Crafty Individuals course

Spent a great two days in Yarm on the Crafty Individuals weekend course, and made the two pieces of work above. I just love working with houses, so this suited me very well. We used house and tree blanks and either covered them with backing paper, or collaged them. Images were then inserted in the windows, and embellished with charms, flowers etc. One set were placed into a wooden box, and the others into a row. They are both very 3D

Chunky book----I, J, K, L.

These are the next 4 letters for the chunky book swap. They are all collaged, with various embellishments added.

Next stage -- Using colours

The next part of the Sumptuous surfaces lesson is using colour. The designs above are postcard size, and I haven't made up my mind which one to work on. It will develop as I go, I hope.
I have used orange as the seahorse colour, as it is opposite on the colour wheel, and the colour that complements blue. I have loads of blue and turquoise threads and beads, and have been wanting to use them for ages, hence the sea theme.
The top picture is showing the beginnings of the stitching

Finished again !!!!!!

I had to redo this as it had altered the background colour, it was all white and horrible !!

Finished

Here is my finished piece, with all the textured stitching done.

Flat stitching finished

At last the flat stitching on my tree is finished, and waiting for the texture bit. We are off to Devon in a minute, so I will attempt to do it down there, inbetween sorting mum's bungalow out. Not looking forward to it. Where am I going to put it all.

Sumptuous surfaces course

I am doing an online course called sumptuous surfaces. This is my first online course, and so far I seem to going into it headlong. That means, I have made my design too complicated, even though the tutor said it should work. My hands hurt, I need a magnifying thingy to see the holes, and have decided that I am too impatient to do things properly. I want to get onto the textured bit without all the initial bits. It's only the size of a postcard, but feels like the Forth road bridge.
The ouline is in Portugese stem stitch, whipped stem stitch , and stem stitch. The pulled stitches are satin, and whole or part buttonhole wheels. I think I shall being stitching a lot tomorrow, as the next lesson is on Thursday.
The empty bit under the tree will be the textural bit.