My second abstract art painting.

My second abstract art painting. I made this for my sister for her Christmas gift. :o)

Crafts I've made in Nov/Dec 2012

A vintage looking greeting card that I made. I used my new butterfly paper punch. :o) The beads are beads stickers.

Another vintage looking note card that I made. The Eiffel Tower is a brad, the stamps are actually stickers that look like stamps and the butterfly is a sticker.

A zentangle letter M that I made. I had lots of fun making this one...and it was quick and easy. :o)

Crafts I've made in October 2012

My first time painting was on October 9th, 2012 and I made abstract art. It's a Christmas present for my pen pal Jenn.

A silver Christmas ornament ATC. Crocheted ornament, then pearls, ribbon and jewel sewed on. Then the ornament was sewn onto card stock. The card stock was put on a sturdy backing (a piece of a cardboard box).

A Snoopy ornament that I crocheted for my pen pal Mel. I had to figure out how to do it myself as there are no patterns online. I didn't write down the pattern cause I had to keep pulling out a bunch of stitches and redoing them to keep it looking like Snoopy. :) This was made in October 2012 too.

2 Christmas ornament ATC's

Glittery star fabric, crocheted star ornaments, silve gel pen and blue cardstock. :)

3 more polymer clay ornaments.

I bought some colored polymer clay to make these ornaments. It was about as much work as just using white and painting.

Snowman ornament

A Snowman Christmas ornament that I made out of polymer clay and painted with acrylics. :o)

2 Robot pincushions and a Frankenstein pincushion that I made.

 

Two more abstract ATC's that I made. :)

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Christian alphabet ATC....B is for.....

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My hand drawn abstract art ATC's

The one below is my favorite one. :) I've been reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern, so I think reading about a circus has inspired my art. Lol.

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Digital Scrapbooking Freebies.

I got a link to a Digital Scrapbooking Freebie site. Check it out.

http://www.everydaymomideas.com/search/label/Digital%20Scrapbooking%20Freebies?m=1

 

A Christian ATC that I made for a swap.

This is what I did for the letter A.

I found this website with some links to great pincushion patterns. They're all free! I love the Hexie-caddy and the patchwork pincushions. :)

http://tipnut.com/22-free-pincushion-patterns/

Jesus ATC

My pen pal is Japanese so I made a Jesus ATC for her. Hand drawn with colored pencils.

Jesus is written as:
イエス

Happy 4th of July!

A red, white and blue cupcake ATC I made. :)

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My Ribbon Organization

I bought some of these 4x6 craft baggies at walmart.

They can fit two spools of ribbon.

I also bought some 3x5 ones.

For the left over pieces of ribbon, I take a small strip of white computer paper, fold the ribbon and then fold the strip of paper over it and staple it together.

Then put it in a small bag or sometimes a bigger one, depending on how much ribbon there is.

Then I clip the baggies onto my clip it up. I do this with lots of crafting supplies and eventually most of them will make it into baggies and onto the clip it up. Lol. I need to get some 5x7 baggies for the bigger ribbon. :)

I bought the clip it up on amazon.com. They have all different sized ones. I think mine is the mini 10x10.

Happy crafting and organizing!

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It's finally finished. :)

I laid the batting down then the backing fabric face up and the quilt top face down and pinned it together. Then I trimmed the batting. Then sewed around, leaving a small part open so I could turn it inside right. (the corners should be sewn across at an angle).

Flipped it inside right and voile.

Now hand sew the opening shut. I needed to take a trip to Joann's to buy brown thread.

Then I sewed a border all the way around to hold all the layers in place. And now it's finally finished! Yaaayyy! (Now I just have to make my curtains. Heehee.)

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More ATC's

The last of the number series...zentangle #8 and #9. I really enjoyed this swap.

A Patriotic ATC for Memorial Day. Ribbon, star stickers and the rest drawn.

My quilt

I created my own pattern for a quilt. I measured my twin bed and decided how long and wide I wanted the quilt, then deducted 6" from the legnth and width (for the border around), then I divided by 3 to get the width and by 5 to get the length. When I discovered how big each square would be, I deducted 3" off the size of the yellow ones, so I could add a brown strip.

Then I cut the fabric I had chosen for my blocks. Teal, pale yellow and brown.

 Then I took the yellow block and brown strips, pinned them and sewed them together.

Then I ironed the seam down. If there is a light color on a quilt, you always wanna iron the seam towards the darker color, otherwise it will show through the quilt. This and the above pictures were taken in Jan/Feb 2011.

In total I had 8 teal squares and 7 yellow/brown squares. This picture and all those below were taken on April 12, 13, 14 2012. Those are the days I worked on the quilt top. :o)


With right sides facing I pinned a teal and yellow/brown square together on one side and then sewed.

On the opposite side of the yellow/brown square, I pinned another teal square and sewed.

This is how one strip came out. I made 3 strips like this one and 2 strips with two yellow/brown squares and one teal square.

 I laid two strips the way I'd want them to look when sewn together.

Then with right sides facing, I put them together. And continued for each strip.

 I then measured the length of the quilt top and cut a 3" wide border. I pinned and sewed them, then  measured and cut a 3" border for the top and bottom.


And......

VIOLE! My quilt top (59" wide x 74" long). I can't wait to get the backing, so I can put this baby together. I already have the batting and my curtain fabric. :o) So, keep an eye out, you'll be seeing more. :o)

Zentangle #7 in the series

Obsess much?

Headless horseman atc swap. I printed a tiny picture of the headless horseman, colored the eyes orange and drew the covered bridge.

Zentangle eye swap. This was so much fun to make. :)