Collage art

One of my favorite things to make has always been collage work.
I started making collages when there was no word for them. Back in the dark ages.

My sixth grade teacher kept a lot of my collage work, even after she had retired.
She invited me to her house one day and was showing me the things that I had made. I ask her to give me the art work but she wanted to keep them.
I was hoping to get my work after she passed away but never knew what happen to them.

It is still one of my favorite art works to make. I am now adding paints and canvas to my works and starting to sell in gallery’s and shows.

UFO and wall quilts

I take a monthly class where we are given different craft challenges. The challenge is to take the kit that is given to us and make something from it. This is where one’s imagination comes into play.
For this months challenge we was given a jar of paint and a piece of Tyvek and told to make something with it.
This is mine. I call it “It came from space”. With all the UFO’s sightings being reported on the news I thought this would fit in. I painted a canvas board and glued the Tyvek to it.
I also made a small wall quilt with another kit. This one had metallic paint and a scrap of black fabric. I love leaves and used some of my rubber stamps to stamp on fabric with the paint.
The charm I sewed to bottom of quilt is from a seller on etsy, http://www.sweetpeacottage.etsy.com/.

The other quilt I call “Ladybug”. I made a tiny ladybug from fabric and sewed it to quilt.
The ladybug is about ¼” and takes some time to make these as they are so tiny and the fabric is hard to hold.

Jewelry pouch

Just made three pouch's that can be used as a lavender sachet are can be used for jewelry.

These fit perfect inside your purse are suitcase to help keep items organized.

I used a vintage button on each pouch to close with. Fo sell on my etsy site.

Kaleidoscope quilt blocks

I think the Kaleidoscope quilt blocks makes up so pretty. Each block is different even after being cut from the same fabrics.

The first block I am showing is one square, pick the same corner from each square to be in center. Four squares make up a block.

Sew two blocks together and press seams open. Sew two halves together and press seams open.

Picture showing back of block.

This is finished block after all four sqaures have been sewn together.

I put two new quilt kits on my etsy site using the kaleidoscope design. One design is poppy's and the other tropical.

My second Christmas

Ok, so this is my second Christmas with my mistress. She let me help wrap gifts.
First I checked out the bows and paper and they passed my approval.
I did not think wrapping gifts was a lot of fun.
Where’s mine?

I hate to tell her but she is not good at wrapping gifts.
Next year I will get her a gift certificate on how to wrap gifts.

This is the lousy tree she bought for me and it only has lights on it. My mistress says , “It has 250 lights and was on sale”. No balls for me to bat around and not even a tree skirt, what is wrong with her?
My favorite part is being able to lie under the wood box that she has tree setting on. I can hide and it is so warm under here. Heck with the lousy tree! I'm going to take a nap. All this gift wrapping has made me tired.

Angel lavender sachet

Just put this beautiful angel lavender sachet on my etsy site.
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I want to show the cat sachet as I think it turned out cute. The cat sachet is sold.

mixed media art picture

I made this picture today using scrap pieces of mat board that I had painted some time ago.

I did not know what I was going to make with them and today they seemed to just fall in place as I layed them out on my table.

I painted a small canvas board to put pieces on.

I had a copy of a vintage sign about spitting that also went just right on picture.

I am showing picture framed and a close up.

I thought it turned out nice and looks good in a the frame that I put it in.

I also showing another aceo today and still working on making 100. I need to count them and see how many I have already made.

Fireman greeting card

I just made this card and put on my etsy site. It is in honor of the fireman that worked so hard this summer. I usually make cards for women but will be making some different ones for men.

100 aceo and counting

I started some time back making an aceo a day. My goal is to make 100 new ones.
What am I going to do with them? Put most of them on my etsy site and a few in an art show next month.

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I like seeing all the different things that you can put in jars. I am going to see how many things I can put in aceo jar cards.
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A few years ago there was a quilt pattern with bugs in a jar. I never did get one made but have always admired them.

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You can see most of these on my etsy site for sell.

Aceo's for the holiday's

I love making aceo cards to give and sell. I have made over 200 and have never made the same design twice.
I might use some of the same vintage pictures but each one is still different.
I started collecting aceo’s when they first came on the market.
I have bought aceo cards in different mediums and styles. Each one is a beautiful work of art.
The first Friday in December our local art group, http://www.sassart.org/ sell aceos and Christmas ornaments at the local http://www.stevensvillehotel.com/. All items are hand-made and originals.

Collecting aceo's

Aceo cards are a lot of fun to make, sell and give.
I started buying aceo’s when they first came on the market a few years ago.
They are like tiny works of art and each one is different.
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I make and sell aceo cards but I still like to collect them.
I spent this weekend making new ones to put on my etsy site and also for a craft show in December.
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Hope you will take the time to look at my etsy site and see what is for sell while you are here.

Volunteer of the year

My husband and I volunteer at Lee Metcalf NWR.
He does data entries and I man the front desk, and any other jobs that they need me to do.
Every year they have a volunteer recognition ceremony.
This year we won the volunteer of the year award. We was given a certificate of appreciation, gift certificates and this beautiful California Quail statue.
We was very surprised that we was chosen and won.
Had cake and ice cream after the ceremony.
If you are ever in Montana, please stop by this beautiful refuge.

Mixed media collage greeting cards

I have not made greeting cards in about two years and decided to make some new ones to put on my etsy site. ----------------------------------------

The woman in this picture reminded me of Paris. I found a few pictures in my stash of Paris and put them together for this beautiful card.






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Remember the Television program of Route 66? I had this sign and wanted to make a card using it for some time.

Lavender sachets

I used the same photo of the woman that I have on my collage listed earlier. It is one of my favorite pictures to use. I also like to use pictures of horses on my sachets. I especially like this one as it features two horses. The pictures are from a vintage painting. Sachets are for sell on my etsy site. ***Both sachets have sold***.

Wild rose and hot weather

Since it is so hot I have not been doing a lot of sewing .
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I decided to put on some flower pictures that I had taken since they are so refreshing looking.
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This one is a wild rose that grows in Montana.
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This one is of my pink geraniums. It seems that I must like pink a lot. For some reason most of the flowers that I bought this year are pink. Most of them was suppose to be red and I guess the plants had wrong tags in them.
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The red rose is a climbing rose that grew wild in a mill village in NC. I believe it was back in the 60’s the homes where sold for $25.00 a room and anyone that wanted to buy one had to have houses moved to their own property. Now wild flowers and fruit trees grow and bloom all over this small mountain.