Nothing much to report - I have been very busy (in the rest of my life) and, very inconveniently, I have done something to my back so I am feeling very uncomfortable and restricted movement-wise.
I have started experimenting with my postcard for January for the Calendar Girls exchange - this is where I am up to at the moment - it is a stamped sunflower on mulberry paper (coloured with Adirondack Color Washes and Tombow ink-pens). The two pictures show it before and after stitching. If you want to see the original picture that is the inspiration for January's interpretation, have a look here.
The background is a cheap but textured water colour paper that has been coloured with multiple sprayings of the color washes, water and Moon Shadow Mist (Medieval Gold) and stamped with a favourite script image. I've fused some batting to it, added some free motioning stitching on the flower and some decorative stitching as a border as there was too much open space around the focal image. The stamped image really needed to be larger but this was an experiment. I will finish it off with some beading and finishing off the edges but it will be interesting to see whether my final January postcard bears any resemblance to this one!
I have started experimenting with my postcard for January for the Calendar Girls exchange - this is where I am up to at the moment - it is a stamped sunflower on mulberry paper (coloured with Adirondack Color Washes and Tombow ink-pens). The two pictures show it before and after stitching. If you want to see the original picture that is the inspiration for January's interpretation, have a look here.
The background is a cheap but textured water colour paper that has been coloured with multiple sprayings of the color washes, water and Moon Shadow Mist (Medieval Gold) and stamped with a favourite script image. I've fused some batting to it, added some free motioning stitching on the flower and some decorative stitching as a border as there was too much open space around the focal image. The stamped image really needed to be larger but this was an experiment. I will finish it off with some beading and finishing off the edges but it will be interesting to see whether my final January postcard bears any resemblance to this one!
