Friday, November 12, 2010

Pink card swap


In October I took part in a pink swap of cards. I really enjoyed it.
I made 6 cards, kept one for myself and sent 5, and in exchange I received these 5 fabulous cards.

Pink champagne from Claire, Edinburgh
Flowers from Pauline


By Jacquie

A calorie free muffin from Barbara in Leeds

Pink ribbons from Benta near Windsor


The backs with "Postcards"stamped on
The theme being Pink, I made some Kokeshi dolls, using a stencil bought in France. These Japanese dolls are quite popular in France and my niece C is especially fond of them.
The front of the cards 

My dear Husband bought me some rubber stamps with "Postcards" in different designs. I used one on the back and I think the result is effective.


I hand quilted around the design with a white thread, but wonder if it was really necessary as I had to use an iron to fuse the buckram to the backing and the front. It flattened everything.
 This is the stencil and all the equipment I needed. Only 3 colours of paint, and the smaller stencil brushes were the most useful on this project.















I enjoyed doing these and my little collection of fabric postcards is growing slowly. Nice.

1 comment:

benta said...

I loved my little kokeshi doll, thank you ;-)

benta