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New Cards

Posted on by under printing

I have been working on creating greeting cards with my recent set of lino cut prints. I forgot to take photos of most of them but I managed to get photos of the last three.

Each card has a background color that I found in my paper stash. The note card blanks are brown.

Then I have been gluing the prints and background colored paper to the card with Yes paste. I use an old credit card to scrape on the glue thinly. Then I put the cards under a pile of books to dry.

Each card is different and I sell them at the store. Hopefully, they will fly out the door 🙂

Hope you have a good weekend!

Couple of Cards

Posted on by under fabrics, free motion machine stitching

I finished a few more of the greeting cards that I posted about previously. I get them set up ahead of time but when I start stitching the plan sometimes changes.

Card Components

 

I had planned on doing automatic stitching on this card but then I thought that it looked like a tree trunk on the right. So instead, I did some free motion stitching and removed the blue-green silk pieces.

Free Motion Sketched Tree

 

This is the result.  I might need to add a bit more dark thread but held up close, as you would a card, it looks fine.

MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

 

Next I worked on the one on the right. It had some felt but those spare pieces of blue-green silk went so well…

Blue Green Card

 

Here’s the end result. I don’t usually baste or fuse down my fabrics on these cards, I just stitch over them. Sometimes things get a bit wonky but that’s OK. I’m working on not having to have everything “perfect”.

Little Snippets of Work

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I’ve been trying to get back on track since I’ve gotten home. I am still trying to do at least 5 minutes of creative work every day but I’m having a hard time somehow. I have lots of things I want to get done but sometimes the list feels a bit overwhelming. So I’m just doing a little bit at a time and hopefully, I’ll get back into the groove soon.

Being You CardI finished one of the greeting cards that I laid out last Friday with my art group. I decided to add a background fabric and then just used one of the programmed stitches on my machine to stitch it down. I used fusible to attach the words and to attach the fabric to the card.

Being You CardHere’s the card ready to be written in and sent off to someone. I really like using hand-made greeting cards. They don’t take very long and people are always impressed. It’s nice to give a little bit of your time and thought to a card instead of just buying it from one of the box stores.

Card ComponentsHere are the ingredients for the next one. The white piece to the right is stitch and tear interfacing. It gives enough of a backing to prevent the stitching from buckling the fabric. If you do a lot of free motion stitching, you might need two layers of interfacing. I’m thinking about doing free motion stitching on this card. Perhaps following some of the organic lines.

Matching ThreadThen I just choose which color thread I want to use and it’s time for stitching. I usually keep these cards fairly simple and practice a bit on making a balanced composition.