This is my first felting attempt with the Pfaff 350. I started with a very dark red and green wool plain, matching solid red and solid green, yellow polyester felt, and then added bits of fibers. With the 90-100 degree days we've been having this month, I call this: Pining for Fall! I trimmed it to postcard size but will just put this in a book of samples. I had a tough time adjusting to using a slow speed with my hands and a faster speed with my foot pedal!!! This fabric art is going to be LOTS of fun.

No art this morning but just had to share our experience from 5:05 to 6:30 a.m. this morning. I set the alarm for 5:00 and DH and I went outside and watched the total lunar eclipse. It had just started to darken from the top of the moon -- which was a full bright moon -- gorgeous. We looked through a sort of telescope and were able to see it in all it's glory but it was also an awesome site to the human eye. It really did turn a gorgeous pinkish color. We couldn't see quite as much copper as in this photo taken in Utah. You can google for lots of stories and pics. When it was totally eclipsed, we took a short drive, hoping to see it start back to full moon but the trees were in our way everywhere we went so we gave up and came back home. Even with street lights, neighbors leaving for early work schedules, and outside house lights on, it was a fantastic view, right from our front yard!!!

I've added a lot of things I've recently made to my blog in the last few days. I would like to begin selling things from my blog so that I can give buyers a better price. It will also save me on consignment and booth fees, gasoline and delivery time. I will always mail the most economical way possible and I do not charge for packaging and handling -- only actual postage fees.

If you see anything interesting below that you'd like to buy, please email me for prices and details. I will try to accommodate all special requests.

I also have a lot of new things in the works that I will post as I develop them.

In addition I'll be posting new and used rubber stamps from my collection, as well as related art and craft supplies -- many different areas of interest. I am happy to make up collage packages and fabric/embellishment packages from my "stash."

If you are looking for anything special, please let me know. Special orders don't upset us!
Thanks for looking and please pass my blog along to anyone you think would be interested.

Happy Creating,
Lorraine

I have made a stack of these recently, in various colors. Inside is a flat measuring tape purchased at Joanne's. I also have a few of these I can make up and sell.

The town of Winchester, KY had a Red Hat convention this past weekend. Because that's where my little sales booth is, I made some Red Hat Cards. Their theme this year was cowgirls. I didn't have time to make all the different cards I would have liked to. The Wanted text and stars are Stampin' Up stamps and The Red Hat Gang text is a public domain font which I altered to match the Wanted stamp -- a wanted poster look. I used metallic pencils, pens and glitter pens. The card measures approx. 6"x6" and I made ennvelopes with red hat design scrapbook paper.

I will be making more of these in the future so feel free to order all you want!!!

This is the wording I wrote for the inside of the Red Hat Gang card. I altered a public domain font to look like an old western wanted poster.

These were note cards I made for the red hatters, blank inside. I can make any number of these you might wish to buy! An envelope is supplied.

The third card I made for the Red Hat convention sale. The bracelet is removable and a message for any occasion can be written inside. I only had three bracelets so will not be able to repeat these cards.

Another of my playful cats -- this one hangs in my bathroom which is decorated in a cat theme. I have a very hefty cat named Muffin who has grown too lazy to play so this was a fitting "portrait."

I have some beautiful marbled paper that I bought from a very talented gal (Pat K. Thomas) who taught a group of us marbling last fall. I inserted these into two checkbook covers. The first one has a piece of embossed and stamped cardstock -- made by adhering several layers of extra thick embossing power and then stamping into it while still hot with gold metallic ink. These are currently in my booth for sale but I have lots and lots of these papers, as well as my own marbled papers and can make up special orders.

This was such fun. I used a piece of glossy black cardstock with metallic alcohol inks and then sprayed with rubbing alcohol. Gina Burns taught our stamp group this technique. It lingered in my box for several months until I remembered the woven metallic paper I bought at Marco Papers. I added several metallic paper strips, embellishments and a black and gold hand made paper and then added my little piece on top. This one was snapped up by Mary at the Damselfly shop. I have just bought a couple of interesting metallic frames to make a couple more collages. If you are interested in one, let me know! I call this Metallic Dreams.

When I was taking water color lessons from Bill Tippie, he suggested we try something new and we painted 3 or 4 whimsical cats. Mary, at the Damselfly shop, loved this one and has it in her shop to sell.

This was a mat and frame I bought originally to cross-stitch an apple and wording beneath.
Well, a few years later, I am not into Iris folding and so made the folded apple and then stamped the apple stamp in the bottom cutout. This one is also in my booth for sale.

This collage looks a bit darker than it really is. I started this in a class by Mary Jo McGray. It was fabulous. We used a vintage image and beeswax and then stamped into the warm beeswax with rubber stamps. I added the piece of handmade paper over wire screen at the bottom and the word embellishment at the top(The Good Old Days) and found this frame that fit perfectly. This one is in my booth for sale.

I needed to do something lighthearted one day so decided to start with a piece from a playful Bill Tippie watercolor experiment, I added a bit more color here and there, sewed a couple of bring fabric scraps to the wc paper, then sewed a piece of fabric over heavy wc paper and attached a fabric hook which doesn't show in the picture above. Then I sewed some fabric scraps to the bottom, added some beads on a ribbon, a teal glass "dangle" and Mary, the owner of The Damselfly shop loved it -- so -- my Frivolity piece is sold but I can make lots more if anyone is interested in hanging a bit of frivolity in their home or office!

I don't usually like leaves that are non-leaf colors but when I did this monoprint, I decided I liked it enough to keep and frame. Who says there can't be blue leaves!!!

I made this monoprint in a class -- my first -- and have it in my booth for sale. I'd love to do more of these and have been reading about how to do them "at home" without a big press.

This is another mono print I made and framed and have in my booth for sale -- my first time making monoprints and it was such fun!

Sorry I cut the edges of the frame off on this one. The frame is a beautiful dark wood with black and gold . I started with a handmade piece of black and gold heavy "crumpled" paper, added a partial piece of a watercolor painting by Bill Tippie (who taught me to paint), and I added various embellishments as well as some strips of Laurel Burch fabric selvages and a fussy cut of one of her fabric angels. The porcupine quill was given to my by my dear friend Lin Frye. This one is in the Damselfly shop.

This is probably my smallest fabric collage to date -- Laurel Burch fabrics and other Egyptian fabrics. This one is in my booth for sale.

Another tiny fabric landscape -- simple with no decorative stitching. This one is at the Damselfly shop.

I just love creating small fabric landscapes. This one is 5x7" and often I choose the frame and then make match the fabrics to it -- I am definitely a "color" mood person. The fun thing about this one is that I used the same fabric for the 1st and last mountain ranges -- I just turned it sideways and there were yellow and green streaks in it that weren't in the upper piece. I really like working with variegated fabrics, especially hand dyed ones. I also enjoy using the selvages from fabric as grass as in this one; some of the colors you get on fabrics are realy cool when frayed. This one is in the Damselfly shop.

I love working small and I believe this is the smallest fabric landscape I've made except for the fabric postcards. Sometimes I leave them very plan, no top or decorative stitching, and when I do I always put glass over them. Some people like them plain, others like a lot of stitching -- different strokes! This one is for sale in my booth.

This mixed media piece was a lot of fun. I combined both Sherrill Kahn and Laurel Burch fabrics -- my two favorites and added ear rings from yard sales, fibers, and the rubber stamped and embossed wording. This one is at the Damselfly shop.

This is a 4x6 fabric landscape. For some reason I am drawn to the Southwest although I've spent only a few days in Arizona. The colors just speak to me. This one is for sale in my booth.

For this fabric collage I started with an antique looking piece of fabric, a very deep polished wood frame, part of a vintage table napkin and pieces cut from a crocheted piece. This one is in the Damselfy shop.

This little fabric collage came together because of the colors on the frame, the fabric and in the hand crocheted piece. When you lift the crocheted piece you see fairies delineated by top stitching. This one is in my booth.

Sometimes I use a "barely visible" frame and sometimes a "larger than life" frame for my projects. I wanted this one to feel like one was looking deep into the Southwestern dessert and to the mountains beyond. This is one of the fabric landscapes I have for sale in my booth.

This was a fun collage I recently sold. I started with an easel back (the kind that are in the back of an 8x10 phtoto frame). I had a couple of extras from when I was into picture framing. I wrapped it with a piece of fabric -- an already collaged print(!). On top I layered a painting I'd done at a class in NC. To it I sewed pieces of fabric, mesh, and a hand made and painted clay heart with the words Believe on it (received in an online swap).

I love to do collages -- sometimes simple, sometimes "messy!" I had a gorgeous piece of background paper with Asian designs and soft silky threads to it and added a card containing a happi coat and a kimmono which I folded from flowered papers; then I added a cancelled Asian stamp, a metal Asian scent bookmark, and some gold colored coins and charms. This and the one below it are all in my little booth -- for sale -- in Winchester.

Another version of the Asian collage -- mixed media -- primarily blues and golds.

All the following postcards (August) were made to sell in a gorgeous shop in Midway, KY.
The Damselfy had beautiful handmade items that put mine to shame -- but I had to start somewhere!

This fabric postcard is made from a scrap from my friend Janet's scrap bags (gratefully accepted by me). I mounted it on a green background and stitched around it. The cardstock sticker said it all -- but he/she looks more like a playful wild thing to me!

When I pulled this piece from Janet's scrap box, I "saw this sad looking baby" looking through a little hole in a fence just begging for attention. Anothe piece that I would have, in years past, thrown away. The "just perfect" saying is cardstock -- everythng else is fabric and stitching.

This fabric postcard is much richer looking "in person" because the underlying fabric is sheer, printed, and has gold threads in it. I was looking for a "royal" cats feeling! The embelllishment says:

A mixed media, fabric based postcard. I used to think that the "whole image" had to show but as I looked at the artwork of others, realized that bits and pieces are just as effective, perhaps more so. I first pieced several green pieces and then overlaid the animal images piece and stitched around it and then added decorative stitches and the worded embellishment: We are family.

I love making fabric postcards and experimenting with the decorative stitches on my machines -- I was in a "cool" mood as I pulled scraps from the bag. The mountains are made from a piece of hand dyed fabric I bought at a quilt show in Berea last summer. I love mixing textures -- this piece lends a bit of roughness -- good for a mountain!

A bit of a different take on a fabric postcard scene. The green and brown fabric on the right, above the mustard color, is actually an asparagus print! I love using unusual fabrics to get a wholly different effect from the intended use.

Another fabric postcard landscape. I love the selvage trim in this one (white grass!).

Another fabric postcard with outline and decorative stitching and lace butterflies.

I have gazillions of flower fabric and love to add vintage pieces to it. These two pieces just belonged together.

This is another piece of my friend Janet's famous red scrap box with decorative stitching and a gold charm. A quick and easy fabric postcard.

This was a fun and easy postcard to make -- there are such wonderful fabrics now where you can get a whole card out of one image. I just added metallic gold threat decorative stitching and some gold colored Egyptian embellishments.

I love to shop in vintage shops and buy all manner of old linens -- it's such a "find" to get those that were preserved with no stains or holes. I found 4 of these napkins, crisply starched. I don't think they'd ever been used. I quickly turned them into envelopes for the fabric postcards like the one shown above. Just happened to have some tiny flower buttons that matched the napkin trim. The fabric postcard has pieces I cut from a hand crocheted dresser scarf and a printed ribbon -- the old and new! I've consigned these and all the ones below to a wonderful shop in Midway, KY called The Damselfly. Much more to be added but need to get back to creating now!

A simple fabric postcard with a piece of trim and a button added.

Fabric postcard with Sherrill Kahn's fabrics, from my friend Janet's stash. The fabrics are so detailed that all I added was decorative machine stitches in variegated threads.

Fabric postcard, pieced and then overlaid with fabric patches and stitched with variegated threads. From my friend Janet's scraps and mine.

A simple pieced fabric postcard with a lace buterfly and lots of decorative stitching.

Fabric postcard made with scraps from my friend Janet who makes gorgeous quilts (a fellow lover of Sherrill Kahn and Laurel Burch fabrics). A lot of little pieces and decorative stitching.

Fabric postcard with a "fussy cut" from a printed fabric piece of seed packets.

Another take on the fabric postcard below. I added the extra b&w piece from my stash and used red metallic stitching.