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This month
Carole Brungar and I are exchanging floral themed postcards so I thought I would make mine using some of my fabric paper (a la Beryl Taylor). Beryl recommends that you use photocopied papers so that they aren't too heavy for the technique but I have found that it still works using the scrapbook papers (probably just ends up a little firmer).
This piece of fabric paper includes three different scrapbook papers, including two floral ones. I wanted to emphasize the soft feminine colours so the paint wash over the top is very subtle and includes a little "Sea Glass" Glimmer Mist (by Tattered Angels). I said I wouldn't try any more glimmer type sprays as I was so happy with the Moon Shadow Range but when I was in Margaret River over Christmas I saw this particular spray in a shop there and fell in love with the colour!
After adding some thin batting to the fabric paper, I added some hand stitching in a few nice colours and then I decided to experiment by coating the whole top with a polymer varnish. It worked a treat and has made a very durable type surface. I have yet to post one of my fabric postcards "naked" (meaning without an envelope) but I think this one might now be safe in the mail system. I usually add beads or something dimensional but I am very tempted to just drop it in the mailbox! It is quite firm as I added a layer of Pelmet Vilene Plus and a calico backing.
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I have been honoured in the last week or so by two lovely bloggers who have passed on awards to me -
Krishna from Feltique (the Butterfly Award) and
Julia from Verdigris Rose (the Marie Antionette Real Person award). I really appreciate you both thinking of me and although I am not going to pass this one formally, I really would like to honour everyone on my blog roll - and all the others that I subscribe to but haven't got around to adding to my blog!
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I don't have any other art finished but I have quite a few projects underway so I will be able to share pictures soon (hopefully) - 50 tiny little chipboard houses for the Creative Soul Retreat which is just over a month away, some more technique ATCs, more Oxford Impressions cards...
Last week I was in the Esperance region for work so here are a few pictures - the weather was pretty variable and quite a lot cooler than the temperatures we have been having here.
(Close to the Esperance Harbour - the tower is associated with the
miniature railway and it looks bizarre from a distance!)![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFZegp8UE9n5fSYTp5FO9wofpnhRUMomqEntmIaHYVeZKoUw3588vbnmpK2HyLHvqivlI9S5RaD2ECNJ1n-htql3AuyeuKhudwKvIcerN71FVF0tcd5ILPLzTnAwKQ-Yh3G6we7JAASSW/s320/Esperance+2.JPG)
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(This one is the $2billion Ravensthorpe Nickel mine/plant that has just closed down after 8 months operation)
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(This one and the one below are of the beautiful remote Starvation Bay -
between Esperance and Hopetoun)
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PS My thoughts are with all the Australians currently being affected by the
awful floods in Queensland and the terrible bushfires in Victoria.