Large Christmas Stocking – Crazy patchwork style

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Artist and crafter, Artistic moment, Carens canvas and craft My ETSY shop, Christmas patchwork, Christmas Stocking, Colourful, Cotton fabrics, Crafty creations, Crazy Patchwork Stocking, Creative crafting, Fun with fabrics, Patchwork and hand quilting, Seasonal decorations

Finished at last! After much searching…….eventually, I found my WIP, hidden – where else of course….in a giant box of buttons!!!!? This was the piece I was working on before I turned into a ‘cleaning monster’ (cleaning also included hiding carefully placing last minute projects out of sight – to achieve an apparently craft free household) due, to visiting In Laws to be!
A great weekend was had by all, even the weather played nicely allowing our guests to enjoy our garden too 🙂
Anyway, back to the above, I thought I had better commence with a few little seasonal things for my Etsy shop, being that, in crafting terms, Christmas is ‘just around the corner’. Taking some of my Christmas fabric offcuts, I decided to crate a crazy patchwork, luxury padded and hand quilted Stocking hand bound in coordinating cotton fabric with a hand twisted bow detail to finish. Large enough to stuff with lots of little gifts for some lucky person…As long as they’ve been good all year – of course??! 😉

Take a bag of new, mixed fabric offcuts, set aside some ‘crazy’ patchwork time, trim to required shape, quilt front and back, add binding and a hand twisted bow…….et voilà…A Christmas Stocking 😀

Pen and Ink – Colourful Mountain Stream – Sketch in Ink

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Colourful Mountain Stream – Pen and Inks

This simple pen and ink illustration really came to life when I added the coloured inks. The colours I used gave it an Autumnal feel which is vividly contrasted by the blues of the stream. I think the best thing about this picture is the depth within the water given by adding varied amounts of the blue to create shadows from the little islands.

Below is The same sketch but left as a black and white illustration to show the effect the colour has upon the scene!

Creative Patchwork and Applique – Stylish Shoppers

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Applique, Blue flowers, Butterflies, Colourful, Colourful bags, Craft embellishing, Craft ideas, Crafting with felt, Crafty bags, Creative craft, Creative patchwork and applique, Embellishing, Felt, Foam craft sapes, foam shapes, Geometric applique, Geometric shapes in patchwork, Hand applique, Hand made design, Hessian shoppers, Hessian shopping bags, Hessian shopping bags redesigned, Patchwork, Patchwork and applique, Pompoms, Three dimensional, Three dimensional patchwork

Stylish Shoppers

Simple Hessian shopping bags have been given a face life by adding geometric felt shapes, hand stitched to create a three dimensional feature. Whilst the bag to the left had little foam flowers, butterflies and pompoms hand stitched to it. Simple and effective!

Landscape – ‘Sunrise At The Barn’ – Watercolour Landscape

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Art, Artist, Artistic moment, Arts, Artsy, Arty, Barbed wire, Barn, Colourful, Colourful Watercolour, Creative Art, Creative moment, Dawn, Dawn sun rise, Doodle, Haze, Imaginary art, Imaginary landscape, Imagination, Landscape, Landscape in watercolour, Landscape scene, Misty morning, Original art, Original watercolour, Outdoors, Painting, Perspective, Playing with colours, Sunrise, Sunrise at the barn, Watercolour, Watercolour doodle, Watercolour landscape, Watercolour painting, Watercolour perspective

‘Sunrise At The Barn’

This watercolour was more of a doodle than based on any actual scene. I was playing around with colours which seem to arise on a cold misty dawn. In my imagination this is how the painting played out, connecting everything together by using the same colours throughout, from the sky, the trees across the barn and down to the ground. The pathway between the barbed wire fencing I added later to give the painting more perspective. Quite pleased with my imaginary doodle!

Pen and Ink – ‘On the Canal – In Colour’

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‘On the Canal – In Colour’

For those who have already seen the first post of this scene in ‘Pen and Inks’ just in black and white, I thought it might be nice to show you another version of the same coloured with inks. Not a medium I have worked much  with over the years, though every now and then I have another practice as above. I must admit I am always really excited by their vibrancy, (thinking about it, I really should have another practice – A girl can always do with a little excitement!)

Creative Patchwork and Applique – Folded Origami style bags

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Art and craft, Beads, Buttons, Character bags, Children's bag, Colourful, Colourful bags, Cord, Cotton Patchwork, Craft, Craft bags, Craft style, Crafty, Crafty ideas, Creative craft, Cute, Cute characters, Decorative beads, Hand quilted, Hand quilting, Handmade, Handmade and quilted, Handmade bags, Handmade craft, Little bags, Multi pocket bags, Origami, Origami bag, Origami folding, Origami style bags, Patchwork cotton, Style

Little origami bags

These little handmade bags for children are made using the origami method of folding. Each bag has eight internal different sized pockets, all folded from one square. The square starts as two pieces of cotton with a thin layer of wadding sandwiched between  It is simply a case of folding and hand quilting through as you go. For extra effect I turned back little flaps on the two smallest pockets which reminded me of ears! So to finish I added a few decorative beads, a cord strap and buttons for eyes and a nose – Which I think give them cute individual characters!

Street Art – ‘Artists at Play – Mayday!’ – Oxford University Students – Watercolour Street Art

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‘Artists at Play – Mayday’
Oxford University Students.

This watercolour was done from another colourful photograph my Daughter sent to me whilst she was studying at Worcester College, Oxford. It depicts one of the many activities which take place each year, as students celebrate Mayday in the centre of Oxford.  (See ‘Mayday Festivities’ – Also in Street Art)

Still Life – Sundial in My Garden – Box Canvas Oil Painting of Still Life

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Art, Artist, Artistic, Artistic moment, Artistic scene, Arts, Arty, Beautiful, Beautiful flowers, Beautiful garen, Colourful, Colourful garden, Colourful Oils, Flowers in oils, Garden flowers, Garden shrubs, Lilies, Nature, Oil, Oil painting, Original art, Original oil painting, Oringinal, Outdoors, Shrubs, Still life, Still life oil painting, Sun rays, Sundial, Sunlight and shadows

Sun Dial in My Garden

My garden at it’s most beautiful!

Still Life Pastel “On a Ledge Series” – ‘Cactus and Friend’

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Art, Artistic, Artistic moment, Arty, Beauty, Blue pot, Blue vase, Bored, Bored art, Bored moment, Bumpkin, Cactus, Character, Colourful, Colourful pastel, Country Bumpkin, Fashion, Fashionable art, Felt character, Friend, Great idea, Indoors, Original, Original art, Pastel, Pastel Art, Pastel drawing, Still lie, Still life pastel, Style, Wacky, Wacky art, Weird, Weird art, Window ledge

“On a Ledge Series” – ‘Cactus and Friend’

Bored and uninspired one day, I stood in my kitchen wondering what I could draw? Whilst wondering I absent mindedly started tidying and rearranging things on the ledge. I’m not one for nice pot ornaments, rather have slightly wacky or weird decorative things around! So, as I now had a disarrayed pile of things I had moved and a clean window ledge – The idea struck me. I could use it as a little staging area for a series of still life pictures!!!

The idea for “On a Ledge Series” was born.  Above is one – ‘Cactus and Friend’. A still life done in  colourful pastel.

Still Life Pastel “On a Ledge Series” – Geranium and Friend Harvey

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‘Geranium and Friend – Harvey’, From My series of pictures; “On a Ledge Series”

Bored and uninspired one day, I stood in my kitchen wondering what I could draw? Whilst wondering I absent mindedly started tidying and rearranging things on the ledge. I’m not one for nice pot ornaments, rather have slightly wacky or weird decorative things around! So, as I now had a disarrayed pile of things I had moved and a clean window ledge – The idea struck me. I could use it as a little staging area for a series of still life pictures!!!

The idea for “On a Ledge Series” was born.  Above is one – ‘Geranium and Friend – Harvey’ A still life done in  colourful pastel.