Swaps swaps!!

Another post about swaps! I signed for some at Ink the Edge, it's always my pleasure to play with the girls and also a good way to entertain myself during the vacation.

Here the last things I made:

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Un autre article à propos de swaps ! J'ai participé à plusieurs à Ink the Edge, c'est toujours un plaisir de m'amuser avec les filles et un bon moyen de m'occuper pendant les vacances.

Mes dernières créations:

Mini album and its box/Mini album et sa boite

Altered bottle cap charms/Capsules modifiées en breloques

Fabric heart with dangles/Coeur en tissu avec pendants

Swaps and news

I moved to a new house with the kiddies one month ago and wow, it feels good to have our own home !! After more than 7 months living in my parents place in France, we can finally open our luggages for real ! And now that I can have a serious workshop, I'm going to craft the way I was used to do. For now I am installing things and my brother is helping me for building some furnitures, DIY !!

Below are the latest things I did before moving, the two are swaps at the group Ink the edges,

the first one is an altered shabby tag with its coordinate bag. I wanted to do something elegant and think about a dress made from paper and lace =)

And for the second one Debbie got the nice idea to make altered trim,it's really fun to do and the possibilities are without limits! It's also a good way to have your very own trim and saving on money.

                   Also I altered a wine wooden box to store my lace because it's a happy mess, my cat Marquise seems to like it =)

I'm late late late on videos!! So many things to do!!

Wish you a good summer, may the inspiration be with you!

Latest projects

Not productive as before but I did some things for Easter (yes yes I'm late to talk about it!!) and other things. Right now I enjoy to work with fabric and lace, I got a stock of antique french lace and it's just a pleasure to use it !

I am not just doing personal things but work on a stock for the shop I have just opened on Zibbet!

Hoping it's going to work well, it's about handmade items and lolita fashion mostly =)

I'll be back on the subject but for now there is the pictures of my latest things:

Altered cardboard egg:

The first time I altered an egg and I like it, wanted to try for a while.

An altered egg box, first try too, a mix of vintage and shabby:

And with the part of the carboard egg I cut, I did a spring configuration to fix on a wall:

And here is a fabric and lace vintage book, I like how it turned and the messy aspect =)

And for finish I made a book to store my lace pages, the pages inside are not all from me, just two of them, the other ones are from my friends Debbie and Terry and the chunky charms made by Debbie too.

I want to do another book like this with pages from other artists so swaps are welcome !

Pages from friends:

February DT project for ThePieceByPiece

Let's get in a spring mood with the second project I made for ThePieceByPiece!
For this second one, I wanted to do something related to spring, so I decided to work on an altered natural basket. I have used the Secret Garden line from Graphic 45, who is one of my favorite, and the tones of the paper are just perfectly assorted with the trims and bead gems.
I wanted to obtain a beautiful and colorful bouquet on the top. For the inside I have used the paper as well and one of the gorgeous Venice trim. I also made a pocket from the lace, so tags can be store in. I was planning to use this basket for store my altered dominoes but I think it will be a good idea to make a assorted mini album full of lace and spring touch. I keep the idea in mind and will give it a try.

And here are the pictures:

Link of the video, I also mentioned the links of the material in the description bellow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ITFIA_Hh4&feature=youtu.be

For my next project, I can tell you it will be something in red and black tones with a french atmosphere.

First Design Team Project for ThePieceByPiece!

And here come the babies I made for the DT project of January!! I'm so happy to be in the design team, it's really a cool experience and a good way to challenge myself, and I love challenge!
So for my first project, I wasn't decide of my choice first because there was just a TON of beautiful products sent by Beverly in the DT package but, I really wanted to do something related to Valentine and use the fabric hearts. So I started to think to something unusual, I came with few ideas but was not satisfied and finally I get it! What about a little pillow who can be hang and has a nice aroma scent? So I gave it a shot and finally I made two little ones!! I really like how they turned, remember me a burlesque corset, so Paris! And for the Pot Pourri touch I used aroma wood resin inside!
And that is not all, I was really inspire for making something else, a feminine and useful accessory that you can bring with you and fix on your bag (because like all women, your bag is probably like the void inside and you search a lot when your phone is ringing). So this pocket is convenient and the gorgeous trim make it really lovely, with a flair of old french touch!

And here are the pictures:

Perfume wall hangings:

Handbag pocket:

And also you can see the details on my video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zklnu9rAchc

I'm pretty happy for my first DT project and I started to think of the one for Februray, it will be something related to Spring this time!