Over Christmas I designed and made a selection of brooches, many of which were designed as presents for family and friends. Pictures of some of the brooches are included below. Quite a few of the brooches were on a floral or natural theme (flowers, leaves), but I also created some other badges too, including a little […]
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I’m a bit obsessed with shrinky dinks at the moment, so I made a few plastic badges as presents this Christmas. Phil received two badges amongst his presents, although they were a bit late as I hadn’t gotten around to affixing the badge backs! His badges feature characters from our two favourite cartoons at the
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I’ve been developing a number of designs for shrink-plastic badges recently. Pictured are a number of leaf badges I created this weekend. The designs were printed on inkjet-friendly shrink plastic and then embossed to achieve a glossy effect and ensure the badges were waterproof. The leaves these are based on were collected during a cycle
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I’ve been playing around with shrink plastic over the last couple of weeks while working on a few designs for badges and magnets. Two of my initial designs are printed below. These were printed using Shrinky Dink Inkjet, after an initial unsuccessful attempt using the (not inkjet friendly) Shrinkles paper available in the UK. The first is a
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Below are some of the textile items I made for the charity craft fair me and colleagues organised which took place a couple of weeks ago. The peg-bags were based on a Cath Kidston pattern and the little elephant brooches were based on a pattern in Mollie Makes magazine.
Last year, me and Phil visited Tallinn in Estonia. While there I bought a selection of retro button badges with the intention of doing something with them. This week I finally got around to it, creating some felt brooches with the vintage button badges at the centre. I’ll be selling these at the charity craft fair me and colleagues are currently organising for
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