Gift bags

Hi Everybody!

It's weekend, enjoy!

We got through the storms here without too much damage,

some places it was really bad, but this time we were lucky here, 

for which I am very thankful.

A couple of weeks back I went to IKEA with a friend. I didn't need

to buy any furniture, but I found some pretty, curly bamboo plants

and some craft paper bags, one packet with stripes and one with spots.

I decided to alter them a bit to make them into gift bags. I added rose rub ons to these 2, and then did some stamping and stenciling with archival black.

I collaged  paper napkins to these 2.

I added some more splodges of white, and doodled round the spots before

adding the sentiment:

On this one I added more splodges and then stenciled some black spots.

This was a a quick and easy way to make some pretty gift bags,

which will be useful for cookies or tags or whatever I put in them.

I am linking to Paint Party Friday

 Some more impressions from my walks:

Have a great weekend, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!

Colourful

Hi Everybody!

A few weeks ago I painted an A3 piece using squares of various
bright colours. When it was finished, I drew lines in between using a
spectrum noir pen and then sewed over all the lines and edges with
red thread. I die cut circles in coordinating colours and sewed
them on as decorations, adding some tassels made of eyelash yarn.
Then I decided to make it into a book cover to hold
some of my large tags. I strengthened the inside covers, and
then added 4 signatures, which I sewed by hand. The last step was to
fix the signatures to the cover using eyelash yarn again to match the
decorations sewn onto the covers. The finished book is 20" x 8", and the
spine is 1 1/2" wide.

Front:

Before the book was made:

Back:

Filled with tags:

I am linking to Paint Party Friday, and Simon Monday Challenge.

A couple of weeks back I won a prize on Stacy's blog,

Magic Love Crow. She always paints really mystical pieces, using her

wonderful crows and dramatic colours. She is very talented and

 I was more than happy when I got a mail to say I was the winner of her 

generous prize, which  arrived in my mail box 2 days ago:

Thanks Stacy, I am really happy to have your wonderful painting here.

Some photos from out and about these past days. We are experiencing

heavy storms just now, so will possibly be going off line till it calms down:

Have a great day, take care,

and thanks a lot for coming by!