Drawstring Bag Sewing with Grace

 

My sister Grace came over yesterday with some orange fabric. She wanted some cloth bags for her fancy kites and also for her 3D printed NAF-style flute. She took some photos of the process. I should have asked my husband to take a photo of the two of us! 

We had fun playing with my new Juki F-600 sewing machine's alphabet and numbers.  We encountered a problem with the period/decimal point on the flute bag. When we added that character, it automatically added a space afterward. We could not figure out how to get 48.5 cm. So we chose to add a dot which was centered higher that a period would be. Anyone out there with a Juki F-600 who can show me how to add decimal point?

We always have a great time when we're together!

Thank you for visiting!  Wishing you Peace and All Good!

Geocaching Stamping with Grace

My sister, Grace asked me to help make some SWAG for Geocaching. She came over on Holy Saturday, April 3rd and we had a blast playing with stamping and also just hanging out! 

Since I don't know much about geocaching, I found some information about it online. According to the Geocaching site, geocaching is..."a real-world, outdoor treasure hunting game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find the geocache (container) hidden at that location." There is a lot more information about Geocaching at that website in case you are interested.

I think the SWAG stands for "Stuff We All Get". Click HERE for info on SWAG and trackables.

Grace brought some wooden tags and chose some stamps from my stash. 

Stamped:
FTF (first to find) from various clear alphabet stamps

Birds on a line from Tim Holtz/Visual Artistry/Stampers Anonymous CSS25870 Life's Possibilities, 

Sun outline from a Sunshine stamp set labeled: JB0844 Jillibean Soup/Hampton Arts,

Sentiment from Stampscapes Scenic Sentiments Sheet #4,

Tiny flowers from Stamps by Judith

fuzzyace printed by hand with Faber-Castell PITT pen-black

Inks used: VersaFine onyx black. I cannot remember if I used Stampin' Up or Distress inkpads for the tiny flowers.

Grace took a couple photos of me at my stamping desk. I thought you might like to see how I look now, at age 67!

Thanks so much for visiting! Peace and all good!

Drawing with Grace, November 18, 2019

My sister Grace, and I spent some time together on Monday testing out art supplies.

Grace made this drawing of the Farnsworth House using colored pencils.

I revisited a stampfest project that Lynette and I worked on in October inspired by Heather Telford's  Lake Wanaka mountain scene card. This time I used Stampin Up watercolor pencils with an aqua painter/waterbrush.

Grace made these cool origami paper cranes with some printed papers that she gave me. When you hold onto the bottom, you can pull the tail to make the wings flutter.

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods!

January 26 Drawing Fest with Grace

My sister Grace and I had lots of fun drawing yesterday.

Grace has done watercolors before but today she was experimenting with coloring pencils.

Grace used coloring pencils

She sketched this lady face using a Jane Davenport face as a guide.

Grace used coloring pencils

Then she drew this scene relying on a picture she found as her guide.

Left: I used oil pastels; Right: I used JD Magic Wand pencils (coloring pencils)

I drew these lady faces.

I'm always trying to improve, but I see that my faces always have that same "look".

Maybe I am drawing the same person over and over again, LOL!

The main thing is that we both enjoyed the process, had lot of laughs 

and had so much fun drawing together!

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May your day be a happy one!

August 11 Watercolor Fest with Grace

Grace and I had our second Watercolor Fest yesterday.

She treated me to lunch at Portillo's. Later we had a blast playing with watercolors.

She created this gift tag for a watercolor gift set she's giving to a friend.

Grace gave me this 18 pan set of Superior brand watercolors.

We had fun trying them out.

Grace made this lovely landscape with the Superior watercolors. I love the fence in it!

Grace also painted this scene. Aren't the colors dreamy!

I think Grace added some accent lines with a Sakura black marker in both paintings.

I made this lady sketching it first with pencil, then used watercolors. 

When dry, added accent lines with a Faber-Castell PITT black fine marker pen.

Was inspired to make these flowers after seeing this PIN

which goes to this  YouTube

After painting, I splattered paint with the paintbrust

and added accent lines with the Pitt marker.

Also added white accents with the Jane Davenport white paint pen.

I'm not good at adding the accent lines. 

Added white with the Jane Davenport white paint pen here also.

Grace and I were inspired by images found online via google searches and Pinterest.

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July 16 Watercolor Fest with Grace

My sister, Grace, and I had so much fun playing with watercolors last Sunday. I had been showing her some of my watercolor painted faces lately. We christened Grace's new set of 18 Sakura Koi watercolor pans, using aqua brushes and 140 pound cold press watercolor paper.

Grace said she wanted to try and draw a stormy sky. The scene above is Grace's artwork.

I'm still trying to draw lady faces.  I added the pink background at home, using the color called "Best Friend" from Jane Davenport's Petite Palette Brights. I used Jane's Inkredible pen to add detail to the eyes and the neckline trim. It writes beautifully-rich, opaque, dark black ink.

I was inspired to draw and paint these cat faces after seeing Cindi Banach's wonderful cat faces. She made 8 of them sharing on the Jane Davenport Mixed Media Facebook Group. Again, used JD's Inkredible pen for the black accents.

Grace and I had  so much fun watercoloring! Looking forward to our next watercolor fest!

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