Handmade Texture Plates

We have been decorating recently and we got lots of samples of wallpapers because we couldn't agree on one. I thought I should use the samples in some way so I have made texture plates out of the textured ones. [we chose a patterned wallpaper for the walls in the end]

Basically I stuck pieces of wallpaper to card. Below are some of the papers I made using the plates. Recycled laser prints - the paper is thin and started curling up but they will be used for collage.

I made the first texture plate on day 2 of 30daysofcreativity.

Farmers Market

This is a design I have done for a Spoonflower fabric contest  - Farmers Market.

I started with the sketch below and then made it into a repeating pattern.

If you would like to vote for it and/or see the other entries go to the contest pages on Spoonflower here

TAST 68

Take a stitch Tuesday 68 - slipped detached chain stitch.

I have also used French knots, whipped running stitch, and running stitch.

The pink fabric is a vintage scrap and on the other I used a painting technique.

I'm a bit behind with posting my 30 days of creativity  - this is day 6

[I've had relatives staying]

TAST 67

I am taking part in the 30 days creativity challenge, for the month of June and this is day 4.

This is also for the stitcher's challenge on Pintangle - Take a Stitch Tuesday

The stitch for Tast 67 is fancy hem stitch [the line almost in the middle vertical and the horizontal  line between fabrics]. There are a couple of other stitches, variations of running stitch and French knots.

The flowery fabric is vintage fabric which my mother used when I was knee high to a grasshopper. The fabric above it is one I created with transfer paints. This is done by painting transfer paints onto paper then transferring the paint from the paper to fabric with an iron or heat press. The white circles are where I masked areas to keep them the original fabric colour which was white. I used the sticky paper reinforcements to do this but any paper could be used.

TAST 66 and 67

Take a stitch Tuesday

Week 66 was coral stitch, this I have stitched in green thread, the stems. I liked the stitch better when I did the stitches smaller.

Week 67 was buttonhole bar, this is stitched in pink thread.

Also there are French knots, woven spiders wheel, fly stitch and beads.

The background is a hand painted and stamped fabric. It is probably a little busy for the embroidery but can be viewed bigger if you click on the image.

Bears and Bag Ladies

Two more pictures developed from the Russian doll [culture] theme.

I have been using a card template for the doll shapes on many of the pages in this sketchbook including the bears above. After drawing round the shape I drew on leg shapes and ears.

The same shape was used for all the dolls on the drawing below.

Bluebells and Changedoll

These are from a long sketchbook [16" x 8"] I started a while ago for the culture project but I didn't do much in it. I painted bluebells yesterday, there are a lot of them around at the moment. The drawing below I did sometime ago [I usually put the date on a book when I start it but I didn't on this one]. But I started with the first Russian doll-like figure then altered something on the next, then altered something else on the next and so on. Like morphing but not on a computer. Click on the image to enlarge.