This is my favorite one. It’s rust dyed fabric, hand stitched and beads hand stitched with monofilament line. It’s not as orange as the photo shows it to be.

This postcard is made with commercial fabrics and machine and hand stitched.

This one is made with commercial fabrics and machine stitched. I used FME on a dissolvable to make the skeleton leaf. I then stitched it to the postcard.

This one is made with two different fabrics that I rust dyed and then machine stitched.

I made two postcards like this one. They were machine needle felted, then wet felted using hand dyed wool and silk fibers. I then machine stitched them.

Another postcard completed! This one is needle felted on the machine, then wet felted, then stitched and needle felted some more, then stitched and stitched and stiched – it seemed like forever. But it looks good finished although a little wonky on the edges. Now I’ve got to figure out whether to send them “naked” in the mail.

I have joined a postcard exchange group on www.art2mail.com and I’m in group #36. We have three months to complete 20 postcards and this is my first. It’s base is a commercial grayish/green fabric that I rust dyed, then added another commercial fabric with FME and some FME gold circles. I made 5 more of the rust dyed backgrounds so you’ll see more of those soon.

Here’s some detail of the gold FME. I’m a newbie to FME but I’m really enjoying it and I think it turned out OK.

At last, I completed my tree. I felted the frame and then made the leaves with FME on Solvy. My friend Barb suggested the curved branch to hang it with and I think it all goes together well.