Ok, first pic is my attempt at following ideas from a book by Jenny Rolfe on machine embroidered bags. Now, I didn't want to make a bag, but rather a book cover for a blank journal I have. However, when I laid the pieces on the backing and Wunderunder, they did not come out as straight as Jenny's. I have to finish embroidering it, but this was my first attempt at free machine and unfortunately, I had to take a lot of breaks because the needle and thread were not making friends with each other.
Second pic is what was supposed to be the beginning of an awesome piece inspired by Maggie Grey, but looks no where near what I wanted. Maggie showed a technique in one of her books in which she spread Xpandaprint on a piece of chiffon and pulled a tool through it designed to leave lines (like taking a credit card and cutting notches in the end and dragging it through). I did it for two pieces and I am not even showing the first one, because I dislike it so much. The lines are too defined and look juvenile. The second piece was more of a mop up from the leftover Xpandaprint and I liked that one better. When the paint it dried and you heat it, it it supposed to contort into these lovely valleys and hills, but mine looked nowhere near as good as Maggie's. I painted them with Dye-Na-Flow paints and I admit, they did look better once painted, I just have to think of how I will use them.
The last one was my playing with light copper ArtEmboss sheets. I heated most of the pieces, but did try painting a few with Adriondack alcohol inks first and then after they were heated. I thought I would really like the painting on the metal, because I had never been able to find the spirit soluble dyes that Maggie suggested to use in Paper Metal Stitch and when I saw her do an article on the technique with the inks, I thought now I would have results like hers. But the colors were too bold and brash for me, so I wiped down many of those and went with just the rainbow heated look. I embossed some and am thinking of using some of the strips in some type of weaving.
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