Star Artist Trading Card and Abstract Landscape Artist Trading Coin
Welcome back, everyone! I have two projects to show you today. The first is a star-themed artist trading card, and the other is an abstract landscape artist trading coin. First off, the star-themed artist trading card: I began this card the way I do a lot of my cards - I glued down a bookpage and gessoed lightly over it. I then added a light wash of fluid acrylics in Payne's Grey and Ultramarine Blue (DecoArt). When it was dry, I added stars to the background using the Tim Holtz star stencil and Distress Oxide in Faded Jeans. Lovely! I set the color with my heat tool, however, the Oxides are reactive to water in the same way the Distress Inks are, so I wanted to do something to keep the ink from rubbing off or getting smeared, so I pulled out my Art Basics 3D Gloss Gel by Prima Marketing. I used the stencil to go back over the original star shapes. Because the gloss gel is a "wet" medium, the Oxide color blended in with the gel....