Dreaming

Dreaming, originally uploaded by Terry Patricia.

I fell in love with Webster papers the moment I saw this range (Magical Wishes), and as I am the queen of 3D I cut out the flowers (I bought multiple sheets of the same paper to do this) to build them up. I hand sewed the word "dreaming" and the embroidery below the photo to add some extra depth.

The photo is of my daughter Erin and was taken by her sister Cara while shooting a short film for Uni. The photo was fairly low quality so I had to fix it up somehat but I loved how it looks like she is daydreaming (meanwhile in the film she'd just been beaten up by her abusive boyfriend and had bruises all over her face! Very different to how it looks here, right?).

We'll sing in the sunshine... we'll laugh everyday

My two daughters, frolicking in their new dresses on Christmas Day, last year. They started out as white card stock with lots of stamping, and then I added the blue clouds which I stitched around. I then machine-embroidered the greenery and topped it all off with felt flowers. The girls are raised quite hight on foam mounting tape and have shadows in the light! I got the title from an old Dusty Springfield song.

This Girl is Unique

This is a picture of my daughter Cara. Lots of pink and black to match her hair/clothing (her favourite colours, naturally). "Unique" is wriiten with pink jewels. The flowers are a combination of papper, fabric and felt. The black, flower border down the bottom was a lovely black, plastic ribbon (OK it was prettier than I made it sound).

There is always time to DREAM

This is a picture of my daughter Erin. The wings were cut from a hand-made fabric butterfly and a touch of crsytal glitter. It's hard to see in this photo but a lot of the butterflies are 3D (cut from a matching sheet of paper and added to the page to add dimension). Plus lots of ribbon, bling and stitching!

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