PuffinBookmark.pdf

Puffin

By Natasha Barr

Materials Required:

Encaustic glossy white card (COAT5).

Pigmented beeswax - Blue.

Smooth base iron.

Paper to protect working surface:

newspaper and clean paper.

Tracing paper 10cm square.

Embossing tool and Embossing pad.

Card mount - AP04G

Sticky fixers.

Mapping pen and Black ink.

To Make The Sea:

Switch on the iron to a low/medium

setting. Protect your work surface with

newspaper and then lay some clean

paper over the newspaper.

To paint the sea background, load the

side of the iron with the blue wax, move

the iron horizontally across the encaustic

glossy white card using a wave like

motion. Load the iron once more and do

the same sweeping motions underneath

until you have filled up the card. You

can always go over it again until you are

happy with it.

To Make The Puffin:

Transfer the design onto the tracing

paper (I photocopied it). Lay the design

face down on the embossing pad and

using the embossing tools gently emboss

the white areas only. Once embossed cut

out the design.

Snip the sticky fixers into smaller

pieces and stick them onto the back of

the puffin in places where they won’t

notice too much (perhaps on the tail,

back, head and chest). Take the backs

off the sticky fixers and place the puffin

onto the wax background.

Finally:

Mount the picture into the card.

Actual Size

blue card above has been made with a torn tissue

sea. Use a variety of blues and greens torn into

pieces and glued onto a white backing card.

Dark And Dramatic

Or Pale & Pretty

By Dianne Banham

A Brief History

Of Bookmarks

Bookmarkers have been

around since Tudor times, and

in 1585 Queen Elizabeth I was

given a silk bookmarker.

Early markers were usually

bound into the book’s spine - an

idea still used today in diaries.

In the 1850’s the first

detached bookmarks appeared.

These were mainly for use in

Bibles and Prayer Books. They

were usually made of ribbon

with any embroidered decora-

tion designed to protrude from

the bottom of the book so as not

to damage the delicate pages.

different materials using a wide

variety of craft techniques

including needlework.

Here are three patterns for

bookmarks which will make

beautiful and useful keepsakes.

Eventually, bookmarks were

being made from all sorts of

Encaustic wax can be fun to do and once you

have a go, it is fairly easy to get reasonable

results. As an alternative to encaustic wax the

Blackwork

Stitched in Blackwork on a piece of 14 count

White Aida approximately 180mm x 50mm. It is

worked in Back Stitch throughout, using 2

strands of Black DMC stranded cotton and a full

undivided strand of metallic thread which is

Madeira No. 12 in Gold 34.

Stitch the design from the chart, trim to size,

iron from the back on a thickly folded towel and

then mount. This design fits Bookmark Blank

BK02G with square end aperture - Creative

Smooth in White with Gold

Foil Borderline.

Back Stitch in 2 strands:

DMC 310 Black.

Back Stitch in 1 full strand:

Madeira No.12 Gold 34.

Reverse Blackwork

This one is stitched in

Blackwork in reverse on a

piece of 14 count Black Aida

approximately 180mm by

50mm, from the same chart as

the first bookmark, once again

using Back Stitch. Swapping

the colours of the mount, fabric

and thread creates a quite different effect.

The stranded cotton is 2 strands of DMC’s

Bright White B5200 and the metallic thread is

Madeira No. 12 in Silver used undivided.

It can be tricky to work on black, but if you

can hold it so that light shines through it, or lay a

white cloth on your lap, you will find it much

easier to find the holes in the fabric.

This design fits Bookmark Blank BK02M with

square end aperture - Creative Foil Coated in

Linen Embossed Silver.

Hardanger

The entire design for

this Hardanger bookmark

is worked in Satin Stitch

using a single strand of

White Perle No. 5. The

fabric is approximately

180mm x 50mm, 22 count

Hardanger in White.

After all the stitching is

complete, carefully cut

away the centres of the

squares using small, very

sharp scissors.

This design fits Bookmark

Blank BK02U with square end

aperture - Kaskad in Pink.

Stitch flowers of varying

sizes in Lazy Daisy Stitch, using

Pale Pink 605 for some and Mid

Pink 603 for others, space some

a little apart from the rest and

work some so that they overlap.

Keep all the flowers within the

Stem stitch outline.

The dark option uses a Dark

Brown thread in place of the

White. A Gold stitched infill is

used instead of cutting out the

centres of the squares. Cutting

out centres when contrasting

thread is used is not practical as

the White background fabric

will show around the edges.

Work a French Knot in

the centre of each flower

using the opposite colour

Pink. For the finishing

touch sprinkle a few

random Detached Chain

Stitches among the flowers

using Dark Pink 915.

Remove the pen out-

line by immersing the

design in cold water.

Freestyle Embroidery

This design is worked in

Freestyle embroidery on a piece

of White Kingston Linen

180mm x 50mm, but any plain

weave fabric would be suitable.

Position the fabric centrally and

transfer the outline using a

water soluble marking pen.

Using 2 strands of DMC

stranded cotton throughout,

start with Brown 434 and cover

the drawn line with Stem Stitch.

Work small random pairs of

leaves in Detached Chain Stitch

at varying angles around this

line, using Dark Green 368 and

Pale Green 369.

Stem Stitch in 2 strands:

DMC 434 Brown.

Detached Chain Stitch in

2 strands:

DMC 368 Dark Green

DMC 369 Pale Green

DMC 915 Dark Pink.

Lazy Daisy Stitch in 2

strands:

DMC 605 Pale Pink

DMC 603 Mid Pink.

French Knot in 2 strands:

DMC 605 Pale Pink

DMC 603 Mid Pink.

I do hope you enjoy

making these designs.

All you need to do now

is rush out and buy the

latest Bestsellers so that

you can put them to

good use!

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