Embroidered Collage

It never occurred to me to look at ATCs from a distance, but when Wendy had me pin the first iteration of these up on my design wall I realized what she was talking about.  I still don't think they always need such contrast, since most often a card is viewed intimately, but the additions I made to the rough images below did make most of the finished cards above better than they would have been if I hadn't been thinking about values during the embellishment stage.

I made the first iteration of imagery by playing with the blobby shape template and just cutting and moving shapes around on the different surfaces.  Fusing was the primary construction technique, with a little bit of acrylic medium when I added paper.  The picture of my workstation from Day 1 is from when I was almost halfway done with this part.

I trimmed them down to size or wrapped them over Peltex and began embellishing with watercolor crayon and stitch and eventually a little colored pencil.  I worked on that second stage off and on all week in spare moments until they were completed.  The ones with paper and fabric are slated for a swap in an online group and I'll find another swap within which to trade most of the purely fabric ones.