More Tyvek samples
These samples have all been made using 100 gsm A4 Tyvek paper.
All were painted beforehand with fluid acrylic paint and looked pretty similar to these ones here.
This first one has been machine stitched in a freehand circular motion on to black Kunin Felt before being blasted with the heat gun. Copper coloured Treasure Gold was rubbed heavily on top of the Tyvek before being placed over a piece of copper coloured metallic tissue fabric.
The photograph makes the edges look far more misshapen than they actually are – but it really was hard going to stitch through.
I always mount my postcards on heavy watercolour paper and I wondered afterwards if I had used Pelmet Vilene or a lightweight fabric if this would have made it any easier.
The next two pieces started off with a base of foil covered polyester velvet. The Tyvek was laid on the top, a piece of organza put on top of the Tyvek and then machine stitched through all the layers before being blasted with a heat gun.

Tyvek has been machine stitched onto cotton velvet before Xpandaprint was applied. This was then zapped with the heat gun. I painted over the top with white household emulsion paint, then when that was dry the surface was painted with writing ink and a light coating of bleach brushed on.

These next two are my favourites.
The base is once again cotton velvet but this time I dabbed on some Xpandaprint and let it dry before stitching the Tyvek over the top. The Tyvek had been painted with fluid acrylic paints then a light wash of Walnut Ink followed by a coat of Polymer medium.
After machine stitching I applied more Xpandaprint to the surface before zapping.
In the first one the surface was then painted with black writing ink and the second one has been painted half black and half emerald green.

These are two more postcards I have received from fellow Fibre Art Friends, Emmy and CarolT.
The first one is from Emmy. A mix of colours and machine and hand stitching. Just beautiful as is all Emmys work.

And this one is from Carol which you may have seen on her blog. A fantastic piece, good design and good workmanship.

This is my contribution to the Calendar Girls 2008 postcard swap for February – somewhat different I think :)
To get the full story of why this piece turned out like it did you will have to visit the Calendar Girls blog. There are some fantastic pieces of work on there from the other girls.
TIF Challenge update
So for the colour part of the challenge I have got my piece of fabric, not sure which side to use though, and have gathered together my threads – so now what? :)