Embroidered Collage

I'm still doing a little bit of mail art and these atcs are going out to my swap partners this week.  They were supposed to be done for August, but that didn't quite happen, obviously.  The themes are abstract flowers, architectural details, complementary colors, and beads/buttons. 

I took two random pieces of paper that I'd worked on before and pulled flowers out of them using colored pencil.  The details are an archway and a doorknob, drawn in conte, with the background in colored pencils.

The fish atc is stretching the complementary colors theme a bit, as it really has two pairs, but I enjoyed putting it together.  The red atc uses one of the scrap pieces from the wintergreen oil transfers as a background and design base.  I pulled out scraps from previous arting for both of the buttoned atcs as well.  All I added last night was the buttons, intended to complete the previously unfinished cards.