Postcards

I have been inspired to make some postcards for Virginia Spiegel's Fiber Art for a Cause so here is a brief description of my process for one of them.

I fused a piece of purple silk to Timtex and then ironed some strips of freezer paper around the edge to form a border. I then place a stencil over the postcard and sprinkled bonding powder over the whole thing and removed the stencil.

Then gold foil was place carefully on and ironed. Once it cooled I removed the foil and this is what remained.

Various blue & teal yarns were embroidered onto the postcard using a big darning needle
















Finally chip and seed beads were stitched onto the card














It was then trimmed to size and fused to watercolour postcard and zig zag stitched around the edge with variagated thread.


Some other postcards were also finished off today and will be mailed to Virginia today. There are a couple of others half finished so more to come. Great way to play around with new techniques.