Waste Not Want Not

I received an email from Nicks at Nicks Artsy Stuff.  She gave me a link to a post she did making some flowers.  I stayed on her blog looking at things for over an hour!  She made some amazing flowers using some cloth she uses to dab her inks and paints with.  Here's her creations.  They are wonderful. 

 

Think I have used that title before but I am going to use it again because - well because I can and in this case I should.. I was in my craftroom today trying to get it back to some kind of normality after Matts immortal words last week. At Hugbinders Fuchsia brought along some very handy 'J cloth' type things for people to use. There were some left over which somehow :-P found their way back here in my stash. I have been using one to mop up inks and paints whilst doing some journal backgrounds and playing with my new Distress Stains. I was about to throw it away - but couldn's cos it looked too blooming lovely.

Bang goes any efforts of tidying up!

I cut it into quarters and ran it through my Wizard, using Sir Tims Flower die 

Stiffened the flowers with Fabric Stiffener (what a great idea to use that LOL) and layered the flowers up - the stiffener wont stick the layers together, but they will take on each others shape as they dry. 

I stuck them together with glossy accents and embellished them with brads and buttons and made some leaves with grunge paper and a piece of leather.

Pretty cool for something that was nearly thrown in the bin dont you think? Of course the colours can never be replicated, because its pot luck on how the cloth turns out, but I wont be throwing the next one away!

 

Make sure to visit her blog for other great creations too!