Time Will Tell

Time Will Tell

It’s amazing when a deadline starts to close in, a designer will come up with some of their best ideas! That’s what happened with this week’s project. Faced with Brenda Pinnick’s Beauty Bloom petals, I knew I had to somehow create a necklace out of them but yet keep the beauty of Brenda’s fabric designs intact. I feel I succeeded with this pendant. My love of jewelry and books came together with this piece. Now who doesn’t like wearable books? This wearable fabric book is what I created from Brenda’s Beauty Bloom die cut.

Materials

­ Non stick mat
­ Glossy Accents (Ranger)
­ Beauty Bloom, Originals Die #655455 by Brenda Pinnick
­ Big Shot Pro die cutting machine Sizzix®
­ Fabric – Couluer Vie by Brenda Pinnick for Henry Glass & Co
­ Felt – National Non-Wovens
­ Stazon black ink
­ Time related stamps
­ Brass: rectangle jump, ball chain, and cuckoo clock, small 6mm jump ring
­ Three 4mm SUN Swarovski crystals
­ Chestnut Roan (ColorBox)
­ 1/8 hole punch


Instructions

­ • Coat front & back of each petal with Glossy Accents by Ranger (let dry)
­ • Decide on which pieces you will use for your pendant, making slight changes with scissors if
needed
­ • Stack pieces: I used the felt pieces for the front & back with the thinner fabric as the pages
­ • Stamp each piece with the time theme stamps
­ • Edge each petal with the Chestnut Roan ink to age for a classic look
­ • On the cover of my book, I glued one of the inner pages over part of the felt to add depth;
trim
• ­Mark the first petal with pen and punch. Use this first piece as your template; punch
remaining petals (pages)
­ • Back felt page, punch 1/8 hole in the center petal tip
­ • Insert 6mm brass jump ring & attach cuckoo clock
­ • Open rectangle jump & the back cover, each page, then the front cover, close jump
• Finishing touches: detailed with black pen around flower petal on cover, add three 4mm SUN
Swarovski crystals with Glossy Accents, and brass ball chain

Recycled Denim

What do you do with those old blue jeans that are a little too snug? Yeah, I know the story cause I have the same one...... that dang dryer SHRUNK them! Sometimes when Goodwill is having their first Saturday of the month HALF off sale, I usually hit them to buy a few nice textures to make "Tattered" flower lapel pins out of.

Using the Tattered Flowers die cut by Sizzix's designer, Tim Holtz, cut out two sets of flowers from scrap denim. To get the two different colors of denim, turn every other layer over to the wrong side when stacking. For added interest, stamp wrong side (light side) of denim with a script or stamp of your choosing with StazOn permanent ink. Top it off with a crystal, button, or piece of recycled jewelry. Add your pin back & wha la.....you've got a new fashionable accessory to wear to wow your friends once again!

I'm fixing to attempt this same feat with burlap. I know I'll have to treat the burlap first to keep it from fuzzing off on the person wearing it......plus get it to cut in my Sizzix die cut (Tattered Flowers) out by Tim Holtz without getting stuck in all the wrong places. I became the proud owner of about 150 yards of burlap (dark brown & the usual tan) and I'm dying to see what all I can make out of it! The flower will be my first creation with the burlap. You WILL see lots more designs from burlap, I can assure you!