Puzzle Quilt

Here is my Puzzle Quilt for the 3 Creative Studios Challenge. 

I decided to align the blocks this way rather than rotating them, this seemed more pleasing to the eye when I was playing around with the blocks. Here's the back, too.

The size is 25"x26".

Puzzle Blocks

 

Here's my sketch for the Puzzle quilt and two blocks. The blocks are 6" unfinished. I'll make this version with

the small blocks but plan to make a larger quilt with more colors using 9" or 10" blocks.

Puzzle Quilt

After reading the Three Creative Studios Quilt Challenge 2010 blog, I am making a small wall quilt using for my inspiration this old postcard I made awhile ago. I am going to use bright colors instead of just B/W. The challenge word for this time (Jan-Feb) is "Puzzle."

February Postcard

 I love COLOR.

clouds

Art Supplies

 

We made these cupcakes using paper and some new art supplies including molding paste and glass beads. We mixed the molding paste, glass beads, and some red paint and created the frosting. Beautiful beads made great sprinkles. This was placed on top of a paper base. The paste dried after several hours and made an interesting project. The painting of  was made using a masking fluid technique. I found a photo and digitally manipulated it to black and white and heightened the contrast, then printed the picture onto a sheet of white paper. Placing the printed photo behind a piece of watercolor paper and using a lightboard, I painted masking fluid over the lightest parts of the photo (onto the watercolor paper). After allowing the masking fluid to dry, I dropped in watercolor here and there until the unmasked paper was covered. After it dried, I removed the masking fluid by peeling it off, and this is what remained.  (I did go over the eyes a bit with a black Sharpie)