Showing posts with label burlap art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burlap art. Show all posts

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Burlap and felt art, take two...

Hi Everyone!  I know it's winter, but it is SOOOOO cold up here on the hill.  The wind blew all last night which of course made it even colder!  I wish I had gone with the snowbirds south for the winter.... someday...maybe...  Okay, enough with the pity party.  And on to take two of yesterday's flower and burlap project.

So, let's recap, shall we.  I started out by stapling burlap to a canvas I had left over from another project.
 And then this is what I put together with felt flowers and a red bird that I had.  But I didn't like it and couldn't decide what to do next with it.  So I left it alone.
 I came back to it today and this is what I did with it.
 I put this together and set it carefully on the easel, took the picture and then proceeded to knock it off the easel.  I put it back together without looking at my camera and it wasn't until I uploaded the pics did I realize I had put the flowers on in a different order.
 Not that the order of the color matters, I just wanted to explain why the flowers looked different from the first picture to the last.  I sewed three black glass beads to the center of each flower which I think really helped the way the flowers looked.  The stem is made from a piece of jute that I lightly stained because the original color was too light.  Then I glued them all to the burlap. 
 And of course you can't forget the red bird.
 The picture doesn't do the jute stem justice.  It looks much better in person. 
I think it looks much better than the original.  I don't know what I was thinking on take one.  I must of had some vision of something, or maybe I lost my mind.  Who knows!  What would you have done with them?

Well, now I need to get cracking on the other projects I started yesterday.  Hope your weekend is restful and productive.  Thanks for stopping by.

 Linking to
 http://thetatteredtag.blogspot.com/2012/01/kiss-33.html
http://www.uncommondesignsonline.com/2012/01/trish-and-i-are-so-excited-to-be.html
http://my1929charmerblog.com/sundays-best-15-par-tay/
http://boogieboardcottage.blogspot.com/2012/01/welcome-to-56th-masterpiece-monday.html
http://craftomaniac.blogspot.com/2012/01/craftomaniac-monday.html