Tuesday 29 July 2008

Post Cards



Today I received my gorgeous CG July PC from Doreen. It really is the prettiest pink BG and the flower petals are just wonderful. The blanket stitch around the outside is perfect. Thank you Doreen.



I struggled this month both with the imagery and the verse for the July PC above. In the end I decided to concentrate on the verse and think about the concept of friendship in the face of adversity.



I tried to think of a simplification for this to put into Google images and came up with friends in the rain. I found this delightful image and set about customising it.
Firstly I converted it to B&W. I then put a chalk and charcoal filter on it, in PS, to give it more of a painterly feel and then put a sepia tone on it, as I had decided to try and give the impression of one of those greeting cards that you can get, that look like vintage photographs.





And then I cropped it to size.



Now to the textile bit. I had 2 ideas in mind here, one was to use some of the Jacob’s fleece that I’d bought at the rare breed show and the other was to get some use out the embellisher. So I ended up embellishing the fleece mixed in with some Marino wool tops and a little bit of silk fibres to hold down the antique lace that I’d found at car boot sale.

I printed the image onto Bubble jet treated calico and embellished this down to the BG. I finished off with some FME just to hold those areas that were a bit loose after the embellishing. I then printed the verse on the reverse of the PC.

9 comments:

Val said...

I love it Sharon - your interpretation is absolutely wonderful, and so original. Val

Julie said...

Lovely Sharon. I like the atmosphere the monochrome style colour scheme gives to it.

Doreen G said...

Glad you liked my card Sharon and I agree with Val about the card that you made.

Shirley Anne Sherris said...

Like the mono tones effect. It works well for this piece.
I have never been to a car boot sale - must try it one day.
Cheers

Joanna said...

How beautiful! It really captures a moment and gets you wondering about the story behind the picture.

Anonymous said...

cute card!

arlene,
Silverdale florist

Unknown said...

Looks great Sharon, I envy your knowledge of these pc programs. I can't bring myself to take time for it...

Ro Bruhn said...

Wow, great transformation Sharon, I love the way you've printed it on fabric and combined it with the wool.

Shirley Goodwin said...

Well done Sharon! And thanks for dropping by my blog - it's India Flint's book that I'm waiting for (our postal system is SO slow!)- the fabrics I saw in the magazine article were lovely.