Embroidered Collage

Kristan Hodge gave me a brief description of her technique and I decided to give it a try, deliberately going for something coarser instead of the fine detail.  I used Golden's liquid acrylics straight from the bottle, squirted onto wax paper, then laid the watercolor paper down and squished.   I turned the sandwich over and manipulated the paints a little bit, then removed it and let dry.  Essentially, I made a monoprint, which I then cut up to make the ATCs.  The surface of my cards is very different from Kristan's, as mine have that plastic acrylic paint feel that you get from a thick application.  I will be sending these in for an abstract art trade in December.  It was a fun effort.  I won't be doing exactly this again, but it did remind me that layering monoprints on my canvases before the embroidery might be worth trying.