First, apologies for the photo. I've tried indoors, outdoors, flash, natural light, lights, and none of them is good.
This is my card for today's WT, using fabric on our cards. Well, I haven't used much else. I raided my scrap drawer and found the duck fabric that I used to use for re-covering a kitchen chair. Then I thought some unused blue fabric would make a great sky, and then I reckoned I needed grass, so out came some green silk dupion from a skirt. It's way nicer than it looks in the photo, believe me. Having got the ironing board out to iron on the interfacing and press out the creases, I decided I might as well go the whole hog and get the sewing machine out too. Not that it was very cooperative today, in spite of the fact that I am sure it had a reasonably big sharp needle left in it from DH's biker trousers needing a repair job.
It's slightly bigger than A2, as I decided it needed white (well, sponged) border around my mat layer. The card base is sponged with ColorBox Pigment Glacier Ice. The base layer is the fabric the duck was cut from: I just covered an A2 piece of card with it, mitring the corners for tidiness, and stitched round it. The next layer, first of all I put interfacing onto the green, cut out the grass and stitched it on to the sky, which I then backed with interfacing. I added some Gutermann sequins and seed beads, and then stitched this to some card. Trimmed it down, stuck it to the base layer. The duck is interfaced, cut out and stuck on.
It's just as well there was plenty of firm interfacing in my sewing box!
This was great fun, Julia. Thanks for pushing me so far out of my comfort zone.
Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009 GMT Views: 718
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