Postcards

I have very little idea how to format the placement of these pictures - tried to spread them over the page a bit, but they seem to have got into rather a random layout...

Anyhoo, had some fun a while back making postcards.... nice way to try out a technique without too much investment - and if it works well, you can do more.

Handmade paper with pineapple bits in it.

Very random stitching on sheer fused onto background:

I bought this very cheerful elephant fabric as a child's dress at a jumble sale for the princely sum of R5 - went home and cut up the dress. Here it is with some Elle Plume yarn around the edges and below, without.

Some very zany neon-coloured snakeskin bellbottoms I bought at the second-hand shop and also cut up. You'd have to be on acid to wear them as clothes but they make cheerful postcards... :)

These two blueish ones are rather random and not all that successful in my eyes, but there's no accounting for taste and since I hope to offer them for sale, they may just appeal to someone!:

The last two are my mother's taste - ethnic, striking in design. Not much to be done, as the design is so strong, so I mainly quilted them, and outlined the one at the bottom: