Craft swap

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So, June/July theme for theswap was "LOVE IS IN THE AIR/THE BIRDS AND BEES", to "make whatever, use whatever, be creative and have fun".
I got the survey of my swap partner (cool_it_yo - I didn't knew her lj user name until she received it), from our "swap manager", and the things I use to do this craft were that two of her favorite colors were black and red, that one of her hobbies was painting and her fav song was "Hopeless romantic", by the Bouncing Souls.





Love was the theme, I used the red because of that, and it was her fav color too. Along with black ribbons to close it.





I've created a background that had to do with the theme, I was very pleased with the result, I used some stencils from the Internet, but I've applyed them in fabric. (I was planning to use the boy/girl stencil and the tree one for a long time, and this was a good chance). I've put in the bird to complement. I decided to sew on because I like stitchpixie a lot and decided on trying that. There are a few invisble to the naked eye mistakes, because it was my first attempt on doing this ;)

It fits her brushes, and in lenght too.





Then I finished with the title of her fav song, because it had everything to do with the theme. I handwrited the letters, because I haven't found any other way. I didn't liked very much how the letters turned out, but for doing handwriting I couldn't do any other way, or could why, how do you do it?Stenciling them is just not worth the effort...

Behind were the pencils go, there's a gap for her to put whatever (little pieces of paper for doing color experiences, for example).

In the end I realized I shouldn't have used this kind of fabric, it is vinyl, because is too thick to roll it up, but it was the red fabric I had..I was saving it to do a book cover ;) but I have more, I'll do my first book attempt soon ;)



She said she loved it..
Would you have liked it?