Colors of India Postcards

This month's postcard swap colors were "the Colors of India." Yum! I had been hearing about this red rosin paper on a Yahoo group, so I got some at the hardware store and went to town collaging delicious paper all over it, then turned them into cards, with the help of my mom's fancy schmancy sewing machine. Here are the results:


(I kept this dragonfly for myself!)






Everyone in the group got various different paisleys.

Here they are all together, before I sewed them onto some sturdy paper backing with a zigzag stitch around the edges:



I've posted a complete tutorial of all the steps involved in this project on one of the Yahoo groups, so if you're interested, send me an e-mail and I'll point you there.