When is a border not a border?

When it is a border Groovi plate, is the answer.  I started on Friday, finishing off my little set of drawers, before getting stuck in to my PTC (Parchment Trading Card) for the swap organised by Josie Davidson ( https://m.facebook.com/groups/168389163628763?view=permalink&id=544406699360339  ).

Then I got hooked on making more of them, using mainly the Queen Victoria plate, which is the one that I had not used from the Queen set.  Yesterday, I used it for its original, most obvious, purpose, and started a Christmas (sorry) card.

This is now finished as you can see.

However, this, and the other Queen plates, can be used for the tiniest pieces, and you do not have to use the whole design.  You can take tiny sections and do all sorts of things by twisting and turning the plates.

This PTC uses half the diamonds only to create a useful border.

The next uses individual squares, set at an angle.  The colouring is done on the front and the back, using the Perga Liners.

Neither of these are 100% accurate, but they were just done as experiments, and just need a but more time and care to get them right.

One of my experiments went very wrong but I was able to rescue some of it and ended up with a topper for a small card.

Teeny, tiny bits of parchment are so useful for this kind of thing, and don't just throw your mishaps in the bin.  They often turn out to be the happiest accidents and teach you so much.

I am hoping that today is a bit calmer than the start of yesterday.  I had set my house alarm overnight as there have been a number of burglaries nearby.  I was woken by Flash, who was keen to go out.  So, semi-conscious, I tottered downstairs to let him out, got to the kitchen door to be hit by a wall of noise.  The alarm had gone off and the remote was upstairs.  Oh boy, was that a wake up call?  Then, of course, the phone rang.  It was the alarm company to check if things were ok.  My coffee was definitely needed to recover. 

Today is dedicated to making sure the kitchen is clear for British Gas to service the boiler.  Oh joy, oh rapture!  Then Thursday is the first of our fortnightly Groovi group meetings at Bromsgrove Parchers.  It is good to get back to classes and groups.  Oh yes, and it is the Groovi workshops at Evesham Crafters Companion on Saturday, led by the lovely Hazel Edwards.  Hope to see some of you there.