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New Fabric Postcards….

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

While I was making the “Under the Silvery Moon” piece, I made 5 Silvery Moon postcards….I posted 2 of them in my Etsy store and the one below is framed. Sorry about the reflection, I tried about 10 shots & this is the least amount of reflection. The frame is 7 X 9 inches.


I took yesterday off from the studio, caught up on blog reading, napping, emails, napping, Facebook, napping, Twitter, napping and started on my cards for the last few weeks I’ve missed doing for 52 Questions.

I bought myself an external hard drive on Sunday and spent some time make folders on my computer where I can transfer things from all my CDs, and then put them onto the external hard drive.  I have hated having to go through all the CDs for one photo I know I took a year or so ago.

I have “Photographing the leftover bookmarks” I made for the exhibit on my TO DO list for this week.  Finishing the beading & hand stitching on “Wildflowers” is also on my list…..I stopped working on it when I couldn’t get onto Blogger anyway, so couldn’t have posted to the Textile Abstractions blog.  Yesterday, I could finally get the Blogger dashboard to open – for the past month or 3 weeks, all it would do was go to white screen and have that symbol that it was taking its time.  Don’t have a clue why it wouldn’t as all other sites were fine, since the last Firefox update.

On Sunday I, also, bought myself a brand new box of Crayola 64 crayons – the box with the sharpener on it.  I used to have pail of crayons for when we get little kids here, but dumped it a couple months ago…..I wanted a brand new box for ME!   I went through some of my sister’s magazines & pulled some colourful images to use as inspiration for my Colour Journal that I have started – inspired by Alisa Burke’s HERE.  As I work more into it, I will photograph and show you what I’m doing in it.

What’s The Point?

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

I came across a new to me blog – Wild Precious by Effy!  She’s a journaler and had this great video  (  Effy\’s What The Point? ) this week & a prompt for other journalers!

I am asked this question alot also…..So, here is my TOP TEN REASONS TO JOURNAL!

This is my altered book journal that is slowly getting filled up.

For this page spread, I first painted the pages with Gesso, dried & today that did NOT take long (its HOT!).  Then, I painted the apple green, and while the paint was still wet I stamped one of the stamps from Alisa Burke‘s Bohemian carved set.  Then with a sponge brush I painted the other two stamps with different colours.  I wanted to soften the background a little, so rubbed some beige paint…..all the paints on this page spread are dollar store acrylics.  Also added some bronze paint with a brush…

The tape is from some little packages of goodies that Wendy sent me for my birthday – she had taped the little envelopes closed with that lovely tape.  The oval with the question is from her and so is the flower on the corner of the list.  I then went nuts – cut out a couple free hand flowers from painted bounce sheet leftover from another project.  The large flower was free hand cut, then punched all around, the paper was in my paper bin….behind it is come dyed cheesecloth for texture.  Leaves & stem were from a leftover piece of cardstock (I think it was a sample from a card class I did years ago).

My reasons to journal:

  • Its FUN!
  • I can try out new ideas & techniques.
  • I can clear my head & choose to show or not.
  • Play with paint!
  • Befriend other journalers.
  • CREATE!
  • Use up art supplies I have.
  • Make a mess!
  • I don’t have to be perfect.
  • IT FEELS SO GOOD TO let it all out!!!

So, WHY DO YOU JOURNAL?  And, if you don’t I will have the perfect workshop for you starting in September, more details coming next week.

Friday Tutorials….

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Alisa Burke is a FABULOUS artist & yesterday’s blog post showed just how much.  Those bunting flags don’t look anything like those crazy magazine cards that fall out of every magazine. 

It also reminded me of the bunting flags we made at the Summer Arts Camp last July – out of newspaper.  The kids had a FABULOUS time making their name or in the older one’s case a WELCOME.

We took pages of the Regina Leader Post, roughly cut a diamond using the whole page.  Painted the diamonds – one side only.  Then, once that background paint was dry, they painted a letter on one end of the diamond.  Once, that was dry, we took a long piece of jute (long enough for each letter of their name to be spaced nicely on there and enough on the ends to tie ), laid the jute in the middle of the reverse of the diamonds, glued one side and pressed them together with the jute at the top.  If the top & bottom of the diamond don’t match, it can be trimmed once the glue is dry.

Friday Tutorials….

Friday, April 30th, 2010

We are getting some much needed rain this week, might even have some water in the lake south of town this summer!

Working away on that weekly TO DO list….so still nothing new to show, but should have some soon.

Here are some GREAT tutorials for you today:

Image Transfer using paint thinner over at Mademoiselle Chaos blog HERE.

A FABULOUS Spring Tote bag tutorial over at Sew Prim Khris blog HERE.

A Whirly Wheels quilt for that new baby on your gift list, over at Moda Bake Shop HERE.

A tutorial on How to make your own Leather Journal over at Fern’s Crafter-Holic blog HERE.

and one more to keep you all busy……LOL

This GREAT tutorial for a Shrink plastic statement necklace (this one appeals to me because I could actually wear it as I’m allergic to metal) over on Alisa Burke’s blog HERE.

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