The painted background for this card was cut from a splattered and daubed sheet of paper used to protect my worktop during another painting project, and the purple strips are scraps of painted tissue left over from the wedding card - see previous post. Rule 1: never throw anything away!
Scraps of organza fabric in two colours - pink and gold - were overlaid and then hand stitched details worked in lazy daisy stitch and french knots using dyed cotton threads. The lace and short lengths of a silk thread to create the flower stems were glued and then rubbed over with a small amount of Treasure Gold to blend and add glimmer. Once completed, the decorated paper was fixed to a plain, watercolour paper card using double sided tape. I then used a medium thickness, space dyed cotton thread in complementary colours to add a running stitch detail to frame the image. I stitched right through to the inside of the card, so used a crewel needle with a sharp point and large eye to accept the ticker thread.
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