Tuesday 1 April 2014

Clare's Garland

I was fascinated and very impressed with the garland that Clare made. Using spools and flowers and combining them with Ellens stamps made me smile. So…..I hunted for my spools, and hunted …and the next day hunted. Could only find a great big humdinger one so I sent for some.
You know how scale is totally lost in photos, well the spools arrived and you need a microscope to see them. So my garland had to scale down.
I painted the spools with Fresco Little Black Dress and stamped onto small flowers with Black Archival using Ellen's stamps.

I stamped some different Ellen stamps and selected some beads to fill out my garland.

As you can see, I stuck to green colour scheme because I was restricted in my choice of small flowers.
I threaded a small needle with fine nylon thread….NIGHTMARE…don't normally do fiddly stuff.
Began to thread beads, flowers, spools, beads, etc……aaaagggghhhhhhhhh……..just waiting for it to get all tangled up……..and it didn't???????
I found a necklace fastener in my stash of stuff from when Leandra did the boxes of goodies. Can't remember what she called them. Was it monster boxes ?
Anyway. somehow attached the thread to the fasteners and …..MADE A NECKLACE!!!!!DAH DAH….never made a necklace before.
Trickiest bit was taking a photo and leaving out the turkey neck!!!!!
Thanks Clare for the inspiration!


18 comments:

  1. Ooo this looks fab Hazel and great choice of colour too xxx

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  2. Nice interpretation Hazel! Lovely green necklace, the spools are cute and very dinky, perfect for your first piece of jewellery. Well done:-) xxx

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  3. Oh Hazel how delightful love it the addition of beads is a really great idea and might have to steal hehe very well done xxx

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  4. Fab necklace Hazel! I love how your inspiration from Clare's garland resulted in this piece of jewellery. Loving the green too. Thanks for your lovely comment on my blog.
    Amy x

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  5. wow, that's fabulous, Hazel - gorgeous colours. I totally agree about the size of things in photos, you really can't tell what you're getting - but you made the most of these spools.

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  6. Oh lovely necklace Hazel! These are brilliant combo colours and embellishments. It's a great sense!! xx

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  7. Yay, this is fab Hazel and looks very trendy actually. Well done on another brilliant take on a PA project. I too agree about the size of things. It's why I really prefer to buy stuff like that at shows (or odd occasion from a rare visit to a craft shop). Helen's right though, you really did make the most of your purchase.

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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  8. wow this is so cool, what a brilliant way to change up the project to suit your size of spools!

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  9. Hazel, that is so lovely! Great colours & the spools look fab.

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  10. oh hazel how fantastic! thanks for joining us @ PaperArtsy this week. x

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  11. Hazel,
    So great to make use of what you received. I say you are one creative gal. I love this.

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  12. Great idea to make a necklace. Pretty and useful

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  13. Wow! Clever you! I think this looks just perfect. I've had that problem with scale when buying online and sometimes I've been really disappointed, but you've adapted what you have brilliantly! I love the colours and you've captured it so well in your photos. Julie Ann xxx

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  14. Great necklace, it looks really fab!

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  15. It looks fantastic Hazel! Golly, they were tiny, weren't they?! Lol!
    Alison xxx

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  16. This is fabulous, Hazel! You have made something really wearable and cool! Love it!

    Lucy x

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