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Sundays early mornings before the house rises are usually spent with me doing something for me and I had seen a while back one of my fellow art quilting buddies doing a painted background and adding all kinds of keepsakes as embellishments… now it would have been awesome to share this with you if I could find the darn link! I just spent an hour going through my history even. Could have sworn I bookmarked it! I will find and post so you can see.
Anyways! It inspired me to create something for our digital stash. You know, those kits we just LOVE and like to look at too. Little bits from here and there. Of course, you can use this for many things, but it's just an idea. I will share mine when I get it completed.
I made the painted 3" squares from my brushes and paint textures and then created a new stitched grid… can't have a patchwork looking art quilt without stitches! lol
The "painted patches" are on one layer and if you click into your Layer Styles FX try a Color Overlay with your fav color. You will now have varied hues of the same color. Lay your stitches on top and you have the beginnings of a page to put pieces of your favorite things. :)
Of course you can put pictures too, but since we are all obsessive scrappers and have lots of stash, this seemed like a kewl way to show them off just like quilters do in using their fabric stashes and left over lovelies. I will be taking mine and printing and putting on a piece of stretched canvas or wood with a clear gesso and then adding some things like real pins and thimbles and some added touches of inks and doodles to celebrate my love of digi, quilting and art. :)
Hope you enjoy and I'd love links back to your art too to see what you come up with!
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Alessandra Designs http://www.alessandradesigns.blogspot.com/
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Tallula Moon www.tallulamoon.com
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