This weeks smiles are courtesy of Dewent Coloursoft pencils... They are sitting on my shelf in a glass pot looking all pretty and colourful and boy are they calling my name!
Linking up at Friday Smiles :)
Hello, Happy Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday ! As promised a picture of last Wednesdays 'work' finished off. Post and more photos here . This week I'm showing off the beaded ATC I made... Tricky to photograph so your getting one with flash and one without... It was all parcelled up and sent off to Queen of Desks Julia . Here is a basic of how it was made... (lots of waffle about wefts and warps!) I use a flexible beading needle. It is mainly 'eye' so it is very easy to thread. And delica beads which are more regular and accurate than the better known seed bead. They are slightly more rectangular than round so they line up better. Thread your needle with the weft thread. (The cross ways thread that weaves back and forth.) Pick up the beads... Pass the needlefull of beads underneath the warp (tight length ways) threads on the loom... ...and push each bead u...
Don't you just live new pencils? They are never quite the same once they are used and sharpened :-) Hope you have fun using them.
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Annie x
Ooo don't they look lovely - all neat and nicely sharpened.x Jo
ReplyDeleteAh pencils are fab!
ReplyDeleteLoving the pencils.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a good weekend. Sue
Beautiful colours! And you have them sharpened properly too. (I have just watched a tutorial on how to sharpen colored pencils).
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LIsca
Lisca, I'd love to watch that tutorial - do you have a link please? x
DeleteOoooh they are lovely! I love that there are so many shades of blue. :-D
ReplyDeleteooow yes just itching to pic up a pencil for some colouring-in time. Great pic Laura, have a fab weekend Robyn
ReplyDeleteOh yes, the nice sharp points are tempting!!
ReplyDeleteThey are almost too gorgeous to use and definitely brought smiles to my face! Angela x
ReplyDeleteNow I can just imagine if you went to the Derwent Museum in Kendal and saw all the pencils there. It was like Heaven to me and they had a shop. I bought tins of them, gorgeous tins full and also wooden boxes.
ReplyDeleteJo x
*drool!*
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