Painted Batting Postcards

I am hosting the Montly Art Technique on Art Techniques group. Basically, you just paint or dye scrap batting. You can see some samples on previous posts. I have used diluted acrylic paints, and also left over Procion fiber reactive dyes that I use for hand dyeing fabric. I think you could use just about anything--I am wanting to try it with liquid watercolors too. I am hosting 2 swaps: one for 3/3 finished postcards measuring 4 x 6 inches, that include some painted batting. I am also offering a swap for 5/5 squares of painted batting measuring 6 x 6 inches. You don't have to make a finished project for those, just trading the battings. So, I am looking forward to seeing what people come up with. Here are a couple of the postcards I was playing around with.

Take it Further Challenge--March

Well, I got the top done for the Take it Further Challenge for March. Yes, the edges are supposed to be wavy and crooked! It is called "After Dark" because of the black fabric representing night, and also because I usually work on my quilting/ art between 11pm-12am.
I am trying to decide if I will do a traditional binding, or if I should "birth" the quilt to keep the wavy edge and not show a binding. I really hate birthing, and wouldn't be able to quilt it on my longarm machine if I did it that way, so I'm leaning toward a traditional binding. Hope to quilt it soon. Confession: do you know that I have about 40 quilt tops that need to be quilted? I am trying to quilt one per month, but at that rate it will take years to get through them all, and not including making more. So, I hope to keep my momentum on this project and see it finished soon.

Bead on a Wire Week 9

These are last week's projects: The easy link necklace (boy there were a bunch of links to make!), and the twisted jump ring bracelet. I loved making the bracelet, will probably make more. Not so sure about the necklace however.

Mixed Media Explorations Workshop Week 4

This is the last workshop that I am posting for the Artist's Circle for now. I will hopefully do another set later this Summer. These are the painted Pellon with stamping. I did mine with Golden Acrylic Gold paint and a foam stamp instead of pigment ink and a rubber stamp to get a bolder image. What am I going to do with them? I don't know, but they are sure fun to make! Maybe ATCs, postcards, inchies....

Take it Further Challenge #3 in progress

This is my fabric palate for the March Take it Further Challenge. After I pulled the fabrics, they reminded me of some of the Nancy Crow strata style quilts that I love. So, I got started with some of the elements, and was playing with the layout here.

Bead on a Wire Week 8

These are pics of the Artsy Choker and Twisted Jump Ring bracelet that I made for the A.R.T. workshop. The choker is copper wire, bone and glass beads, and the bracelet is copper and black copper wire with black glass beads. I really liked making the choker--I think that I will do more. There is another way to make them with a long second wire around the back of the neck that I think might hang a little better, so I'll have to give it a try.

Recycled Charms

These are some charms I made for a swap on the Latest Trends in Mixed Media group that I co-moderate. I made recycled Tyvek caged beads. They were fun to make: I painted a used Tyvek envelope with Pearl Ex powders mixed in with Lumiere paint. Cut them into long triangluar strips, wrapped around a bamboo skewer, and glued. Then I melted them with my heat gun--I learned to take them off the skewer first, because I melted my first set permanently to the skewer--Duh! Then, I wrapped them with silver colored copper wire, put an eye-pin through, added a jump ring, and Voila! Charms!