Giveaway Day is here! And the winner is...

AND THE WINNER IS............. Jeanne

I will email you for your postal address and get your pillow on it's way.

Thank you to all the fabulous comments - lots of food for thought there while I decide what I want to achieve in 2012.

As an additional thank you to all those who entered, I am offering a 21% discount for all purchases from my etsy store until next Saturday, 24 December (Australia time).  I've chosen 21% as that's the number of wonderful comments I received.  I will email each of you with further details. If you don't receive an email, please contact me for the discount code.


Welcome to my post for Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day.  To be in the running for the spectacular pillow pictured below is so simple.  All you need to do is leave a comment for this post and to make things interesting, let me know what you'd like to achieve in 2012.  I don't call them resolutions (they're made to be broken) - it could be finally losing that pesky 5 pounds that simply won't shift to finally decluttering the junk drawer in the kitchen to oh, I don't know, perhaps world peace. 

Winner will be drawn randomly on 16 December (US time) / 17 December (Australia time).  International entries welcome.

This cute little pillow measures 11" x 8" / 28cm x 20cm and is made from digitally printed canvas using a photo I manipulated in PhotoShop although I've manipulated it so well I can't remember what the image originally was!!  I love the effect created and the metallic silver adds a bit of zing.

I added in a frill of hand dyed silk organza embellised with a metallic print for extra texture.
 The pillow has a purple striped cotton back and is stuffed with polyester toy fill.


Please check out my etsy store for more of these great little accent pillows.

A Rose is a Rose II

This cute little pillow is made from digitally printed canvas using a photo I took of some roses I had in my living room.

I then added a large ruffle of hand dyed silk organza for a little extra extravagance. The perfect accessory for a ladies' boudoir or girl's bedroom.

The pillow has a calico back and is stuffed with polyester toy fill.

Please check out my etsy store for more of these great little accent pillows and other fibre fantasies.  

Giveaway Day

A quick note to let you know that I will be participating in Sew Mama Sew's Giveaway Day this week.  Starting Monday 12 December (US time) / Tuesday, 13 December (Australia time) and running for a week you will be able to visit loads of blogs and enter to win something fantastic. 

I will be giving away one of my fantastic pillows (which one you may ask - all will be revealed on Tuesday).  To enter, simply leave a comment on the Giveaway post and you'll be in the running.

It's sure to be an exciting week.

My Creative Space

This week it's all about Christmas...

I rearranged my living room furniture earlier this year and no longer had anywhere cat-proof to put a Christmas tree so I decided to make a something that I could hang from the door. As most of my decorations are pin-dolls I could then just pin them to the hanging.  In keeping with my use it up before buying anything new policy, I went through my fabric box and came up with some calico and some hand-dyed silk organza in a perfect pine tree green and this is what resulted.

Which together with my Xmas pin-doll collection...

Ended up like this...

I have to say I'm pretty pleased with it and it won't take up much space to store - the "tree" will hang in the wardrobe and the decorations fit into shoebox.

What's been happening in your Creative Space this week?  Visit other crafty types at Our Creative Spaces for more goodness.

Tangles

This cute and colourful little pillow is made from digitally printed canvas using a photo I took of debris on the beach that I then manipulated and re-coloured in PhotoShop.

 I added in a frill of hand dyed silk organza for extra texture.

The pillow has a calico back and is stuffed with polyester toy fill.


Please check out my etsy store for more of these great little accent pillows.

Beads & Baubles I

This cute little pillow measures just 11" x 8" (28cm x 20cm) and is made from silk with a canvas back. I added a bit of fun by printing onto organza an image I had taken of a bead & wire brooch that I had made a while back. I then zig zag stitched the organza onto the silk pillow front making unique little accent pillow.

The pillow is stuffed with polyester toy fill.
I have another little silk pillow available in my etsy store as well as more fabulous fibre fantasies.

My Creative Space

This week it's all about Weaving...

I've been working with this idea for a whole but have a few bits of woven canvas left and am playing around with what to do with them - more accent pillows or something else...

These woven pieces and pillows started out as artworks that I completed while studying towards a Diploma of Visual Art.  Originally, I hand printed unprimed artist's canvas with different shapes.  Once dry, I tore the canvas into strips then wove them back together adding in hand-dyed silk organza and velvet ribbons.  I then randomly machine stitched the woven piece onto a calico back.

I decided that they'd make great decorator pillows/cushions so that's what they've mostly become. 

These pillows and other fabulous fibre fantasies are available in my etsy store with more to come.
What's in your Creative Space this week? Visit Our Creative Spaces for more creativity.