I'm a female at heart

I've made a few things this week, one of them linked to the title, which I will explain later. First of all, here is the update on the cross stitch.

I've also made another necklace, using peanut beads. I got a lot of peanut beads in the beads direct grab bags and didn't know what to do with them. I think this is the first time I've used them!

I bought a metal heart from a charity shop for a quid the other day, and decided to do each half a different theme. I've only done one side so far, so hopefully I will post that one next week. For this side I started off by adding felt cogs then painting with white gesso, before spraying with green Lindy sprays. I then added a few squirts of purple spray. I looked through my stash and found some suffragette material, which I thought would fit the green and purple perfectly. I used a Tim holtz grungeboard swirl and doll both sprayed purple, and painted a resin cameo to match. The swirl was the base, followed by some twined leaves for the green. The frame of the cameo was painted gold, but when the black underlay was still wet so that it would mix and give more of an antique look. Finally I added some purple and white flowers

The other side is going to be a completely different theme but with a similar style. I've got a list of things to make at the moment, which at least means I won't be buying anything!

Until next time

Ems

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