MIXED MEDIA ART DOLL PENDANTS

These are a few of the mixed media art doll pendants I have created. Most of the pieces are created from metal, beads, charms and polymer clay. Of course they all have names. First is: Love My MaryJanes,
Second is: Cat Woman, Third is: Moon Maiden . Most of the metal has been either rusted or antiqued with some other chemical.

CD - CHARM AND BEAD

ANYTHING BUT PAPER SWAP

This is a 5 for 5 swap and I chose felt to make my ATCs with. Normally I needle felt my wool to a piece of felt, but in this case I made a wet felted background piece that I cut into ATC sized pieces and then needle felted my flower onto that. I further embellished the ATCs with beads and perle cotton thread. The back is then lined with a piece of felt that has been buttonhole stitched to the front.

The small felted art doll pin is the hostess gift for this swap. I used a leftover background piece of the ATC felt for her body.

SIGNS of SPRINGS NOTEBOOK

I guess I'm on a small book thing. Once again I've created a small 3x3 notebook as a hostess gift for the Signs of Spring Swap and once again I've used leftover handmade paper . The cover has been created from leftover fabric paper.

SIGNS OF SPRING ATC SWAP

JOURNAL

I made this tiny 3"x4" journal out of left over painted and stamped red rosin paper. I then embellished the front cover with my leftovers from various projects. The pages are card stock weight paper that resembles chipboard. This will be given as small hostess gift and was a great way to use up more of my stash. It went together fast, because most of the work was already finished.

GRANDMA'S SEWING BOX

I created this rusted Altoids tin and then partially covered the top and base with rust colored painted paper towels. I then covered all of the rust with Golden matte gel medium to prevent the rust from flaking off. Once it dries, it still gives the look of rust without the mess.

Another Altered Match Box

MY SWAP ITEMS FOR SIMONE

SWAP ITEMS FROM SIMONE

Simone from Germany and I had a trade that consisted of a fabric atc, a puzzle piece and a small doll. She also sent along a pink inchie that is just adorable and the first fabric inchie that I have received. I love the doll with the stamped face and she also included some of the fabric she used so I could give it a try. The back of the doll is also made from a rusted fabic that she created. I'm going to have to give that a try. The atc has a crazy quilt base tlhat has been beaded. The puzzle piece is set off with a vintage photo and some glittered and felt like embellishmets.

I've also included a photo of the extra goodies that she included and just saw that I forgot the two most importat elements that were beautiful flat rusted leaves, so I've added them in separate photo.

Thank you Simone for a fun swap.

Valentine Postcards

Someone sent me the ribbon and vintage image in a surprise package. I love both of them. The background is a gesso and watercolor piece of card stock that I had leftover from last year's Valentine project. I decided to put them all together and came up with these cards for the lady who sent me the goodies and another friend.

THE ICE MAIDEN COMETH

My latest beaded art doll is approximately 5" x 1 3/4".

"POSTAGE DUE" - Postcard

This is another postcard created using my gesso print method. It was then stamped and antiqued.

YESTERDAY - Altoids Tin

A FISH TALE

Another one of my quirky tags.

FUNKY NEEDLE FELTED ART DOLL PINS!

These are some of my art doll pins that I've sold on my Etsy shop. I love making them and they just seem to take on personalities of their own. I actually wanted to put them all in one post, but as usual I was struggling with Blogger. If anybody has that secret............................ The first doll with the lime green hair is actually a charm and not a pin.

MORE!

AND STILL A FEW MORE!

MORE DOLLS!

Here are 12 more dolls for Pat Winter's Comfort Doll project.

Needle Felted Bag

First I wet felted the base of the bag and then needle felted the flowers and leaves. Next I did some free motion embroidery to pop the needle felting. The borders were needle felted on, and then I used the same fiber that I crocheted the strap with and used a button hole stitch to enhance the borders and sew the bag together. I lined it with a hand dyed cotton fabric. It measures approximately 6"w x 9"deep.

Wonder Wallet

These small wallets are slightly larger than a credit card but hold lots of necessities like folded bills, credit cards, drivers license and coins. The way the wallet is constructed actually keep the coins from falling out.

Sunshine - Wrapped Art Doll

Floral Icicle Art Doll

The Tall Orange House

Needle felted postcard with FME.

Needle Felting

And yet another new art form for me. The flower is my first needle felt project. I don't know what I'll do with it, but I just wanted to see if I could master this craft, so I just drew out a simple pattern and started. The leaf is for a felt leaf swap which will end up being a book. Four more leaves to go, but it's a great project for when you are just sitting and watching TV. More new colors have arrived on my doorstep so hopefully they will liven up my color scheme.

Another Sun Print

This time after the print was dry and heat set, I added silver paint spirals with a rubber sponge stamp and white paint dots using the end of a wooden skewer. These pieces are so much fun to create, but I really need to get busy and think of something to actually make out of the fabric.

Sun Painting On Fabric

I have just learned how to make sun paintings from the blog owner of Ruminations and Reflections I think she used special paint, but I just used watered down acrylic paints. Mine didn't bleach our as white as hers did, but I still like the mottled effect it produced. This was so easy and so much fun to do. I'm showing 2 pictures but it is really one piece of fabric folded and scanned. Thanks so much to the owner of R&R for all of your help. Now to go create something with this fun piece of fabric.

Crazy Quilt Art Doll - Imagine

This doll measures approximately 5" long by 4 1/2" wide at the base.

Comfort Dolls

Here are 4 more crazy quilt art dolls that will be starting on their journey over to Pat Winter's Comfort Doll project for women's shelters. Just hit the button on my blog and see what she is up to and join in the fun of creating and shedding a small ray of hope in someones life.

Dyed Laces

This morning I dyed these laces with alcohol inks for use in my crazy quilting, sewing project and altered art.

Floral Fabric ATCs

For a swap.

Frida Was No Wallflower - Fabric Art Quiltie

Approximately 7 1/2" x 10" to the tip of the vintage lace. The flower and leaves were FME and painted/stained with India inks. The tan background was stained with walnut ink.

Altered Row House Swap

The backgrounds of these ATCs were created from the textured red rosin paper that I posted on September 4, 2007.

Blue Mood Fabric Postcard

One of my groups is holding a swap. The requirements are to use 1.) Blue Fabric 2.) A Circle Element 3.) Yarn or Thread 4.) A Nature Element that is not real, and 5.) A Recycled Piece of Plastic. You could make anything you wanted to so I chose a postcard.

Fabric Book To Hold ATC Cards

The Storyteller

A lady that I traded an ATC with sent me the story of "Why Are Cats Attracted to People Who Dislike Them?". I downsized the story and turned it into and ATC.

ATC's For Individual Trades

These ATC's were created from all kinds of leftovers that are clogging up my art room. First I created the grunge type backgrounds from all different sorts of printed matter plus text and dictionary pages. Then I dug into my stash of images and words and came up with these 2 cards. I figure at this rate I'll have my stash used up when I'm about 150 years old. Maybe not!

Postcard Exchange With Heidi In Germany

Heidi's fabric postcard for me is made from beautiful fabrics. The lower half is a music paper print, printed in gold. The scan does show the true beauty of the fabric, because we all know how hard it is to scan metallic colors.

My card for Heidi just had to have a bit of crazy quilting.

Thanks for the trade Heidi!

Chocolate Postcard

This card was for a swap.

More Tag Play!

Fabric Cone

One of my groups is holding a swap for these fabric cones that are to be made using Ruth Rae's instructions in one of the current magazines. I haven't joined the swap because I don't have the instructions, but I wanted to make one anyway, so this is my interpretation. I hand dyed the fabrics and laces to get that mauve-pinkish color and used cranberry thread to sew it all together.

Watercolor Pencils

I woke up this morning in a creative mood. I actually bought these pencils a couple of years ago and never really did anything with them. Well after reading a tutorial on using watercolor crayons, I dug up my pencils, wondering if they would be suitable for this technique. This was the results of my before breakfast playtime.

Post-It Note Book Covers

I got this fun little idea off of Sunflowers and Dragonflies blog. For my covers I just used some of my leftover printed material from other projects, which made it twice as easy to do, and it was a good way to use up some of my stash. These will make great little gifts for Happy Nothing Day! You know, the day when you want to give something, just to give something, and there's Nothing going on.

Stained Glass Charms

Created for another swap.

Egg Swap

I joined an egg swap on one of my groups, and because you only had to make three, I decided to make two different sets. They are the size of ATCs that have been cut to resemble eggs. It's not an Easter egg swap, just eggs.

Small Silk Ribbon Embroidered Cell Phone or Necessity Bags

These 2 small 6"x7" bags were for a special order.

SOLD

Paper Bag Background Papers

I created these papers from brown grocery bags, and Elle Barry's instructions. I think the possibilities could be endless. You would only be limited by your lack of acrylic paint colors. The scans just don't show the real shimmer of these papers.

Junk Art Postcards

I joined a swap in which we were to make 5 postcards out of junk mail, old book pages, this and that, magazines etc. These are 3 of my offerings. I reworked 2 of them forgetting to scan the finished cards, but these will give you an idea of what I've been up too. Unfortunately it didn't put a dent in my junk pile. I'm thinking only the trash can will help that mess.

ATC's From Germany

I met Simone on line who is from Germany and we decided to trade fabric ATCs. These 2 above are my swap gift from her and they are very pretty. The lady on the red card is a fabric print that she made off of a 1917 postcard. She said that the writing on the back of the card was from a man asking a lady for a date. That the card comes with a story makes it even more interesting. The edging on that card is so tiny and perfect. The tiny shells on the beautiful card with the bird are pieces that her grandmother sends to her.

The cards at the top are my ATCs for her, but I can never get Blogger to do what I want and it seems like my pictures end up where ever Blogger feels like putting them. It's a continual battle for me.

This is my first trade from Germany and I will give them a special place in my art room. We plan on making another trade later in the year.

World Traveler

I created 22 of these green 3x3's for a swap I'm in on one of my groups. It's simply called the 3x3 Green Swap. The only requirement is that they are green. We are just sending to everyone in the swap individually and then we will add covers and bind them into a book.