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Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2010

Silver bird stamp

...really a small one... ^^

(maybe around 1,5 x 1,5 cm)

...and just silver because I used the silver ink pad for testing... (also a test for my paper whether it can stand this kind of ink... some papers don't like it...)

White lobster - card and envelope

I am experimenting with colours and techniques... for this card I used a silver laquer pen for the background and just the lobster stamp with white embossing power... the envelope is just the jelly fish stamps with white embossing powder... white over white.. I love it.. with the silver.. the effect is quite cool but not perfect.. i think either without background... or the background with a more covering pattern... or the lobster not in white.. (lachafa suggested)

...but I like the metallic light effect of the silver colour...! (a little bit difficult to catch with the digi)

Samstag, 12. Juni 2010

More stamps...

...because my twin needle broke... *sniff*

I have several sewing projects at the moments... all with jersey fabric... but without these needle (No, I don't have an overlock one...) all the work stopped. Inevitably.

Therefore... more carved rubber stamps! The last leftover of the big rubber plate for a mini jelly fish... and an normal school rubber for a bigger version...

Still not what I have in mind but good practice ^^

...both jellys stamped...

...bigger jelly...

...with a black fish and lobster...

...the former rubber plate... ^^

Lobster with mini fish... stamp

...I will have to work a little bit more on the stamp... but after sleeping I think ^^

Nevertheless... here is the sweetie fish... next to cutie lobster... (Yes, I think chtullu is somewhat cute! But may depend on the fact how I adore cephalopodae!)

Lobster stamp - Homarus vulgaris (aka cthullu!)

Out of a small leftover from the big rubber plate I carved the octopus of I made another stamp... this time a lobster! My first lobster ever... lobster... do you know how funny this word sounds? In german we say "Hummer"... a little bit like homarus... but lobster... *gnihi*

Okay... I like him! Do you see the resemblance with... cthullu? And the evil eyes...? What a cutie!

PS: Yes, I am sorry. I used the red ink pad. But it was the only one I could find in my mess which overcomes my desk... I will search for my blue one.. somewhere... here... umph...

And together with the octo stamp... ^^

Sonntag, 6. Juni 2010

New bombs....! Splash!

This time two little things were changed. At first we (a friend wanted to build some bombs too) used a different sort of citric acid. For the first try I had some grained (chinese cooking stuff) as well as powdered citric acid (baking, making preserves, etc), now we just found the powdered variation (really, we went into FOUR supermarkets... one of them even a chinese one! grrrr....).

The second change was not a change in the ingredients but the process... we stirred the milk powder in the melted coconut oil before mixing everything together. The milk powder is not only for a luxury feeling... ( a milk bath! ^^) but also to emulsify the oil in the bath. The oil itself makes the skin very smooth and soft after bathing, a strange but great feeling (I am not used to oil or milk baths... to say so... not now ;) ).

We don't know if the changes were for the better or not... bombs are still drying... but I hope! Most of them already dedicated as "Mitbringsel" (bring-along-gift....).

Samstag, 5. Juni 2010

Lisboa II warmers...

...yes, it is hot outside. 25 °C. Tomorrow even up to 27 °C... and the summer just showed it first hints ^^

But I love warmers... and I want to have more warmers... even if it will take months... (um...) months...! before I will wear them!

(Maybe... at night a little bit earlier...?)

Made out of jersey leftovers from different projects...

Perfectly matched to the Lisboa II scarf.... (I even use this jersey strings for binding and braiding my hair..!)

My cats are enjoying the sun. I think they are just little poser who wants to show off... with glittering fur in the sun! ^^

Grusel...

Bisu....

Only Dean preferred cuddling over being photographed ^^

Warmers... or whatever...!

There is one single german word which exactly describes this kind of clothes. It is "Stulpen" (plural): I never though before what the english term would be. Not before I tried to get the correct headline for this blog entry.

Hmpf...

Dictionaries are of no help either...

...I took all the terms and started to search online for them... just to get an idea for what range of things people are using them...

...cuffs... (no! really no!) ...gaiters... (but these are only the ones for the legs?)

...more strange ones... like cover, gauntlets, sheats, shields... Nope! I can't even image how somebody could ever put these connection to "Stulpe/Stulpen" in any kind of dictonary?

Like most times... crafting blogs are helping.

A lot of people are calling this stuff warmers... wrist warmers... pulse warmers... arm warmers... (not that they define them being short ones or long ones... with a gap for the thumb or without... (both would be considered as "Stulpen" in german!)

But with somethings like wrist warmers... or warmers alone... I can work!

And it suits the german term for implicate leg warmers as well as arm warmers... etc etc...

Back to the cause for the blog entry: My newest warmers ^^

Blue cotton jersey with tentacles...! (what else?)

Donnerstag, 3. Juni 2010

Good night goodies... hairpins...

...fluffy.. in strange orange stripes...

...made of some curtains a friend wanted to throw away...

to be honest, I didn't wanted this fabric at first... but another friend just said "take it" and I was just well-behaved and did like I was told... for the better! Although it is a really ugly fabric, it makes fluffy and nice hairpins! ^^

I made three hairpins which differes in size only... still a lot of the fabric left...