The background is painted canvas done in a workshop with Elizabeth Busch-fun, a great teacher. The circle is free machine embroidery that was done on water soluble stabilizer. The butterflies were done and given to me by a dear friend. I've been hoarding them and using them on special pieces.
The exploded flower photo from a gardening catalog was the start of this one. I used a marker to complete the petals and a fine line one to do the radiating ribs. It's been a long time, since I did an exploding design, and this is the first one done in regular units instead of just randomly. I think it's not the last.
In the middle of the night Wednesday, I suddenly knew. Yesterday I quilted and finished it.
This one is from some leftover pieces that I just squared up and sewed together. I've had the machine embroidered butterfly(moth?) for ages and decided to stitch it on top by just stitching the main veins, so it is dimensional. The edge is yarn zigzagged in place.
It was a good class that I learned a lot in. Maybe now I'll do more with those paintsticks I just had to have.
I like this one best-do like to quilt circles. The idea of changing colors in different areas appeals.
The square grids were easy to stitch and would make a good background for more embellishment. The colors could be used to create depth.
To this I added the rubber stamp spiral. It's one I made using kids' sticky backed foam on an acrylic block. It was cut with a decorative blade in the rotary cutter than curved into a spiral.
This is stamped in the green background with a plate I made from styrofoam left from the takeout box. I then inked around some of the small shapes with a silver gel pen. The silver one I seem to use over and over.
I have a commercial flower stencil that I use a lot-like flowers. Marking pens work well with stencils and don't make the mess paints do. However, when you wipe them off, more paint is transferred to whatever they are sitting on.
Marking pens through a stencil again. I was recycling old microfich film and cut the curves with an Exacto blade.
This one I liked so well that I didn't touch it. They will go in a book probably. The others were doing post cards, but I'm more likely to do fabric post cards.
The center is felted with the Embellisher machine using wool rovings then applied to a curved pieced background of cotton. Then I machine quilted across the whole piece.
Here is a detail. The color is truer in the large view.
I designed this as a quilt block using Electric Quilt but decided that it would make a good stitched piece. The background is felted wool yardage. The stitching is done in Perle Cotton using the chain stitch. Then I echo quilted it by machine and turned back the wool to edge it.
The triangle I made with hot glue on a wood scrap. It works really well for a rubbing but not very well as a stamp. The one below it is tooth picks glued to wood. The leaf and the blue triangle are made with a pen on the styrofoam that you get when you bring the rest of your meal home from the restaurant. The rose is part of my collection of printing blocks and was my favorite to use.
Red was a hard background to find something that would show up well from the paint sticks that I had. The metallics seem to work the best on most backgrounds.
I used three colors on the yellow polyester moire piece. The hand painted one would have to be used carefully because of the strong red areas.
The background is machine pieced crazy quilt. I added braids, lace, and ribbon flowers, then stitched. Lastly came the beading .
The background fabric is a pink hand dye which was first screened with violet.
The next image was using blue. I like the contrast better.
Masking tape resist. 
Paper as resist.
Stencilling.
