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Art Birds Swap

1/20/2016

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My Birds before trading
These are all of my birds for our ATC group bird swap on Sunday, Jan. 17.
They are about 10 and a half inches tall. Mine are fabric over felt and cardboard, with bead stitched eyes and legs. I used fabric samples rescued from possible trash and remnants and rubber stamped various stamps on parts of the birds. I also coffee stained most of the beaks and wings. I crocheted small hearts with cotton thread and stitched them on the back. Some of the fabric is printed with a stencil on the Gellie plate. Most of the ones I got back in trade are paper over cardboard.
It was a great make and trade day and I got a lovely collection of birds back from the other members of the group.
I have added this post to the Lets Play link party on A Colorful Journey. 

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The photo below is of all the lovely birds I received back in trade from the members of the group. They are all beautiful.
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The Birds received back in trade.
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Chandra link
1/22/2016 11:11:04 am

I really like your birds how creative to use cloth and felt. I like the coffee stained wings. This looks like a fun swap. The other birds are nice too. Did you have a template to use for this swap? Is it a local swap or a snap mail swap? I cam over from Carolyn's blog Let's Play. Have a great day! :)

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Joanne
1/24/2016 01:03:13 pm

Thanks Chandra for visiting and your kind comments. This was a local swap with a group of art friends and was fun. We had a template from Roxanne Padgett's book Acrylic Techniques in Mixed Media and that keep the birds all the same size, the rest of the decorating was free to go as wild as we liked.

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Sandee Setliff link
1/24/2016 11:06:09 am

How cute and fun! You are very talented!

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Joanne
1/24/2016 01:04:23 pm

Thank you for visiting, you are most kind with you comment.

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