City & Guilds: Colour

As promised I have been photographing my folder, it is lovely to go back through it and see all of the work that went into it. It is a very inspirational folder (I think!) and I may even drop the photos into college once all of it has been recorded.

My City and Guilds: Pattern Cutting which I did at IDC- Redditch.

This part one: colour.

Title page- all my own photos

Colour quotes

Primary colours

Secondary colours

Primary and Secondary colour wheel

Painted tertiory colour wheel

Tints, Tones and Shades

Primary tones

Colour spectrum

Ripped paper colour spectrum

Colour wheel created from paint sample charts

 

Photos of colour

Detail from photo page

Next up line and mark making.

Love
Mrs Jones
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More wedding makes

A belated post, as we are quickly approaching our first anniversary, but, here are a few more of the wedding makes. There are more, including the dress but I think this will suffice for now.

The invites
So this crazy making all started with the invites. We batted around ideas for quite a while but eventually found this picture in the back of a wedding brochure and decided to build are our invites around it.

Somehow we decided that tracing off the design onto acetate and then sticking it onto the invite was the way forward and not being someone to do things the easy way I decided to trace each one individually. This led to a bit of a production line but I was looking for work at the time so it keep me busy!

Tracing the design

Putting the cards together

A close up of the final design

To be honest collecting everyones address was a bigger job, and deciding on our gift list, and it was a very happy day, the day that I took them all to the post office.

The cake
Next we had to start thinking about the cake. We wanted to do a practice so it seemed sensible to do a Christmas cake that we could enjoy. I don't think it had quite struck us how much planning is involved in the cake- you need to make it in time to have at least a month to "feed" it, then you need to marzipan it two weeks before you are going to eat it and ice it a week before you are going to eat it. This means working all of this backwards. We decided to do a test run of the fruit cake as a Christmas cake.

Our test run

The Christmas cake turned out to be a huge success. I took the recipe from 'Cake decorating at home by Zoe Clark'

The recipe book

We had seen this cake while we were in Peru and wanted to base our cake on this with the wonky layers, pattern and bold colours.

Our Inspiration

Maturing cake

The bottom layer

Packaged and ready to go

The cake toppers
I then started to think about cake toppers and saw this brilliant idea on etsy: Penguin wedding cake topper

Cake toppers by fliepsiebieps on Etsy

These were unfortunately a bit too expensive for us so I decided to try and make my own, £7 and a couple of hours later I had our cake toppers!

My head in the development stage!

Ready for the oven

Our cake toppers

And, after some careful packing and driving, here is the finished cake:

The cake :-)

Other handmade items

I will be brief here because we made a lot and you are probably bored already, but, here is a selection of other bits that we made.

Props and signs for the photo booth

Planning the photo booth!

Photo booth in action

Table plan

Buttons on the back of my dress

Lace at the bottom of my dress

Handmade bouquet and shoe flowers

 It is so good to look back at this and think about all the effort that we put in, I hope you enjoy it too.

Love,
Mrs Jones
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Time flies!

Well, I am a bit embarrassed by how long it has been since I posted; this is the peril of getting a full-time job and moving house.

But, I'm back! I've just been looking through my old posts and it seems that I need to update a few of them now that I have finished, yes, finished, my city and guilds with the certificate to prove it. I also have a new workspace in our new house and I have made some progress on my challenges so there will be a few blog posts to follow.

Before that I want to share a few of the crafts that I have done recently.

Firstly: rag rugging.
This is my new passion, to add to the others.I received this book from the wedding list:

And was keen to try rag rugging but needed something to get me started, so I went to a workshop at Sew Me Something  in Stratford-Upon-Avon.



Where I met a lot of very nice people, had a couple of glasses of wine, got Mr Jones to collect me and started a rag rug cushion panel which looked like this when I brought it home:

Rag rug cushion pannel

A couple of weeks later I was the proud owner of a prodder and bodger:

and my cushion panel looked like this:

Finished rag rug cushion

I am very proud of it. It was so enjoyable that I soon followed it up with a festive wreath:

Wreath in progress

and I even made another one for my parents. I am thinking that I will do a wall hanging next but need a direction to start me off. The downside is that I now can't throw any clothes out as they could be cut up and used so the charity shop is not doing as well out of me as it used to!

Secondly: I have been hemming trousers that I picked up in the sale.

Thirdly: I made these great presents for my parents:

An egg-box 360:

Joke present for my parents

and a magzine holder for my mum as I had bought her a Mollie Makes subscription for Christmas.

One side of magazine holder

Other side of the magazine holder

That's all for now folks. My mission for today is to take photos of my C&G folder to upload onto here.

Love,
Mrs Jones
x

Setting myself challenges

As I am a top procrastinator and seem to read more about crafts than doing them, I am going to set myself soem challenges for the next year. My hope is that if they are on here then I will feel more inclined to do them!

1) Finish city and guilds and get qualification.
2) Open Etsy shop, have at least 5 items on there and look into selling on www.notonthehighstreet.com
3) Finish my Iceland embroidery
4) Finish my patchwork quilt
5) Make a meditation cushion for Mr Jones
6) Produce an embroidery from my own pattern
7) Make myself a new bag- I love my current one but it is starting to get holes so I would like to copy the pattern but make a new version of it.
8) Make a linen top for Mr Jones and a cotton bodice top for me
9) Go on a course to learn something new
10) Finish bean bag chair which has been in the planning stage for a while now

I shall keep you updated on my progress and hope to have made progress on all ten my 1st August 2013: I know, I am already cheating and giving myself a bit more than a year, but, you might as well round to the nearest start of the month ;-)

Love,
Mrs Jones
x

My workspace

Mr Jones bought me a subscription to Mollie Makes for my birthday last year and one of my favourite pages is the back page where they show people's work areas. I am always very jealous of the lovely things that they have around their desks. So, because we don't have any children and rarely have overnight visitors, I decided to turn a corner of our spare bedroom into my craft space and am now sharing it for everyone else to see.

The quilt was made by my mum

Neat and tidy!

Cherry box from the local farm shop

My new lamp

It was enhanced recently by a trip to Ikea where I found an anglepoise lamp for £8 and a metre of wipe-clean fabric for £2. I was a very happy girl!

I do find it a bit small at times, so I pull the boxes out from underneath and it becomes a corner desk, but generally I absolutely love it and spend hours up here!

I hope you like it too.

Love 
Mrs Jones
x

My craftster challenge

I was searching away for something completely random the other week when I came across the craftster website, which, I have never been on before:

http://www.craftster.org

While procrastinating, I then found the challenge pages and a challenge to craft something outside and decided that I would love to enter!

 I painted a canvas with a skin coloured paint:

 Then added a shape, I cut out all of the lines so that the paint would show through them

Then (on a slightly wetter day) I flicked paint all over the canvas:

 Until it was covered, at which point I removed the paper (which also looked pretty):

To reveal my finished painting, I will varnish it and then hopefully put it up on the bathroom wall:

 I hope you like it, it hasn't had as much interest on craftster as some of the other entries but there is stiff competition and I am just glad that it pushed me into doing it rather than just thinking about it. Next month's challenge is to do a recipe that is purely your own, I don't think I will be entering that one!

Love,
Mrs Jones
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