Hand Stitched-n-Drawn Card

I finally made it and it was FUN!

hand-stitched on paper with color pencil highlight

It has been a while that I watched and observed how stitching can be done on paper.  Long time ago I saw some artwork with stitching and was so attracted by the unadorned and innocent style stitched work could create on canvas and paper.

Thanks to youtube where you can find lots of tutorial video for all kinds of works.  I watched a few of them and thought about using this simple technique to create art of my own style.

To try it, I first used a small card stock (painted with leftover acrylic  color from my last painting) and simple outline.  The result was nice and encouraging, so I moved further to patterns with designed illustration.　My goal is that the design of stitching should contain all kinds of colors I usually use.  Anything that can be in harmony with floss would be my option.

So far I made 2 pieces of 4" x 6" greeting card.  I do realize that my styles can be so varied between painting and handcrafts.  I am not sure if I find a particular style of ME in there.  But I believe they all deliver my love for being creative and thoughtful.  I long to make other stitched card and seek more possibility.

記得之前看過結合手縫的作品，深深喜愛那種樸質純真感，於是開始觀察網路上的手工縫線卡教學，看了一陣子後開始動手做做看能不能創造出自己的風格。

小鳥那張是初步試做的成果，割剩的小紙卡上了用剩的壓克力顏料，以簡單的圖案來縫製，效果還不錯，於是就更振奮地朝著有插畫設計風格的方向前進，目標就是任何可以跟繡線結合的方式都要試試看。

目前做了2張明信片大小的折頁問候卡，同時發現到自己畫作與手工作品風格迥異，雖然不確定哪一種風格最能說出自己，但我相信它們都傳達了我對創作的喜愛與感受。很想再多縫些卡，並探索製作上的更多可能。