leather flower shoe clips with gerberas

Making leather flower shoe clips

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Britain is (finally!) enjoying a bit of sunshine and warmth, which can be a perfect time to sport your summer style … and flowers ☺ Whilst leather flowers might not be necessarily associated with summer, one of their applications is particularly great for summer. I am talking about leather flower shoe clips, a firm favourite of mine. Leather flower shoe clips are ideal for decorating plain court shoes or peep-toes, or in fact any pair of your favourite shoes that … Read More

Flower shaping tools, part 4: knife tools

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For 2019 I have planned a series of short videos demonstrating how to works with different types of flower tools. I believe this will help you understand your tools better and use them to their full potential achieving great shapes and lines on your petals and leaves. This is the forth video in the series, for which I have chosen another popular tool that can probably be found in any set, traditional or more modern: a knife tool, the sharpest … Read More

Leather Pompom Rose tutorial

Flower shaping tools, part 3: ball tools

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For 2019 I have planned a series of short videos demonstrating how to works with different types of flower tools. I believe this will help you understand your tools better and use them to their full potential achieving great shapes and lines on your petals and leaves. This is the third video in the series, for which I have chosen a very familiar flower shaping tool, or, in fact tools: ball tools. I wouldn’t be far off, if I said … Read More

yellow silk rose hat

Flower shaping tools, part 2: TWEEZERS

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For 2019 I have planned a series of short videos demonstrating how to works with different types of flower tools. I believe this will help you understand your tools better and use them to their full potential achieving great shapes and lines on your petals and leaves. This is the second video in the series, for which I have chosen the oh-so-ambiguous and not-so-specialist tool: a pair of tweezers. It’s true, the tweezers we are using are not a specialist … Read More

silk rose video course

Advanced Silk Rose Course: start from 25 March 2019

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If you follow me on social media, you already know that I am about to launch a long-awaited Advanced Silk Rose Video Course. Why I think you should join this course? I can see many reasons, some of which I am listing below: it is a video course, which will allow me to explain the complex rose making process in a greater detail for you all the rose designs are new, never previously offered in other tutorials OR at my … Read More

silk dandelion headpiece

My Tethered Butterfly Crown for the 2019 Hatalk hat making competition

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I created this spring green crown with the silk dandleion for the 2019 Hatalk hat making competition, where the theme was Equilibrium. My Tethered Butterfly Crown for a millinery competition: the why “The butterfly is a flying flower, The flower a tethered butterfly.” ― Ponce Denis Écouchard Le Brun Nature is an endless source of inspiration for me. Its colours, shapes and textures seem to be in a constant contradiction yet represent a peaceful harmony of its parts. For my headpiece … Read More

Leather Anemone Collage

FEBRUARY 2019 Flower of the Month: ANEMONE

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First time leather anemones were featured in my #FlowerBreeze collection back in SS2016. A firm garden favourite, they deserved a detailed tutorial of their own which I am happy to present you with.   One of the earliest spring flowers, anemones are a bright uplifting sight after the dark days of winter – pure, simply pretty and cheerful. Now with the help of this tutorial you can learn how to create your own anemone bracelet, corsage, buttonhole or another floral … Read More

blue velvet butterfly brooch

Flower shaping tools, part 1: Extra narrow flower shaping tools

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For 2019 I have planned a series of short videos demonstrating how to works with different types of flower tools. I believe this will help you understand your tools better and use them to their full potential achieving great shapes and lines on your petals and leaves. For this week I have prepared the first one of these videos. For the first video I have chosen one of my favourite tools and probably one of the most used ones, the EXTRA NARROW  … Read More

Pantone Spring Summer 2019

Pantone colours Spring Summer 2019

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Each season the team at the Pantone Color Institute creates the Pantone Fashion Color Trend Report; a colour overview highlighting the top colours fashion designers showing at London Fashion Week will be featuring in their collections for the upcoming season. With colour on the catwalk a key indicator of the colour stories we can expect to see showing up across all areas of design, the Pantone Fashion Color Trend Report is your easily accessible guide to the season’s most important … Read More

how to choose a flower iron

How to choose a flower iron?

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How to choose a flower iron? IMPORTANT    –    JANUARY 2023 UPDATE Dear All, Weller have discontinued the trusty model of a soldering iron I have been using (and recommending!) for the last decade to my students all over the globe. I have been in touch with multiple retail tool stores as well as with the manufacturer themselves and this is what they say: The 40W SP irons are no longer available, but we do have replacements. The 25W … Read More

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