hello everyone ~ here is a finished project; the third in the series of what i can only describe as dream fabrics made by vicki welsh. this piece is the gradient, “sundance!” {love that name}. of course, you will find more gorgeous combos on her etsy shop! {if you haven’t already picked out a couple?!} i let the good times …
hey there everyone ~i finished this quilted piece awhile ago now; gave it as a wedding gift, and it’s was just one of those days where the lighting was just not bright. {so it goes!} but that did not dim my joy in creating it, nor in the giving! it was definitely inspired color-wise by this couple’s dishes which are from the …
hello out there ~here’s the last couple stamps i’ve made over the past month. this again, is the moo-carve product, as i mentioned in my previous two posts. a pretty basic design… what i really love is the simplicity of the repetitive effect on top of a gelli printed paper, which was also enhanced with a stencil {margaret applin design at joggles} that …
hi there ~ so glad you came back! today is part two… part three tomorrow.i finally got around to editing more pictures in my adventures to carve my own stamps… again, using moo-carve as my base for carving. i have to say, too, that i was creatively given a jump start by this lady, nora clemens-gallo and her most creative and amazing carvings! i …
Hi there friends,Recently I’ve been trying out a new product for stamp carving. It’s called “moo carve.” I love the challenge of drawing and carving backwards for words. Note I said “challenge” ~ I kind of got a little lost on carving out the “l” … but I still like it! Funky! {as in fun}. I want to get better at carving words. The “moo-carve” …
Just a tiny bit of sewing this past weekend for me. House garden and puppy play duties called! In between, I went back to my unfinished pile of fabrics, and began to piece together some of my stamped, hand-dyed fabric from my ‘stash-building’ fun last summer… adding borders, and now… it will take a back seat for a little bit! …
I’m still at it, and it still… feels good! I am loving playing with fabrics from my hand dyed ‘experiments’ stash. This piece was dyed last summer; a sunprinted fabric, using Setacolor greens and aqua blue paint-dyes ordered from Dharma Trading Co. The circle stencil below was used for that sunprinting. I’ve also had my eye on Julie Fei Fan …
What Can I Say? Summer is ending SO fast. It was only 44 degrees at 6:30 am, and this afternoon, a fabric-stampin’ perfect at 70-75 degrees and I’m the John Wayne of fabric stamping… ‘hell-bent for leather’—so to speak! Very excited with the colors and the pattern on this one! Kind of “Jamaican” inspired. It was a piece of hand …
I decided to take four of my printed ‘crazy daisy’ blocks, and piece them into a ‘four patch’ of sorts. Because the block isn’t reversible, I knew that if I wanted them to kind of fit together, I would need to piece an additional strip of fabric to create a square. Easy enough to do. And sew off I went. …
The finished heart-stamped, postcard… I love ORANGE and BLUE together. So it was fun to take it outside and photograph it with the flower pots on our patio. Oopps… can you see where I had to take out some stitching? I can get rid of that by dragging a pin or needle point over the little holes. No prob. I …
Some new stamps I carved at the lake: Daisy Crazy. “Montana” Pay It Forward Hearts: These are a few of the tools and paints I use…. so far! I recycle the styrofoam meat trays to use as paint palettes. I like the quality of Lumiere paints (by Jacquard) the best, but I’ve also been experimenting with others that are less expensive. …
Finishing up some postcards as I am preparing for an August-September show at Liberty Village Arts Center. These are some of the cards I will be packaging up for them. I like brown on blue… Purple on blue… Purple on purple! I took my machine to the lake; gave a few mini lessons on couching, free motion and feathers to …