I've been working on a few things this week. First of all, I dug through some of the items I got in my last Beads direct grab bag (so many beads) and found a few things, which gave me an idea to make a bracelet based on a bunch of grapes, as they are on the vine.
It doesn't photograph that well, but it looks lovely in real life. The purple pearls are perfect, as are the ceramic leaves.
I've also been trying out my new candy machine die. This is a Sue Wilson kinetics one. I was dubious that it would work, but it really does! The only thing I would suggest is to use smaller sweets than M & M's.
Obviously you would decorate the outside as well, but for now I just wanted to test if it worked.
I've been working on the cross stitch as well. Here is the update so far.
Finally, I dug into the craft boxes I have received recently and made a tag. I started off by gluing some circles on a wooden tag, then added crackle paste, before spraying it with a pink Lindy's spray. Then I realised that the circles looked like nipples, so I added a few more colours, using more sprays, distress ink and a bit of wax, as well as come mini art stones that I added with some copper paint, and some frosted gilt flakes. Once I was happy with the background I chose my embellishments.
I kept it relatively simple. The cogs are snip art ones that are covered with rust past. The feather and saying are also snip art, but with embossing powder on them (the feather using a gradient). The flower and jewel at the bottom are from the vintage box, and the bird is from an earlier box. It was originally pink, but I carefully painted it with black gesso before using wax to give it a rose colour.
It was nice digging out some stuff that I have not used for ages, such as the rust paste which I have only used once before now.
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