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Cute Critters Christmas Challenge
Every once in awhile, it is fun to switch things up and do something I hadn’t planned. This post is all about that serendipitous path to making a cute critters Christmas challenge card. The August challenge at Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge is to use a cute critter. Lawn Fawn always comes to mind for cute images, so…
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“Message From the Sun” Quilt
The theme challenge for the Portland Modern Quilt Guild’s Improv Group in August was sun/sunshine. I wasn’t really sure where this was headed but wanted to work in surface design and Tyvek. The pile of materials, pictured above, shows the materials with which I started. After sewing and melting and sewing, I created a Message…
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Making a Card with Leftover Mixed Media Pieces
Yesterday’s post was about using one stamped image, and one die on several cards. There was a leftover stamped and watercolored image. This piece is what makes the butterflies on this card. The post, with three cards, is here. Cutting up mixed media pieces gives a new life to the work. The butterflies are die-cut from…
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3 Cards Using the Same Stamp and Die
Maybe it is because I am lazy but when I have a stamp already out that I like to use, I will make several projects before cleaning it and putting it away. In this case, the project is cards. And because I have a short attention span, they need to be different from each other.…
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Metallic Watercolor Cards
Splatter/Stipple Painting Erum Tasneem’s Creative Coloring class is the latest Altenew Academy class which I’ve completed. I was not familiar with her teaching style or videos prior to the class. The class was a lovely adventure of fun techniques and trying new things. I was inspired to apply some of the watercolor techniques on an…
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Art Journaling – Hands
Art journaling is a very personal pursuit. I only show a small number of journal entries to other people. This set of pages uses my traced hand as the focal image. Even though the content of the text is not very personal, using an actual body part is! I used Altenew’s masking paper to trace…
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Improvisational Surface Design
Very rarely do I abandon other projects to work on something new. Recently, an opportunity presented itself that caused me to work on something unexpected. This recently happened because of a challenge posed by the Improv group of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild. The July prompt was ‘Surface Design’. My piece incorporated both improvisational quilting…
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Elements of Floral Composition
One of the Altenew Academy classes that I recently completed has to do with the elements of design. The class is taught by Jaycee Gaspar. He is an Altenew Design Team Member, as well as an Altenew educator. Jaycee makes beautiful cards using watercolor with stamped floral images. His work is gorgeous! I took this…
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Watercolor Takes Practice
Recently, I completed two Altenew Academy classes on watercolor for card makers. After viewing the two different instructors’ creations, the main takeaway is that watercolor takes practice. In my case, a lot of practice! The workshops are titled Botanical Illustration Inspired Watercolor, taught by Jaycee Gaspar, and Artists’ Watercolor 101 for Paper Crafters with Emily…
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann
Quilts, Cards, Mixed Media, and Other Stuff
Scrappinthread by Beverly Tiemann 