52 Quilts Journal Week 12

52 Quilts Journal Week 12
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Well the weeks are just flying by. What can I say? It's not a good plan to start a project like this when you're about to move and it's taken me awhile to get back into the project on a regular bases, but now I am really into it. This page was not even on my radar until this morning. I've had the idea to use old family photos at some point in the project and since the Created Byhand Tuesday Challenge is to create art with the theme of pets, so the time was right. This one is chenille fabric sample, the photo is an old black and white of my brother, edited to sepia and stitched with brown rayon machine embroidery thread. The photo is printed on regular copy paper and brushed with matt medium and allowed to dry before stitching. The quote and date are stamped on coffee stained cotton fabric. Oh this photos was taken in an orchard and that is a real honest-to-goodness wooden apple box that the boy and dog are siting on.

52 Quilts Journal Week 11

52 Quilts Journal Week 11
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The background on this page is Silk Jacquard fabric sample. The center square is a small sample and the middle layer is off white cotton, again from my stash of fabric samples. I used bits of silk flower left over from other projects, some are cut apart and then all are stitched in place with odd bits of beads.

Exploring Waves

Exploring Waves
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It's taking me awhile to finish this bag, not so much knitting while it was so hot, but I'm moving along again. I'm probably about 85% done now. I can't wait to get this one finished, then start on Exploring Swirls bag.

Sewn Illusion Journal Page 4

Sewn Illusion Journal 4
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Page 4 of the Sewn Illusions Journal is scraps from the week 10 quilt, another small fabric sample and some strips of tea dyed cotton which was rubber stamped with funky flowers background stamp and "Spirit" with EK Success Retro ABC stamp set. There is a little strip of paper stitched on to this one as well.

52 Quilts Journal Week 10

52 Quilts Journal Week 10
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I used a small velvet sample for the center of this quilt and sewed other fabric samples around Log Cabin style. The cross in the middle is another found object that I discovered several months ago while walking on the sidewalk along the Lougheed Highway in Port Coquitlam.

Bicycle In Motion

My son is working on a web page for a college class and wanted me to take some photos for him to use. We picked this nice treed spot and I took my first shots using the sport setting for subject in motion on my camera. I'm pleased with the results of him riding past as I took the photo and he found some to use for the web page too. This is my favourite.

August Card Project 1

August Card Project 1
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Cherish The Thought first Sat. card project for Aug. uses 3 embossing folders, flowers and Nestablilities. The grey cardstock is grey Core Color and is sanded after embossing. The bird and vine is embossed on foil tag cut with the Nestabilities.

52 Quilts Journal Week 9

52 Quilts Journal Week 9
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The background is cotton fabric sample, the coloured stuff with the heart cut out is a baby wipe I used to clean up previous projects, the Asian fabric behind the heart cut-out is from a fat quarter I bought in Armstrong when I visited my sister.I decided to fringe the fore edge of the page this time. Now you know that heart cut from the baby wipe just can't be wasted, so it will be seen in a future project.

Sewn Illusions Journal Page 3

Sewn Illusions Journal Page 3
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For this page I used a green background from a bulk supplies store. It looks similar to dryer sheet but coloured. I stitched various scraps of fabric to the background then attached a leftover sample of the dragonfly paper-cloth. This was glued to the album page with sepia Decoupage Finish. I rubber stamped some clear stamp images with black and purple dye inks.

52 Weeks Quilt Journal Week 8

52 Weeks Quilt Journal Week 8
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This page is more of the cloth-paper. The pear is a digitally altered copy of my pear photo and the border is scans of my dragonfly ATC edited to form the border. All these papers were glued to acrylic felt with matt medium and brushed with 2 more coats of matt medium. I outlined stitched the pear with rayon thread, used a decorative stitch around the pear block. The border is random stitched with black thread and the outer edge is zig-zag stitched with black thread.

52 Weeks Quilt Journal Week 7

52 Weeks Quilt Journal Week 7
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This page is a fabric sample background. The heart is torn watercolour paper brushed with Royal Coat sepia Decoupage Finish and torn rubber stamped papers applied then brushed over the top with more of the sepia decoupage finish.The lace ribbon and paper heart were stitched on the background and then the edge was machine stitched around.

Paper-Cloth ATC 1

Paper-Cloth ATC 1
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I'm experimenting with paper-cloth and for this ATC I scanned and printed the dragonfly ATC on regular printer paper. I coated acrylic felt with matt medium and applied the paper image, then coated the image with 2 coats of matt medium. This was cut to size and machine stitched around the edge.

July ATC Memories In Texture

I placed a piece of plastic mesh vegetable bag and glued string on to cereal box cardboard cut to ATC size. I then wrapped heavy duty aluminium foil over the top and gently rubbed over the surface to emboss the textures. The extra foil was wrapped to the back of the card. next I sponged FW acrylic ink over the foil and heat set. I brushed diluted Diamond Glaze and allowed it to dry. I added a glass leaf bead and a metal tag embossed with "memories" using a silver brad to hold it in place.

The back is watercolour paper, misted with water and the FW acrylic inks dropped on and moved around a bit to blend. This was also heat set. This is a little more like I expected with the dragonfly backgrounds, but I'm liking both now.

July ATC Dragonfly

July ATC Dragonfly
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Some ATCs I made just playing with supplies I have on hand. I used shiny cardstock that was pre-cut to ATC size and made a background with FW acrylic ink in Purple lake and olive green and Pearlescent liquid acrylic in birdwing copper. This didn't turn out quite the way I expected, but I carried on and rubber stamped with the dragonfly and Hematite ep along with a light sprinkle of some mixed embossing powders. Then I cut the ATC down to 2 in x 3 in so I could layer it over 2 other pieces of cardstock.

Tea Themed ATC for July

Tea Themed ATC for July
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Here's a few more tea themed ATCs I got ready in time for Sunday's swap at the Grind. All the mini tags are from the Quickutz Squeeze die cutting machine. We had a great, lively swap with 2 new swappers in attendance.

Exploring Waves Bag

Exploring Waves Bag
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

I've been progressing along on this bag and am now about 50% done. I'm still loving the gentle shading of the yarn.

July ATC Swap at The Grind

July ATC Swap at The Grind
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Here is another batch of the butterfly digital background, this time with a goddess theme. Most of the rubberstamps are from Quietfire Design.

July ATC Swap at The Grind

July ATC Swap at The Grind
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Digital image background and rubber stamps from Quietfire Design. I rotated and cropped the digital images I was using to practise layers in Photoshop Elements. I tried out different embossing powders and added bling embellishments.

ATC July Butterflies

ATC July Butterflies
Originally uploaded by okanagan_spirit

I used white cardstock and stamped the Quietfire Design stamp then used cosmetic sponges to apply Distress Inks. The butterflies are stamped with purple dye based ink and the cardstock was trimmed 2.25in x3.25in and mounted onto a 2.5in x 3.5in dark blue cardstock.

July ATC Dragonfly in Black and White

Here are some more ATCs I made today. These ones are paper napkin applique backgrounds with dragonfly rubber stamped on white cardstock and cut out. The words are cut from a stamping of the "Love where you're at" rubber stamp from Quietfire Design There is a small white or black rhinestone on each for a little bling.