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April's 6 x 4 fabric card

Well it's the last day of the month, and I just finished my April entry for "6x4 lives", a monthly journal- style postcard challenge started by Sharon over at inaminuteago. Last month I made a dragonfly card, this month a butterfly one with a quote that I printed out on t-shirt transfer paper awhile back, and a little Japanese fabric from my friend Simone in L.A. - the pretty butterfly was from Sandy in the U.K. The angelina fibers and metallic threads are, as usual, hard to photograph, but I hope this gives an idea of the actual card. I'm off to add it to the Flickr group now...

February's 6 x 4

I just realized that I put this on Flickr, but that I forgot to post a picture here. This is February's fabric postcard for 6x4 lives, which is a monthly journal project from the mind of oh-so-creative Sharon B! Can you tell that I'm waiting for Spring or something to happen by looking at this? Well, that's what I was thinking about while making this particular card. I mailed it afterwards and it's on its way to....

6x4 Postcard : January

I decided to get my act together and make a fabric postcard for this interesting journal type project that Sharon started: 6x4 lives. This piece was an accident and started out as an ATC, which you can see ended up cut into 3 pieces and stitched to this card. This month I think I was basically feeling cold (it's f-freaking f-freezing outside!), confused, and like I was going aroung in circles, which explains why this looks the way it does! I get cold just looking at this card... I tried out a little fabric foil on this, and am happy to say that the stuff works. The circle I attached with a bit of floss is cut from an old CD, and was going to be stitched on shi-sha style but I had to give up on that idea. It actually looks better this way I think. Check out the other 6x4's on Flickr. I am in awe of the dragonfly card that Sharon made!

Blog Anniversary

Wow, 3 posts in one day- could it be... yes! It's croque-choux's 1 Year Blog Anniversary! Thanks to everyone who actually reads me, and a special thanks for all the nice comments I've received here during the past year. I might not always find time to answer each person, but these e-mails, well wishes, and virtual pats on the back mean a lot to me! At first I didn't tell any people I knew that I had a blog because I was afraid they'd be all :"You started a WHAT? A blog?? On the web? Are you nuts??!", but now when my friends and family want to know what I've been up to they check my blog first which is really funny. When I called my brother (long distance, bien sur) the other day and told him that my temp job didn't go permanent as planned, he answered "Yeah. It's the Word out on the street". Ya gotta love dry humor, or as they say in French "humour pince sans rire". But I digress. Here is a link to the first 2 things I wrote here last year, and a link to the full croquechoux archives.

ps: Thanks to Mia for being the 1st person to leave me a comment last year! Check out her blog (in Swedish!) and try this totally fun test she blogged about to see which celebrity you ressemble! OhmyGod, I tried this and I most ressemble... Lawrence Fishburn!!

Fabric Journal Page

I think I could use a color fix, and a little turquoise should do the trick. It's cold, foggy, and grey here- I think that Winter is finally getting to me! I thought I would post a fabric book page that I made last Summer for the "journaling with friends" theme. I sunprinted this one with Pebeo transparent fabric paints, and added a real miniature journal with little pages. A journal within a journal... I especially love how the hand came out. I bought a couple of them at the art store last Summer and wish I had bought more. They are like stencils or decals that you peel off when the fabric is dry, and they are reusable. This Summer I'll be sure to do a lot of sunprinting. That way I can use the resulting fabric during the long Winter months! I still can't post links correctly here, thanks to my ancient browser and operating system, but you can surf over to the Pebeo website and look for more info on Setacolor paints and sunprinting. Funny thing about journals... my teenage daughter just got ticked off at me because I wouldn't let her browse the journal I started recently. I was reluctant but when she insisted I said: "Okay, if you show me yours, I'll show you mine". End of discussion. Strange...