Embroidered Collage

I sliced up the two sheets of paper that I painted on with the palette knife and other texture tools earlier, getting two 4"x6" pieces out of each and some artist trading card blanks from the grey and pink one.  The compositions that I chose from the purple and grey sheet didn't leave trimmings large enough for atcs. 

I was going to show before and after pictures of the enhancement painting, but it turned out that on three of the little paintings I didn't make enough changes to need to.  And the one I worked on the most is actually the one I'm least pleased with, although, of course, I still think it's interesting enough to swap.  For the other three, I really likes how adding a few simple lines to the complex background were enough to tighten everything up to a completed piece of art.