Index Card A Day (ICAD) - Day 3

Hello, everyone!  It's been a busy day, so I didn't know if I would have time to make an ICAD today.  (If you don't know what the Index Card A Day Challenge is, you can read all about it at Daisy Yellow's blog, here.)  I ended up giving myself 15 minutes to make a card (it ended up being closer to 20 minutes), and this is what I have for you.

Clearly I didn't follow the prompt of Tilt-A-Whirl, but that's okay!  At least I made something! 

To start off, I glued leftover bookpages together and went over it with Mod Podge to seal it and make it non-porous.  I then dropped white gesso, DecoArt fluid acrylic in Cobalt Turquoise, and Golden fluid acrylic in Green Gold onto the page.  I forgot to take a picture, but I liked the end result so much that I decided to make an ATC, which you can see below. I then scraped everything loosely to cover the page.  The book text is almost completely hidden, as you can see, but it does peek out here and there. 

The Green Gold really overwhelmed the blue, so I added color back by dabbing some DecoArt fluid acrylic in Phthalo Turquiose on the edge of the page and spritzed the heck out of with water.  Oh my gosh, look at how gorgeous that color is!!!   I dried it with my heat tool, then added some splatter with white gesso mixed with water. 

At this point, I want to show you something - originally, I had blotted some leftover red Infusions pigment powder that was mixed with mod podge onto the page....trying to be less wasteful, especially with something as awesome as the Infusions.  I knew, and would like to point out that this product is very reactive to anything wet, and unless it's sealed well, it WILL bleed onto your project if you use wet mediums.  You can see that reddish spot next to my thumb...that's the Infusions bleeding through a layer of paper and gesso mixed with paint.  It actually colored the gesso splatter a little bit. 

Back to the ICAD!  I was happy with the background and needed a focal image.  Because of the colors, I chose the absolutely gorgeous Nautical stamp by Prima Marketing. I have used this before on a puzzle piece (well, two puzzle pieces.  I have added the image to the bottom of this post.)  The ship was stamped on deli paper; I fussy cut around the flowers, and then wet the deli paper everywhere else and tore it off.  The deli paper is thicker than tissue paper, but it still shows the background a little bit.

I also added a torn piece of music and a scrap from a book page.  I'm not overly happy with the arrangement, but time was a-ticking, so down it went. I sealed everything with mod podge again, to make it non-porous.  I dried it again with my heat tool and colored it loosely with Faber-Castelle Pitt markers and Distress markers. At this point, I was over the 15 minutes, but it still needed something, so I added the music notes stamps.  I actually wanted to use a nautical compass rose, but I couldn't find it, so music notes it is! I also ended up outlining here and there with a charcoal pencil.  

Not too shabby for a 15+ minute job, but BOY, talk about stressful!  I do love how it turned out, though. And as promised, the puzzle piece I made a couple of years ago using the same stamp.  

 I hope you like today's post, and thank you for stopping by!