ATCs For June "All Stitched Up"

ATCs For June "All Stitched Up"
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One of the themes for the Byhand ATC monthly swap is stitched.These all have a layer of craft felt cut with the Sizzex ATC die and fabrics from sample books purchase at Ruby Dog's Art House back when they were still on Maine Street. Some have several pieces of fabric and all are finished with buttons.

Red Journal Page Spread

Red Journal Page Spread
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I used the same design as for the "Thinking in Red" ATC for the focal point of this journal spread. I used as many images in the theme of red as I could easily fit on the pages. Many of the images came from paint sample brochure, the red pears are my own photo and the lady with red cloak is from The Lady's Closet free collage sheet. This is my journal made from assorted papers from Ruby Dogs Art House that I got from the former bulk section of the store.

More ATCs for The Grind Swap

Here are the rest of the needle felted ATCs for today's swap in Vancouver. The first set is two free standing needle felted flowers, embellished with beads and stitched onto striped fabric. The other two are needle felted with a template onto the fabric.


The last group are needle felted stripes embellished with buttons and a piece of knotted torn fabric, some of which are coloured with Distress Inks.
My needle felting kit is ready for my demo today, now I better go get me ready, it takes about 90 min. to get into Vancouver by transit.

ATCs For The April Swap at The Grind

The theme for this months swap is stripes so for this set I used a striped ribbon and applied 2 or 3 pieces with double stick tape and added an image layered on cardstock. I added buttons, gold or silver border punch and baby rick rack. The title for this set is "Ribbon Stripes"


This next set doesn't follow the theme, but I did some more needle felting. These are called "Penny Rug Revisit" and are made to resemble the old penny rugs. I am working on more ATCs and will post them later.

Mar 10, 2009 Created Byhand Challenge

Mar 10, 2009 Created Byhand Challenge
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The challenge this week is to make art using the colours green and blue. For my entry I made these 3 ATCs with paper from a gift bag which I misted with water and crumpled then smoothed out and dried. I tore this paper into 2in. by 3 in. pieces and mounted them to blue cardstock. Then the fun began by selecting the blue and green buttons and sewing them on to the ATC. The final step was to mount this on green cardstock.

Altered Tin

Altered Tin
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This is the second part of assignment 2 of the online course I am taking. I used a large tomato tin and painted with white craft acrylic paint with a little of African Violet paint mixed in. The centre band is a strip of coffee stained cotton fabric rubber stamped with a floral background stamp with purple dye based ink. A strip of green ribbon is added along the top and bottom of the cotton and silk daisies are glued on. The feet on the bottom of the tin are three sets of 3 buttons glued together and the handle on the lid is 2 buttons and a chipboard button glued on. You may like to see a previous altered tin I created for holding ATC blanks. I think this one will be a Note caddy for holding notes and quotes I collect.

Byhand Challenge Buttons

This weeks challenge is to use buttons, so I made an ATC using my rose photo with a canvas filter, mounted on black cardstock and glued 3 buttons on. This time I did the whole card myself, even to getting the back on a little crocked. Can't blame anyone else, but maybe it will be my left handed art signature.