Felt Like Fall Fabric Postcard

This is my Felt Like Fall Fabric Postcard for a trade on Fiber Art Traders (FAT). This is the final postcard in a set of the four seasons. You can find my winter and spring here, and summer here. The trade is hosted by Gretchen. She promises a goodie bag to those of us who have participated in all four trades. This has been a fun trade. I've used my Husky Star ER 10 for some of the postcards. This postcard has a layered felt leaf. It gives it a 3-D effect. I then sprinkled mica chips on the top layer to represent the sparkle of frost early in the morning.

Eat Beef Fabric Postcard

This is my November postcard for Fabric in Altered Arts 2. My partner this month is Norma. I used an image of a vintage Thanksgiving card. It's difficult to read the message but it says "I'm the popular birdie. All right! All right!" I decided to stamp the words EAT BEEF along the side of the card. Black snaps were used as the final embellishment. Hope Norma enjoys the card.

August Postcard from Kathie

This is my August fabric postcard from Kathie. Isn't the fabric great! Love the bathing beauties. I really enjoy receiving these little fabric postcards each month. The ladies in the Fabric in Altered Arts 2 group are so creative. It's always a pleasant surprise when the card arrives. You can see my August postcard here.

June Fabric Postcard

This is my June fabric postcard for a swap on Fabric in Altered Arts 2. Norma hosts the swaps each month. I had fun with this one. Strips were leftover from a previous project. I then added the decorative stitches using my Viking Lily.

Lily is in my studio waiting to return to our vacation home in Kentucky. She traveled to AZ this spring for a good cleaning and service. So I'm making sure everything is in order before she goes back to Ky.

The owl image is from an old greeting card. I then added the words and printed on ink jet fabric. Last I added a little sparkle on the leaves. Hope my partner enjoys this little card.

April Fabric Postcard

I am working to complete my April swaps for my Yahoo groups. I have been experiencing dental problems for the past two weeks so I am a little behind with my swaps. This fabric postcard is for Norma in the Fabric In Altered Art 2 group. I began by doing a machine embroidery. I thought the blue flowers and green leaves looked like spring. I then decided to add some embellishments. The entire card is covered with pink tulle. I encased some little pearls behind the tulle. The pearls actually move around as you move or shake the card. I really like how the card looks rather elegant. This is the first time that I have encased items in tulle on a postcard. I hope they make it through the mail o.k.

Vintage Fabric Postcard

This is a fabric postcard for a swap on Fabric in Altered Arts. I am Norma's partner this month. You can see Norma's western postcard below.

Last week a friend asked me to come over to see if I would like any of the items in her cedar chest (linens and things). She had asked family and they had taken what they wanted. I jumped at the chance. My friend is in her 80's and has traveled all over the world. I was sure there had to be some TREASURES that I could use in my altered fabric art or quilting. I hit the "Jackpot"! She had the most lovely vintage hankies. Many of them linen with tags still attached. More about these in a later post. I see a vintage hankie quilt in my future.

Back to the fabric postcard. I had covered some Peltex with brown fabric for the Olympic Inchies and decided to use it as the background for the postcard. I then found this lovely vintage hankie in the sack of hankies. I attached it to the brown background and added vintage trim (a find from the Salvation Army store a few weeks ago). The final touch was a vintage button (Goodwill) and satin stitch edges. The back of the postcard is a copy of a vintage picture postcard back scanned onto fabric. Hope Norma enjoys this little vintage fabric postcard.

Cowboy Themed Fabric Postcard

This is a postcard I received in the July Fabric Postcard swap onFabric in Altered Arts yahoo group. This lovely card was made for me by Norma who lives in Southern Arizona. Norma does excellent work. I'm very pleased to have received one of her postcards. You can view Norma's work here. I plan to have her postcard ready to mail by the first of next week. I'm thinking of using a vintage hankie.

I mailed my One Fish, Blue Fish to my swap partner today. Can't wait to see what I get in return. The photo looks wonderful.