water colour crayons, pencils and shiva paint sticks

I have had a morning of playing ! i am trying the http://www.threecreativestudios.com/ technique of the month which is playing with water colour crayons and paint sticks. I used stamps and masks to add patterns. My favourite technique was the shivas but i love anything shimmery ! I know i will be playing some more with these techniques as the possibilities are endless !! Here are my samples waiting to be made into something mmmm ?

It's so hot !

Another hot beautiful day ! the weather is fantastic and i just came back from a 9 mile walk down the trails. I am so lucky to be living next to the lake i saw rabbits a deer, chipmunks, bluejays a red cardinal a crane gosh i saw so many things. Of course i forgot to take my camera.
I have spent the weekend cleaning and opening the pool getting it ready, i hopefully will be swimming by wednesday. My yardwork is almost done but we always find more right ? Well going to peg my bed sheets out and then clean the deck, clean the windows do more laundry and finally chill with a glass of wine anyone care to join me !!

My postcards are finished yay ! and my first ATC cards

Hello everybody, glad you stopped by, i have a few things to share today, i finished my two postcards from my class i took with Donna Funnel, i created the backgrounds in class and finished the designs at home. They were fun to make and i do intend to make some more. The landscape one has both machine and hand embroidery, i added french knots as the blossom and i embroidered the fence.

The flower one is some fabric flowers cut from a floral piece and i laid organza on top of these added beads to the centres and then i embroidered some of the highlights of the petals with black floss.

My next little project was to make some ATC cards, i made one which has been posted to England for a swap with my friend Jennie and then i made three more hopefully to swap with whoever would like to ! The backgrounds on these are made from tissuetex which i crinkled and painted and adhered to timtex, The glitter is made from assorted fibres and threads caught between tulle and organza using a water soluble stabiliser and machine stitched before dissolving, i also have added some fine copper woven ribbon. Well thats about it i am working on another project which i hope i can share with you soon !

sea goddess

I have finally finished my sea goddess piece, this started life as a hand knitted square which i embellished onto a piece of painted wunder under, i added silk fibres, roving and angelina fibres. I embellished this then to a piece of creped backed satin and then to some felt. Next step was to add some machine embroidery and some hand embroidery and lots of beads, i made a molded face from paper clay and painted it and then after attaching it i layered a piece of painted mysty fuse over tthe top and heat blasted it in place while it was hot i added some foil highlights. i added some shell beads along the bottom edge.
I wasn't sure how to mount this piece so for now i painted a canvas to try and resemble water and mounted it to this !! Thanks for looking !

Postcard and postcard class !

I just received this wonderful fabric postcard from Sue Bleiweiss of  3 creative studios, I joined in the technique of the month which was the painted lace and my name was drawn to win a postcard . It is so pretty with wonderful colours .

Talking of postcards i took a fabric postcard class on friday at sewfest with Donna Funnel it was so much fun. Donna was a wonderful teacher and she had some wonderful ideas for making the postcards. I have a couple to finish off and then i can share them with you. Sew fest was great i bought more books, fibres, angelina, lutrador etc can't wait to play with my new stash.

I have had a crazy week and i am also trying to get my homework finished for my techniques class which is on monday and an atc for my friend Jennie and a felting piece which will be going on display with my treeman at Reichards quilt store in St Jacobs the middle of the month phew !! ( i'm excited about that ) !
So for now here is the lovely postcard i received from Sue

Felted treeman !

I have been working on this off and on for a few weeks and still don't know if i am fully finished with it yet but i am going to leave it alone for now. This started off with a piece of handmade green felt that reminded me of part of a treetrunk shape. I was going to try and get it done to put in a show here but then i didn't think it was good enough anyway so i slowed down on it .
I used different merino and silk fibres lots of yarns  chifon scarfs for most of the background. The leaves were made from drier sheets with added fibres aand wool then hand embroidered and beads were added. I free motioned the felted piece with swirls to get the feeling of the knots and contour lines of the tree trunk and i added some random beads and hand stitching and french knots.  I added some tree twigs i picked up from my garden wrapped in mixed fibres and hand stitched in place. The photo does not do it justice it has such great texture. Thanks for looking and please let me know what you think !

Painted lace and muslin

Hi everyone ! i decided to play along at the  http://threecreativestudios.com/  technique of the month it was so cool seeing the transformation. I fused different pieces of lace to some fabric, then i added copper foil, i painted it over with lumiere copper paint then dabbed a mix of blue and silver with some perfect pearls added to make the shade of blue i wanted. Then on top i dabbed more copper mixed with some pearls. i added a little bit of rub n buff in copper and turquoise and voila a really cool surface and piece of fabric which i think i am going to turn into a journal cover.
Not wanting to waste the paint mixed i painted a piece of muslin with the paints and when dry i stamped some swirls on it looks so nice in real life. so here or the pics !!

scrumptious surfaces !!

Hi everybody ! hope you all had a wonderful week, a few things to share today !! i have been taking a couple of local classes for my embellisher and we started a little art group to learn new techniques once a month. A friend of mine Judy Eckhardt has taken lots of classes and is well known in the quilting world, here in my county and is passing on her creativity with her own classes. I have tons of samples but today i wanted to share a couple i made in the last class plus two samples i made at home playing and i also want to share some samples of paper fused to quilt batting and inked/painted to look like leather that we created in our art group. i also played a little with my paints and alcohol inks perfect pearls etc.

first two made in the embellisher class felt silks, ribbons, sari ribbon, scarves embroidery

these two i made at home rovings silks, velvet, sheers, yarns

paper leather samples highlighted with treasure gold and the sunset looking one bottom left corner has painted wonder under and mysty fuse on top the two on the right or created using tissuetex and the top left was created using brown paper so cool !!

playing with my paints and ink etc on tissue, cheesecloth, scrim, paper towel and wonder under

Happy easter look what i got this week !!

Hi everyone ! first off hope your all having a fab weekend !! I also hope you all have a very blessed easter i cant wait to get my hands on my easter egg but have to wait till sunday !!

 I have really treated myself to some goodies this past week or so i just love shopping but funds don't always allow me to shop as much as i would like.  Well actually I sold some old stuff on kijiji so with the money i upgraded my embellisher machine to a babylock 12 needle plus i bought the acrylic extention table which i love !! I used one last week at a friends house and i was sold !! Its brilliant when you have lots of fibres and fabrics layered up to embellish nothing drops off  anymore.

I also bought transfer paints, golden acrylics, lumiere paints,  shiva paintsticks,  rub n buffs fabric markers, golden gel, gesso, gum arabic, a new journal  gosh what else oh yes lots of fibres meriono silks, books magazines and oh yes i bought a circle maker for my sewing machine. I bought a few other trinkets beads etc boy it was fun lol !! here is a few pics of some of my goodies !! so now i need to have a good play !!

What a great way to start my day !

I was so pleased to see that Alisha a new bloging  friend has passed on this award to me how kind and thoughtful of her to think of me! Alisha has a wonderful blog that you can check out for yourselfs by clicking HERE.
 I have to tell you all ten things about myself and pass this on to 10 blogging friends

1.  I am a british girl living in canada

2.  I have been married for 20 years well will be in june

3. I have one beautiful 16  old daughter who i just love to bits

4  I have a very very cute shipoo fur baby

5. I walk every day down the beautiful trails beside my house i love walking the trails especially this time of the year when all the little creatures are awakening and the buds or starting to peak through. I walk between 3 and 6 miles there is always something new to see !

6  I spend way to much time on my computer and not enough time crafting!  working on changing that !

7  I  can ski i have skiid in France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, scotland, canada and California. Lake tahoe was my favourite the scenery was breathtaking.

8  I love having my family come stay from England i miss them it was my mum and dads 50th golden wedding anniversary on friday. They are coming to stay with me in august , my sister husband , niece and nephew are also coming with them. i am going to throw them a little party !!

9 I also scrapbook and make cards and have designed for a store and an online site. I have neglected my paper crafts for a short time while i persue my fibre art.

10  I have another blog that i showcase my paper crafts , i have made so many friends through blogging my paer craft site is  Bcr8iv have a peak if you get the chance !!

To pass this on to 10 blogging friends  well i would like to pass this on to all my blogging friends as they are all special, creative, fun, artistic and very inspirational to me ! so if you are visiting me grab the award and display it proudly ! tell us 10 things about yourself and pass it on to bloggers you love ! Have a fabulous day !

felted landscape ! Bliss !

Good morning everyone ! it is such a miserable day today i hope your weather is better than ours ! i am posting this landscape i have been working on and not really sure if it is finished or not yet. i would love to be sat in this cosy cottage amongst the rolling hills and water surrounded by natures beauty now wouldn't that be just bliss !! would love to hear your thoughts comments on my piece have a great day !!

My first zentangle

well after spending the morning cleaning and doing laundry i sat down and browsed through some blogs which led me to lots of zentangles, i have always been fascinated by these and so i made myself a coffee and decided to have some time out creating a zentangle. Oh it was so therapeutic i loved it!  so i made a second one inside a leaf shape. i took a quick lesson from this blog http://www.milliande.com/Zendala-How-To-Draw-A-Mandala-Zentangle-Style.html oh you should try one great fun !!

buttercups by the lake

I finally finished this mini landscape quilt. I took this class last year but i had to do the thread painting at home. I wanted to practice a little first but to be honest i never did and today i thought what the heck just go for it and this is how it came out !! I added some yellow french knots to emphasise the buttercups and now i just need to buy a frame to put it in ! Thanks for stopping by and please leave a message i love getting your comments !!

I won $100 yay !

Well i am excited to share with you some fab news ! I won $100 bucks in the janome revamp contest. I entered last year and although i didnt get one of the major prizes i was still excited to win one of the voters choice prizes. I entered the scrapbook catagory and made a page using an old skirt and a tank top. Well here is my page and what i used.

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to this ................

My very first art quilt ocean treasures !

I am so excited to be sharing my first finished art quilt ! i started with a piece of dyed cheesecloth and i embellished it on my embellisher with merino wool, silk fibres. I added some hand and machine embroidery, angelina fibres lots of beads and shells. I felted it to some blue felt and then added a quilted border which i machine quilted with variegated thread. I definately need more practice with the free motion quilting.

I am so pleased with how it turned out and i love the colours. I managed to find some batik fabric with the same colours as my embellishments and i used this to add the small border and binding. I hope you like it and i would love your feedback ! thanks for looking !

This is a close up of some of the embellishing