A Swinging Fairy With Friends!!

This is my Swinging Fairy!! 

I made her with Air Dry Clay, also the Toadstools,

Snail and Caterpillar are the same clay

Sadly you cannot see her wings, as I made them with

a pretty sparkly Organza fabric.

I used felting wool for her hair, which I made into ringlets.

That's the hairdresser in me!!

Her swing I made with Balsa wood.

The circle is a wooden embroidery ring, 

covered with ribbon.

Getting used to this new format. Can't find the 

spelling check button yet!!

Hope it is sunny where you are. We are having

another sunny warm day and looks like 

not so windy, as the last few days.

Thank you for your lovely comments and

for taking the time to visit my blog.

Have a lovely weekend  and stay safe.

Big Hugs,

Carol

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First Outing!!

I decided to make a Santa Workshop with the Fairy Door

I had in my stash.

I took it to the Craft Fayre today for its first outing and sold it!!

I didn't expect it to sell straight away and wasn't bothered

if it took a few Fayres to sell it.

I made the Elf and his Toadstool seat from Air Dry Clay.

I had great fun making him and it took me quite a time to

get him as I wanted him. The body was easy but 

I spent a couple of days to get his head right. Especially

his tiny, pointy ears!!

He has a friend, who was peeking out to see who opened the door!

There are two wooden Unicorns and some parcels, that

he is keeping his eye on!! Lol!!

It was quite funny, as I bought the Fairy Door from The Works

in Lowestoft. One of the ladies that works there, 

came to the Fayre and saw it on my stand and couldn't

believe what I had done with it.

I have used 90 pieces of fabric and 184 pins to make this bauble.

I have topped it with greenery, ribbon, small cones and berries. 

I also have a hole in my thumb!! Lol!! 

I now use a lolly stick to push the tiny pins in!

I have already sold 4 of them!

Just a couple more with different colour mix.

We are back to the Fayre tomorrow and hope it

stays dry for the day.

Thank you for your kind messages on my last post.

I hope to get around to all my lovely bloggers tomorrow

when I get home.

Big hugs,

Carol

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Beach Time

I can't wait for the real beach time to be here!!

I just hate the cold weather, must be the Maltese in me!!Lol!!

This project I did last year and it sold within minutes of being

on my stall. So I thought I would make one more, 

similar but not exactly the same.

They are little boxes that you can make from Tando kits.

I used 2 kits and when I had decorated them all,

I stuck them together.

I covered the joins with driftwood.

This is just a quick beach scene I painted onto watercolour

card. I stuck it on the back of the box and then

made the beach. 

This next one is an old Little Claire beach hut stamp.

I made the To Beach sign with Balsa wood and

I painted the sky again on card.

This next one was great fun!

Two of the boxes have like a window in the back piece.

I had this die that is a ship in a bottle. It turned out to be 

very near the size of the window.

So I cut it out of card and then stuck it on acetate. 

The boat is a separate die.

The clock does work! The surf board I cut from 

Balsa wood and coloured it with Copics.

Made the lifebelt from clay and also the little Seahorse.

I won't tell you how long it took to make!!

Thanks for taking the time, to not only visit my 

blog but leaving me your lovely messages too.

Big hugs,

Carol

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To The Beach!!

It's me again, here is another posting!!

I know a bit of a shock!!

I generally don't post all of my makes, as I don't want them copied.

So I finished making this last Wednesday

and took the plunge to post it.

I used two kits of boxes from Tando,

that I had to put together with a bit of glue. 

Then came the job of

deciding how I was going to decorate them!

I needed to, before I glued them all together. 

I wanted to make a clock in one of the bigger boxes,
which was only 10.3cm x 7cm. 

The surfboard I made from a piece of Balsa wood. 

The shells we collected on our Spanish holidays,

many moons ago!

The Beach Hut, was a Paper Artsy set of nautical stamps,

that I bought from The Craft Barn.

The Beach scene, I painted with Distress Inks onto 

The Langton Water colour 300gsm paper. 

Just added a bit of fencing, moss and boulders (beads!). 

The boat in the small box, was a Hobby Art stamp set.

I stamped it twice and decoupaged the body of the boat.

The background was just done with Copics 

and a bit of dusting with chalks. 

The Seahorse was a free die on a magazine and the To The Beach

sign, I made from another piece of Balsa Wood

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I then framed the whole thing with Drift Wood, that I collected 

from a beach. I had to treat it before I could use it.

That process took 3 weeks to sanitise it!!

Well I hope you like it.

I don't have any craft fairs for a few weeks, so it will

have to wait to see if it will sell!

I still have a few more projects to post!!

So thanks for stopping by and to those who left a message,

on my last couple of posts, a big thank you.

Big hugs

Carol

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