One of the my groups in Calgary has had some really interesting professional development discussions at the meetings.  We each take a turn hosting and leading a meeting each year.  My turn comes up in March and I’m starting my research. Although I have participated in many group shows and have continued to do so throughout our travel years, I have only had a couple of solo shows and they preceded our travel departure date in 2009 so I...

    Name Alberta Gold Medium Quilt / Fibre Art Description This smallish quilt/ fibre art piece (many of mine are large) was inspired by some photos I took one September day while sitting on my son’s back deck.  It was a glorious September day.  The sky was a vivid blue and the aspen leaves were golden.  It was balmy – just a perfect day!  I get that same feeling every time I look at this piece. 11″ x 15″ Circa...

 Name 52 Sparks for 2013 Art Journal –  Week 3 Medium Card stock, gesso, acrylic paint, cotton doily, edge punch, metalic paper, stick-on letters. Description This is week 3 of a weekly art journal based on guides provided by Dale Anne Potter.  All pages of this art journal are based on a tag created from card stock.  For the background this week, I applied gesso and then painted the background in PURPLE – my favorite colour.  The...

  Name 52 Sparks for 2013 Art Journal –  Week 1 Medium Card stock, magazine clip art, acrylic paint over gesso and crackle compound Description This is week 2 of a weekly art journal based on guides provided by Dale Anne Potter.  All pages of this art journal are based on a tag created from card stock.  For the background, I wanted to experiment and get some light texture.  This was one of the tags that I had roughly covered with...

  Name 52 Sparks for 2013 Art Journal –  Week 1 Medium Paper, Card stock, ink pad, stencil, white glue wash, marker pen Description This is the week 1 of a weekly art journal based on guides provided by Dale Anne Potter.  The cover was constructed by laminating card stock to two sides of light cardboard. All pages are based on a tag created from card stock.  For texture I created some paper snowflakes, glued them to the card stock...

  Name 52 Sparks for 2013 Art Journal – Cover Medium Paper Cardstock, light cardboard, paint, embossed fun foam image, eyelet insert (not shown) Description This is the cover for a weekly art journal based on guides provided by Dale Anne Potter.  The cover was constructed by laminating card stock to two sides of light cardboard. The cover insert was constructed by heat embossing fun foam with a stamp and placed in a window...

  Name The Fabric of My Life 1 – Memories Unfolding Medium Quilt / Fibre Art Description This quilt was originally exhibited as a ‘work in progress’ and I think it’s almost completed!  At the first show is won a 3rd place ribbon for large wall quilt and a later iteration placed 2nd at another show.  I still have a few things to add so it’s evolving!  This picture was taken in 2008 for the first show. The...

  Name Mushroom Tessellation Medium Quilt Art Description For years I had watched the Fast Friday posts and was inspired to create an entry in June 2010 when the challenge was to create a tessellation.   This mushroom piece was my first attempt at a tessellation.  However, the joke was on me.  When I tried to post it, I discovered that it was a ‘closed’ group!  Oh well, I now have a table mat or possibly even a journal quilt!...

For valentines day I created a handmade mini-book photo journal for my husband.   I decided that, as it would be an ongoing project, I would not use ‘valentine’ colours but went for a classy black and gold combo inspired by some leftover wrapping paper.  The concept for the book was something I found on the Scrap Girls blog and I’ve included the link for the tutorial for my inspiration. I modified the instructions for my own...

Has anyone noticed my absence? For the past ten days I have been nose-to-grindstone doing the slug-work of cleaning up a blog that was moved from Blogger to a WordPress template and from there into a new ‘made for all gadgets’ template that magically transforms my art website from computer screen to tablet to smart phone format. That involved editing every post and re-entering all the photos so they would be resident on the site...