Working in Photoshop

I have fully completed 16 Tarots and another one needs some hand stitching and beading. This means I am on track to complete 2 more this month and the final three in April. Hooray!!


For The Devil I needed an image of chains. (for addiction).


My attempt to draw some was not very successful. I remembered DH had some heavy chains in the shed so I got those out. I mucked about with paint on fabric, which didn't go anywhere.


I cropped one of the photos I took, manipulated them further in Photopaint and I was thrilled with the result.

This was the cropped photo of the chains on our verandah floor.

This is the image which I then printed on ready-to-print cotton and which became the background for this piece.

I have come to the conclusion that your weaknesses as well as your strengths contribute to developing a style.

Had I been able to draw, I would have done that and stopped there.

Sent the card off

I sent the card away yesterday.
The background is some of my handmarbled fabrics.
Pink Spiral on the left: running stitch, whipped with pink yarn. Little dots are put on the yarn with fabric markers.
Some angelina fibres on the right. French knots in thick perle cotton as well as some straight stitches.
Small indonesian glass beads start in the pink spiral and continue to go around the angelina bits.
What else can I say?