Countdown to Christmas/ Advent Calender

Embellished this Countdown to Christmas with 3 simple surprises for my 3 grandkids .

Each day they can peek in the cubby for fun treats.

 I filled each cubby with  stickers, cat pins, stamps, ornaments and small treasures.

Hope they look forward to it daily enjoy them!

Autumn Tornado

"Autumn Tornado " has been selected as for the SAQA Global Exhibition Primal Forces: Wind exhibition. I made this quilt for my grandson who is fascinated by Tornadoes. The yarn was hand couched and has a lot of beads. The leaves were  cut out of a sheer ribbon using a heat tool. Love the texture in the quilt. 29x21"

Memorial ornaments

Ornaments made with his own clothes and buttons, designed in software, printed on fabric, applique, machine embroidery

Smile!

 

My quilt, Keys To The Nation in the Inspired By the Nation's Capital by Donna DeSoto

 

Keys To The Nation

The Washington DC skyline was combined with a key in Make The Cut software. It was cut out by an electronic cutter and both the positive and negative designs were appliqued in the quilt. The positives and negatives that happen in DC affects the rest of the nation. The USA map has Zentangle designs with Pigma pens

 

Materials: Buttons, cottons, net, sheers, ribbons, trims

This is one of 103 quilts, 24" square, in Donna Marcinkowski DeSoto's newest book, "Inspired by the Nation's Capital" published by Schiffer  will be available everywhere books are sold on September 27.

Embossed paper and fabric postcard

Lemon juice on fabric

Another sunset fabric postcard

Embossed sunset

Maple Leaf

Fall leaves

Cupid

Positive Negative Cupid

Another velvet embossed rose

Embossed fabric with stamps

Embossed Rayon Velvet with a  misted stamp and iron, cut a heart and machine embroidered and the fabric postcards

Silhouette cityscape

Another fruit postcard

Fruit postcards continued

Fruit Fabric Postcard swap

Embossed and, inked plain tan fabric to create woodgrain fabric. Used a transparancy for the bottle glass and cut fabric fruit

Embossed and inked fabric

Embossed and inked a plain tan fabric for a background for a fruit theme postcard swap. However, my emphasis seems to be more on dessert with a little fruit on top!

Emboss on denim and wiremesh

Emboss and ink

Embossed and inked fabric background, positive and negative images for a food theme postcard swap

Sewing basket

Embossed fabric background, foil thread and needle

Silhouette fabric postcard

Added an aluminum can sun to a silhouette fabric postcard

Embossed/ debossed foil and fabric Beetle

 Debossed foil fireworks,

 fabric VW Beetle with opalescent windows at top.

embossed foil beetle at bottom. 

Embossed and sanded black Aluminum

Embossed and sanded black Aluminum postcard. The roof is the back of the black aluminum.

Embossed Aluminum lockwashers fabric postcard

Another embossed and sewn aluminum can

Embossed another aluminum can, sewed it to peltex for a fabric postcard and added the ballerina to the center

Embossed aluminum can and embossed synthetic on peltex sprayed with blue ink postcard

Embossing an Aluminum can

Cut and embossed an Aluminum can.Will sew it in a postcard tomorrow

Embossed wallpaper and spray ink

Debossed vs Embossed Peltex

Debossed synthetic on left. Embossed Peltex and metallic gilding polish on the right

Synthetic ribbon and embossing folder

Earrings with organza, net, washers and heat tools

net earrings, heat tool

Earrings made with 4 layers of net per leaf  and a  heat tool

Stone, metal flowers, net and Heat tool

Traced around a stone and metal flower with the heat tools, then several layers of net and shapes to create new flowers

die negative space and net

Paper, Soldering Iron, Holes!

 

Finally learnt how to staple a quilt to a canvas to finish my project.

I sewed the quilt onto a perfect cotton background, then stapled it to a canvas. 

The quilt was made previously by using the heat tool to burn holes on Yupo paper. 

The colors were added with alcohol inks. I also added net and paper to complete the quilt.

Cats with net and heat tool

Organza tree

Traced around the metal tree on the left over 3 layers of organza with a heat tool. Another quick silhouette project...liked using 3 black organza layers. The tree is about 8 inches tall.

Using both positive and neagative shapes

Net Waves, heat tool

Cut 2 layers of net of a wave thin metal die with a heat tool and included it in an ATC