2 x 3 and some collage leaves

This ATC was made with little scraps of japanese brocade and faux suede attached to pink plastic bag ironed to batting, then added to a card.


I have been working on a pair of collages.

These are both fabric paper on a stretched frame with modelling paste leaves.  I want the next layers to be dimensional and then finally fabric and have been experimenting with leaves to add.

The leaf on the left is fabric paper and the one on the right is faux suede, painted with red and orange, and fused (two layers, because it wasn't stiff enough) then cut with a soldering iron.

The faux suede gumleaf above is made the same way. (it is not quite a dark as it seems in the photo) I haven't quite got to the green fabric paper yet, but I will.

After I have made enough leaves, I also intend to make dimensional fabric gumnuts and acorns to embellish as the final touch on each, but I am still mulling ideas around for those in my head.

of course, I will also use the tyvek leaves I made  a while ago as well.

Have fun in your garden.

orange and green

Today's ATC is made from some fabric I got in the swap package I showed yesterday

I free machined over a few of the leaves in the pattern, then added some leaf sequins which I had coloured with nail polish.

Today's leaf is one that is a sample for the fabric part of the gum/Eucalyptus collage base I showed yesterday.

This one was free machined on synthetic suede, just took a few minutes, since the shape is so familiar to me.  My husband's comment was that it had a hole in it.  A lot of gum leaves do have these little holes and I think it makes them look real if you include it.  I have simply cut it out about 1-2mm from the stitching line.  Because it was suede, I really didn't need to actually outline it at all, just cut it out, but if you  look very closely at a gum leaf, you will see that there is a tiny vein line all around the edge.
Of course, I will have to make a lot of these if I use them and I'm not sure how much of this colour I still have.  And I have other ideas to try as well.