Valentine's Day Fabric Postcard
Machine appliqued hearts from cookie cutter shapes. I used fusible Pellon in the middle to stiffen the cards. I used white muslin on the backs. The fronts are 100% cotton fabrics. I also added some h…
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Curlew feeding
On a 4" x 6" base I applied the blue sky, secured with freehand machine stitching. I then applied the sea and beach in the same way. I drew the bird on the reverse of the post card and freehand strai…
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Zentangle fabric postcard
To help keep the background fabric from shifting while doing the free motion quilting, use same color thread as fabric and stitch close to edge of the card.I created a 'box' around the card just over…
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Square in a Square Fabric Postcard
The way I accomplished making this postcard...First I use a heavyweight Timtex as my base, and then all the blocks were done by paper piecing. It was the first time I'd done something so small, and I…
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A Touch of the Orient Geisha
I did all machine applique, with fusible web and cutting out of the pits and pieces to make this darling. So, I gather my scrap basket and go to work tracing the pattern backwards, and then draw on f…
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New Zealand Beachscape - Fabric Postcard
Simply layering strips of fabric across a muslin base layer and then adding a variety of threads of different textures and machine and hand stitching the whole together. Finally I added a piece of pa…
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Lots of Sunshine Postcard
I used the fusible web applique technique to permanently position the pattern pieces and surrounded the shapes with contrasting hand stitched blanket stitches. I used brads to create eyes for the sun…
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Hello Kitty Postcard
I used the fusible web applique technique to secure pieces for the Hello Kitty postcard. After the pieces were in place, I surrounded them with hand stitched blanket stitches, and think the darker st…
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Ready For Spring Postcard
The one in the book actually used wool felt. I didn't have any wool felt so I decided to make it the Petal Play way for the flowers and the leaves.Put fusible web between two pieces of fabric and the…
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Notch Hill Fire 2009
The postcard is created on Timtex with hand dyed and hand painted fabrics layered on the surface and then covered with black tulle before free motion stitching. The backing was then adhered and the c…
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Landscape Postcards
I use a lot of fusible web and very sharp scissors. Then I draw on the backing, cut out my designs and fuse them to a pieced background. Sometimes I will add various embellishments, though I felt non…
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Bejing Postcard by KJ
I traced the elements of the photo (using a light box), and used the pattern to cut the individual elements.Each of the pieces was fused to affix the different elements and then hand embroidered.Once…
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Postcard with vintage handkerchief
I used sharp scissors to cut out the portion of the handkerchief that I wanted to feature on the front of the card. Fusible web affixed the cut-out to the postcard base, which used two different fabr…
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Christmas Postcard
I used Photoshop to crop and scale the photo, and a Photoshop filter to make it look a little like a painting. Next, I printed the photo onto fabric. After that the techniques were the same as for an…
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Woman with Purple Lips
I used fusible material, heat and bond heavy and light (trying to use up different stuff I found in my stash), satin stitching for the edges and also binding.Also used some beads, hooks and eyes, sna…
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