New Purse for sale in my Etsy Shop

 

This was a lot of fun to make. the heart came from Chain of Hearts and Maureen Bond is the maker. I made the purse and embellishments. Lined with satin, wooden handles. Very pretty purse....

 

 

Some Mini Quilts I received in a Swap

I was the lucky recient of these mini quilts from Chris Wheelers Group Trading Fabric Post Cards. they are fun to do and quick most of the time.
Thank you ladies such nice work. One of the Mini Quilts was from Art4Mail group. The theme was your favorite song and this woman song was Crazy...LOL

Scary Fairy Swap in Art4Mail

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Emma Trees

These Emma Trees were created by Miriam Gogariy from Ireland in memory of her daughter Emma who died at age 26 from Breast Cancer leaving behind to baby daughters age 3 and 18 months. These 2 will be off in the mail to Miriam so she can donate or give as gifts. I am so sorry Miriam for your loss and I know this time of year is the hardest time for you. Remember that many are thinking of you and you are not alone.... Love Lisa

Pin Cushions from a dear friend

Chris Kopell made these gorgeous pin cushions for me. She does a wonderful job and is very talented. She runs the Pin cushion swaps in Art4Mail for me...come and join us..... click on title to above pin cushions to join Art4Mail

More Lovely Postcards

Thank you to everone who sent me these beautiful postcards. I am so excited to receive such gorgeous postcards in my mail box to brighten my day.....

Postcards I have received just recently

some recent beauties I got in the mail...Thanks Girls!!!

This my a cute little St Patty's day Lass from Barbara Moore, she came as a surprise as I did not sign up for this swap.. thank you for this gorgeous little Miriam Doll.... since you did not name Her I did...we have a Gal from ireland in our Art4Mail group, Miriam and she is a very lovely lady......
This a Postcard from Ildika who did thread painting. the theme is trees and she really captured the look of our long leaf pines in North Carolina, just like the ones in my front yard..She did a beautiful job on these. This was a swap from Postmarkedart 25....Thank you Ildika
This is my Easter Bonnet hat from Barbara Moore, this is from our monthly pin cushion swap in Art4Mail. This is my second hat from her and they are both beautiful... She is also one of our awesome tiny paper piecers....Thanks Barb...

This is a snowflake i received from Barbara Heard, she is one of our aweosme paper piecers on Art4Mail, we have a couple sho can do this tiny tiny paper piecing... It is beautiful. If you click on the picture you can see the detail much better. thank you BJ.

Circle Art and Dotee

These are all tiny circle art made by Ildika Colley from Art4Mail, they are 2 1/2 inch and they are so darling. In the background of one the picture is a dotee totally covered with beads made by Hazel Roots, it is breath taking....
The Art4Mail Yahoo trading group has awesome talented members. I just love it.

This is label on the back of Chris's pin cushion

This is a pin cushion I made for Chris Keppel in an Art4Mail. Made from wool felt and silk ribbon embroidery with some beading.

This is one of my first quilts I made which also comes out at Christmas. I pieced and quilted it on my Bernina..Just simple meandering...


this is a snowman I wove a couple years ago but comes out each Christmas. I have woven several of these along with Santa's but sold all of them or gave as gifts. they are much cuter in person

Underwater Puzzle piece swap

This is a picture of a puzzle swap we did in Art4Mail, everyone had to make 4 pieces and send me the 3 or 4 to trade, then I sent them back 3 or 4 differnt ones so we each ended up with with a small puzzle, you can keep the swap going or stop, which ever people want to do.....this picture is the complete puzzle put together before I sent everone their pieces back.

Janis Harper made this for me

This doll was made by Janis Harper in an Art4Mail blume doll swap we had. She is made almost entirely of fused plastic walmart bags. This doll is truly a master piece and her name is Rita Recycle. What an awesome job she did.
thank you so much Janis!!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Art4Mail/

Janis Harper blume Doll

up close of bottom half

Recycled Clutch Tutorial

This clutch is made form fused plastic bags from stores, like Walmart, Food Lion, Target and so on. The idea came from the magazine Cloth, Paper Scissors. you cut the handles off and the bottom. then you place 2 or 3 bags between parchmant paper, top and bottom because these bags will melt.
then you set the iron to medium. iron slowly over the parchment paper. I painted mine with Alcohol inks, an it dries fast, then I painted with decoupage finsh to seal when that dried, then I cut the melted bags to the size I want, then I heat set it between the 2 pieces of parchmant paper again, just run iron over it slowley, it kind of sticks to the parchment paper but peels right off in a minute or so.
Now you just cut a fabric liner the same size as plastic and sew edges together, you can sew over the whole thing to decorate and do any kind of embelishment you wish. I just flod mine in 3rds, sew up the 2 sides and have a flap closure.
I am doing these for a swap in "FAT" you can find the link to the right.

postcards for swap

I just had to get out my embroidery unit to make sure it still works, I never use the thing...LOL I was so happy to see that it not only worked but that I could figure out how to make it work......

Felt Like Spring postcard

A close up of Felt Like Spring postcard

Felt Like Spring postcards

I did these felted postcards for the swap group "FAT" they are completely by hand, felting, seed stitch, beading and button hole stitch.

fused azalea postcard tutorial

I fused some of my azaleas between two pieces of heat and bond on 2 pieces of fabric, the top piece of fabic is organza so you can see through it. first you put the heat and bond on the fabrics, the background I used white, then I put heat and bond on the organza being careful not to get the heat and bond on anything else and not melting the organza, then you lay the heat and bond side up for the background fabric, then arrange the flowers and leaves on top of that (kind of pushing them as flat as you can) , then lay the heat n bond organza on top of those layers but be sure the heat and bond is facing down, then put a piece of parchment paper on top and bond then iron all together, the fused heat and bond seals the flowers.

Hippity Hop postcards

Postcards for art4mail swap.... I love bunnys....

Seahorse postcard Art4Mail

This is a seahorse theme postcard done for an Art4Mail swap.