Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Here's one I prepared earlier

Still working my way through the backlog of Baubles, this one I'm quite pleased with.
The foundation ball was light green cotton, which I covered with stretch lace - an op-shop find. The lace even came with toning spangles. With judicious cutting it was easy to make it appear seamless.
The leaves? I'm glad you asked, I'm quite proud of them.
Here's how they were done. I used two pieces of medium weight Vilene, ironed together. Painted it green with acrylic paint. Made a cardboard leaf template, traced around it, cut out the leaves. Then sponged gold paint around the edges of each leaf.
Then the leaves were attached with gold-coloured thread, each group finished off with a sequin centre.

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