Quilted ATCs

Earlier this year I took a fantastic online class with an extremely talented artist Julie Fei-fan Balzer. I love Julie's bright colourful work which has this amazing freedom about it. The class was called "It's Sew Easy" and had lots of mixed media and stitching projects.

One of the projects was to make some fabric ATCs (Artists Trading Cards) using image transfer techniques, painting, stamping and free motion stitching. I really enjoyed making these and some of my friends have asked me to make some for them too. I've stitched Bible verses onto the pieces and I think these would make a lovely way of presenting encouragement verses.

Here's a closer look...

Encouragement ATC's

A while ago I organised an ATC swap on UKScrappers. An ATC is an Artist Trading Card, which is a piece of artwork which is about the size of a credit card. For the swap we all made ten identical cards with the theme of Faith and Encouragement with our favourite encouraging bible verse on the front. Everyone sent me their cards and I swapped them all round and posted them back so that we all had ten different cards. I have also led a workshop with the same idea as this.

Here are the lovely pieces of artwork which completed the project...

This card even had a little door in the front.