Tattered Floral Challenge - a bracelet

It just so happens Mr. Holtz is hosting a challenge using his Tattered Floral die. 

This is my entry a gorgeous wristlet: 

The flower is made of a natural colored muslin (cut from the daisy shaped portion of the die) and stained with Weathered Wood Distress Stain.  The Weathered Wood DS has a very grey/blue nautical feeling and felt so perfect for this! The center is recycled cork and glitter.
The base of the bracelet is leather. The base of the destination unknown is a rounded rectangle of chip that has been slightly soaked in water and curved to match your wrist. It's covered in gesso and stamped with a Viva Las VegaStamps! Washi Tape Grid Stamp. Then I covered it in some more of the Weathered Wood DS and stamped VLVS!'s Destination Unknown in black Archival Ranger ink and covered it in VLVS! Ultra High Gloss Ep. The cheesecloth has also been soaked in Weathered Wood DS.

Destination Unknown was secured to the leather with eyelets and May Arts Burlap String. Between the center of the flower and the petals I beaded some dangles. I used miscellaneous plastic and glass beads. 

To close the bracelet I cut a hole in one side and shredded and knotted the other side. As one final "bring it all together" I secured a couple of the beads used in the dangles into the cheesecloth!

I'm so super fond of this bracelet and just adore it to pieces!! What do you think??

May Arts - Round 2!

Our round 2 submissions are due Friday for May Arts.. Yay for getting it done before the last second :)

For my submission I've chosen to do a wedding ensemble. I gathered supplies to make a ring barer's pillow, a cuff (either as a gift for the bridesmaids or for the Bride) and a hair piece.

First off we need a gorgeous center piece for our ring barer pillow.. And May Arts Ribbon certainly fills that slot! Prima had a flower called the Gatsby Collection in which they used ribbons folded over and tied in the middle to create a flower, but they were sort of flimsy and didn't have much body. Using May Arts Ribbon gives us an endless supply of possibilities in texture, color, material and width making our flowers absolutely customizable to whatever we're working on. For this particular flower I chose three substantial sturdy ribbons eliminating the need for tulle or other "fillers".

The three used for this portion of the project are:

350 5/8"x50y SHEER/RUFFLE EDGE (350-58-94)

384 3/4"x20y LACE/PEARL CENTER

and the
SD 3/8"x50y - SOLID/CENTER DOT

The ribbons are wrapped around a center spot and tied together. They're fluffed and spread apart to mimic petals on a flower and are finished off with a pretty center. You could use stamen, vintage jewelry, beads, and anything else. I chose to use two pearls and a bicone bead. Here's a video with the details:

And here is the whole ensemble:

I also utilized two other ribbons by May Arts:

.398 2.5"x10y Burlap/Wired
and the
392 58"x10y SHEER / BOX PLEAT (392-58-09)

as well as pearls, a bicone bead, burlap thread, muslin, glue, a needle, thread and a sewing machine, pillow fluff, vintage buttons, cardstock, cheese cloth and vintage photo distress stain.

If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them :)
-DeeDee