Makin' stuff like crazy!!

I went a little nuts about pears this week. I usually do, this time of year. Most of these are for a postcard swap. I had so much fun that I made 6 instead of 4, so now I get to keep two! Which two, oh which?

The pear on white is a stencil (cut by moi) done with Shiva sticks on white silk fusion. The frame around it is also silk fusion, made separately.

The green on red is done with hand-dyed fabrics and freehand stitching done for shading.

The single pear below is done with Shiva sticks in red, green, gold, and bronze on purplish fabric. It looked like a happy pear so it got excited beads. It is 2 1/2" by 3 1/2". The pictures don't show the lovely shininess of the iridescent paintstiks.


Eve is for Virginia Speigel's auction. When I was making silk leaves, I ran and got some from my fig tree. Well, fig leaves , you know, Eve wore 'em. She needs a necklace with an apple on it, but so far I can't find an apple. I don't want to do the snake, he sounds too difficult.



this one is my favorite. WAY too much hand sewing on this , and the pictures doesn't show it nearly as pretty as it is. The foreground is a silk carrier rod, dyed and sewn down with various threads and beads. All the other colors are silk fusion as well - the sky is bombyx silk, the blue hill /smoke is silk hanky (I think), and the green hill is silk noil. I like making the ATC/ACEOs because I don't use much of the silk fusion.













This is my sassafras leaf card. I 'gilded' the leaf with a Shiva paintstik - oh my gosh what fun! Silk fusion leaf on fabric ground. Too many beads.