Multimedia brooches

A few more of the pins I have been working on recently 

Started out by creating a sheet of fabric from scraps stitched onto a light weight interfacing

sewn on to denim... brushed out black yarn was lightly layered on topped with tulie netting covering... a cut sequin and metallic embroidery floss for the buckle and band, added a trim of beads after adding the felt backing and pin finding.. 

 The witch's boot was made using the same sheet of fabric made from scraps... denim, felt, beads and pin finding

The haunted Mansion started out with the same base fabrics, I added more embroidery to this one making a full moon, bats, windows, door .. added brushed yarn for a hazy night look, plus a bit of green for foliage.. also covered with tulie

The pumpkin is mixed colors of brushed out yarn to give it more depth.. trimmed  with gold cording, highlighted with an autumn palette of beads.

A couple of freeform ghosts  

This one's eyes can turn

Been wanting to do a few of these..

Alcohol ink cardstock displays

The homemade alcohol inks worked out great sprayed on with small clear bottles from the dollar store.

  Son carved some stamps from erasers.. also from the dollar store.. as well as the razor knife set he used LOL 

Hung the cardstock outside sprayed them with multiple colors, try it within a couple of minutes used the eraser stamps randomly over them...

 cut them in quarters, used a hole punch top center to hang from.. used a leather punch to make the holes for the back of the pins so they sat flush.

So much easier to display.. here I have them sitting on my phone stand.. yep from the dollar store lol 

 These pins had been waiting for awhile to have the machine touches put on them, after creating the pattern and doing the brick beading work I moved on to the next without deciding how I wanted to finish them off.. 

The last two are from freeform bead work over crochet bases.. 

All in all very happy with the results of the homemade alcohol ink.