Princess Bubbles Creates

It has long been my intention to learn more about Photoshop Elements.  Tonight I decided to play around and see what I could do.  I am pleased with the way this turned out.  I played with the saturation and added a filter - plastic wrap.  This has a lot of potential!

This video is so cool.  I have never seen a binding done like this one.  I am definitely going to have to try it.

Sharon B at http://www.pintangle.com/ is doing the Whipped Wheel stitch for Take a Stitch Tuesday.  I have never done this stitch before this.  I have to say that I LOVE it and will do more of it for sure!  The first stitch is on the right in the above photo.  I definitely did not pull the thread tight enough around each spoke.  Lesson learned.  The second one on the left I did better.  I tend to be a laid back kind of gal so that shows up in my stitching.  giggles

Here is the link to the classes at the quilt festival this May.  I am teaching Funky Flowers.   http://www.stjacobs.com/sites/default/files/Quilt%20Classes_0.pdf Pictured above are some flowers we will be making.

This is a giant bead I made.  It is prettier in real life as the hologram threads on it really sparkle but that is really hard to capture with the camera.    I wrapped a drinking straw with felt and synthetic fibres and then melted them with a hot air gun.  I added threads and beads.  Most of my family gets that it is a cocoon.  Some of them think it looks like the dog's breakfast.  Unfortunately, this picture tends to make me agree with them on the dog's breakfast.

I am bit late posting this but better late than never.  The running stitch is new to me.  Such a simple stitch you would think I would have used it prior to this.  Sharon B's samples at http://www.pintangle.com/journal/2012/3/6/take-a-stitch-tuesday-week-10.html#comments are stunning.  The top picture is shows the running stitch done with wool.  The bottom picture shows that I wove some interesting knitting yarns through those stitches.  It is not quite finished but it won't take long to complete.

A couple of weeks ago I picked up a bag of ric rac at the thrift store.  Not all the colors were to my taste so yesterday I experimented with 'dyeing' them.  The top picture I used Inktense blocks.  I wet the ric rac and applied the block directly to the ric rac.  I got nice intense color on the top.  The color did not bleed through completely to the other side so you can see it is much lighter.  Inktense does not change the hand of the ric rac at all.  I love that! The other thing I used to experiment is Dr. Ph Martin's Bombay India Ink.  Again, I wet the ric rac and then dropped in color with the ink dropper.  Lovely intense color but this ink did change the hand of the ric rac.  It made it a bit stiff.  Not really a big deal to me.  I love two for one so I took prints of the ric rac while it was still wet.  I think the paper could make an interesting background for a journal page.