Well it's been a few days since I posted about my elephant cards. It's not that I haven't been doing anything it's just that I've been a bit restless. I've started 5 or 6 different things but never quite seemed to finish any of them. Finally last night I decided to knuckle down and tick some more postcards off the list.
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First up here is one of the cards I made for the Cats and Dogs swap we had a while back at Artsnthemail. These were great fun to make. Took a while cutting and fusing all the pieces, especially on the dog and then appliqueing them down with tiny satin stitch. I finished them off with little felt noses and goofy button eyes.
Next up was the Something Beginning with F swap. I decided F is for felting. For ages I have dreamed of getting an embellisher machine but sadly they are way out of my budget at the moment so I'll still keep dreaming. Instead I decided to try out the budget option from Clover.
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Actually it was a lot of fun to do but quite time intensive for even the small areas that I was working on, but I really like the soft felted finish. Here is the result.
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F is for felting and flower, actually the flower didn't work too great I think it might have been the pink on orange colour. It seems to show up a bit better in this picture than it does to the naked eye.
In progress I have postcards for an Autumn themed swap, Something Beginning with G (anyone want to guess it's not as straight forward as E!), a
padfolio and a page for a fabric book swap. Phew, well at least I won't have time to get bored finishing up all of those.
3 comments:
Wish I'd been in the cats/dogs swap - those cards are WONDERFUL!!
Maybe G is for Giraffe or Gathers or Green or Geisha or ....
Look forward to seeing what you chose :)
I love your cat and dog!!!!! Awesome....felting is good therapy for stress too...all that stabbing..haha Melinda
Giraffe? Gigantic? Green? Gremlin? Growth? Goblin? Gilgamesh? Gormless? (grin)
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