Happy Birthday Rogue Redhead

Rogue Redhead Designs, run by good friend Shar, turned one year old this week. Happy Birthday Rogue! To celebrate, she has launched a brand new website, released two new stamp plate and is offering some awesome deals.

I was lucky enough to play with the new release Milliner Misses and made this 8" x 8" inchie hanging:

Here's the info on the plate:

"This mini plate packs a lot of style into just a few images. Capture distinctive fashion and panache of the twenties with these great elegant ladies and their fabulous hats. Perfect for gal pal cards and fashionable greetings of all kinds." It retails for $7.50, but is on sale for $6 until the end of the year.

I stamped images from the Milliner Misses and Relish Reading plates onto the edges of old book pages, inked the edges and mounted them onto pre-cut matboard inchies. I also cut out inchies from old dress patterns and embellished some of the squares with a hat pin, buttons, fabric and lace.

All sixteen inchies were mounted onto a piece of watercolor paper with a salted background. Tutorial here. I stitched it to a piece of dark brown card stock and hung it with some beautiful seam binding from Blue Bird Lane.


Check out the other awesome artwork by the DT on the Rogue blog and wish them a Happy Birthday!

I'm linking to the following challenges:

Three Muses
Anything Goes Challenge

Paint Chip Hanging

You can tell that I'm behind with my blogging because here's a project that I made months ago and it was published in the Spring issue of Stampers' Sampler catch up issue.

It's a set of paint chips/samples from Farrow & Ball that I've altered. Most of the images are from the now closed Cornish Heritage Farms and the words are from Stamp Camp, I believe.

I can't get a decent picture of the whole thing - the light is really poor today, but it's on page 83 if you have a copy and want to take a look.

I did manage to get a few close up shots:




Thanks for stopping by!

Ali

Paper Fringe

As promised here's the wall hanging I made for yesterday's Gingersnaps Challenge - Try a Tutorial. We have a boat load of fabulous tutorials on the site, they're really worth checking out. I followed Lynn Steven's tutorial on how to create a paper fringe for this piece. It was very straightforward and really fun.

I don't think I've ever made a hanging thing before - I think I've come under Hels' spell! The base is chipboard covered with patterned paper by Queen Bee and the flowers are Primas, which I've been hoarding for over a year! Here's a closer look:

This project came together a lot quicker than I thought and I'd definitely use this paper fringe technique again.

Have a super day!

Supplies:

• Stamps: Ghandi Quote (Impression Obsession)
• Paper: Queen Bee, kraft tissue paper
• Ink: Crushed Olive & Antique Linen Distress Inks, Cocoa by Memento
• Accessories: Flowers (Prima), Dew Drops, large metal eyelets (SU), ric rac
• Tools: Crop-a-Dile, sewing machine