Foxglove's Mixed Media

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...

Hello everyone! I am back with day 2 of the Index Card A Day (ICAD) challenge, with today's theme being "Fireworks".  If you don't know what the ICAD Challenge is, you can find all the information you need at Daisy Yellow's site, here . To be honest, I wasn't feeling up to today's challenge, and I'm not very happy with my card.  I didn't have any good, creative thoughts about it, and I didn't come across any good book texts to give me the inspiration I needed.  I know, I could have (and probably should have) just done something off-theme, but, well....I wanted to *try* to keep to Daisy Yellow's themes.  So, anyway, here it is, in all it's glory: In my defense, I cannot draw.  But practice makes perfect, right?  Haha!  Anyhow...I started off with gessoing my index card (white gesso), and when it was mostly dry, I dropped several different colors of Paper Artsy's Infusions onto the card.  If you don't know, Infusions ...

Hello, all!  Thank you for taking the time to stop by and check out my projects!  Today, I wanted to show some insight in how I made some of my previous artist trading cards (ATCs).  Well, one was "previous" and one was completed today.  These are the cards (and altered puzzle piece) that I will walk through. First off, the newest project.  Since this is a new blog, I'm fairly certain that the recipient of one of the card won't see this yet, so I will go ahead and share. As mentioned, I like to make two of whatever I make.  One for me (usually the 'experiment') and one to trade. In the cards above, I randomly spread Dylusion paints onto the card with my fingers - the paints are so creamy, and blends so easily!  Next, I took some background alphabet and number stamps and stamped with Ranger's Archival Ink. When dry, it's permanent and won't smear if you add wet mediums to the card.  I also dabbed gel paint through a leafy sten...