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I decided to dig out a tando creative printer tray this week. I have put these aside for a while as I didn't know what to do with them. But as this year is about using as much of my stash as I can, I utilised one of these, as well as some of my newer items. I started by taking the cover off, which I put aside for another project. I then painted it first black and then gold. I picked some resist paper, inked and stamped it, before using it as the background. I used four wood slices, then stamped and coloured some insects. These were placed on foam before being glued to the wood slices. I also added remnant rubs as labels. For the remaining spaces I die cut potions bottles. The bottles were cut from watercolour paper and inked. The potions themselves were coloured paper. Again I used foam pads for dimension.






Working on the cross stitch but the light is awful at the moment and I'm in need of an eye test, so progress is slow. 


Until next time
Ems


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