New Fold - house shaped aviation themed card with decorative paper, paper airplane digital and filmstrip die cut

 I have worked with this new fold for a card!!  I was inspired by a card online that had a double front and was folded to create a house profile.  I cut this large card from a large sheet of cardstock from a pad I bought a while back.  I marked and and then scored the fold lines that create the roof line and then down the center of those triangles to get them to fold in half into the card!!  Totally cool!!  It stands up very nicely and there is room inside to write on the house shaped insert.  I started with the body of the shape and added a collage of vintage airplane blue print paper which I designed with several images of planes I found online for a previous card.  I added the gray triangle at the top and then worked on the focal element which combines a filmstrip die cut (SX) in black with a printed digital image of a little paper airplane (Pixabay) and a bit of fiber to make its vapor trail.  I added the little ribbon after the fact which took a bit of fiddling but was worth the echo of my watercoloured sky on the little airplane image.  After finishing the front, I thought it needed a bit of something so I added some texture to the peak with a Sharpie marker.

Really like how it worked out!!  Therese

 

Butterfly embellishment for an assemblage curated by my aunt

 My aunt, Maria, is an artist and about a year and a half ago she challenged the female members of our extended family to produce a piece of fabric art from which she would create a large piece of art which she would label Family Connections.  She received several submissions early on and others continued to trickle in.  In all she received 11 submissions and she added one of her own creations as well.  

She requested that I add a butterfly to the top left.  She had started an outline and I was free to add, embellish or replace it.  I chose to remove the outline and added a fabric die cut in blue.  I used blue shimmery rayon thread to stitch the outer edge down with small stitches close to each other and then added a row of small stitches on the inside of the edge going along it.  Then, I added a layer of shimmery silver paint and added more stitching once it was dry.  I did the outline of the top and bottom of the wings in the same blue thread and then added some yellow accents in the same shimmery thread - little stars and two rows of back stitching on the outside edge and seed stitches on the inside of the top of the wings.  Using multi coloured variegated rayon thread I added lines of stitching to the bottom portions of the wings.  It was fun to work on this little embellishment and much more fun to see all the other pieces of fabric art that had been submitted.  Her sister added the border and the loops at the top for hanging.   We are having a family reunion this summer and it will be on display and part of the Silent Auction.  

Therese