Something About Nothing

A simple tutorial on how to make this Snowflake Card I made for my friend's birthday. Materials: 8 1/2 x 11" piece of turquoise card stock White craft paint or White Sharpie Poster Marker (water based) Blue craft paint Cosmetic sponge triangle Snowflake Stencil (I created my stencil with my Silhouette electronic cutter) Angelina Fiber Mistyfuse Goddess Sheet or Parchment paper Do-dad such as a button, or other embellishment for snowflake center Sewing machine with free motion foot Matching thread Iron and ironing board 1. Cut the sheet of card stock in half so that you have two 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 pieces.  Fold one of them in half.  This will be the top of your card. 2. Stencil snowflakes onto your card.  I used the paint from my white Sharpie Poster Marker by pressing the tip into a cosmetic sponge.  Dab the sponge across the stencil to transfer the snowflakes onto the front of the card. 3. Place a small fluff of Angelina Fiber onto your God...

Editors Note:   The Rose Dyeing reveal scheduled for today will actually be posted tomorrow (hopefully) as I cannot find the fabric to photograph now that I have neatly arranged everything in my studio!  See this post. The Utah Surface Design Group is hosting an art show next month at The Michael Berry Gallery  in downtown Salt Lake.   I am new to the group and am a little hesitant about entering anything into the show until the group announced that they would also have an Apron exhibit.  Certainly I could make an apron to show.  I debated whether to go traditional or all out quilted or mixed media.  I pondered and debated what I would do for two months and then suddenly the apron was due in two days!  It was time to get to work! I finally decided to go mixed media.  The apron would not be useable but instead be a piece of art.  I started by creating my fabric from the pages of a couple of old cookbooks I picked up at a local ...

Last week when my friend and I and our darling children tie dyed shirts, my friend mentioned seeing a little girl with a tie dyed shirt she loved. She had asked the mother about the shirt and found that the shirt had been created using Sharpie Markers . The instructions were on Sharpie's website. We decided we had to give this new-to-us craft a try and so we squeezed in one last summer craft this morning. Here is Little Man after he drew some of his designs with the Sharpies. The shirt has been stretched over three plastic cups so that it was easier to draw on and then when the rubbing alcohol was administered with the dropper the excess alcohol had a place to go. Not as dramatic as actual dyes but very nice just the same. We found that some colors seem to spread better than others, and it may have been the amount of ink available in the marker, or how much was applied that made the difference. While we played with Sharpies, Little Bubba watered my weeds for me. It's ...