Postcard playdate June 8th

On June 8th a group of us had a playdate with Juanita Sauve at Kitchissippi United Church.  She taught us how to make her beautiful landscape postcards.  I really enjoyed the process and Juanita  did a great job teaching it to us!   Here are two postcards I made at the playdate.  I want to perfect my choice of fabrics and the stitching afterwards.  I might try it with some of my naturally dyed silks.  Out-of-the-box is making postcards which will be shown at FibreFest in Almonte this September as a fundraiser for the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum.

new stamp

In May I made a new foam stamp using a Magic Foam block.   I pressed it onto some star anise and got a neat flower like design.  Here's a stamped piece with my new block around the outside.  In the middle I had stamped one of the corners in the wrong direction but I stamped over it in opaque pink paint and when it was dry restamped it.  It's a slightly different colour but it still works.

my video

We had a successful show!  Lots of visitors and lots of sales.  Liana Voia came to videotape all of the OOTB artists who were present.  I sold about half of the sales items I had brought to sell.  Here's a video of me talking about the pieces I had hanging at the show:

Fibre Fling 4

On April 10-11 I will be showing my artwork at Fibre Fling 4 which is held every spring at Kitchissippi United Church. 

Here is a piece that I will have there in the colour challenge section.  It's for the green challenge and I've named it Hello Spring.  The background is a collage of green fabrics.  Then I machine quilted it over a piece of sheer material and put a silhouette of a blackbird made of black leather on top.  I machine embroidered the details on it.

more photos of Stamping playdate

Here's a photo of some stamps made of Magic stamps.  The foam is heated and pressed into the object you want to use.  You can see I made one out of rice, a pine branch, a necklace and a dried flower.

A student busy at work using her stamps.

I preserved the leaves we used in November using a glycerin and water mixture and freezing them.

Stamping playdate

On January 26th I taught a class to a group of  ladies from Out-of-the-Box on how to make their own stamps at the Kitchissippi United Church.  I showed them how to make stamps with leaves, food, found objects, styrofoam, fun foam, Magic stamps and carving rubber stamps.  It was a lot of fun showing them how to make the stamps and then print with textile paint on fabric and paper.  Here's a photo of me teaching.

Christmas cards

 Here are some Christmas cards that I made this year.  This first one is made of fabric and paper strips.

For this type I made a landscape out of paper and sewed the trees onto it.  Then I cut it up and glued the smaller bits onto cards.

I had a purple piece of quilted fabric collage.  I cut out the tree shape and glued it onto the card.  These were fun to make and they were all different which I like.