Magic

Hello everyone,

I have another postcard to share today. I have made this for my monthly DT post for the lovely Roc Nicholas who, as you might know, designs stamps for Stampotique Originals. I have used three of her stamps on this card. They are listed at the bottom of this post.

I made this postcard on a background I had lying on my desk for ages. It was an experiment with lots of model paste and Mica powders. I really like the result, so today I decided to use it. 

I stencilled the polkadots on with white paint and a blending tool. Next I die cut a large circle and then die cut that with one of Tim Holtz' mixed media dies to create the holes. I think that looks pretty cool. I then coloured the cirlcle with Distress Crayons. After adding some washi tape to the card I adhered the circle and took it to my sewing machine and stitched around the edges. 

The rabbit was stamped on white card stock, colours with Copic Markers and cut out. I adhered him to the circle. 

Next I stamped the 'heart vine' stamp and the word 'magic', coloured the hearts and stems and took a dark blue Archival Ink pad around the edges of the card. 

I used the following stamps:

Bunny

Heart Vine

Capture the Magic

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

Don't forget to fly

Hello everyone, 

For a bit of fun I made this card ... I love to make backgrounds with model paste and, in this case, Mica powders and water...

This piece of card stock was cut slightly smaller than the card I put it on. First I used on of Tim Holtz layering stencils with model paste and a palet knife to add some texture. 

After it dried I gave it a coat of gesso and let that dry too. 

I then used mica powders and a paintbrush and water to add the colours to it. I used blue and green. When this had dried I added some white paint with a palet knife along the edges and on the raised bits of the flowers. I also added some background stamping. Next I stamped the butterfly on watercolour paper and coloured it with Lindy's stamp gang sprays. I didn't spray them but used a paintbrush. I then cut it out and thought that adhering it straight to the card panel, it didn't stand out enough... So I cut a white circle from book text, added some gesso and doodling to it and adhered it to my card. I then stapled the butterfly to the circle. Lastly I stamped the sentiment, cut it apart and adhered that too. 

All stamps used are by Finnabair via Prima Marketing. 

Thank you for stopping by !