The details of the wedding are coming together, and I was sewing something today for the ceremony. I stopped to take a break and to create a new item that I have been thinking about. Listening to Celine Dion sing The Color of My Love.
I love vintage roses, especially to decorate a gift, pin on a jacket or accessorize something or other.
Recently I painted pink cabbage roses and turned them into fabric. Spoonflower has a lovely cotton voile, which looks similar to nylon that they use for vintage flowers. Soft and transparent enough to give the effect I wanted, I call the design A Shabby Chic Rose Soft.
I started off by ordering a fat quarter of this design in my shop on Spoonflower. I had it printed in their soft cotton voile fabric.
I cut out the flowers, and using the flower shape as my template, I cut out a few in plain nylon to go in-between the flower petals. Stacking them to create a fat enough flower.
Sewing them together and alternating between the plain nylon flower petals and my cabbage rose petals. Using a pretty pink button, I sewed it on to create the center of the flower blossom.
I used a circle of felt on the back to secure the flower and to allow me to later add a pin for my purse or lapel, or ribbon to attach to a gift.
Sarah's Birthday is next week, so I wanted to use this one to go on top of her gift. So, I sewed a bit of ribbon to tie to the ribbon around the gift.
I used my Pink Cabbage Roses on French Script gift wrap design to wrap her gift. I then attached my pink rose flower to the top of the gift.
(I also have gift wrap available in the Pink Cabbage Roses Design).
Ta Da...some gift wrap, cut-out voile flower petals and a bit of stitches.
The fat quarter hosts enough petals for several flowers.
Here it is all ready to present. I found an aqua gift envelope to match perfectly.
Have a beautiful day filled with gifts and smiles. Now back to my sewing project for the ceremony.
During the Holidays a lovely lady named Dorit told me that she had ordered one of my large decals from my Spoonflower shop called Winter Wonderland Gazebo. She framed it in a large chunky white frame and created a vignette in the surrounding area to create a winter wonderland in her Florida home.
I love snow and here is a song SNOWthat will bring you back in time.
When Spoonflower first began offering decals, I couldn't wait to use my photography and put some in my shop along with my other decal designs.
The decals are printed on lovely paper and print beautifully. Here is some Gazebo notepaper that you can download for your personal use.
This morning Dorit sent me some new photos of her home. She said that although her Christmas decorations are all put away, she has kept her winter wonderland scene.
Her cat seems to add just the right bit of coziness to the scene.
I see some of my French Script fabric on her pillow too. I love it when a customer shares her inspiration and let's me know that she appreciates my designs.
Beautiful Dorit certainly has a gorgeous home and has inspired me to do more photography as decals.
Thank you Dorit.
SNOW…It seems to be snowing everywhere lately. I was missing snow and the view outside my windows back home in Massachusetts. My gazebo covered in snow…I have a framed photo in my new home, but I miss snow so much. Guess what?
