The lace I used is from The Ribbon Girl. I hope I have made it in time to link up the Project on the Sugar Lump Studios blog!
For day 9, I made a tag which I inked with distress inks and then stamped with a Hero Arts stamp before spraying with glimmer mist. I love the effect the glimmer mist gave to the stamped background. I layered up muslin and lace and also added lace to the bottom of the tag using my sewing machine.
I die cut and stamped and inked a smaller tag which I added on top of the lace and a photo from the Graphics Fairy which I mounted on to a scalloped circle cut from a book page. I finished with buttons, some silver leaf sprigs and buttons and a flower from Primark.
Day 10 was one of my favourit projects to make. I bought a cheap hardback book from a hardware store and covered it with stripey paper and then embellished it with music paper, a vintage postcard and stamp and a die cut heart which I inked and covered in chunky glitter. The photo corners which were embossed with silver powder are from Quixotic paperie and the lace was tea dyed as it was a horrible blue and white. The buttons were from a charity shop.
I added music paper to the lid and a wooden snowflake topped with a pearl button and silver glitter glue around the edges of the die cut circle.
As a finishing touch, I added a seam binding bow and a wooden heart painted with distress paints, a little bell and a chandelier crystal. I can't wait to see what tomorrow's Project will be, although I am a little sad the 12 days are nearly over...
I used a Graphics Fairy image for my Frosted Snow Angels and added the gathered lace with my glue gun. The flowers are satin and have been in my stash for ages. I have been collecting vintagey bits and pieces for ages and have used so many of them for the 1st on the 12 days of Whimsy projects!
Here is a close up, you can see the Angel wings which were cut from glitter card with a Marianne Designs snowflake die. I added some of the hearts from the die cut to the Angel's dress. This gorgeous Angel will be going on my tree this year!
After shaping the felt into a cone, I stitched organza ribbon and lace around the top of the cone and added vintage buttons on top. I tied a bow from some cream cotton ribbon and added it to the front of the cone and added a flower on top.
The image I used is from this website and I added feathers taken from cheap and naff Christmas decorations I picked up for 50p in the Supermarket this week and a bow at the bottom of the image before adding it to the back of the cone. As a finishing touch I added some glitter to the felt cone and a loop from organza to hang the cone on my tree. I filled the cone with shredded music paper and a flower cut from a Whiff of Joy die.
I used a Snowflake die to cut the shapes above the banner and the image was edged with glossy accents which I covered in chunky glitter (I got very messy!!)
You can just see the crackle paint and lace on this photo, I also added an organza bow and button on the edge of the box to disguise the join in the lace.
The lace is much fuller and longer on this box and I had to stretch it to get it to fit around the box.
I added a bow on the front of this one. I am not sure which one is my favourite...I already have some bits gathered for the project from Day 7 and rather spookily bought some feathers yesterday and they feature in today's project so I may attempt both of them tonight.
On day 4, Nancy showed us how to make some gorgeous Christmas tags. I used Prima papers to cover my tag and distressed them with Tim Holts inks. The image I used is from The Graphics Fairy and I printed it quite large and cut it out before adding it to the tag. The lace was bought from a Charity shop in the summer and the buttons are from my stash. I cut the snowflake using a Spellbinders die and the satin ribbon is from The Ribbon girl. I also used one of Nancy's Yuletide sentiments on the tag. I am really pleased with how the tag turned out and will probably hang it somewhere in my Living Room this Christmas.
I added paper flowers on each pennant and lots of gems and a little glitter.
I die cut snowflakes from gridded cream note card paper and layered them each before topping with a button and covering in glitter glue.
I strung the finished pennants onto some cream organza ribbon ready to hang for Christmas.
I added buttons and beads by hand and a vintage seam binding bow and a little loop to hang the mitten before hand sewing the back and front of the mitten together. I have left the top open as I may use it to put a gift in this Christmas or maybe fill it with lavender. I am hoping to have a go at the three other projects this week, I feel so inspired by Nancy's wonderful ideas.
really know where to start. My good Friend Petra is a Master of mixed media and creates beautiful pieces of art which I adore so when she told me about the 12 days of Whimsy and the wonderful tutorials by Nancy, I just had to join in.
The first day of the 12 days was on Thursday and there is a fabulous tutorial to show you how to create these button faeries. I have never made anything like this before and I had so much fun creating this little decoration.
The buttons and flower and gems are from my stash and I added a little pearl to keep the buttons on. I have already made a project for day2 and have just seen today's and will definetely be giving that a go as well! I am off to do some Christmas shopping now.