Why carry your valuables around in a ho-hum bag when you can make your own hottest new accessory - an artfully embellished handbag? Let your creativity soar while learning techniques needed to create an expressive face on this lined handbag from Deborah's pattern. This stunning handbag was embellished with a fabric-face collage, free motion stitching, vine handle, yo-yo flowers, leaves, embroidery, beads and buttons. The techniques students used in this project translated beautifully to the art of the doll. These simple techniques combined to create a handbag with wow factor and personality plus.

Deborah Colston has been creating one-of-a-kind figurative art since 1993. She is equally comfortable working in cloth, polymer, stone and air-drying clay or carving. Trained in fashion design, Deborah can't think of a better place to use all her design, sculpting, painting, sewing, embroidery, beading, quilting and colour training skills than in doll making. It is the creative process that she finds so exhilarating. Deborah is an award-winning artist, a teacher and a past CDAA Competition judge.