Yellow Door

Here's my yellow door. I had a hard time narrowing down the type of door I wanted to do. I collected dozens of images. It wasn't until I dyed this fabric that I made my choice. 

I designed the hinge myself after looking pages of antique hinge photos. The fabric was folded accordion style then I had clothes pins every few inches along the long edge of the fabric and ice dyed it.

Jelly Bean Doors

This project is a combination of memories of Jelly Bean Row in St. John's NFLD and Google search Doors images.  And, of course, my stash of fabrics and embellishments.  Door frames are of twill tape and hem lace tape. Some doors are cotton, some are silk.  All were backed with thin fusible batting, and then enveloped with fusible batting and turned, then door panel details sewn.
And then the fun of adding embellishments from my bead collection. The black cat, deciding whether to go out or back in again in lower right door is the result of a search by my partner who swore he had a black cat from a bottle of Gato Negro, from many years ago.  He found it! and it too is now part of the picture.

"Blue door"

I had such fun with this Challenge I tried some techniques new to me.
I cut out many pictures of different doors and pasted then on a background
then printed a photo of a door on to organza and also transferred same door photo onto thick vilene
and doubled some sections of the door to enhance it. I also made a stain glass section and used some blue cellophane and painted and stitched background which I glued on under the doors arch which was also painted and for some sections of the door I used gesso to bring out embossed architecture
I also free motioned some creeper in purple and one in yellow on wash away and stitched them down on edge of door. Painted brickwork and embellished these plants with rhinestones
Thanks for the challenge

     

Next topic: Doors

The next topic will be " doors" .

We all know that when one door closes quite often another opens, another opportunity for change, creativity, occupation....etc. so get your creative ideas happening ladies. I look forward to seeing your intreptation of " Doors"

Time Lapse

From seed to tree. Time lapse was created by painting  Sun Dyes over a roughly drawn background. Densely quilted in variagated Mettler polysheen. Just love this thread.  

new title please

I'm on a camping trip to Wellington NZ. My son is having a place built on West coast just outside Wellington and we have been camping on his property waiting for his house to be completed end of July so having fun with it being cold and very windy but we managing. Just wondering why this site has been so quiet
Please can we have the next title so I can start my next challenge
Thanks

Time in a Bottle-by Margaret Kelly

TIME IN A BOTTLE (Jim Croce)

If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I’d like to do

Is to save every day ‘til eternity passes away

Just to spend them with you.

….

But there never seems to be enough time

To do the things you want to do once you find them.

I’ve looked around enough to know

That you’re the one I want to go through time with.

Isn’t that as beautiful song.  On our 25^th anniversary, my husband, David, said that this should be our song.  So with “time” being our current theme, I decided to create a memory just for us.  We used to celebrate by hiring a babysitter and going out for a nice meal.  Just the two of us, quietly celebrating.   Our kids are all grown up; we have grandchildren; and now we can take some trips and see the sights.  During those early years, we didn’t take as many photos as we do now.  But I found a couple of old ones! 

I decided to make this on in the grey scale.  The background fabric is one of my hand dyes using soy wax and stitches as the resist.  The wine bottle is heat cut out of 2 layers of organza.  The photos are dated, so Christmas day in 1966, David asked me to marry him.  September 9, 1967, was our wedding day and I thought that would make a good label for the bottle!  After 25 years, we decided to be daring – we went river rafting but that was difficult to get a photo of us doing that, then we went on a Mexican cruise out of LA, hot air ballooning over Lake Tahoe (photo 1992-09-09), drove through the Napa Valley to San Francisco where we flew home to Northern BC.  Have you noticed that you rarely have both of you in a photo – always one or the other…  We’ve taken several trips now, but no photos of the two of us.  Last year, we went to Iceland and a very kind lady took our picture!  So there we are on our 48^th on 2015-09-09.  And I’m leaving space for a photo next year when we have our 50^th.

I just haven’t finished it, but you get the idea of what I’m doing, and how the theme inspired me.  In fact, this piece won’t be finished until 2017-09-09, when we celebrate our 50^th anniversary and I get one more photo to fill the space.