One afternoon, walking into my bedroom the light cast across my bed in just the most beautiful way, showcasing the textures of my quilts I made so long ago. Quilting was my main hobby back then and I made so many of them. Cutting the cotton into precise pieces, piecing the blocks together, then sewing the blocks together to make the quilt top, like putting a puzzle together. But my favorite part back then and still is today, the hand quilting. Its called rocking the needle and I loved each and every stitch and the calluses on my fingertips proved it. It would take months to complete one quilt, but I wasnt in any hurry, because like a good book, when I was finished, I would miss it. It became a dear friend to me as I worked on it. It wouldnt be long and I would be working on the next quilt. I would alternate between a traditional quilt and an Amish quilt. Every square inch quilted by hand. What you see here are my Amish quilts.
PostageFrames No. 1
PostageFramesNo.1
ArtPlay Palette Amarathine
ArtPlayPaletteAmaranthine
Amaranthine WordART Mix No. 1
AmaranthineWordARTMixNo.1
Splatters No. 2
SplattersNo.2
ArtsyStains No. 6
ArtsyStainsNo.6
ArtsyStains No. 3
ArtsyStainsNo.3
MultiMedia Documents No. 1
MultiMediaDocumentsNo.1
Postmarked No. 1
PostmarkedNo.1
Photo: Mine
Font: Bebas Neue
Notes: Solid paper 2 as the background and placing the postage frames, I duplicated the mask from the frames 7 more times, spacing them out. I brought in the photo and duplicated it for each mask on the page, clipping. Underneath I drew out a rectangle with the shape tool and clipped solid paper 1 to it. With the hard round brush and spacing it, I added the round holes between each mask/photo layer and added an inner shadow. I gave the rectangle a drop shadow. The postage framed photos are black and white and the verbiage was added to all.
Below these layers the lacy transfer, word art transfer, document, postage, splatters and art stroke were added to the page. The stains are over and under the postage stamp sheet.
The title and dimensional elements were added at the top of the layers panel. I tried to make this look like the postage sheets we bought once upon a time ago.
