Tuesday 19 March 2013

In The Garden - Anything But A Card

Well another fortnight has flown by and it's time for another  Craft-Room Challenge . The theme is "In The Garden - Anything but a card" and it has been chosen by the lovely Suzanne, she would love to see your layouts, tags, altered art, boxes etc - anything you like inspired by the garden.

Our sponsors for the challenge are  Crafty Embelies . They make wonderful wooden embellishments.


The rest of the DT have made some wonderful creations and we also have a guest designer the very talented Helene, her blog is 2amscrapper, hope you all go there and say hello, too! She will be our GDT for the two next challenges.
If you are interested being our GDT, please put the "GDT" after your name when entering our challenge.
Here is my creation.


Just before last Christmas I bought a copy of the magazine Homemaker and there was a Christmas project with a dove sitting on a spool - I didn't have time to make it for Christmas so I decided to change it slightly and make it for the challenge.
I found some fabric in my stash and made the dove following the instructions in the magazine. I hand stitched it rather than use my sewing machine.
I then wrapped some lace round a wooden spool and then wrapped some wire round curling the ends.
I adhered a piece of hessian to the top of the spool and then added folded strips of fabric. I had the base already in my stash and adhered a piece of fabric to it, fraying the ends - I then adhered the spool to the base.
I made some flowers out of hessian, material and brads and attached them to the base and spool together with some flowers from my stash, the last thing I did was to adhere my dove to the top of the spool.


Here is a closer look at the base.

18 comments:

  1. Gorgeous Hazel, love your dove and the flowers are gorgeous. Fabulous idea to sit your dove on the spool. Tracy x

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  2. Hazel...this is gorgeous! I really hope it has pride of place at your house. Envious of your stitching abilities...I can only dream. A lovely project. Suzanne xx

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  3. This is wonderful Hazel a real centre piece for any occasion I reckon

    Love Chrissie xx

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  4. Fantastic piece of work Hazel.

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  5. OMG this is totally adorable Hazel, I love it so much!!! xxx

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  6. What a fabulous project, Hazel!

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  7. Beautiful stitchng Hazel a super center piece :)
    Feeling much better TY
    Von ♥

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  8. Hi Hazel, gorgeous project, I used to sew a lot Tilda stuff earlier. Beautiful fabric so romantic look;-))m

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  9. this is so creative and lovely Hazel, just love the bird and the base, Debi x

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  10. i love your dove Hazel and the way you've added your flowers to the base.

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  11. WOW! and it is hand sewn I have so much respect for your clever needle women. Your Bird on a Spool in the Garden is wonderful XOXO Zoe

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  12. Love it loads Hazel, pretty design and material. Would look wonderful on a window, great job! :-) Gay x

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  13. Hazel, I absolutely LOVE this. It's sooo gorgeous, I love every little detail. I do hope it has pride of place in your home :-).

    Maria x

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  14. This is a beautiful Spring project Hazel! I love it! xxx

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  15. Hi Hazel, wow I just adore this it's stunning. I too bought the same magazine and loved the bird project, I do have to say that I like yours so much more than the one in the mag. Julia xxxx

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  16. What a darling little birdie! I just love it! Fabby project Hazel!!
    Hugs
    Heather

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  17. What a gorgeous project, love the beautiful fabrics and flowers..how clever ! Esther xx

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