Victorian Inspired Necklace

I did tell you in my last post that I was surrounded by beads. Now that I have unpacked almost all of them I gave into tempation and made my first necklace using some of the fabulous beads and connectors.You may have noticed too that a lot of the things that I bought are black. This is because I rather like jewelery on  a black base and I have found it hard to buy. So I bought black in spades so that you won't have to search too much.

Products used:

First of all I should say that these are the pack sizes. You will not use them all. You'll have plenty left over.

Tibetan Style Beads, Flat Round, Black, x 4

Tibetan Style Connectors, Flower, Black x 10

10mm Black Color, Iron JumpRings, Closed but Unsoldered, x 70

Brass Eyepins, Black, Size: about 5cm long, approx 100 pieces (1)

Rubberised Acrylic Beads, Red 14mm x 20

Tibetan Style Twisted Toggle & T Bar Black, pack of 4 sets

Glass Seed Beads, Trans. Colors Rainbow, Round, Fuchsia, approx 4mm x 30g

 I hope that you like my creative setting. It's the scales from my kitchen, yes I really do use one like that and some old embroidered napkins that I have had for 30 years and never used as they were too nice. So sad. Get them out of the draw!!

Beads, Beads, Beads

Can I contain my excitement? I think not.

The wonderful beads have started to arrive here at Craft Fairy and with a little bit of luck they will all be on the website by the weekend. At lease 80% of them are there already.

I had a little play around with Photoshop and I came up with this poster for my beads. "My beads" is that a Freudian slip? I am selling them I promise. I feel like one of those pirates who finds the hidden treasure. So many beads and so wonderful.

Loyalty Points

At last, Craft Fairy is giving loyalty points when you buy with us. I hope that the picture is self explanatory.

Punched petal flower card

Punched petal flower card.

Hands up how many of you have bought things and then put them aside and done nothing with them. I confess to being no slouch in this area either. This is why I've had a punch from Kuretake for a while and not really done anything with it. Until today that is. My computer was not working this morning so I really had to create. The card below and the flower on is is what I came up with.

Recently I've started to enter challenges again so this is to be entered in:

Cute Card Thursday's 'Beat the Blues' Challenge.

Rose Posy Picture so 'Chic'.

Today's post is going to be about using some of those beautiful flowers that we sell at Craft Fairy in a picture frame. I've made this because so many of my customers say that our flowers are too beautiful to use and they keep them in a draw to look at from time to time. Well we cant have that can we. So this is how to get them out of the draw and use them to good effect.

Do you like this frame? Does it look expensive? Well, it actually cost me 99p and it came from the shop of the same name. You probably have a local one yourself so get on over and have a look at what they have in stock. There was no glass. What did I expect for 99p? Better for the purposes of making this picture.

The paper is from Making Memories and was part of my stash that I'd been keeping for a long time as it was too pretty to waste.

 Cut the paper so that it fits on the backing board. Fix it in the frame.

For the posy, I used a selection of flowers.

Large curly roses in pink.
Vintage blue roses in blue

Shape your roses so that they form  round shape as seen in the image. Then apply foam pads to the back of the posy.

Stick down onto the backing paper.

To make the vase cut a vase shape from some decorative card. I used some non shed glitter card but you could use any toning card that you have.

Tie a knot in a piece of 16mm ribbon. I used french blue,  and trim to make it look like a bow. Apply tape to each side of the ribbon and tape to the back of the vase shape.

Now attach this to the picture with more foam pads and your picture is complete.

I have just entered this on the Our Creative Corner Challenge. So if you have anything in the colours pink, aqua and a flower then why don't you enter too.

Hearts and buttons

 Hearts and buttons, what more could a girl want? Perhaps some thread and ribbon?

Valentine's Day will be with us soon and this is a perfect project to get you going.

Today, I decided to  die cut some red hearts out of the fabulous wool blend felt that I showed you a couple of weeks ago. The result was that I felt inspired too and I made this heart hanging to kick off the Valentine makes. So much better than a card that ends up in the bin.

Items from Craft Fairy that I used:

Red wool blend die cut hearts

Buttons from the nursery mix

9mm red gingham


I started by sewing three buttons to one side of the heart. I used white buttons and red thread.

 Then I used green embroidery thread to sew a stem and leaves.
Quickly followed by blanket stitch in white, around 3/4 of the outside edge of the heart. This is then stuffed with any suitable stuffing. I used kapok because I have some. Stuffing from old pillows works fine too.

Pin the ribbon in position and finish stitching around the edge and there you have it a pretty scandi chic hanging heart.

More stuff in the sale

In case I forgot to say in my last post, all of the stuff that I am finding is going straight into the sale.

I have added more stamps and    ....  really importantly, I have added Kuretake pen bundles at a knockdown price.

Stock taking!!!

Grrrr! and a few more rrrr's. I really don't know how we sell anything at Craft Fairy as a lot of the stock is not even listed on the web site.

I've had yet another of my many sort outs and discovered yet more to add to the site. This time it's lots of Alphabet Stamps.

I've put them in the sale. So get in quick.

Here are just two of the stamps.

The Rock It stamp below is really grungy and it is perfect for those projects that are for the men in your life. The letters are sort of slightly broken and look like cracks in the Rock.

Craft Hobby and Stitch International

Craft Fairy will be exhibiting at:

Dates:

 17-19 FEBRUARY 2013 

Come along and say hello as we will be showcasing many new lines for Spring 2013. 

New products to include:

buttons,

paper flowers

lace

ribbon.


Special offers will be available for orders taken at the show.

Art Stamps Exhibition South Wales, 2013

Yes! Date for ArtStamps South Wales has been confirmed.
Saturday 7th September 2013.

Now, I really don't want to hear that people did not know about this event so please, please pass it on to all of your friends. This is on Facebook so the more of you that like it the more people will get to know about it.

P. S. I really want this to succeed!!!