Create Handmade Gifts for All Blog Hop day 7 | Diane Doran

Today is the 7th day of the blog hop for my new E-Book “Create Handmade Gifts for All“:

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and the lovely Diane Doran is talking a bit about the e-book on her blog Ooh, Pretty Colors. She’s got 2 Quilting Arts Workshops on how to use a computer to create one of a kind art quilts. In this one

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she shows you how you can create fabric that looks like it’s been dyed and had various surface design elements like stamping, silk screening, etc, applied; but it’s all done with Photoshop Elements. She’s used all these techniques to design fabric like this:

Ferns and Leavesand this:

Rainbow Leaves

I love these!

She also makes incredible art quilts:

Intertwined, ©2014 Diane Rusin Doran

Look at this incredible thread sketching detail!

And these beautiful birds agains the blue sky:

“Sunrise Serenade”, ©2014 Diane Rusin Doran

For chance to win a copy of last year’s Quilting Arts Gifts 2013/14 or even the messenger bag I made that is featured on the cover of my new e-book, head on over to Diane’s blog to enter! And don’t forget the rest of the stops on the tour!

Create Handmade Gifts for All Blog Hop