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Featured Artist: Lenna Andrews
 

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Artwork #1: Fabric Postcard
	Title Looking For ARTchix Products Transparent Whimsical Wings Transparency Sheet Through the Looking Glass Collage sheet
	Instructions Start with a leftover piece of olive green upholstery velvet and sew a small strip of scrapbook paper and a few special ribbons to the velvet using decorative machine stitches. Glue the face image from the Through the Looking Glass Collage Sheet on top of the ribbons using Tacky glue, and let dry. Add a transparency image from Transparent Whimsical Wings on top of the woman’s face by machine sewing. Use another decorative stitch to sew above the woman's head in wavy lines like rays of the sun. For the reverse side, cut a matching size piece of batik fabric, get out a few postage related rubber stamps and a VersaCraft ink pad and stamp the back fabric to look like a postcard. Iron the rubber stamping when it is dry to heat set it. Add a label if you wish. Sandwich a piece of heavy interfacing in between the 2 pieces of fabric, and with the right sides facing out use an over lock stitch to put the front and back of the postcard together. Enjoy!
Artwork #2: 4x4 Collage
	Title Love Is ARTchix Products Special Delivery Collage Sheet That’s Amore Collage Sheet Heart and Soul Collage Sheet Happy Hour Collage Sheet All My Love Collage Sheet
	Instructions Look for ARTchix images that will illustrate a quote you wish to use. Cut the images out, removing some of the backgrounds & arrange them on a 4x4 card or piece of cardstock. Use your favorite choice of adhesive to attach all the images to the card. When everything has dried sufficiently, use a brown water color crayon to add a bit of brown colour to the edges and small spaces in between the images. Take a wet brush and smooth out the added color, let dry. A small bit of metallic gold pen added to the edges of the heart and the outside edges of the card makes this shine. Stamp your quote on white tissue paper and adhere it to the card with matte medium. You can also use matte medium to cover the whole collage and give it a great pulled together look.
Artwork #3: Journal Quilt
	Title Home ARTchix Products Hold Me Transparency
	Instructions Start with a piece of white fabric that is already printed with black line drawings of houses. Cut a matching piece of cotton batting, place it underneath your fabric and sew images from the Hold Me Transparency sheet through both the fabric & the batting. Stamp a small house image on a piece of handmade paper, and a ‘new house, new home’ quote on another piece of paper and glue these to the fabric with Tacky glue. Use watercolor crayons to color in various parts of the fabric, and then a wet brush to soften the colors. Let dry. Embellish the journal quilt with paper scrapbook quotes and velvet leaves; sew or glue these on with Tacky glue. Add a metal heart charm and an old house key with E6000 glue. Sew on street number charms, and then sew a backing piece of fabric on the back, leaving the edges raw. You can journal with a fabric pen on the backing fabric if you like with a permanent fabric marker.
Artwork #4: Itty Bitty 3x3 Collage
	Title Cindy's Bird ARTchix Products Italian watercolor paper Chixies Winter Post Faux postage Sheet Copper Baroque Borders Brass Heishi
	Instructions First, read Sanna Burgess' instructions for creating Itty Bittys and then cut out a 3x3” piece of Italian watercolor paper. For the background, layer a piece of decorative paper on top of your watercolor paper using a favorite adhesive. I used a handmade collage paper I had created originally from fabric, tissue paper and paper scraps and then photocopied to a piece of text weight paper. Cut out Cindy McMath's 'bird' Winter Post from the collaborative faux postage sheet with a pair of decorative edge scissors, peel the baking paper off and place with the adhesive side down on top of your background paper. Cut lengths of Copper Baroque Borders for each side of the collage. Attach the borders with the points facing in, using Golden matte medium. Cut a small section of the Copper Baroque Border to use as a crown for the bird and attach with matte medium or Tacky glue. Add Brass Heishi using a wooden skewer or toothpick and a dab of E6000 glue for each Heishi. Brush the entire Itty Bitty with matte medium and let dry over night. Lastly, add a faux postage cancellation stamp with VersaCraft ink, which needs to be heat set but is rich & deep.