Paperbabe Challenge #75: It's a Sketch!!! Vintage Gift Pocket

Hello Everyone..

It's Sketch time over on the #75 Paperbabe Challenge

with this fortnight asking you to use the image below to inspire your creativity.

The "paperbabe stamps" can represent any sentiment and the image an embellishment.

Use the sketch in any creative way, flip it, turn it but most of all be inspired by it. 

Here's what I have been up to along with those How to Do's.

I first created a template following the sketch prompt, placed onto calico and traced around it. I wanted to create a pocket so doubled up the amount of fabric so I could fold it back on itself. Machine stitching around the edge to give me a straight guide I placed the long striped stencil over the fabric and painted on matte medium.

This would act as a resist when dry.

Distress Oxides have been used to add colour to the calico, picking up a variety of watered down colours by dabbing the fabric into those coloured puddles. The white stripes are the matt medium applied earlier. When dry this was heat set from the back using an iron.

Onto silk ribbon I stamped the small Paperbabe red rubber rose directly onto the ribbon using Tattered Rose Oxide and heat set very gently from the back using an iron.

The stamped ribbon was sewn onto a strip of lace then sewn onto the fabric, the fabric was then folded over leaving the circle free to act as the closure. Both sides were then sewn up to create that pocket. The sentiment taken from the MayLeeDee Alice stamp set was stamped onto Rice Paper.

Applied to the closure a piece of left over stamped ribbon was tied into a bow 

and sewn onto the pocket front, completing my Vintage Gift Pocket creation.

Inside it holds a little gift just waiting to be given.

Thank you so much for visiting and so sorry I am late with my post,

I've been away and not sure why it did not post Friday as scheduled

but it's here now.. Happy days..!!

I've missed you ALL..
and will be round to visit as soon as i've sorted the laundry out!!
Creative wishes for a wonderful week.

Hugs Tracey xx

Creative Supplies:

large Stripes Stencil, 

red rubber rose 

MayLeeDee Little Red stamp set.

Daisy, Daisy..

 Hello Creative Friends

I hope you are all keeping well??

As it's Thursday it's time for me to share a sneaky peek of another
That's Crafty creation with the full how to do's over HERE

Hope to see you over there

Creative Hugs

Tracey xx

Paperbabe New Release ~ Clockwork Frame

It's the third and final day of the *New* Paperbabe releases

and today it's my turn to share what I have been up to using the *Clockwork Frame*

Using the Hatter and Rabbit template I sketched in the faces directly onto the MDF Board.

I used the gear and tea cup overlaying panel piece (included in the kit) as a guide and reminder to myself to leave enough room for those important details.

The new stripes and gears stencils are a two way system allowing you to mask off 

and layer over the top to add the gear details, the pattern also repeats giving you the 

option to design on a much larger scale... the limits are endless

The new eye masks are the perfect addition to the collection helping to mask around the 

stamped eye stopping any overhang from showing when the pupil and iris are stamped in.

Laying down the base colours using neocolor II I added the finer detail with pencils.

The pocket watch, tea cup and extra gears are all separate elements included 

in the Clockwork Frame Kit. Added sand paste mimics corrosion and 

media fluids create that deep rusty colour.

Pencil and a fine liner adds shade and definition down the stripes and around those gears 

with any unused elements added to the background area to replicate gear fasteners.

With the wall hanging fastenings glued onto the back 

my Clockwork Frame is complete.

Paperbabe *NEW* Releases will be available to purchase on the website from 2nd June
a fabulous addition to compliment the Alice Collection or for larger mixed media pieces.

Thank you for taking time to pop on over and take a look.
Wishing you a marvellous week.

Creative Hugs
Tracey xx

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