After trimming our photos to golden section proportions, we went at them with inks, dyes, pastels, markers, crayons, paint, making them as various as possible. Sian's brightly coloured example didn't shake me out of pastel mode.
But once a bit of stitch got onto them, things started looking brighter --
Here's a close-up of the ones with fabric couched on, snippets stitched on, and strips of fabric stitched into the paper. Bottom left is my "new boyfriend" - the one I couldn't bear to cut up - a simple, quick application of emulstion paint with the corner of a square piece of foam rubber, and some crayon cross-hatched on the background.
Cut up and rearranged - but what to do next?
Eventually a collage of fabrics just happened - it needs quilting onto the background, and then the roses will be attached with hand stitch.
But once a bit of stitch got onto them, things started looking brighter --
Here's a close-up of the ones with fabric couched on, snippets stitched on, and strips of fabric stitched into the paper. Bottom left is my "new boyfriend" - the one I couldn't bear to cut up - a simple, quick application of emulstion paint with the corner of a square piece of foam rubber, and some crayon cross-hatched on the background.
Cut up and rearranged - but what to do next? 
Eventually a collage of fabrics just happened - it needs quilting onto the background, and then the roses will be attached with hand stitch.
Oh this looks awesome. I love those flowers. Another neat idea. What about really thin borders around each section or maybe around a few of them. Sandysue
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