by cutting the material for the cushion cover, The width of the fabric needs to be approximately an inch or so wider than the cushion pad. This was to be a very simple envelope cover so The fabric needs to start at 2/3 the way down the cushion pad, right round to the front and overlap by approximately 1/2 to 2/3 again.

To colour my fabric I wet the material thoroughly and wrung it out, I wanted to keep as many creases as possible for colouring to add to the effect. I then took a selection of Brusho's, Emerald Green, Cobalt Blue and Violet. I hung the dripping wet fabric up and sprinkles in patches with the Brusho's, spritzed with more water and let the colour spread through the fabric. I then turned the fabric and repeated the process until I was happy with the result. I then left this to dry.

I selected 2 fabrics for the design, a plain black cotton and  a Downton Pattern fabric from the Lady Mary Collection and ironed on some Heat n Bond. I cut out three of the 'Folk Heart Base' in both colours and two of the fine outlines in black. I also cut a stem and leaf from the black cotton. In addition I cut out the word 'Love' in both colours and added them to the opposite hearts.

To pin the cushion cover I placed the material (wrong side) around the cushion pad and pinned one side in place, being careful not to pin to the cushion. Then I slipped it out, pinned the other side and sewed down both sides with a very close straight stitch. I turned it the right side out and pressed.

Then I arranged my flowers design using the die cut fabrics and ironed with a very hot iron (no steam). Either side of the main design I added and pressed the fine heart outline and stamped a word in each of them from Leonie's collection.

I hope you like this project, it's nice to do something a little different and answer the questions that were asked at the same time. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit today and I hope you will come again. Take care xxx