See my ice dyeing article in the Aug/Sept issue of Quilting Arts.
Category Archives: crafts
Petroglyph-inspired rubbing plates
When Dave and I visited the Petroglyph National Monument last September, I just fell in love with all of these rock carvings. That site has over 20,000 images that were carved on the volcanic rocks by the Native Americans and … Continue reading
Posted in acrylic paints, crafts, fabric, rubbing plates, surface design, tutorials
Tagged fabric printing, petrogylph, repurposing, rubbing plates, surface design
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Collage with Claudia Congleton
This week’s “Telling Your Story” column in The Evansville Courier & Press is my interview with Claudia Congleton and her journey to collage. See her story and collage tips HERE. If you read the column, please disregard the first three … Continue reading
Posted in collage, crafts, paper, telling your story
Tagged Claudia Congleton, collage, crafts, telling your story
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An apron for the cook
The last couple days I’ve been sewing. I finally made something with this great material I bought at the thrift store. After that post, Hubby mentioned that he’d like an apron made out of that material. He volunteers on Tuesdays … Continue reading
Posted in art journals, crafts, Sewing
Tagged aprons, art journals, homemade aprons, sewing
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Gelli Plate and wood fabric stamps
I purchased this Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate this past summer and have just got around to playing with it. If you’re not familiar with them, instead of making your gelatin plate as I did in this post, this plate … Continue reading
Playing with wax
Yesterday, my friend Kathy and I played with wax on plexiglass. The November/December issue of Cloth Paper Scissors had a tutorial on this so we thought we’d see what we could come up with. We started by gluing our focal … Continue reading
Posted in crafts, wax
Tagged Cloth Paper Scissors, crafts, encaustic, Katherine Sands, Wax and plexiglass
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It’s a new year!
Happy New Year everyone! Before I get started with this post I wanted to thank you all for all of the kind comments and emails about Sidd. Those kind words have meant so much to me. We buried him down … Continue reading
Posted in art journals, crafts, Journal Writing, Losing a pet
Tagged art journals, Happy New Year, I Am, journaling, Oprah's Lifeclass Journal, Super Soul Sunday, Tom Shadyak
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Oil Painting with Kay Daniels
Happy New Year Everyone! Today’s Telling Your Story column in The Evansville Courier & Press is about Kay Daniels, a self-taught artist who loves playing with oils. See her story here. Kay’s work is really beautiful. This is one of … Continue reading
Posted in crafts, oil paints, telling your story
Tagged Kay Daniels, Kay-Daniels.com, oil painting, telling your story
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Stupendous Stitching Class
I gave myself an early Christmas present – Stupendous Stitching, a class on Craftsy taught by Carol Ann Waugh. This wonderful present has possessed me occupied many of my waking hours for the last several days! This is what I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in craft product reviews, fabric, quilting, Sewing
Tagged Carol Ann Waugh, Craftsy, hand embroidery, machine stitching, quilting, sewing, Stupendous Stitching
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Yikes! I’m my mom
With the holidays comes those memories of long ago Christmases. It also brings back memories of my mom. Mom left this world 40 years ago. She left this life while I was just becoming an adult. Since she’s been gone … Continue reading
Printing with thermofax screens
I was fortunate recently to win the tulip trio thermofax screens from Margaret at Scrap Wisdom Collage. I was pretty excited since I’ve been wanting to try these screens. Since the only fabric paints I had available and I just … Continue reading
Posted in crafts, fabric, thermofax screens
Tagged fabric, Margaret Applin, Scrap Wisdom Collage, screen printing, thermofax
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