One Thing Finished Today

I had lots of good intentions today, but the only thing I actually finished was this postcard.  It goes off in the mail tomorrow as congratulations to Sojourner Kincaid Rolle who has been selected as Poet Laureate for Santa Barbara.

More Postcards

Here are a couple of fabric postcards I've sent out in the past few weeks.

The top one is an experiment in photo transfer on fabric and the attempt to try to create a faux antique look by making it look worn. I like it and learned lots, so next time I'll like the results even better. It went off to one of my friends as a thank you for a fabulous dinner at her house.

The bottom card is one of the turtles I screen printed some time back. I painted the little guy, drew on some seaweed and quilted it in time to send it as a birthday greeting to my middle grandboy for his ninth birthday on Monday. He loves turtles so I hope he loves the card.

Another Cat Step

Today I finished painting the printed cat postcards. Each one is a bit different and will have some more embellishment once they've been quilted.
I did finish one completely today since it has to get in the mail bearing birthday wishes to a dear friend tomorrow.

School of Fish

This school of fishes are fabric postcards that I took to the Elverhoj Museum to sell in the boutique there. The fabric backgrounds were painted with thickened dyes on cotton sateen, then screenprinted with seaweed and fish. The fish were machine quilted and embellished with rhinestone eyes and studs in various places. Tonight is the big Christmas celebration at the Elverhoj - I hope some of the revelers want to give these little guys a good home!

Time Sure Flies ....

I was shocked to see how long it has been since I posted anything to this blog! I would have sworn it was only about a month! I sure hope I was having fun during that time that was flying by.

The only things I've completed in fabric are the postcards above. It was very hard to photograph the President Barack Obama card because one of the things I did was attach the photo with gel medium and a stiff brush to show the brush marks, but the glossy gel caused reflection in the photo and partially obscures the face. I didn't get a chance to get a better photo before the card went on to its new home.

I'll be back with something before three more months go by!

Sunflower Postcard

While going through some photos stored on my computer, I found this photo of the first fabric postcard I made for the first fundraising event that Virginia Spiegel held for FFAC. I remember both she and I were amazed that it sold within fifteen minutes of being posted on the sale website because it was at 2:00 a.m.! I also remember checking the website frequently during that sale since new things were coming in all the time and you had to act fast if you found something you wanted to buy.

California Spring

A couple of weeks ago some friends and I spent a day in the Santa Ynez Valley and were dazzled by the luscious green hills and the profusion of wild flowers everywhere. Poppies were even coming up through the cracks in the pavement. Gorgeous day and great fun with good friends. Sorry I don't have any photos to share.

I am participating in the postcard exchange for the Cyber Fyber Exhibition being sponsored by Susan Lenz and was inspired to create my own version of the green hills, the lupine, and the poppies for her. The card is made from commercial fabric stamped with gold metallic ink, stenciled with foil glue then foiled with silver, foil glue randomly applied and foiled with green, and embroidery.

All traded postcards will be displayed at CYBER FYBER, January 8 - 20, 2009 at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia, SC. Check out Susan's blog for all the exchanges, I'm #139.