Sunshine before wine fabric collage

This is my fabric collage inspired by Bev Penny who did a workshop for our local quilt guild. We used lots of colours and tiny pieces of fabric. The design is my own and I kept it pretty simple and cheerful with my hand dyed background. I quilted it with multicoloured thread.The Hubby made a…

A dreamy fabric and paper collage

A friend saw my art quilt and brought me a dollar store napkin with a dream catcher image. She wanted me to make a special gift for her niece’s birthday. I made the art piece and a card to match. The dream catcher was very thin so I used beads and silver thread to make…

Paper napkin and fabric collage

I went to a workshop with quilt artist Karen Cummings. We made some cute abstract 8 by 10 artwork quilts using paper napkins for an image. I made two. I used the scraps to make some cards too.

Quilt card for a quilter

I was asked to make a farewell card for one of our long time quilters who is moving to a care facility. I made a book with removable inserts so there was room for lots of people to write heart felt messages to her. I used an Eileen Hull book die and some quilt theme…

Painted Glass and Butterfly wreaths

We made some pretty cards with Stampin Up Painted Glass stamps and dies. Then we used Stampin Up Butterfly Beauty dies and Butterfly Gala to make a lovely spring wreath to hang in the window. The paper was coloured with Brusho colours on watercolour paper first, before we cut out the dies. We each did…

Shell mirrors

Recently we were given a large box of assorted shells. I decided to use them, along with assorted bits and bobs to decorate a couple of mirrors. I taught our multimedia group as it was so much fun. They did turn out rather pretty don’t you think?

A retirement celebration gift book

The librarian at our community library is retiring after more than 30 years and they are having a party to celebrate her. They asked me to make a card for her but I thought a book was more appropriate with lots of room for the guests to write nice messages for her. I used some…

A gift book for an 80th birthday

A sweet family friend had a significant birthday party. I made her an album guest book for the celebration. I used a paper collection from Michaels and made the cover from a cardboard box that a new sheet set came in. It had a perfect flap to magnetize for a closure. I white washed the…

Beautiful Paper Book

This book was made from a Jenn of Eve designed template that I purchased from her online website. The paper line I used was Graphic 45 Nature Study and random sheets from my stash. I used lots of stamps and died to decorate the pages. There are 6 pages with many interactive elements, I mailed…

The quilt challenge results

This year we have been creating a block once a month for a theme chosen by one of the quilt challenge members. Today was the big reveal of the squares. They were all so different and interesting. As I am a beginning quilter I learned a lot participating in this challenge. can you tell what…

Lace book progress

I have the body of the book done and all the pages attached. I have used the coloured vintage hankies and a panel of Santoro fabric for the pages. Now I will add lace to border all the ladies and the spaces between the panels. Once that is done I will embroider, add vintage buttons…

His birthday card

I made a cute box card for the Hubby’s birthday. It has all his favourite things symbolized on it- His plane, curling, golf and his 2 little grandsons. I hope he liked it but it sure was fun to make!