Faces on old Compact Discs

Years ago a friend taught me how to use compact discs that were no good to paint on.  Back then you would get a CD in the mail for various internet providers such as AOL among others.  She was coating them with gesso and painting on them. I painted several and some went out in art swaps that we did online,  At that time postage was much cheaper. 

Here are three that I found a few days ago while going through some art. 

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Merry Christmas to All

Here are a couple of Christmas projects that I have made in the past.

Wishing you and yours, a very Merry Christmas.

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Friday Face Off Post

Another week with no time to create a face.  My Uncle was in the hospital and then released to hospice care. So, it has just been busy. 

Therefore, today I will share (again) some of my older work. These are machine embroidery designs that I digitized (programmed for sewing by an embroidery machine.)  
I believe that 2014 was the year of the horse.  And I started creating horse embroideries. 

This is my horse of a different color.  

Isn't he fun?

He ended up as part of a notebook cover:

This one was still in the embroidery hoop - if you look in the upper left corner you can see the hoop. 

I am not sure what happened to this "stitch-out" 

And 

Here's Looking at you Kid!

This stitched piece still hasn't been used on a project. 

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An old Creation For Friday Face Off

Welcome to Friday.  As you may know, I try to always participate in the Friday Face Off.  This week I have been a bit "less creative" as other things have taken up my time.  So, I dug into the archives and have a goofy face that I created in an embroidery program as well as a very old  photo of myself.  

Oops!  I forgot to turn off the centering lines when I exported the photo. 

From "back in the day"  when I had lots of hair and the bloom of youth had not yet fled. 

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Friday - Another Face for FFO

This week has been pretty busy, but I do have some of my work to share with you.  This is not like the usual artwork you are used to seeing.  I visited my aunt who is homebound.  She desperately needed a change.  So, I got my scissors and did this transformation. 

I think that I did a pretty good job. 

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FFO - Are you Awake?

Happy Friday,  for folks that are in the USA, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  The fellow below wants you to Wake Up.  Ha ha. 

I made this little art quilt back in 2012.  And as I have been busy with other things this week, 

I am sharing this old project for the Friday Face Off. 

The Rooster is thankful that he wasn't a Turkey dinner. 

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A Couple of Drawings and some Painting

Wow another Friday is upon us.  I have done a couple of quick drawings in Procreate -an iPad app that uses the Apple pencil to draw directly on the iPad. 

Since I usually draw more women, here are two male faces. 

I also painted two pieces of fabric for use in some of my other artwork.

There is only one photo because I layered the two pieces and they are almost identical.

I used fabric paints for this so it feels like normal cotton fabric. 

I think it will make something lovely. 

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New Notebooks - one with a "Face"

This will probably be a short post.  I recently made two new quilted notebook covers.  

The Sugar Skull is my face to this week's Friday Face Off. 

So I am entering the Friday Face Off. 

The total outside of the other notebook cover is made of fabric that I painted with fabric paint.

The "white" was painted directly using brushes and other tools.

The "green" was painted using a diluted paint as a fabric dye. 

 I love both of these.  Contact me if you would like purchase info. 

Sorry, I can only ship within the USA at this time.

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The Faces of Creativity

I love to think of myself as a creative person.  I feel that I do have a creative soul.  For me creating is a "need" more than a hobby. I have a need to make things whether it is useful, or just because I can.  My need to create started when I was young - I think in the pre-adolescent years.  Certainly in my teen years I always wanted to make things.   This has continued in my my current "senior/elder" years.  

Over the years I have used my skills to make things for myself as well as for many other folks.  

So, today you are going to see some photos of me.  I will either be near or wearing one of my creations in each of these photos. 

A T-shirt embellished with a band of fabric that I wove on my loom.

Holding a lap quilt that lives with one of my dearest friends.  I love seeing it when I visit.

A vest made totally from material that I wove on my loom. 

Here I am wearing a shirt that I embellished with more of my woven fabrics.

I am standing in front to two pieces of art that I painted. 

And how about "creating a character" in a local play? 

By the way, I did NOT drink the elderberry wine. 

And in the play I had to use a product to make my hair that white.  Ha ha. Now that is the usual color.

For this same play, we needed a "stained glass window" for the door. So, I created this one. 

It is actually painted and created on a piece of plexiglass.  
I made two of these, one for each side of the door so that when the door was opened, 
the audience saw the "same" stained glass. 

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Friday Face Off (and final October Finishes)

For October, I finished five new notebook covers. I love them all a lot. One of them has a "face" which is very appropriate for the end of October/first of November.  (Halloween/All Saint's Day) 

And here is a close up of the one on the right.

I love mixing machine embroidery quilting with hand guided free motion quilting. 

You can see that they play very nicely together. 

Now,  here is a "face" - or at least I saw a face as I was looking out the window at Mom's house. 

The tree and the open spaces seemed to be looking back at me. 

Do you see a face?

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Friday - FaceOff and Notebooks

I have been working on a few things and haven't posted any of them.  I did post photos of some fabric that I painted. Today you get to see what part of that fabric became. 

This notebook cover uses some of that painted fabric. These notebook covers
fit a standard Composition Book. Those are readily available in the USA. 
I always sell them with a notebook inside ready to use, but the cover can be taken off
and placed on a new composition book when that one is finishd.

Inside the front cover of each one there is a pencil pocket and my label.

Of course the back is just as pretty. 



I have two more covers in progress. Here are photos of the fronts and backs of them.

Front 

Back

Front #2

Back #2

And now for my face creation.  This is the last Friday before Halloween, so I am sharing my Halloween "Face"  for this weeks Friday Face Off.

Happy Halloween

And for good measure,  here is another face that is not so scary. 

I am linking to the Friday Face Off with Nicole. 

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Painting Fabric Fun

Last evening, I had some fun.  I was ironing some fabrics to use for upcoming projects (time permitting) when I thought, I need to paint some more fabric with my fabric paints.  I saw a fat quarter (18"x21") that was a light tan with a white print over it.  I knew that this type of print will resist the paint. FYI it will also resist dye if you choose to dye it. 
I ironed it and took it to the painting area. I used most of the colors - because "Why not?!?!  

The front, showing the resisted pattern/print. 

Then:

The back, where very little of the resist shows.

Either side will work, and I may use some of both.

The plan in my mind is to cut it into three 7" strips to make into notebook covers. 

I will need to add extra fabric to each cover, so maybe I will cut a strip into two longer pieces. 

Perhaps I will use the front of one of those and the back of the other. 

I love how this came out and I plan to paint more fabric. 

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A little Project

Last week I was in a local shop chatting with the husband and wife team that own the store.  Somehow, the wife didn't know that I make stuff. Ha ha!  Honestly, I know them because I was in a play with the husband.   As the conversation went, she said " What do you make?" - Her husband said "Quilts" - I laughed and said "Yes quilts but lots of other things too."  I showed her some pictures from my website and blog.  When she saw my notebook covers, she asked pricing and we discussed it.  She said "I will take five of those."  I knew that I had some made, but I wanted to make a couple of new ones also.  
Hmmm..... family issues cut the time for that down to one.  I already had a stash of them - because I love making them and they are great gifts.   

I will be taking in 9 or 10 for her to choose from.  Here is the newest - and I am confident that she will chose this as one of her selection. 

Front

Full Cover

Front inside pocket with label. 

I love adding an inside pocket for a pen/pencil or other small trinket.   I hope that these move quickly in the shop.  It could become a nice little source of pocket money for me. 

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