Art Cards and Some Lace Romance

I can't tell you all how wonderful it feels to have

my computer and the internet

back operating

again!

How else can we create images so necessary for our artwork.

 I am currently working on these 

new Romantic Lace Kits

using some of my beautiful soft handmade paper to hold

a number of different laces, net lace, lace motifs

and buttons

which can be incorporated into any number of projects

and

these will be appearing in my Etsy shop soon.

However, what I do have completed and are in my shop now are

these Fabric Art Cards/ frameable art pieces

using images from one of my favourite pre-raphealite artist,

Edward Burne-Jones

using

 

 some fabrics in the softest shades of blues and greys

with turquoise accents.

 

 

 As you can see I have added some stamped flourishes

around both images in similar shades.

 

This second one shows deeper blue green lace fabric

over deep blue printed chiffon. 

 

 

 They could also be sold as a pair as they look so

complementary. 
(And this is the way they were sold!)
I will be creating more cards very soon! 

I'm also preparing for a Workshop which I will be running

at home this week on Thursday and Friday

teaching the creation of a lace book

with images.

I'm hoping to share some images of that coming up in my next post.

Take care everyone and may your days be filled with

much love and laughter!

xox Suzy

Autumn and Lace

Three weeks ago my muse suddenly left me for 

a forced holiday!!!

(I think you may all be able to relate to this story!!!).

 

After a huge Autumnal electrical storm with heavy

driving rains and wind

my internet connection died a sudden death for

about 10 days forcing me to set up a new modem,

wireless connector and several other bits and pieces before

I could function in cyber space once again

and

following this episode of me running

here there and everywhere trying to purchase the necessary

items for the computer

came the most welcomed stay from a very special

friend of many many years (Rosemary) with her husband (Iain)

from Adelaide (a 3 day caravan trip)

which lasted short of another week.

Rosemary was barely 17 and I was 18 when my mother died

so she came to live with me and my father for a while

providing me with company and friendship

through a very sad time.

 

However, with my muse only just returning I can now share

just a little peek at what I have begun today

and 

will hopefully finish tomorrow

but at least I did manage to take some gorgeous images 

of our garden shedding her Spring and Summer

foliage in preparation for the Winter ahead.

 

 

 The best of the last remaining dahlias

 

but these Autumn leaves have special colors of their own

which are hard to reproduce

 

 

 I can barely pick up that straw broom to 

clear away this amazing carpet of fallen leaves  so

I leave them there as long as I can.

 

 

 Of course you might recognize these leaves

 

 as belonging to the Ornamental Grapevine

which brings so much beautiful shade

to our outdoor garden room

in the Summer months

 and

in the distance you can see the changing leaves

in varying stages of

a stand of Liquid Amber trees. 

 

 This is the time of year our Grevilleas put on their best display

too.

 

When friends like Rosemary come to stay they never come

empty handed and as they know the stuff I love

sharing is what we always do.

 

 

 

  

 She remembers this as being one of her daughter's

pillow cases as a baby - such beautifully embroidered silk with 

hand crocheted edging.

 

along with some sweet doilies and embroidered linen

 

 as well as some pieces of wedding lace fabric
which she purchased from a dressmaker
many years ago

 

 

and finally this dear little hand painted lavender sachet

created by herself filling it with the most heavenly

lavender which she grew herself.

 

 

 So just to prove to you that I have returned to creating 

here is a little snippet of what is to come.

 

 

It feels so good to be busy again now that my computer

is playing its role in it also once again!

Whatever did we do before 

computers became so

important to us!

Many of you are enjoying Spring at the moment

and I hope it is filling your days with many beautiful hours

of sunshine wherever you are.

Have a wonderful week and thank you to my new followers

and all of my readers who continue to visit and show

so much interest in what I create.

Many many thanks,

Suzy xox

 

 

Cards for Friends

I've just realized that I haven't posted anything here

for a number of days now

but

over these past few days I have been creating some cards -

some for happy occasions and some for sad occasions too.

 

This first one I created for a friend, Glenda, whose

Mother-in -Law passed away at 103 within

days of Glenda's Birthday.

I thought that was too sad but she told me also

that her own mother died on her Birthday

a few years before this.

 

 This was a pretty hard call
but she loved her card when I handed it to her.
It is a nice feeling to see someone's sadness lift
even for a just a short time!

 

 This one was very difficult for me to create as a very dear, to me,
bloggey friend lost their husband recently and
I just wanted to rush to her to comfort her but living
on the opposite side of the world
made that just impossible
to do
and
falling short of handing her the biggest bunch of roses
I could gather from my garden I
created this Rose lover's card
below

 

in the hope of bringing a little special love to her broken heart!

  

But on the upside of all of this

I was asked to create a special Birthday card for another

bloggey friend, Nancy, for her daughter-in-law, Candy.

 

 

 Nancy sent me a few baby images

 

as well as one of her now

and the words "You must have been a beautiful baby" -

"Because Casey look at you now!".

 

 

 and this last card was for another friend of mine, Dottie,

whose darling mother is 93 years of age

and she wanted to send this to

New Zealand

for

Mother's Day coming up in May.

 

 

 This is Dottie's mother in the 1930's

 

 looking all dressed up in her fur coat

on her way down the street

 

 and as she has always loved flowers

there were several placed around her lovely image.

 

♥♥♥♥♥

 

In between all of these card creations

there has been some other projects

in the pipeline

and 

this is just a sneak peek at a new custom order lace book

in the making!

 

 

 

It really is such a beautiful vintage image of this

woman with roses draping from her hair

that it is a very pleasurable piece

of artwork for me to be engaged with at the moment.

 

I do hope that you are finding lots of joy and inspiration

in your life and/or in the projects you may be

involved with at the moment!

 

I just would like also to say "Thank you"

to everyone inc. new followers to my blog also

for the kindest comments left on my 

previous post about

creating a journal for a special friend.

 

I do hope that you all had a wonderful Easter break

and celebration with friends and/or family!

 

xox Suzy