The Introverted Crafter

Made a few things again this week. Firstly I have finished page 3 of the stitch. Only 1 more to go! Here is the update. You can barely tell I screwed up one flower can You? I've also been making some jewellery. This was two bracelets and a pair of earrings. I made sure the bracelets were small enough for my wrist this time. All were made with the grab bags and mystery pearl strands I got before the ban. (Which is still going well btw) I've also made a mixed media piece. Rather than glue everything together then coat it in black gesso I started off by putting fantasy texture pastes on a board. I then chose what pieces I wanted to add, coated them in black gesso and then started arranging them. I added some fibres first, then added the pieces. I then used prima paints and waxes until I was happy with the colour scheme. Finally I added some glitter. Most of the items were from my craft box subscription and advent calendar , with a few Tim holtz or prima items.

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

A few birthday cards this week. Now, I am not a fan of pink. At all. When I received a grab bag from Beads Direct a couple of years ago and found it was all pink I was not happy (not their fault of course). However, I still have pink in my stash, as I make things for other people who might like pink. Anyway, one of my colleagues had a birthday recently, and I have not known her for long, so was at a loss for what to do. I was going to do a January one, but I cannot find my G45 Calendar paper. Thankfully I found out she likes pink, so I used that as my inspiration. I decided to use some new things for this. The first was the background stencil. I wanted to keep it simple in the background, so that it didn't take away from the dreamcatcher die, which was the other new thing I used. The second card I made this week was more up my street, and again involved new craft items. I am making a concerted effort to use things I have not used before, so that I am not tempted to buy n

Well it's very early days, but at least I haven't been tempted to buy anything yet. Anything craft related at least. It's a good start, and I have also been keeping up with the daily happy thought. Anyway, onto this week's makes. I have made a mixed media piece this week. I started off with an old box that had flowers in originally. I painted it black, and then painted the outside gold. I then used some of my Calico Craft pieces. I painted them brown to start with, then green for the trees, before coating them with crazing medium. Once dry I used antiquing cream, and then rubbed gold wax on them. I added silver wax to the wolf, and gold wax to the moon. I added snowflake paste to the bottom of the box, then layered the Calico Craft pieces. I then embossed some snip art pieces with gold and silver embossing powder, gluing them to the side of the box. Finally I took an icicle part, covering it in glossy accents and adding glitter. I then covered it again in crackle acce