Wedding diorama cont.

So here are some more pictures of the diorama in progress Here is the background that I painted with Shiva paintsticks. I love those so much.

wedding diorama cont.

Wedding diorama cont.

After zig zagging around all the pieces I start to sew them together to make the box. I love this step because the diorama starts to come to life.

wedding diorama cont.

here are more pictures

Wedding diorama cont.

After deciding on shape and size I choose fabrics to use. I chose this fabric and shape because the people that are getting married are having the wedding at a farm.
I take the fabrics and fuse them onto Fast 2 Fuse, my latest favorite material to use. After I fuse fabrics together I cut out my shapes and zig zag around the edges of all the shapes. I also always add curtains to all my dioramas and this is no exception. So I draw out the curtains and sew them with a layer of batting in between, turn them inside out and then I topstich the lines of the curtains. I used a printed fabric for these because I knew that I would be painting them gold.

Working on a wedding diorama

This is how I make my dioramas.
I start by doing a sketch and then enlarging it. First I make the outer box. I decide what size and shape it's going to be.

My trip to Falmouth MA

I took a trip to Falmouth to look for some scallop shells. I had just come up with a new product and loved it so much I wanted to make more but I didn't have more shells. So I called my friend that lives in Falmouth and asked her if she could show me some of the beaches that might have scallop shells. Well, we went from beach to beach and found not one shell. Finally we gave up and decided to get some lunch. My friend suggested that we go to one last beach and I couldn't believe it I found hundreds of shells. So here is the cute little product that I came up with.