A Little Bit Shabby

Although I've a list of things to do as long as my arm, whenever I sat at my craft desk at the weekend ....(which wasn't often because the study was full of bits of computer innards and a couple of pc experts ie Hubby and my cousin, trying to fix Hubby's broken pc or at least make sure settings and data was all safe and that the pc would be usable enough for logging in to the office one on work-at-home days)....I found I couldn't settle to anything on the list and all I wanted to do was play.

Sometimes it's good though, just to go where the muse leads (great band, aren't they, Lythan?).  This time the muse led me to making some flowers - what do you mean, that's a surprise?

I started off trying to  make some coffee filter roses I'd seen on a tutorial somewhere.  Now, maybe US coffee filters are stiffer than the ones we get over here, but there was no way I could curl those darned petals, the paper was way to soft for that.  So I wondered what would happen if I just crumpled the flower into a little ball and opened  the petals up again (a bit like the distressed poppies I was hooked on a few months back).  I liked the "shabby chic" effect I got so made a few more

What do you think?  You can click for a larger view.

Next is a photo of a couple of tags I made - basically using some scraps of stuff that was already out on the desk.  I rather like the way these turned out too so I think I might tweak the design a bit for using on cards.

I did manage to finish off a couple of  decorated and stuffed matchboxes for a couple of swaps.  I made a template for cutting on Mr Robo and showed the prototype HERE.  I'll show the actual swap ones soon, but I just wanted to say I'd done them in case you went away thinking I'd not done a single thing from my "to do" list ;-)

Now of course I'm running out of time to get a couple of projects finished.......okay, :-(  I mean started, so I'll shut up and move straight over to the other desk.

Thanks for visiting, hope you enjoyed it and will come back soon.

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Have a great day

I'm gone.......