Jan: The girl chose a frock

Did I mention that Jean has got these cute mini canvases in the shop well I love them.

This time I've covered it with the yummy tissue paper from Collections Elements . Then I've mounted one of the chipboard dress manniquins also from the Collections Elements range, which is covered in Basic Grey Out of Print (it's also out of stock but due in any time!). A little bit of lace and a butterfly (cut from the afore mentioned tissue paper).

After all which girl wouldn't choose a frock?
So what are going to do with yours? Let us know and we'll come and have a peek.

Want no NEED a bargain?

Jean is stocking some fabulous chipboard items at the moment and this one is a real bargain. For £3.50 you get two little chipboard concertina books to decorate in your own style. The inserts come in different colour mine were pink and as you can see there's not a hint of the pink once I'd gessoed it.

I've inked the cover and inserts with distress inks

The star has been covered in the sumptuous glass glitter, it's so so sparkley. When I was finished Gail suggested that I use the frame, that was left after I had popped out the pieces, to make a configuration box. So here's what I came up with.

 Here's a shot of the back of the frame so that you can see how I attached the matchboxes that formed the trays. It does help if your match boxes are slightly bigger than the aperture, unfortunately mine were a bit smaller so a bit tweaking was needed.

So for £3.50 I got TWO concertina books and TWO frames ..... bargain!!!!
What are you waiting for pop over to the shop and bag yourself a bargain before they sell out

All Stitched Up!

A no sew sewing project!... with these fab papers and chipboard shapes... The screen is simply three pieces of chipboard measuring 4x9.5 inches with the tops rounded.

Covered with this paper.....add some eyelets ( remember those!) to tie the panels together.

and a shed load of 'odd' bits and pieces.. the kind that there was never enough to do something with and you never threw out!

It's very satisfying when you can use up your 'bits'

... one vintage sewing project.

I don't think these papers will last long so go check out the shop as soon as!

PS.. there's some other fab chipboard bits from Collections Elements....I've got the bird houses so watch this space!

Hope you like this

Effie

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