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One of my own patterns was used as a challenge on one of the lists I belong to. Several ladies stitches it up using their own interpretation. This is my work-up of the design, which I have done in at least 8 different ways.
This stitching design from an online friend was open to interpretation due to the minimalist layout. I combined colors and used some left-over serendipity squares as a centerpiece.
I love stitching up this pattern that I adapted from an old string-art pattern from the 70's. I play with the colors every time I do it up and it reminds me of all the 'painted ladies' in the local area.
I brought out the fishbones rubber stamp again to make this card. I found that I had this fish hook sticker so I hooked it up.
I used the same plaid background as last time.
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I brought out the face again and this time added a tulip photograph instead of the sticker used before. The text is a sticker.
Instead of using this little corner pocket as designed I used it as a corner element on this calendar illustration. The borders of the cranberry cardstock are cut unevenly and serve as a background for a greeting sticker. Green cardstock is used to bring our the background of the leaves.
Another calendar illustration has been double-matted with a large border at the bottom to feature the puffy acrylic text sticker.
A watercolored stamping of pansies was the jumping-off point for this collage card. Postage stamps echo the theme introduced by the 'postcard' element. Vellum stickers of pansies frame out the bottom border and a plastic text sticker finish it off.
This card folds in from both sides, deeply from the left and narrower from the right. I got the bird illustration from a calendar and mounted on yellow to match the bird.
These two cards are more of the 'caught in crystal' techniques with reinkers. I made these backgrounds while doing the technique for the A-Z challenge but sued different colors and stamp.
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This pattern was stitched up in just two colors which lend this card a 1970s feel. I remember clothing, curtains, and furniture with these sinple color combinations.
A calendar of waterfalls yielded this illustration which I trimmed with scrapbook border and square stickers. Mounted on dark blue cardstock to match a text sticker which is backed with a sky blue card with rounded edges.
One of my groups put up this challenge - everyone using the same pattern. We all stitched it up with different interpretations. Lisa Burns is the pattern designer.
I took a recent opportunity to re-stitch this harpsichord from my own pattern. It uses bugle beads for the slide adjustments and seed beads for the string adjustment keys. I used metallic threads to make the strings liik like metal and brown thread for the edge to suggest wood construction.
This medallion by Fred-She-Said was fun to put together. The colors are very candy-like and I decided to make a valentine of it.
I used a striped and a dotted scrapbook paper as backgrounds for these 3D pillows. I've done these up and shown them before with a different background.
The final project we made with Tim Holtz was this acrylic album. We learned to paint on acrylic with alcohol inks and added a lot of free product.
The first project we made with Tim Holtz was a mini scrapbook using Heidi Swapp papers, grungeboard, and tons of free products. I have mine finished off with photos of our trip from home to return, a few bits of ephemera, and journaling in white pen.
This necklace was made using Ideaology product that Tim Holtz supplied for a workshop. We had a couple of samples but used out imagination to combine the pieces we had been given.
This frame was made on the Tim Holtz cruise. We distressed the pre-stamped background, decorated acrylic Fragments with bits of clip-art with an Alaska theme and attached them on the surface. The grungeboard tag was pre-stamped for us and we distressed and atached it.
