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Watercolor effect with textile paints

By: Lynda January 1, 2021January 2, 2021

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To start out the new year I’ve written this tutorial for the January challenge in the PFA (Postcard Fabric Art) Facebook Group. Every month a tutorial from a well known artist will be posted. From that tutorial we take the information and made a fabric piece of our own. We don’t have to follow the…

Best of 2020 Tutorials

By: Lynda December 26, 2020

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Another year has flown by, and it’s time to list my best of 2020 tutorials. In case you missed any of them, I’ve included links to tutorials above the pictures. You also can find all of my tutorials under the Tutorials tab at the top of the website page.

Christmas Tree Cards and More

By: Lynda December 14, 2020December 19, 2020

Greeting Cards, Sewing, tutorialsChristmas tree cards, fabric bookmarks, Fabric greeting cards, fabric tags, tutorials12 Comments

Since I made those fabric scrap cards, I have really been having fun making other stuff from that process. Today I’ll show you my Christmas tree cards and more.

Printing with Collard Greens

By: Lynda December 1, 2020December 4, 2020

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Today I’m talking about printing with collard greens. For those who don’t know my hubby, he grows all kinds of great veggies for us to eat. One of our favorites is collards. To tell you the truth, until I met Dave fifteen years ago, I never tasted this vegetable. Every year when he brings them…

How to: Scrap Greeting Cards

By: Lynda November 27, 2020November 27, 2020

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I have always loved making greeting cards. For years I made my Christmas cards. In the beginning they were hands-on using hand cut stencils, or adding paper embellishments. I graduated to using photos. Now I want to send fabric cards, but I’ve never really been happy with the ones I made. Until now! But I…

Changing my mind

By: Lynda October 28, 2020

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I’m continuing to work on the postcards for the monthly Postcard Fabric Art Facebook Group. We’re now in the 70’s, and I’ve spent a lot of time changing my mind on this piece! Here is the finished one.

ABC’s of Art Part 3

By: Lynda September 23, 2020September 25, 2020

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I’m continuing my ABC’s of Art. Today we start with M. M is for marbling. I was obsessed with this technique awhile back. Check out all of my posts on ths fun technique HERE. N is for Nature – printed leaves from foam stamp on ice dyed background. Here is the tutorial. O is for…

ABC’s of Art Part 2

By: Lynda September 15, 2020

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Today I’m continuing that SAQA alphabet challenge.

Flour Resist Revisited

By: Lynda August 29, 2020October 27, 2021

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It’s been two years since I played with flour resist. With all of the sun and heat, I thought this would be the perfect time to revisit this technique. If you’d like to read the 2018 tutorial, you can find it HERE.