Garden style Gifts and Home Shabby Chic decor

I like to create something unusual. I might sort out for a long time the different fabric and accessories trying to find the best option for my creations
I love to sew my creatures of pure silk - this wonderful fabric with shining effect looks luxurious always .
My favorite silk - silk dupioni, this fabric is made of threads of different colors so the fabric has gorgeous effect of changing colors - really  imperial cloth!
In Australia is  spring now and I have noted in the studio cute spring floral snails

Silk dupioni - moss green, ivory (rose decor), emerald green, baby pink (last snail).

 My collection )

Spring in Cherry Garden Studio

In Cherry Garden live different creatures. After cold and long winter 2014 me and my PR manager Choila see in our studio many cute and funny colorful snails.

They love fashion and style and I do not know often - what shell wants each of them...This season is very popular striped shell and pompom trim )

But for my few fashionistas - it is not enough! they want to be unique, want to dance and take part in races! Oh! Who is going to win?

Shabby chic cute creatures )

After my very long holidays - about 2 months I start my exciting work - to create a beautiful things and invent a new creatures. My of the most favourite idea - to decorate a plush toys by a crochet doily, they get so cozy look!
Here we are - garden creatures Tricksy Snails

And their little sisters

I think the orange one is my favourite )

Plush fellows of denim fabric

I love denim! It is beautiful and truly unique fabric. I had an interesting idea  -  to make of this textile a stuffed toys ... I chose a very thin denim fabric with shabby effect  to achieve smooth curved lines of the toys and be able to make the fine details.
So here they are!

miss Tricksy Snail

She loves a tulips and asked me to create a white silk tulip to carry it on her shell. I call her now miss Tulip Snail.

And a new sweet cute couple - Denim toys - Mother Whale and Baby whale. 

 

And now I'm deep in thought - who's next  one? Maybe Denim Bunny?

Stuffed Snail Toy

Plush Snails toys - how I make them?
Guys, I`m going to show that happens in Cherry Garden studio ) Pick by pick )

Beautiful shabby chic style plush toys:

1. But in begging they are just pieces of fabric) ans stuffing material.
2. Step by step they are starts to get their Appearance.

 3. Almost ready! For her wheels  I use handmade fabric buttons, because I need them in the same style.

 4. Finishing touch: making her face )

 5. Time to say "Hello"

Thanks for reading and have good day full of beauty!

Spring Garden in my studio

Although Australia is preparing for winter time now, other continents are enjoying warm spring sunshine and their first flowers

Thinking about my favorite season I have created a few new creatures - Tricksy Snails ​​in a spring floral style

Lady with a dusty rose

Blue Snail    Little Boo*Boo

My favorite Snail -  Lady with a sakura  flowers

This last one "Sakura Lady" Snail  is made of pure silk fabric and decorated by handmade flowers. Sakura flowers are made of silk dupioni and hand dried silk ribbon. To create my flowers me helped a very nice shop SesenArtsandCrafts on Etsy whose owner Julie Smith offers a huge selection of handmade silk materials for  art and craft

 

 Have a happy browsing there!

Garden. How I have decorated my boring fence.

I  admire vintage willow pattern china! Love this white and blue color scheme, this miniature images and I would like to have numerous collection of this pieces! but now I have got  only a little bit of them and I have hanged my treasures in the garden

Perhaps it is an interesting idea to decorate a boring fences in the garden :-) All my finds came from thrift shops. 
According  my "willow pattern love" I have created a few plush toys of such fabric.

Tricksy snail (she loves tea parties)

and Russian Babushka rag doll

Even I have made a special order of 3 Babushka Dolls - ladies love willow pattern china as well!

DIY decoupage for a decorative button

Sometimes I can not find an unique buttons for my creatures, but it is not a problem for crafty girl -  to make cute supplies by hand - it is easy and joyfully!

DIY lesson for the button for a plush toy made in decoupage technique, step by step.

Skills level - beginner and up.

Basic materials:

1. Scissors
2. Brush 

3. Thin paper (a serviette)

4. A pin

 

5. Craft glue and varnish for decoupage
6. Buttons (for the colored, plastic or wooden buttons you should cover them by special art acrylic gesso or white acrylic paint before )

  I decided to make my own buttons from white polymer clay.

INSTRUCTION

 And - the handmade button as part of cute creature

Tricky Snail

Easy craft and cool result! 

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