Monday 11 October 2010

Another Carnival and Vintage Pretties

Fun and games for all the family on Saturday, rigging up the float with a generator and lights for Launceston Carnival.
(Eagle eyed readers may notice that this picture was not taken in the dark and the lights aren't on, - it was before the parade - but you can see the disco ball and crystal prisms).
It was a lovely Carnival, and the girls got a 2nd place (you can see the blue certificate on the float).

In the 2nd picture you can see a, well actually I'm not sure what to call it,  picture? embroidery? a something anyway that I made.
I downloaded the wonderful French Haberdashers' receipt image from The Graphics Fairy (if you aren't familiar with this wonderful blog you really need to check it out), printed it out onto cotton photo fabric, then I appliqued it to a piece of linen, embellished it with ric rac, ribbon, and vintage lace and buttons and stretched the whole thing over a frame canvas style. I'm really pleased with how it came out.

7 comments:

Linda said...

Congrats to the Delabole Carnival Royalty.
And to the Queen's Mum for a wonderful collage.
I will have to check out this blog.

Julie said...

The vintage piece looks splendid

Well done to the girls, it sounds very magical having a carnival in the dark

Sally said...

Congratulations to the girls!

Love the vintage piece. It's very pretty.

Karen The Graphics Fairy said...

The girls look so lovely on their float! How exciting that they received 2nd place, congrats to you all!!
Your fabric collage is beautiful! Such a great idea printing that invoice on fabric, and it looks perfect on the linen.
Thanks for linking this up to Brag Monday.

Karan said...

Well done to the Royalty... bet everything looked magical with the lights on. :0) Love the vintage piece - beautiful. Thanks for the link too. :0)

Dani - tkdchick said...

Congrats on the girls gettign 2nd!

What a great piece of fiber art!

Mylene said...

Beautiful picture of the girls and congrats on getting 2nd!

Great job on the vintage piece.