New Fabric Swatches

Fabric above showing all the swatches and close ups below of ten of them.

Six Fabric Swatches

Spoonflower fabric shop

Clockwork [TAW], Art Buttons, Pendant

Take a Word - Clockwork

The clock, hands, clock hands and woman on the clock are images from The Graphics Fairy.

The background is an old one, but my own work, which was inspired by board games.

Click on image to enlarge.

I've put another couple of items in my Folksy shop, but I'm wondering if I should put the rest in Etsy or Misi as I'm finding Folksy so s...l...o.....w, does anyone else have a problem with it?

I have put in some Art Buttons, these are some of the actual buttons that were featured in Cloth Paper Scissors magazine. The card was another image from Graphics Fairy which I altered especially for the buttons.

Also another mini pendant with a hand embroidered flower, mainly French knots

and on the other side is a miniature stitch sampler

All Queens Cushion

Another cushion finished. I created the queen design quite a while ago when I was at college and I've had a inkjet transfer print of it hanging around for ages so I thought I would use it. It was inspired by queens on playing cards. I also put on beads around some of their necks.

Above is the fabric, below is the original design, quite a bit brighter.

The same design is available on a t-shirt from my zazzle shop

If you would like this design on anything else that zazzle sell just let me know and I will see how it fits - no obligation to buy.

Childhood and Rolling Stamps 62-64

Take a Word - the challenge this week is 'childhood'.

I've used a vintage photo from my stash and a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson. The background is one of my games creations which were originally designed to be printed on fabric with a digital printer.

Three more rolling stamps, all made with fun foam. Cloth, Paper Scissors are offering a free download of the article I wrote them about rolling stamps which you can get here

Repeating fabric patterns

These are a few of the designs from a college degree project I did a few years ago and were designed for fabrics. They are all to do with the theme of games and they are repeating patterns. They were digitally printed onto fabric at college. Click here to see the repeat of the pattern above.

click here for pattern below

Book of Rules - Games

I was rooting thru my drawers when I came across this book of alternative [games] rules. It was done for a project at college a few years back, games related. [the project was for fabric designs, shoes & wellies which can be seen on my website] It is made from playing cards which have been covered & joined together, painted, drawn on, with alternative rules printed & collaged.

Dominoland [Altered Art,3D Art]

This is a painted and collaged games board with domino animals and creatures made from modelling clay

Snakes, Ladders and T-Pots

I've been drawing a lot of snakes recently, and this picture combines them and a lot of the other things I draw regularly such as t-pots, cups, games related items, cakes and flowers.

Round Box with water slip decals

This was a recycled turkish delight box and my very first try with water slip decals.
[If you've not used them before - they are inkjet papers that you use to print on & then spray with acylic varnish 3 times. It's then put in water so that the backing can be peeled off to apply to your surface, when dry, varnish again to seal.]
My example didn't work perfectly as you can see as I didn't have varnish - I used inkjet spray - having said that it doesn't look to bad at the top so maybe it was my spraying method. But warts and all, I do still quite like the finished not too perfect look of it.

Ten Pound King

mixed media

Games Painting

Queen of Bolly

Altered box and doll, collection of found objects.

Jack Diamond Case

This is a little 'altered' case which I did as part of a college project - on the theme of games - product being fabrics, although I don't think I used anything from this particular piece on the fabrics, but I did enjoy doing the case. It contains lots of little found objects and it belongs to Jack Diamond of The Castle which has sparked another idea off .........& is one of the things I've started recently.

The game is never lost till won

This is a small deep type frame and in it are lots of found objects - mostly related to games. Attached to the front is an altered card of a queen.