So each of these is fused and mounted on an 8 x 10 canvas - perfect for hanging just as is, or for framing.  They're destined for the space above BSP's desk at the moment, although that's a revolving art space. :)

(At the moment, Erosion is hanging there, although Puzzle was hanging there for a loooonnng time.)


So this little set was composed, as you know of paper towels that in a former life were mop up towels from my painting projects.

And after the backgrounds had been pieced and quilted, I added fused elements on top. Usually this is where I'd add painted lutradur, but in this case, I had lots more paper towelling that would do the trick!



After they'd been fused on to my quilted background, I did some top stitching - just some simple outlines of the birch trees and the rocks, and then hand stitched lines in the "bark". 

I'm really quite pleased with them.  None of them are an exact copy of the inspiration piece, but they're all a bit like it, and really remind me of the lake I grew up on in Northern Ontario - which is probably why I loved the inspiration piece so much to begin with. 




Joining in at What A Hoot for Thank Goodness It's Finished Friday and with Nina-Marie Sayre for Off The Wall Fridays.  Go check 'em out!

I know you'll laugh - but I seriously didn't think of it until just last night...




but I could TOTALLY do this with fabric!

I know it's silly I never thought of it, but I was sort of entrenched in my thinking - "This particular method is for paper only!"




But there's no reason I couldn't use the same method for cloth - maybe just add some stitched in invisible thread in the corners and centre bottom and top to account for the extra weight.

Hmmmmm...

See you on Friday with the finished pieces!

Hmmm....

Here is Paper # 3 - Japanese paper again to augment the paper towel (which has a lovely sueded feel), as well as little square gold sequins and round silver sequins.



You can see that I was a bit tentative about it - I wasn't sure how the paper towelling would work, how to quilt it, all that - AND as you can see, the lighter colour green was a economy brand paper towel - it's quite obvious that it is in fact paper towel, whereas the darker, mottled green was  our usual brand of towel - and it actually *looks* like hand painted paper.
On this one, I fused strips of the paper towelling to the side - all in all, I prefer the painted sides.

I'll be doing more of these in future, but I'll be getting back to the fabric on Monday - working on that new fern I teased you about last week!  See you then!

This one is actually the second one I made (after the first one I showed you, which was actually the  fourth one I made), and, as you can see - I put fabric on the sides of this one, rather than painting the sides as I did in the last one I showed you. 

The effect is much better with the painted sides, no?



But to me, this looked a bit like the Omega Nebula (also known as the rose nebula) so added some little stars along with the blue beads and quilting.

On Friday, I'll have two more finishes for you in this series.  See you then!

If you guessed more of the Paperwork series, you'd be right!   See you on Wednesday with a finished piece!

I used my gold leaf marker to "paint" the edges of the canvas, and then I really *was* done.

Yay!



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