Creating with Lace

During the preparations for
the Art & Craft Show
I suddenly realized I had been drawn to the lace again

I love creating with paper
and lace

This time it turned out to be most lace

and so I wanted to show you
what I have been up to since last time

this is the first time I will be participating in this show
I actually had decided not to do any shows this year in Denmark

but just couldn´t resist when the organiser asked me

to be there with my bears.

Not a lot of people collect bears in Denmark though

so I´m going to bring some of my other creations too

Wishing you all

a lovely creative day

Tina

A New Little One

and so she finally got her arms and legs

and a body too.

She tell me she´s so happy now

and wanted to do the photo shooting right away.

Please meet Little Berthe.

~

She´s only 3.5 inch tall and created to look old.

She´s a totally new design

and are going to have her debut

at an Art and Craft Fair

which I will be attending in two weeks

so
if you´re in the neighbourhood
please come bye for a visit.

Art & Craft Fair

Kunst & Håndværksmarked
28. & 29. November
begge dage 11 - 17

Sejlklubben
Strandgade 12
Roskilde
~

I´ll be there with the bears

and some stuff from my Etsy Shop too.

Have a wonderful weekend

Tina

*The Christmas Collection*

As you probably have guessed I have been working

really hard on the Christmas Collection.

And I finally managed to get the photos taken too.

~

So - here´s what I have been working on....

paper crackers

old paper, fabric, lace, black string and buttons

old cloth pins and wooden spools

decorated with lace and sweet french *NOEL* ribbon

tiny cones

with a little touch of silver glitter



decorated bottles

with old curtain clips

and sweet vintage children

some lace and old paper too

more vintage children

scalloped edges

added to a string

to become this vintage inspired Christmas Garland.

~

coming to a shop near you very soon.

now there only to wish you....

~

wait a minut

what are you doing in her....

you are not supposed to be in here

you don´t even have any arms and legs...

what...

what do you say.... hmmmm

okay - okay

I got it..

She came in here to tell me she didn´t had any arms and legs

and she so wanted some

and she had to come here to tell me

becourse I´m in here all the time - hmmm

~

better go make those arms and legs

and a boby too

I would guess...

have a beautiful day

Tina

My New Cabinet Card Box

For a long time I have had my old cabinet cards stored in an old

ciger box on my work table.

~

I have been wanted to decorate it for some time now, so when

I signed up for the Artist Class I decided

to try Lori´s tutorial for her beautiful box.

this is my edition of the box.

Not at all as beautiful as Loris´s

but I´m kind of satisfied with it anyway

I have been working with cream and black lately for the Christmas Collection

and wanted the box to go with the same theme

so I added black string to the edges




and an old key hole on the front
to match the cabinet cards



and some lace too ofcourse :D

Now it´s on my new shelf

only waiting for more creations to come.

What do you think.

~

Have a beautiful sunday
Tina

Christmas Creations Sneak Peek

Christmas creations are in the making

here´s a little sneak peek of what I´m working on right now

creamy fabric and lace

a vintage crown button

more lace

pretty french *noel* ribbon

a little bit of mica flakes



and buttons ofcourse

old paper

who would have guessed....

sweet vintage images

and a little bit of glitter too

as you probably can see

the christmas is going to be creamy, romantic,

nolstalgic, vintage inspired and

and a little bit french this year.

More to come..

Have a beautiful creative day.

Tina

Lollishops Design Challenge II

Remember I told you last time what a challenge it had been for me

to create something from the first Lollishops Kit?

would you believe me if I told you this was even more challeging

I didn´t manage to use everything from the kit this time

but that´s okay too

it ended up with 2 sweet christmas creations


this pretty little christmas box



and a sweet altered christmas bingo card decoration.
What do you think?


Make sure to pop over here
to see all of the creations from the Design team.


Wishing all of you
a lovely sunday.
Tina

Fall

October is almost over and it´s definately fall here.

I have been spending time preparing and teaching my bearmaking class

this weekend , so I haven´t had time for new creations to show you.

Instead I thought I would share a few photos from my studio

and the beautiful view to my forest.

this is the look from my kitchen window.

the sun was out and I manage to take these photos before

all the leaves were gone.

I just love those colors and this is definately

my favorite time of the year.

when the light changes and the colors had faded

it´s time for candlelight, hot chocolate

cosiness and creative time in the studio.

what is your favorite time of the year?

until next time

have a lovely day

Tina

Victorian decorations

Remember the lace pack a few posts back?

All that lace have been lying on my working table and

now I couldn´t resist anymore.

I decided to create some tiny decorations

with some of the lace.

As background is used some grunge tags - I do find

the color on these perfect together with lace

1 inch old lace wrapped around and decorated with more

lace and bits and pieces

old metal letters and numbers

bought on a market some time ago

velvet ribbon, madonna medaillions bought
back from travels in Italy

I call these for Victorian decorations.

I don´t know if this is the correct word for these

but I do find them very very romantic and nostalgic

In my Tinybeardk shop later today.

Have a lovely and romantic day.

Tina

A Little Bit Christmas

Going throug some old stuff I came cross these sheets I bought many years ago

and I couldn´t resist making a little christmas project.

I know it´s a bit early for that but that´ll have to be..

these little pixies are reproductions of old christmas garlands

meant to be used on the christmas tree

I clued the pixies onto cardstock, cut them out separately

and sewed them on a string

They are only 1.5 inch tall

and if you look closely, you can see they

have tiny letters on their bellys

saying:

GLÆDELIG JUL

which is Danish and means

MERRY CHRISTMAS

a sweet little garland

to be used on the christmas tree, in the window

on the manntle piece

or whereever you want to wish a

Merry Christmas.

Have a lovely monday

Tina

And the winner is

Today is the day

using Random.org

the winner has been choosen

and the winner is.....

No. 37

Cheryl Kuhn

Congratulations Cheryl

Miss Libbit tells me she is very pleased to come live with you.

Thank you so much to all of you who entered.

I wish I could send something to everyone.

I have enjoyed all your lovely comments

and you shall know they all means a lot to me.

Have a beautiful day

Tina ♥♥♥

Who said something about lace

I simply HAVE to show you what came in the mail today.

One day browsing Etsy I came across Kristine´s shop

and saw this pack with lace and trim.

the pack arrived today and all I can say is WOW

Look at this lot

isn´t it amazing

lots and lots of beautiful trims and lace

in the most wonderful colors of white, cream and ivory

my favorite

and some in pale pink and pale blue too.

My head is spinning with ideas and if you think
Ribbon and Lace packs you might be on the right track - lol

Have a lovely day
Tina

Sewing Kit

For some time now, I have wanted to make

a sewing kit for one of my little bears.

So - I have been working hard -

it´s not easy to write a
sewing instruction in another language I can tell you - lol

i finally managed to make the pattern and the instruction

and have put together this little kit for my little 3 inch bear

Alberto

the complete sewing kit is now available in my Etsy Shop

This little kit is the first one.

I do plan to make more and E-patterns too.

I´ll let you know when that happens.

Happy sewing

Tina

200 posts and a Giveaway

Okay - so this is my blog post no. 200

who could ever image that

and to celebrate it and to show my

gratitude to all who visit and read my blog

and as I promised

It´s giveaway time - yeahh

So - off to the studio to work
and after this photo no. 2 you have probably guessed it ....

it´s a Tiny Bear

4 inch and with a tiny rose on her head

Little Miss Libbit

so

if you would like to win this sweet little bear

just leave a comment on this post

and I will draw the winner on

Friday October 16th

I want you all to know

that I so appreciate all your visits here

You all means so much to me

readers, followers, lurkers

Thank you so much

Have a beautiful day

Tina

More New Creations

After sorting and moving everything back to the studio (read:mold attack)

I was SO happy to get it back that I have spend
almost all my time in there all week creating.

So - I wanted so share with you all the result of this past week.

using an old bingo card and these amazing old orange stamps
from a sampler book bought from my friend Kath over at INeedthat

and a sweet digital image and some lace from my stash
I made this sweet Halloween decoration

One more Halloween creation.
old paper, halloween images, black ribbon and tiny pumpkins
became a sweet Halloween banner.

See more photos here.

Another old bingo card from IneedThat painted with white gesso and
decorated with a sweet vintage image, old lace and an old clip as hanger.

See more photos here.

tags painted with white gesso and
decorated with images of elegant vintage ladies on old paper

Old lace and ribbon wrapped on beautiful grunge tags
also from my friend kath over at SweetLibertyPrims

yes - she has more than one shop :D
I had so much fun making these tags - can be used for any
art work or just as a sweet decoration.
This set and more is listed in my shop here.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

New bears listed as well.



This little fellow is Ilford - 3 inch.
He´s so sweet with his own old tin box.
He´s available here



Sweet Miss Ellen - 4 inch.
made of a beautiful golden brown long pile mohair.
She can be adopted through here



A few bears are available through my website as well.
One of them is this sweet little Halloween Panda Guy
Francis and his very own little pumpkin.
Visit here to see more.

And now to the really good news - lol
This blog post was my no. 199
which means there will be
a giveaway in the next post
wooohooo

so stay tuned and make sure to visit again next time.
have a lovely sunday
Tina

Lollishops Design Challenge

I know this post was to be posted tomorrow, but due to the timezones I wanted to make sure my post was out there in time - so here it is.

Remember the design Challenge for Lollishops and how I showed you those little pieces left on my working table.

This is what I have create from the kit that was send to me from Lollishops

a sweet gift tag with a lovely girl sticker and lots af ribbon as a dress

another gift tag with this beautiful brooch on top

in pink with orange polka dots and another girl sticker

remember I told you this was going to be a real challenge for me.

well - it was

I have never created anything in these colors before, but

I think the creation came out quite cute if I may say so myself - lol

a lovely banner in pink and blue decorated with ribbons and lace, a girl sticker, buttons

and hanging in a beautiful lilac seam binding.

My creations are available here.

Make sure to pop over to Lollishops Blog to see
the creations from the rest of the design team.

I sure you´re going to some amazing creations from this kit.

And check out the giveaway and the extra kits too.

This has been so much fun and I´m already looking forward to the next challenge.

Have a lovely day.
Tina