The new theme for September is DIY Embellishments, and I love to make my own from scraps of paper and fabric, layering them together to create little clusters which I can use on anything from cards to journals. I have a box of collage materials which includes die cut shapes which I can emboss onto and sew together with my off cuts to create these little embellishments.

 As a base to create two ATC's, I used some of my scrap papers to collage over the surface of pre cut card and scraped gesso over them to tone down the colour. I gathered a few pieces I wanted to use along with the new Riviera Trio powders which I absolutely love.

After embossing the die cuts with the three Riviera powders, I played about with the little clusters layering them together until I was happy.

I ran everything including the ATC base through the sewing machine a few times, randomly stitching it all together. 

To finish I added some typed words and a starfish on one of them.



 I love the colours of these …

It's that time of year again when most of the population becomes a little mushy and soft, our crafting goes pink, fluffy and maybe a little kitch.

I don't do fluffy or kitch terribly well but I like to make a dramatic statement nevertheless and I think I may have done that with these hearts.

When I received some of the new WOW! products unvailed at Creativation this January, I was very eager to try the new Trios. This particular set is called Confetti and containes a set of three fabulous colours, each one mixed with chunky silver flecks. The result is an amazing burst of silver here and there which is quite magical.


I used the powders on some twice die cut hearts.


I began by die cutting a lacey flower pattern and embossing it with one of the powders from the Trio pack.

This is what the powder looks like directly from the jar. The silver particles are bigger than the finer coloured powder.



Originally the idea was only to use the black as a background to show off the embossin…