Morning Dew Drops

A Mother's Work is Never Done

Bunny Mummies -- A Treasure Hunt of scraps, beads, jewelry, fabric, ribbons -- even coffee and paint.  Little silk ribbon bunnies around the lettering  rubbed with coffee and lace painted with acrylic paint in pastels.

Memory Flag for Memorial Day

Celebrating with the Fleur de lis

 A special mention in honor of those who have died fighting for our freedom here in the United States of America as we celebrate this Memorial Day Weekend.   

  Broken jewels, tattered lace, music notes and letters written over time with three fleur de lis as in the flags of Acadiana and New Orleans.  

Faded and translated held together with running stitches and a bracelet mailed to a sweetheart.

  

  No matter where they were stationed many traveled the globe,

  

fought and died from WWI to Vietnam, the Middle East and maybe even all the way back to the American Revolution as mine.  

 Layered antique pieces, remnants of our loved ones

remembered for our freedom.

 

 A fleur de lis memory flag 

 In Honor ofMemorial Day!

(tutorial tips below) 

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An Interview Last May

Morning Dewdrops Interview at Artists in Blogland

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  Please leave a comment and let us know what you think of our interview, celebrations or Memorial Day

What have you been celebrating lately?

Blessings Terri

Tutorial Tips

I've previously talked about Lutradur, a spunbounded synthetic fabric.  I stamped the fleur de lis with acrylic paint, then I ironed on magenta foil.  I had fun burning/distressing  the Lutradur with my heat gun.  The acrylic paint acts as a mask, so the fabric will not burn in that area.

 I created a second layer when I printed music and lettering directly onto the Lutradur without a carrier sheet. 

The layers are white craft felt, the letter writing layer, the fleur de lis layer, some tattered lace and torn scrim.  Then the entire flag was covered with metallic pink organza.  Make sure enough of all the layers show through.

Then I took embroidery thread and hand-stitched the layers together.  I used basic running stitches.  I wanted it to look pieced, not well put together, tattered and old.  I took jewels from bracelets, earrings and a necklace and sewed those on.  I did a little decorative embroidery stitches in a chain stitch. I hung the flag from a broken necklace.

I kept my pallete for the flag muted with antique/old fabric scraps and used only two other colors, pale pink and purple.

I enjoyed the process and journey this little flag took me on.  I hope some of these ideas inspire you and take you on a journey too.

 

Halloween Needle Felted Apron

Needle-Felted Spider on Apron Bib Spins her Web

and Catches a Cocoon 

 

 

 I'm known as the Spider Lady at Halloween.  We have the biggest spiders at our house in the whole city, so I've been told.  So when all the ghost and gobblins come to our door will they get a treat? or a trick?  

 

 

Or will they be caught in my web and spun for safekeeping?

 

 

The apron bib and pockets were machine needle felted with wool roving, angelina fibers and scraps of netting, tulle, craft felt and yarns.  The spider was needle-felted and shaped with black wool roving.  I ran some machine stitching through the needle-felted pieces.

The spider is much more errie than it looks.

 

 

Especially with me wearing it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

 

Happy Halloween!!

 

 

Cross-Stitched Easter Eggs in the Tulip Patch

 

Look At What Treasures We Found On Our Easter Egg Hunt!

 

 

 Emily and Elvin Cupie found these adorable cross-stitched Easter eggs on their hunt. And although these eggs don't open, they are so sweet and can even be carried as a little Easter Egg Purse for your toddler in her finery on Easter morn.

 

 

Now Emily and Elvin would like to share their treasures with you one by one, won't you come along and as you do you can play this song.

  For they still haven't found their little white duck.

 

 

 

Under this single tulip they found, a chicken 

 

 

 

 who thinks he's a rabbit.  He even wears a tie-bonnet with pink, floppy ears.

 

 

 

 And among these tulips, they found sitting on the ground

 

 

 

 

 A little brown rabbit wearing overalls and looking for his carrot.

 

 

 

 Use a small cross-stitch pattern, so you can make them fast with decorative fabric for the back. 

 

 

Emily and Elvin searched and searched the entire tulip patch for the little white duck with no such luck.

 

 

 But what they did find was a white bunny

 

 

 

 with a long blue ribbon around his neck, a prize he won at the County Fair.

 

 

So under the roses, they gathered all three 

 

 

 

the chick, the rabbit and bunny. 

 

 

 

 

They laid them out so you could see. 

 

 

 

BUT WHERE OR WHERE WAS THAT LITTLE WHITE DUCK SWIMMING IN THE WATER?

 

 among all of these, do you spot two, maybe three?

 

 

 We hope you've enjoyed our Easter Egg hunt.  When I was very young "The Little White Duck" sung by Burl Ives was so special to me.  I sang it over and over.  Even when I got older and my bigger sisters were not around, I'd play it on our portable record player  -- we had his single on a 45 -- remember those! 

 

 

 

 There's our little white duck doin' what he otta. 

You otta leave a comment or two, so please do and I'll just go ahead and say "thank you!"

Quack, Quack -- Terri

 

Artist Trading Cards (ATC) Swap

Inspirational 52 ATC Card Deck Swap

I love to inspire! 

 

 

So here mine are all strung together and blowing in the wind.

 

Jessica Brogan is having her 2nd

2012 Inspirational Card Deck Swap

 

 

First, all 52 ATC cards you make have a different quote. 

 

 

 

These are now cut apart and covered in beeswax.

I even put mine in individual envelopes like a little "happy".  That's what I call small delights not big enough to be called a gift.  

 

 

 

Since I machine embellished mine with decorative yarn/ribbon, it was easy to just stitch them together and then cut them apart when done with sewing.  Great time saver.

(Read more below if you are new to ATCs)

So we send our 52 cards to Jessica and she sends us ATC cards back from all over the world; a different quote of inspiration on each. Can't wait to get mine.

  

I'm grateful and happy to inspire others; it's what Morning Dewdrops is all about -- even in a little ATC card.

We Should

Always Hope, Magnify Hope, Search Hope

See Hope, Taste Hope, Manifest Hope

Identify with Hope.

 

Scripture 

I pitch my tent in the land of hope. (Acts 2:26)

I am a prisoner of hope. (Zechariah 9:12)

Christ in me the Hope of all Glory.  (Colossians 1:27)

 

 

What is an ATC

For those of you who do not know - Artist Trading Cards are miniature works of art about the same size of a baseball card or 2 ½ X 3 ½ inches, small enough to fit inside card sleeves. The ATC movement developed from the mail art movement in Switzerland.  ATCs are made from various media; including pens, markers, paints, paper, found objects and cloth. They are exchanged as business cards and swapped around and cherished as the masterpieces they are!

Please see our post dated Jan 14, 2012 called "Reflections in Artist Trading Cards" for tips and how to take these little darlings to the next level.

Also try searching "artist trading cards" on the web for beaucoup inspiration.

 Please leave us a comment.  Love hearing from you

Blessings Terri

 

 

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Revealing the Artist Within

Inspiration! 

My Lady surrounded by antique buttons, painted lace & silk ribbon french knots.

 

 Front Cover

 

 What better way to be inspired than by the master artisans of the 1700s and 1800s.  She has her hand on her cheek as if to say, "What will I do next?"

A fabric book of art.  I took cross-stitch fabric from the package, still folded, I found to be the perfect size, so I bound the book with a buttonhole stitch and began to reveal the female artisans who lived 100s of years ago.  

 

 

 page 1

 

 A neighbor opens her window to invite us in, "What shall we do today?" she asks.

I've discovered my couching foot again and I love to machine stitch through paper.

 

 

 page 2

 

We'll sit in the garden and stitch beautiful silk ribbon roses and fly stitches by hand and to finish it off we'll embroider even more on our machine.

 

 

 page 3

 

 Tat, tat, tat and the making of lace, wooden bobbins everywhere.

Fly stitches, stitched letters by machine, silk-ribbon roses, hidden and painted things 

 

 

 

  page 4

 

"You know this art we must not let it die," she says, the female artisan who loves to paint and sew, never with idle hands, always creating,

"We shall teach and inspire them again!"

 

Organza, raveling muslin, couched ribbon, buttons and paint.

 

 

 page spread 5-6

 

 Spinning wheels go round and round in a community of spinners and weavers.

In ways, we are coming back to this.

 Silk ribbon rosebuds growing on a vine with large purple bottonhole twist bouillons.

 

 

 

 Close up -- silk ribbon roses on crinoline

 

 

 

Close up - Large silk flowers using a wider ribbon 

 

 

 

Close up -- Large wrapped bouillon flowers 

 

 

 

Page Spread - Pages 2-3 

 

 

 Back Cover

 

Or we could just go outside and play some games!

Angelina fibers underneath painted lace, silk ribbon and buttons

 

Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of our "Revealing the Artist Within" fabric artbook.  I always love to hear from y'all, so don't be shy now.

Blessings Terri