Monday, October 24, 2011

Zipper brooches with leaves

The zipper brooches have progressed. You'll laugh at this one readers, I found a broken faux-leather wallet by the side of the road, yep, in hard rubbish!

I thought about fixing it up, but really, it wasn't worth the effort, so instead, I've started cutting little leaf shapes, and using a seam ripper (the sharp bit) I score leaf veins into the vinyl.

Vinyl wallet before cutting into leaves

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Seam ripper for scoring leaf veins into vinyl leaves





I'm starting to sell my brooches on Recycled Market, a brand new site that launched yesterday.

Do you make recycled goods too? If so, registration and listing your products on Recycled Market, is free.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Zipper Brooches

I managed to score a whole bag of metal tooth zippers for just $2, so I've been busy making these little zipper flower brooches...



This one is my favourite so far...