Embroidered Collage

My Winter Wonderland postcards, for swaps on two different groups, featured a glittery snowy scene.  I bought blue cotton fabric with some shininess embedded, then drew with Shiva paintstiks, trying those out for the first time.  It was a fun way to get a smooth application of color, but took awhile to dry, longer than I'd expected based on the mini-class I'd taken.  After they were dry and I'd constructed the cards - just wrapped the fabric around cardstock and sewed on another piece of cardstock, I added the foil.  

The card is MUCH shinier in person.  The stars glitter.  The strips that look mostly black in the snow between the blue strips, they glitter a lot.  And there's some foil stuck to parts of the trees and the blue strips as well!  Foiling was another first time experiment for me.  I tried out the fusible for the landscape and painted with the fabric glue for the stars.  Both techniques worked out well.  However, the shiva paintstiks also picked up some foil!  And this was after they'd dried for a week.  That was quite a surprise.  It kinda worked for my theme, but is something I'll have to remember in the future.

I do want to use foiling in a second project sometime.  I definitely want to play more with the paintstiks, textural rubbings next I think.