It's the Little Things...

This week's Texture Tuesday challenge is to use one of Kim Klassen's textures with any photo.  The theme is "it's the little things".

I store buttons in vintage blue Ball jars.  I chose Kim's "scratched magic" texture, duplicated it several times, changed the blending mode and levels.

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Ugly Duckling turns into a Swan...

I bought a Janome Xpression felting machine in 2005 and have never really used it.  Well,  I took it out of the box once when I first bought it.  I didn't really make anything, but managed to break one of the five needles!  I decided it was time to get this baby out of the closet and play.

I took a piece of white felt about 5" x 5" square.  I've got tons a silk scraps.  I thought I'd start felting a base using some of these.  Not liking it.

 

After adding a couple different shades of gold silk, I still wasn't particularly happy with it.  Looked through my stash of wool roving and pulled out some red, white and blue.  Starting to think maybe this was a mistake!

Felted in some black perl cotton floss - too thin to work well.  Tried to hide it with some white roving.

Thicker black knitting yarn worked better - It's starting to look like a keeper.

Rough cut ultra suede heart; stitched down with zig zag stitch.  Trimmed the piece down to 3" x 3" square - ahh, that's better.

Painted top and sides of canvas 3" x 3" frame with black gesso

Stapled rattail to back of frame

Addition of seed beads; final trim and adhered to frame using soft gel matte medium.  Now I'm happy and relieved since this is a gift for a dear friend's birthday and I wanted to make something special for her.

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Cinque Terre

Cinque Terre is a rugged portion of coastline in Italy located on the Ligurian Sea.  It consists of five villages: Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola and Riomaggiore.  To get from one town to the other one must either walk the trail or take the train.  We chose to walk the trail when we were there in 2006.  

This week's Texture Tuesday challenge is to use one of Kim Klassen's textures with any photo.

I used Kim's "Break Free" texture and Frame 12 from the Coffee Shop Blog.

Home Tweet Home

I submitted my little bird house to the Cloth, Paper, Scissors magazine "Home Sweet Home" challenge.  I recently heard that it was picked as a finalist.  I sent it in and am hoping that it will be among those selected to be published in the magazine.

This birdhouse measures  2.5" wide x 3.5" high x 2" deep - tiny, tiny!  I chose to construct it using silk, felt, beads, buttons, sequins,  miscellaneous hardware, paint, molding paste.  It is machine embroidered, free motion quilted and hand stitched.

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Dream Big!

The Texture Tuesday challenge this week is to use any of Kim Klassen's textures and the word prompt "dream".

Yep, that's me when I was a little girl.  I added Kim's "She Loves You" texture to my photo; a warming filter, wings, adhesive tape  (brush), drop shadow.  The font is "Sunshine in My Soul".  The background is "dark pages" from Playing with Brushes.

The Sketchbook Project 2012 - continued

As promised, here are the rest of the sketchbook pages for The Sketchbook Project 2012.

(14) and (15) glass beads, acrylic paint, water color, embossed, rubber stamped, glitter

 (16) paper, ink, resist; (17) water color, acrylic paint, paint pens, glitz

 (18) aluminum foil, alcohol inks; (19) water color, acrylic paint, paint pens, puff paint

(20) paper, molding paste, cloth-paper, stenciled, rubber stamped; (21) acrylic paint, water color, dimensional pen, petroleum jelly resist

(22) water color, acrylic paint, acrylic glaze, molding paste, acrylic skin; (23) water color, acrylic paint, gesso, paper, rubber stamped

(24) water color, acrylic paint, image transfer on tissue paper, acrylic skin; (25) water color, paper, rubber stamped, image transfer, charcoal pencil

 (26) water color, acrylic paint, stenciled, paper; (27) water color, paper, Joss paper, found objects

(28) acrylic paint, mono-printed; content description

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There is still time for you to take part in this amazing project!

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