WOVEN PAPER BABY CARD

PAPER WEAVING

 I hate to see things thrown away that could be useful, but began to doubt myself with these little strips that were in the paper bin at work, until I began to weave them together.

The end result reminded me of old-fashioned white wicker baby bassinets, so I put the panel under a Regal teddy bear cut-out  to make an interesting base for a baby card

I soon worked out that the easiest way to do this was to anchor one row of strips with double sided tape on one side of the aperture of the card with a small space between each piece.  Then run another row of tape at right angles and anchor each of the subsequent strips (running the other way) as I went, leaving the ends of each  unanchored until the weaving was completed to make it easy to adjust . When everything is neatly in place, run normal tape around all the edges to secure (It will be hidden under the third panel of the card.)
I will probably add a bow to the teddy's neck and an appropriate greeting to complete the card, and for the time being, the the little white strips have saved themselves from a second trip to the rubbish.

WOVEN TEDDY BEAR

DIY COLOUR SCHEMES

COUNTRY LANDSCAPE

SPRING

AUTUMN

I have a bit of a tendency to use fairly "safe' colour schemes, and think that maybe its time to branch out a bit.

All I've done here is use the eyedropper tool in Elements to select a few colours from each photograph, by way of inspiration.

The country and spring colour schemes are fairly conventional but the autumn example throws up some fairly interesting combinations.

The next step of course, is to stop playing with the charts and actually translate the colours into papercraft projects!!!!

CATHEDRAL WINDOW CARD

Pink squares set into blue circles, with the edges folded over, make a faux "Cathedral Window" quilt.  I've added a bit of lace and ribbon to make a new baby card, but I think if I was actually making it "for real", I'd skip the fiddly bits and just cover an entire square card with the folded circle/square units as they are quite decorative enough on their own.

FRAMED WALLPAPER

FRAMED WALLPAPER

A visitor asked me why I had a frame with nothing in it when she saw this picture on my wall.  Had she been wearing her glasses, she would have seen these samples of gorgeous vintage white wallpaper which have pride of place at the top of the stairs.