I combined two NEW techniques to make this card. The first one is from Bernie Berlin's new book "Artist Trading Card Workshop" and she calls it Inky Layers. Very simple. Just tear various paper bits such as sheet music, reprinted vintage ads, pages from old books, etc. Ink the edges of some and decoupage to a blank ATC. Then mix yellow acrylic paint with clear glaze from Making Memories and apply with a baby wipe. For the next step, I added ink using direct-to-paper with my red (colorbox chalk) cat-eye ink pad and a metallic lavender Brilliance ink pad. Note that some papers were brown, to begin with.
Next I took a black & white image that I printed with my Canon Pixma iP6000D inkjet printer using my favorite paper by OptiJet. It's called Photo Resolution Coated Paper - Matte. I actually believe this will work on ANY type of thin white paper. After cutting around the face, I added about 6 layers of gel medium, drying between each application, spritzed water on the back and slowly and carefully rubbed the paper & the "bloom" from the back of the image.
The final touches were gluing on a transparency phrase and adding a dragonfly brad then sealed it with a triple high gloss "glaze" for protection and added dimension. A favorite touch!
FUN...EASY...BEAUTIFUL RESULT! Why don't you try it?
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5 comments:
this is beautiful!
i have been meaning to write and tell you that i received my wonderful atc...it ended up somehow---i don't know how my husband didn't know to give it to me right away, the envelope was so pretty too---in the bill basket. maybe my daughter put it there? anyway, on thursday i found it and love it!!!
Oooo, girl, i gotta try this! I have that book, too. Hey, Cosmo Cricket is a scrapbook paper company. So many new ones nowadays. I like their Jitterbug Collection. It's a good masculine line.
Hey, the project for your friend sounds delish! I know you'll do a bangup job. You always inspire me, too! Let's do lunch soon, okay? (Dangit, I wish.....). ROFL ;-) Have a great week!
hugs,
aimes
This is gorgeous...great technique.
This is fabulous!
Stunning!! Thanks for sharing from flickr scrappidity.
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