Tag: Fabric Paper

Story Telling Cat and the Three Bears

This series was great fun to make. I had old children's books, modern scrap book papers, cats drawn onto calico and my sewing machine. I chose the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The cat retells the story and has been embroidered. All the images from the books have been hand cut, also the…

Pink Paper Fabric Casket

In the June/July 2009 issue of Quilting Arts. Jill Kennedy described her process for creating an embellished and embroidered patchwork paper collage from construction paper, crayons, inks, iron on interfacing and Wonder-Under.  I used that process to create a purse and also a casket.  I was given a stack of chinese newspaper and thought that…

Special Package with Crepe Paper Circle

I thought I would share my interpretation of the article Crepe Circles in the November-December 2010 issue of Cloth Paper Scissors.  I wanted a decorative package for my daughter's birthday present so this is what I did. I stamped on white paper then used waxed paper over that and sewed an envelope style package. Made…

Button Bouquet details

I made the flowers from recycled aluminum soda cans along with vintage buttons for the centers. The vase is fabric I created by weaving recycled aluminum and torn fabric. I then machine quilted that fabric. The background is fabric-paper that I built on recycled dryer sheets. To finish the piece I backed it with card stock and then used free…

Button Bouquet

I made the flower petals from recycled soda cans that I cut with scrapbook punches. The centers are vintage and new buttons.  The vase is fabric made by weaving strips of recycled aluminum soda cans and torn fabric that was then machine quilted.  The background is fabric paper that I built on a used dryer sheet. To finish the piece, I then…

Button Bouquet (Detail View)

Closeup showing machine quilting of aluminum cans that were woven with torn fabric. Flowers are aluminum, cut with scrapbook die cutters and centered with vintage and new buttons. Background is machine quilted paper fabric.

mixed-media lacy cuff

i made a pair of these cuffs just to wear to a "girls night out", and love them! i started with some "paper fabric" (made using beryl taylor's article in the first ever cloth paper scissors issue) made from vintage book pages and tissue paper and muslin. then i hand-stitched on a piece of vintage…

mixed-media lacy cuff

i made a pair of these cuffs just to wear to a "girls night out", and love them! i started with some "paper fabric" (made using beryl taylor's article in the first ever cloth paper scissors issue) made from vintage book pages and tissue paper and muslin. then i hand-stitched on a piece of vintage…

"Edge of Information: A Cityscape of Paper & Cloth"

A city skyline represents the source, or edge, of information and news publication.  The horizon has changed with alternative modes of obtaining and sharing information.  One wonders if the printed paper is fading into obscurity.  Materials:  cotton, silk, and cotton/silk broadcloth, lutradur,  polyester georgette, newsprint, paper, procion mx dye, soy wax, matte medium, textile paint, trilobal polyesther thread,…