Getting ready for another road trip!

It is a beautiful Sunday morning here in Texas!

We are getting ready to hit the road up to H-town (Houston).

But not before I post a challenge project that I have been working on-n-off.

For the FMQ group and Challenges 2013 on FB, was to  create a greeting card with some FMQ.

I have never done this before, so bare with me.

(click on the picture for a better view)

Front of the Greeting Card

I took a pencil and color the backside of the drawing from a picture and traced it onto the fabric. I colored in the flowers with Tsukineko inks that I found at a quilt store and at the IQF show last year. After the ink dried, I outline the picture with metallic thread. After awhile, the thread was breaking off while I was FMQ and I would re-thread the machine several , several times.

Then sewed a zig-zag around the mini-quilt three times and added a stamp.

Before I sewed the min-quilt onto the cardstock I used some washable glue stick  (kids glue sticks works fine) to adhere the mini-quilt to the front side of greeting card first.

 

Inside view of the card

Then stitched it onto card stock which I printed out a poem on the inside of the card. Notice the stitching on the left side where I sewed the mini-quilt on the front of the card.

 

I added some more flowers on the inside of the stitching and colored in with water colored pencils, outline with a micron pen. I layered the colors after drying each layer and played around with different coloring pencils to get the medium I was looking for. I love the stitching around the flowers.

I used Derwent water color pencils, and also a set from Michaels.

 

On the backside of the card, I stamped a house and colored in using the same water color pencils.

Hopefully, I will be able to delivered my gift and greeting card to the recipient this week.

If not, there is always the postal service.

Now, I need to finish packing and head out with my WDH on his business trip.

I hope that you enjoyed your visit and wish everyone a wonderful sunny day.

 

Thank you for stopping by,

 

Judith, Texas