Sunday 22 September 2013

Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny!

This lovely lady sent me some teeny purse frames after hearing about my upcoming Framed purses workshop. They are only 3" x 1"!!  I drafted a template and made 2 samples for the workshop.

Mini Framed Purses

If you don't DO fiddly, then these are not for you!  Cute?  Yes!  Tricky to make?  Most definitely! I'm a messy pup when it comes to the glue (perhaps I like the smell of it too much!!) so you can imagine the mess I got into with these ones!

But just look at what my ladies created yesterday at the workshop (& didn't get into half the mess I did)!

Framed Purses Workshop Sept13

(For some reason Pic Monkey wouldn't let me make a collage with these pics, so I've created a Mosaic in Big Huge Labs, but unfortunately that means the pictures are cropped! I hope you can still get a sense of the beautiful purses that were made.)

These purses are all medium 3" x 6" ones. Well done ladies for managing the tricky and messy stages of these purses so elegantly! You did me proud!

And a big thank you to everyone who made suggestions on how to remove the excess glue from the frames.  Nail polish remover works a treat on the silver metal frames, and I used white spirit on the gun metal ones.  A bit smelly, but it did the job!

Jxo

15 comments:

  1. Great purses and yes I bet those little frames were fiddly. Good tip with the white spirit. I guess it's the acetone and other stuff in nail varnish that strips the colour of the gun metal frames.

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  2. You gotta get your highs where you can Jude ;-) Gorgeous purses and how sweet of that lovely lady.

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  3. Must admit I was starting to worry about your penchant for the smell of that glue yesterday. Fab day, loads of fun and laughs and pretties to show for our efforts! Thank you!!

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  4. well done, I've tried it twice and its too fiddly for me!!!

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  5. Lovely purses but 3"x1" - can you hear me groan.

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  6. What a lovely day, just what was needed at the end of a busy week. Perfect Saturday workshop. Well done. I love my purses.:)

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  7. Yes those little ones are fiddly! Or my hand is just too big! Great making from your ladies - guess that is Christmas sorted!

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  8. Beatiful, fiddle or not, your ladies did brilliantly :)! I must make more for Christmas!

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  9. For a horrifying moment I thought you were going to be modelling these in your yellow polka dot bikini, and I thought with the temps these days, the goosebumps would be terrible... Still, you all did a fab job on the purses ;o)

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    1. That was my thought too Katy when this blog came up in my News Feed. LOL Looks like we both have the same bent mind!

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  10. These look great, I haven't dared to make one yet because I fear them a little.

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  11. looks great fun, I thought the mosaic cropped photos were arty camera work.

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  12. Looks like your day was a big success, I am so pleased those wee frames were finally transformed.x

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  13. I love these so much! Any chance you'll be doing a pattern for Etsy?!

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