Blue card

I began by thinking about making a tag, maybe one that folds, perhaps including one with a bit of Vintage French lace and a bit of a vintage French postcard.........and so it went on. By then I'd got the bit between my teeth and ended up making a proper birthday card! 


Couldn't stop myself...........

Fabric Friendship album & thank you card

I thought you might like to see the packaging I made for the Friendship book. I used oven paper and a vintage French embroidery magazine, all sewn together as a wrapper. I stuck some cut out words all over it.


Then I tied it up with some plaited braid I made out of all the scraps I had left over from making the book.


This time I made a tag too, again with paper and fabrics and other bits and pieces.
You can get the general idea of the size of the book by the photo of me holding it in my hand.

The other day, someone did me a favour so I made this quick thank you card, took me all of 20 minutes! Which makes a change!

Friendship album page 'S' and Feline CRF

The S page revolves around black, silver and white. I used embossing powders on the letter S, in silver so that was my start point for the 'colours'.
The background paper is handmade, not by me, swirls of greys white and blacks. The 'left' side metal pars are composed of old necklace parts. Both pages contain vintage Chantilly lace. There's also a square of Black velvet under the 'S'.
The last page 'H' I have started to compose, but I dont think I will be able to get it completed for a couple of days as my Cat has taken a turn for the worse, he has CRF, need to get him to the vets quickly, and spend time with him as he has become very clingy. It saddens me so much to see him so poorly, I have to concentrate on getting him reasonably normal again. He was diagnosed 4 years ago, so between us, we have done well to keep him fairly well up to now.
If you have a Cat with CRF, you'll understand. I found a great website for info: http://www.felinecrf.org

15th C French Paper mill & images (38)

I hope you are all enjoying the weekend.
Today I visited an ancient restored working paper-mill here in France, 15th Century . Very interesting, and now I can completely understand why handmade paper is so expensive. It is quite labour intensive. 
I only bought a couple of sheets of paper. One was A4 made from Leeks of all things, green of course, and another piece is Hemp A3, which is white but looks like a animal has slept on it, sort of fine hairs.
Anyway, here's a few photos if you are interested. Seems I only took photos of the crinkly papers though.

All the papers were gorgeous, made from either pure cotton, hemp or linen, and they were very tactile, felt like plush velvet or suede. The photo above, this paper had come straight off the machine, still damp, hence everyone having a good fondle.

This smoother paper had also come straight out of the machine, and here you can see how many layers it is comprised of. All their papers have a minimum of 10 layers..

Above: A paper dress with a rather large 'hood', which on hindsight I should of photographed from the side.

They also sold inks, made on the premises, not bad at 3.50 euros a bottle. This mill is fairly close to where I live so I can always call in another time for more paper or inks. Here's a link to their website, but it is'nt very informative:  Moulin Du Got

Freebie Angel & Fairy images........